Middle East
At this moment, Russian and American forces are already engaged in combat operations in one of the world’s smallest but most heavily militarized and volatile regions. In Syria, Lebanon and Israel’s Golan Heights, every hilltop and escarpment, each vale and valley, provides a rich history of hidden trip-wires linked to unintended consequences. Because wars with the most uncertain outcomes often begin by accident, these ominous developments already recall the “march of folly” chronicled by Barbara Tuchman in “The Guns of August,” her classic account of World War I’s opening volleys. None of the foreign ministries of the principal combatants really wanted war or could even envision the protracted slaughterhouses that industrial age warfare had become.
At this moment, Russian and American forces are already engaged in combat operations in one of the world’s smallest but most heavily militarized and volatile regions. In Syria, Lebanon and Israel’s Golan Heights, every hilltop and escarpment, each vale and valley, provides a rich history of hidden trip-wires linked to unintended consequences. Because wars with the most uncertain outcomes often begin by accident, these ominous developments already recall the “march of folly” chronicled by Barbara Tuchman in “The Guns of August,” her classic account of World War I’s opening volleys. None of the foreign ministries of the principal combatants really wanted war or could even envision the protracted slaughterhouses that industrial age warfare had become.
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