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Securing the Panama Canal
The Panama Canal—the transoceanic waterway through which five percent of global commerce flows—is critical for U.S. national security.
September 8, 2026
Seventy-six years ago, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, America went to war. Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover senior fellow and author of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won, discusses lessons learned from that conflict’s successes and failures and how they apply today.
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