Is war no longer a tenable option? Dustin Bass and Alan Wakim discuss how nuclear power and biological advancements in warfare has created a deterrent to war, as well as how missed opportunities and the unwillingness to win wars has led to a culture of political and military indecision.

The Sons of History also answer a request from a review on ancient history sources.

For more suggestions on ancient history sources, see below:

Writers from the Classical Period:

Plutarch, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius, Livy, Cassius Dio, Suetonius, Flavius Josephus, Sallust, Tacitus, Pliny the Younger, Pliny the Elder, Julius Caesar, ArrianQuintus of Smyrna, Diodorus Siculus, Herodian, Ammianus Marcellinus, Quintus Curtius Rufus, Procopius, Justinian, Lucan, Appian, Aristotle, Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Cicero, Seneca, Cato the Elder, Cato the Younger, Heraclitus, Epictetus, Hesiod, Homer, Virgil, Apollonius of Rhodes, Ovid, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Sophocles, EuripidesIsidore of Seville, St. Jerome, St. Ambrose, and Sun Tzu.

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