There are 299 programs in America that offer the MA and/or PhD in history according to the American Historical Association. But only 37 programs allow for specialization in military topics.
This trend is symptomatic of the left dominating universities. Leftists shun military and traditional political histories for post-modern critique in the discipline.
That preference has dangerous implications for the country because it leaves Americans unequipped to understand this nation’s dealings and tensions with our adversaries.
For example, U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) recently made a controversial trip to Taiwan.
This is also a bias against _learning_ military history, as it is a bias against any history or discipline which can / must be tested against objective facts.
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Study those who demonstrate mastery of a subject.
ReplyDeleteUniversity has professors demonstrating mastery of what?
Engineering? Military history?
Liberalism? Gender history?
Carl von Clausewitz's "On War" (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1946/1946-h/1946-h.htm ) is required reading at the US Military Academy at West Point. His main thesis is that war is an extension of politics, and that having a strong military and a willingness to use it, aids a country's pursuit of its diplomatic objectives. Unfortunately, in years past, many in Congress read and understood this treatise, but now with ignoramuses in Congress led by Chief Ignoramus Pelosi, it is doubtful that even a handful of our lawmakers understand von Clausewitz's words.
ReplyDeleteWith that said, Pelosi was an idiot for poking the panda by her trip to Taiwan. And under the Logan Act, https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/953 , Pelosi had to have been authorized by the State Department / Biden to take this trip for her not to have committed a federal felony.
The only strategy that I can see is to start a war before the midterm elections to deflect the voters' minds from their representatives' poor performance. Hopefully, the Chinese value their economic ties with the US more than their desire to re-annex Taiwan. Hopefully, "the swamp" will be soundly defeated, and a new House and Senate with pro-American values, a knowledge of economics and Constitutional civics will be elected to dispense their Constitutional duties under Article I Section 8, particularly when it comes to the purse strings of this nation.
When I go to bed at night, I like to read Wikipedia and click on this day in history.
ReplyDeleteIt gives you a glimpse of events that took place throughout recorded history. There were lots of wars all over the world. Tens of thousands died for what they believed in.
It makes me wonder just how evolved man is, and I think we are no better than almost any of the lifeforms around us, but on an equal footing at best. Two steps forward, one back, but the ramifications of not studying history can be equally devistating.
We are an unserious country, with an unserious military. Don Quixote tilted at windmills as we fight GLOBALWARMING! Fine.
ReplyDeleteHow's recruiting warriors for that going?
About as great as Caligula's call to collect seashells and declare victory against Poseidon.