Had enough on the Munich analogy? Of course you haven't!
First up are two articles on the Munich analogy and the 2008 Russo-Georgian war. This Op-Ed by a British journalist, entitled "'Munich' Shouldn't Be Such a Dirty Word," takes a careful and skeptical look at the analogy used for decades by presidents to justify going to war. Conversely, here is a letter to the NY Times from an American professor who argues that doing nothing to punish the Russians for attacking Georgia in 2008 is disturbing similar to appeasement at Munich in 1938.
First up are two articles on the Munich analogy and the 2008 Russo-Georgian war. This Op-Ed by a British journalist, entitled "'Munich' Shouldn't Be Such a Dirty Word," takes a careful and skeptical look at the analogy used for decades by presidents to justify going to war. Conversely, here is a letter to the NY Times from an American professor who argues that doing nothing to punish the Russians for attacking Georgia in 2008 is disturbing similar to appeasement at Munich in 1938.
And go here for an essay on the History News Network on mis-use of the analogy.
Here is an analysis by Robert Kaplan of those two favorite evoked sets, Munich and Vietnam.
Here is an analysis by Robert Kaplan of those two favorite evoked sets, Munich and Vietnam.
Finally, here is a New York Times piece on the use of the Munich analogy in the run-up to the Iraq war.
