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I can demonstrate the importance of those lenses in a freakin' *blog post* using just LOTR (and did: https://acoup.blog/2020/05/15/collections-the-battle-of-helms-deep-part-iii-the-host-of-saruman/ … ). Ignoring those lenses means ignoring *most* of the factors that actually produce victory and defeat in real non-fantasy wars! 13/19
Honestly, does anyone look at the last 20 years and think, "Ah, the US military: great at cultural understanding, organizational self-assessment, and strategic thinking, but just needs a bit of work on tactics"!? And to be clear, we still discuss tactics too. 14/19
And this isn't just something for ivory tower academics. Ask any number of current or former service personnel doing the hard thinking about the harder fighting and you'll find immediately that emphasis on society, culture, organization, etc. of the 'new military history.' 15/19
What's really happening here is a circular argument where the authors discount the modern, more sophisticated forms of military history that are being done and then complain no military history is being done, having ignored all of the examples. 16/19
Now, is it true that there are some academic historians who look down on military history out of an outdated sense of what the field is about? Sure. Are they the major obstacle keeping military history in American universities from reaching its potential? No. 17/19
What *is* holding military history back is the general reduction in funding for history departments (& humanities generally) more broadly in American universities. Trying to encourage military history while history departments are shrinking everywhere is a lost project. 18/19
So in short: Put up (actual data) or shut up, but don't act like every innovation in mil-hist since 1950 is heresy. And if you still think there is a military history problem, fund history departments. Start by giving me a job! Will history for food/tenure! end/19
The dripping sarcasm is killing me. But seriously, the number of officers who could not tell the difference between a Sunni and a Shia, even when their lives depended on it.
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