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Victor Davis Hanson on 'A War Like No Other' [9min]

Military historian Victor Davis Hanson argues in his new book, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, that while advancements in technology might change how battles are fought, the essential nature of war has remained the same over the centuries. Hanson is author of many books on military history; senior fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University; and retired professor of classics, California State University, Fresno.
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