Dune Foresaw—and Influenced—Half a Century of Global Conflict

"Written even before the advent of America’s war in Vietnam, Dune captures a world in which war is inherently asymmetric, where head-on, conventional military conflict has largely been replaced with all the subtler ways that humans seek to dominate one another: insurgency and counterinsurgency, sabotage and assassination, diplomacy, espionage and treachery, proxy wars and resource … Continue reading Dune Foresaw—and Influenced—Half a Century of Global Conflict

COVID-19 Deaths Compared to War

"More Americans have died from Covid-19 than on the battlefields of World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined."—Remy Tumin and Jeremiah M. Bogert, Jr., "Your Weekend Briefing." The New York Times. February 21, 2021. As another point of reference, 27 million people died in the Soviet Union during World War II.