Military & Politics Archive

• 10December 4, 2009

  Chivalry Awards Of 2009

  Anyone who thinks “chivalry is dead” hasn’t been paying much attention to the news. Plenty of examples of chivalry made...

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• 1November 10, 2009

  Agincourt Part 1: Where Chivalry Died In The Mud

  Agincourt is not a tale of chivalry, but rather of armoured men hacking at each other to break limbs and...

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• 0November 9, 2009

  Agincourt Part 2: Where A New Crop Of Chivalry Was Planted

  The men in Henry’s army must have believed they had been part of a miracle. The few had destroyed the...

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• 0December 11, 2008

  Chivalry in War and Peace

  British war veteran Sir Samuel Falle, one of 422 officers and sailors of the British Navy rescued by a Japanese...

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• 1June 23, 2007

  Relics of Honor and Chivalry

  The First World War began the destruction of the gentlemanly ideal — and Vietnam completed it. Nowadays, gentlemanliness is thought...

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• 0September 23, 2006

  Chivalry And Humanity

  Such people do not deserve mercy. In my view, they have forfeited any moral right to expect it from us....

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• 0February 25, 2004

  The Road to Abu Ghraib

  The Code of Chivalry is a warrior’s code of honor, not a guide for genteel etiquette — and perhaps there...

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