Dwight Eisenhower: Military Politician

By |2021-10-13T16:24:27-05:00October 14th, 2015|Categories: Books, Dwight Eisenhower, Featured, History, War|

Propelled into Supreme Command, and without ever having commanded in battle, Dwight Eisenhower was put into an almost impossible situation, having to meet the demands of his battlefield subordinates while satisfying the conflicting expectations and orders of his masters, both military and political. Eisenhower at War, 1943-1945, by David Eisenhower (New York: Random House, 1986). [...]

Farewell Address: Guarding Against the Military-Industrial Complex

By |2021-07-26T08:41:41-05:00August 14th, 2015|Categories: Audio/Video, Dwight Eisenhower, Military, Presidency, Primary Documents, World War II|

The conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered his farewell address to the nation in a television broadcast [...]

The America of Ike Is No More

By |2015-04-12T08:08:30-05:00March 31st, 2015|Categories: Dwight Eisenhower, Featured, Foreign Affairs, Government, Pat Buchanan, Politics, Presidency|

In November 1956, President Eisenhower, enraged he had not been forewarned of their invasion of Egypt, ordered the British, French and Israelis to get out of Suez and Sinai. They did as told. How far we have fallen from the America of Ike and John Foster Dulles has been on painful display this March. An [...]

Obama and Eisenhower: A Tale of Two Golfers

By |2014-08-26T14:08:00-05:00August 26th, 2014|Categories: Barack Obama, Bruce Frohnen, Dwight Eisenhower, Foreign Affairs, Golf, Presidency|

President Obama has been taking a good deal of flak, lately, for all the time he is spending on the golf course. He famously “took a break” from his latest vacation to address the horrors of the beheading of an American journalist by an Islamic extremist group, and to say a few words about the [...]

Visionary Statesman? On Eisenhower Historiography

By |2022-03-30T11:35:39-05:00October 31st, 2012|Categories: Bradley J. Birzer, Dwight Eisenhower, History, Leadership, Politics|

The contrast in the ways historians John Patrick Diggins and Robert Griffith describe Eisenhower seems odd. How could the pictures of one president who served a half-century ago diametrically oppose each other? The answer lies in the fundamental difference in the way the two historians practice history. The Imaginative Conservative recently published Dr. John Willson's [...]

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