By the Editor: Already battle-weary from the pandemic? It is, perhaps, reaching a culmination point but that is only an end to much a larger beginning. From a European perspective the author sounds an alarm consequent of a fragmenting Alliance and competitors looking for short-term advantage whilst the opportunity, they might believe, still exists. Are we listening? “One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.” Barbara W. Tuchman The Guns of August I…
