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James Webb served as combat Marine in Vietnam, as counsel to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs and as assistant secretary of defense and secretary of the Navy during the Regan administration. His most recent book is A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America.

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What Is It Good For?

How the American military went from defense to offense

by James Webb | Tuesday, March 01, 2005

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The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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