History
The Centre for Defence and International Security Studies is the oldest surviving centre of its kind in the United Kingdom, having started during the height of the Cold War in the early 1970s. Since its inception, it has contributed significantly to broad range of defence and security debates, given assistance to government departments, armed forces and industry in both the UK and abroad, contributions that secured its recognition as a Non-governmental Organisation by the United Nations.
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Famous quotes containing the word history:
“Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men’s reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)
“In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)