GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
America's Coming Disunion?
Nov 7, 2018 | 06:00 GMT
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Highlights
- Recent speculations of a second American Civil War stand as examples of how not to use the past to understand the present.
- Broad historical patterns will tell us more about the odds of another civil war than will worrying over how much 2018 resembles the late 1850s.
- The American people are divided and their politicians behave badly, but there will be no second Civil War as long as the U.S. military remains true to its traditions.
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