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History Edition

The Zevin Intelligence JournalThe History Edition

Chanan Zevin Author & editor

Articles on how wars are won and lost: the money, logistics, intelligence and decisions behind the headlines of history. Browse the articles below, ordered by the historical periods they cover. Broad World War II essays are grouped by era; the contemporary review follows.

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Chanan Zevin, author and editor of Ezevin — Chanan ZevinFounder & CEO, Insightful Data Technologies

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AI-created editorial illustration: German rearmament, industrial production and financial constraints

1920s–1940 · Rearmament

The Limits of Rearmament

Money, readiness, and the myth of the genius who saw everything coming.

Chanan Zevin7 min read

AI-created editorial illustration: An Enigma cipher machine and a wartime codebreaking room

World War II · Codebreaking

Enigma: the hidden architecture of intelligence

Three chapters: intelligence and uncertainty, the mathematical structure of Enigma, and Shannon entropy and probabilistic analysis.

Chanan Zevin2 min read

AI-created editorial illustration: A tense wartime command room and map table

World War II · Command

The great deception

Psychological dynamics, the perversion of language, and the isolation of the Nazi leadership from reality.

Chanan Zevin2 min read

AI-created editorial illustration: Wartime logistics: horse-drawn supplies and mechanized transport

World War II · Logistics and collapse

Why the German Army Collapsed

On military structure, historical memory, and the distance between an impressive system and a responsible one.

Chanan Zevin4 min read

AI-created editorial illustration: Armored coordination and radio communication during the 1940 campaign

1940 · Battle of France

Why Germany Defeated France in 1940

Radio, concentration and combined arms: why the decisive advantage lay between the tanks, not inside them.

Chanan Zevin4 min read

Historical illustration of a World War II aircraft carrier crossing a turquoise Pacific at sunrise

1942 · Battle of Midway

Midway: the intelligence behind the victory

How effective intelligence and decisive leadership transformed an apparent disadvantage into a historic victory in the Pacific.

Chanan Zevin1 min read

Historical illustration of snow-covered Stalingrad ruins in amber winter light

1942–1943 · Stalingrad

Stalingrad: the collapse of strategic illusion

Diplomatic miscalculations, logistical fragility, command rigidity, and the illusion of sustainable supply converged into irreversible failure.

Chanan Zevin2 min read

AI-created editorial illustration: A light aircraft approaching a carrier during the 1975 evacuation

1975 · Saigon evacuation

Seven lives. One impossible landing.

Major Buang-Ly, his wife, and five children — and Captain Chambers's unprecedented order to push helicopters over the side to clear the deck.

Chanan Zevin2 min read

AI-created editorial illustration: A civic public square, books and the idea of citizenship

Contemporary · Citizenship and society

The Dying Citizen

Victor Davis Hanson's analysis of how the classical notion of citizenship is under siege in contemporary society.

Chanan Zevin1 min read