High treason, ultimate violence and fine art

After the crushing victory of the Spanish-Imperial forces over the French army at Pavia in the morning of 24 February 1525 and the capturing of the French king Francis I, the Spaniards and Imperialists achieved domination in central and north-eastern Italy. The Italian rulers of the time, the Roman Pope Clement of the Medici clan, …

Schumpeter’s “Dogs of War.”

Joseph Alois Schumpeter, an Austrian economic theorist, just in time, in 1932, emigrated to the US and got a professorship at Harvard University where he developed the concepts of the economic cycles, innovations and entrepreneurship. Now he is prized as one of the greatest economists of all time. However, Schumpeter was not a dedicated economist …

Strategical resurge of close-in combat

The single combat of the Russian prince Mstislav and the North Caucasian prince Rededya on the oil canvas of the Russian artist Andrew Ivanov, 1812 Mstislav holds the knife in his right hand to kill protracted Rededya by the "hammer" downward thrust of his "Scandinavian"-type combat knife In the now-a-day epoch of the drones, precision-guided …