Victor Davis Hanson

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

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Military historian and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; columnist for National Review online and author of A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War; syndicated columnist with Tribune Media Services

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