“One reason some patterns are indistinct is that no one wants to see them. Some men always reject the historic logic of their times. The West was unable to see the historic logic in the rise of Hitlerian Germany and adventurist Japan... The dominant pattern was Western weakness in the face of challenge.” WarHistoryWeaknessPatternThe West Author:T.R. Fehrenbach
“Modern man, especially modern urban intellectual man, without a sense of history or blood soil - the words Hitler's distortion made anathema - understood poorly the seemingly inexorable cycles of human conduct. Men such as Churchill, nonintellectual but brilliant, were not cleverer than the best minds of the West. But they tended to see what was, and not what should be.” RealityHistoryWarningChurchill Book:This kind of peace Source: This kind of peace