By Dexter Wright February 1, 2017
It is rumored that the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, is reading everything she can to try to understand President Trump. One suggestion for her reading list would be The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival by Sir John Glubb. In his short essay, Sir John starts with a truism:
“The only thing we learn from history,’ it has been said, ‘is that men never learn from History.”
This truism may be in jeopardy since it seems that Donald Trump has learned from history and is taking its lessons seriously. In Sir John’s essay he divides the life of an empire into six eras: 1.) The Age of Pioneers, 2.) The Age of Conquest, 3.) The Age of Commerce, 4.) The Age of Affluence, 5.) The Age of Intellect, and finally 6.) The Age of Decadence....Read more
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