Jonathan V. Last on Victor Davis Hanson: "Oh, come on, that guy's been a clown for 20 years." "VDH is the least serious serious person in all of intellectual public life." "A fool and a clown when he was cheering the Iraq War from his vineyard."
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @Joshua_A_Tait
*when he wasn’t writing lauded academic and popular books or teaching relatively underprivileged students at a state school.
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @Kin_Loch
Hoplites is well regarded. His Western Way of War stuff is seen as interesting but wrong.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @Joshua_A_Tait ja @Kin_Loch
Just a point of clarification: Western Way of War is his hoplite book, and though the title is unfortunate, still represents the 'orthodox' position on hoplite battle (in contrast to H. van Wees' Greek Warfare: Myths and Realities, the heterodox position).
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @BretDevereaux ja @Kin_Loch
Ah, ok - it's the "western way of war" school that's controversial.
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It’s only controversial because many are too chicken to admit the obvious in our PC age: Western civilization since the time of the Greeks has consistently produced military forces which are invariably superior to non-Western forces.
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This was very much not true in the period c. 500 A.D. to c. 1500 A.D...about 1,000 of the c. 2,500 years 'since the time of the Greeks.' A general characterization which is wrong 40% of the time is hardly a good one.
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The MilHist literature about the sudden rise in military capacity in Europe beginning c. 1500 is vast, highly contested and not overly concerned with PC. VDH is not generally taken very seriously in that debate, for reasons that have to do with evidence and argument, not PC.
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