Should Academics Study Military History?

by Jack Le Moine

From the latest happenings in things historical. This article The Battle Over U.S. Military History was published 2 days ago in War is Boring. The article is based on work done by Robert Neer.

My two take-aways from this piece:

1. Academics are isolated from
   • popular interests
   • substantive importance
2. National interests suffer when leaders are ignorant of military history

The title of that website seems to support my first take-away. The site’s own topics do not support the website title. War is a lot of bad things — evil, violent, destructive — but it is not boring.

The site has since taken this essay down. JL 4/3/17.