World War II

Roosevelt’s Fraud at Yalta and the Mirage of the “Good War”

by James Bovard June 1, 2020

This year is the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two. One of the biggest frauds of the final stage of that war was the meeting at Yalta of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and President Franklin Roosevelt. Yalta has become a synonym for the abandonment of oppressed people and helped inspire the ...

The Libertarian Angle: World War II

by Future of Freedom Foundation May 15, 2019

Was World War II the good war? Should the United States have been involved at all? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.

Libertarian Angle: The Build-Up to WWII

by Future of Freedom Foundation May 10, 2019

Could World War II have been avoided? How did foreign policy decisions create the conditions that set it in motion? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.

The Quirin Decision of 1942 Revisited

by Joseph R. Stromberg September 1, 2017

In Ex Parte Quirin (1942) the U.S. Supreme Court justified the trial by military commission of eight German soldiers “captured” on American soil. Edward S. Corwin called the case “a ceremonious detour to a predetermined goal” (Total War and the Constitution, 1947). Louis Fisher notes the “common perception … that Quirin was a contrived decision without anchoring ...

Revisiting Postwar Japan

by Peter Van Buren June 1, 2017

For military historians, walking a battlefield is a special experience. That's where things previously locked away in books happened, the hill that blocked an advance, the river that defended an important city and altered the course of human history. Historians visit Waterloo, Gettysburg, and Normandy all the time. Things work differently for those interested in the final days of World ...

The Worst Mistake in U.S. History

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2017

The worst mistake in U.S. history was the conversion after World War II of the U.S. government from a constitutional, limited-government republic to a national-security state. Nothing has done more to warp and distort the conscience, principles, and values of the American people, including those who serve in the U.S. military. A good example of how the national-security state has ...

The Badlands of Executive Order 9066

by Matthew Harwood February 1, 2017

Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II by Richard Reeves (Henry Holt and Company, 2015); 384 pages. The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II by Jan Jarboe Russell (Scribner, 2015); 2015; 417 pages. One of the great scandals of American history is ...

The Libertarian Angle: The Interventionism of the Two World Wars, Part 5

by Future of Freedom Foundation June 8, 2016

In this segment, Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling continue their discussion about the horrible results stemming from the foreign policy interventions of World War I and World War II. Go to the podcast.

The Libertarian Angle: The Interventionism of Two World Wars, Part 4

by Future of Freedom Foundation June 2, 2016

In this segment, Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling continue their discussion about the horrible results stemming from the foreign policy interventions of World War I and World War II. Go to the podcast.

The Libertarian Angle: The Interventionism of Two World Wars, Part 3

by Future of Freedom Foundation May 24, 2016

In this segment, Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling continue their discussion about the horrible results stemming from the foreign policy interventions of World War I and World War II. Go to the podcast.

Setting the Record Straight: How Stalin Used Hitler To Start World War II

by Richard M. Ebeling May 9, 2016

For the Russians, May 9, 1945 is the day marking the end of the Second World War in Europe, and it is celebrated every year, including this one, with a giant military parade through Red Square in Moscow. For the former Soviet and now the post-communist Russian government, it is hailed as the day that “Soviet power” under the ...

Opposing America’s Participation in World War II

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 2015

Even in the face of ongoing catastrophes arising out of U.S. interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere in the Middle East, proponents of empire and intervention still trot out America’s entry into World War II to justify their imperialist, militarist, and interventionist philosophy. World War II was the “good” war, they say — a necessary intervention, one that saved ...