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‘Human beings wish to be safe’: David Betz on walls, war, and the failed promise of the post-Cold War era

People walk along the wall that separates the United States from Mexico, near a slab of the Berlin Wall, in Tijuana, Mexico, Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. Gregory Bull/AP Photo.

David Betz, a professor of modern warfare at King’s College London, discusses his interesting bookThe Guarded Age: Fortification in the Twenty-First Century.

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