The war that never ended

In front of the Imperial War Museum in London, the visitor is looking into two gigantic ship cannons, the kind that ruled the waves up until the Great War of 1914-1918. Buy a ticket to this park of military experiences, and in a discreet corner of the basement, one can find Arab clothing and Middle East map drawings of desert legend T.E. Lawrence. It is a short walk from the hard power that backed the greatest empire the world has ever seen to the soft power of cultural understanding.