As I get older, I get more fascinated with military history, and also realize how my education neglected such an important area. Personally, I am making an attempt to rectify that injustice with my students- I have started an innovative club at my high school called the Military History Club, where students learn about military history, strategy, and principles through watching war movies. It's a lot of fun, and blog about that more later as I start running those meetings again.
My main reason for bringing it up is that I came across a really good article by Victor Davis Hanson about why we should study war, and I wanted to pass it on to you. Here is the link to the article, and here is the beginning of it:
It’s no surprise that civilian Americans tend to lack a basic understanding of military matters. Even when I was a graduate student, 30-some years ago, military history—understood broadly as the investigation of why one side wins and another loses a war, and encompassing reflections on magisterial or foolish generalship, technological stagnation or breakthrough, and the roles of discipline, bravery, national will, and culture in determining a conflict’s outcome and its consequences—had already become unfashionable on campus. oday, universities are even less receptive to the subject....
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