be careful about drawing lessons from the past.
This excellent essay by Naval War College professor Joseph Stieb:
History Has No Lessons for You: A Warning for Policymakers
makes its case better than I can, and at length. Two representative paragraphs:
To understand the pitfalls of lesson-learning, consider the concepts of context and contingency. Context r…
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