Victor Davis Hanson


An Autumn of War
What America Learned From September 11 and the War on Terrorism

I.  SEPTEMBER

 1.  What Are We Made Of? The guts to resist evil.
[written: 2001/09/11  |  published: 2001/10/01  National Review Online]

 2.  Western Nations Are Slow to Anger, but Lethal in Their Fury
[written: 2001/09/12  |  published: 2001/09/21  Daily Telegraph]

 3.  Cornered, The Taliban is neither new nor scary.
[written: 2001/09/15  |  published: 2001/09/19  National Review Online]

 4.  Great Leaders Are Forged In War, All past criteria of merit fade when the shooting starts.
[written: 2001/09/17  |  published: 2001/09/24  WSJ OpinionJournal]

 5.  War Myths, What not to believe.
[written: 2001/09/18  |  published: 2001/09/20  National Review Online]

 6.  Pseudo-Military History, America unleashed.
[written: 2001/09/19  |  published: 2001/09/24  National Review Online]

 7.  General Sherman, the Western Way of War, and September 11
[written: 2001/09/25  |  published: 2001/09/xx  Military History Quarterly]

 8.  What If? Rethinking 1941 with Edward R. Murrow.
[written: 2001/09/26  |  published: 2001/09/27  National Review Online]

 9.  What Would Churchill Say? The phony silence before the storming.
[written: 2001/09/29  |  published: 2001/10/01  National Review Online]

II.  OCTOBER

10.  On Gorgons and Furies, Civilization and its discontents.
[written: 2001/10/01  |  published: 2001/10/03  National Review Online]

11.  Cognitive Dissonance, What you see and what you get.
[written: 2001/10/03  |  published: 2001/10/05  National Review Online]

12.  What Made Them Do Their Duty?
[written: 2001/10/05  |  published: 2001 Autumn  City Journal]

13.  Tragedy or Therapy? Defining ourselves.
[written: 2001/10/07  |  published: 2001/10/09  National Review Online]

14.  War on All Fronts, Military, diplomatic, philosophical, cultural.
[written: 2001/10/09  |  published: 2001/10/12  National Review Online]

15.  Truth and Consequences, Speaking the language of truth.
[written: 2001/10/15  |  published: 2001/10/17  National Review Online]

16.  The Time Machine, A parody.
[written: 2001/10/16  |  published: 2001/10/18  National Review Online]

17.  If This Be War, A time for choosing.
[written: 2001/10/21  |  published: 2001/10/23  National Review Online]

18.  Class War, Divided we stand.
[written: 2001/10/23  |  published: 2001/10/26  National Review Online]

19.  Ripples of Battle, Fantasies give way to reality.
[written: 2001/10/27  |  published: 2001/10/29  National Review Online]

III.  NOVEMBER

20.  War Talk, Listening to America.
[written: 2001/11/01  |  published: 2001/11/02  National Review Online]

21.  The Dogs of War, Lessons of the 20th century.
[written: 2001/11/04  |  published: 2001/11/06  National Review Online]

22.  Heads They Win, Tails we lose.
[written: 2001/11/07  |  published: 2001/11/09  National Review Online]

23.  More an Okinawa Than a Vietnam? Lessons in war.
[written: 2001/11/10  |  published: 2001/11/13  National Review Online]

24.  Five Not-So-Easy Pieces, The world anew.
[written: 2001/11/14  |  published: 2001/11/16  National Review Online]

25.  They’re Back! 8,000 accused al Qaeda terrorists to go on trial tomorrow — best and brightest organize defense.
[written: 2001/11/15  |  published: 2001/11/20  National Review Online]

26.  The Time Is Now, Some constants guide us in our present dilemma.
[written: 2001/11/19  |  published: 2001/11/22-25  National Review Online]

27.  A Voice From the Past, General Thucydides speaks about the war.
[written: 2001/11/23  |  published: 2001/11/27  National Review Online]

28.  The More Things Change…, The wisdom of the ages.
[written: 2001/11/28  |  published: 2001/11/30  National Review Online]

IV.  DECEMBER

29.  Questions Not Asked, Issues not raised.
[written: 2001/12/02  |  published: 2001/12/04  National Review Online]

30.  Dates in Infamy, December 7 and September 11.
[written: 2001/12/06  |  published: 2001/12/08-09  National Review Online]

31.  The Pied Piper of Tora Bora, Standing alone.
[written: 2001/12/09  |  published: 2001/12/11  National Review Online]

32.  Our Jurassic Park, The fossils of wartime conventional wisdom.
[written: 2001/12/12  |  published: 2001/12/14  National Review Online]

33.  Odd Couple Out, Leftovers in a new civilization.
[written: 2001/12/15  |  published: 2001/12/18  National Review Online]

34.  Pillars of Ignorance, Why the Muslims Misjudged Us.
   Why the Muslims Misjudged Us, They hate us because their culture is backward and corrupt.
[written: 2001/12/01  |  published: 2002 Winter  City Journal & 2002/02/25  WSJ OpinionJournal]

35.  The Iron Veil, Facing the new global reality.
[written: 2001/12/17  |  published: 2001/12/21  National Review Online]

36.  Glad We Are Not Fighting Ourselves, What were they thinking?
[written: 2001/12/19  |  published: 2001/12/21  National Review Online]

37.  It Really Is Your Father’s Europe, Continents apart.
[written: 2001/12/21  |  published: 2001/12/28  National Review Online]

38.  Winners and Losers, Seeing through the fog.
[written: 2001/12/22  |  published: 2002/01/02  National Review Online]