Power, illusion and the Thucydides warning 

Power rarely collapses from weakness. It collapses from the consequences of misjudgement. The confrontation between the US and Israel with Iran may prove to be one of those moments.  My late professor David L Larson of the University of New Hampshire, used to say that there is nothing ancient about the ancients. They are not relics of the past, but analysts of the present. […]