After a career spent writing about military conflict, historian Margaret MacMillan has written a work exploring the benefits that war can bring to mankind. She’s far from a warmonger, but recognizes that conflict can be a powerful impetus for innovation, social spending, and of course sacrifice
In his State of the Union address in February 2019, President Donald Trump referred to the Americans who took part in the D-Day invasion of France in June 1944. “Everything that has come since – our triumph over communism, our giant leaps of science and discovery, our unrivaled progress toward equality and justice – all of it is possible thanks to the blood and tears and courage and vision of the Americans who came before,” he declared.
