Cathal J. Nolan is associate professor of history and executive director of the International History Institute at Boston University. In addition to editing six books on international history, Nolan is the author of Principled Diplomacy: Security and Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy and Wars of the Age of Louis XIV.
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History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered 'decisive.' Cannae, Konigsberg, Austerlitz, Midway, Agincourt-all resonate in the literatu... SEE MORE