…of various empires, the men who helped birth and then manage the problems of an Enlightened, urban social order: Locke, Bismarck, Disraeli. And by soldiers he had in mind both the great aristocratic warrior classes of Europe and upstart, genius figures like Napoleon or Wellington...
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as Bismarck stitched together a new nation
“utterly foreign to the German spirit.” Bismarck’s “Iron and Blood”
…ering. Like water moving from ice to liquid to steam and back, this cycle has a predictable logic. It ran in the age of Bismarck and culminated in World War One. It spun again in the age between last century’s great wars too, tripping into a second World War. And it ran as well i...