GDG- Military history

[chmbrdicator]

Norman Levitt wrote:

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>> From the "New Republic":
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> Military history bites the dust.
> Casualty of War
> by David A. Bell
> Post date 05.09.07 | Issue date 05.07.07
>
> ...
>
> "Of course, promoting such historical knowledge ... simply means 
> studying and teaching about war in ways that historians find 
> intellectually persuasive and important."


Many thanks to Norm for bringing this to our attention.

Hmmmm ... looks like New Republic contributing editor Bell noticed what 
John J. Miller did last September, when he published a piece about it in 
National Review Online (thanks again to whoever posted it to GDG):  
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTcwOGU3MzhkNmI0Y2FmZjYzNjVlOGZhYWJiZWFjYjM=

Many a netizen might dismiss NRO as an opinion-mongering polemic E-rag, 
but TNR is a little tougher to ignore.

We seem to be reaping the fruits of the 1960s, when armchair moralists 
purported to be oh-so-offended by the military industrial complex.

most respectfully

Dean Spraggins