Two new books about war imagine alternatives to righteous combat. In ‘War by Other Means’ and ‘Mercy: Humanity in War,’ violence is not the only option. December 9, 2022. 10 min.

War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance, by Daniel Akst, Melville House, 368 pages, $23.19 In 1940, during the twilight between peace and war, a ...

While World War III remains a chilling possibility, this simulation offers a creative yet realistic take on the potential scenarios, alliances, and strategies that could shape a future global war.

An alternative, “proactive” view, popular among historians and political scientists, and among some anthropologists and archaeologists, holds that mankind is less acted upon than acting.

Ian Buruma’s new book, “The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II,” reminds us that lying is among the most human of traits and that some lies are worse than ...

How the trauma of the Vietnam War led to the age of “alternative facts” Fifty years later, we still can't agree on what went wrong in Vietnam.