Mar 30, 2023·edited Mar 30, 2023Liked by Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
This touches, maybe not directly but at least tangentially, on an issue long extant in American military culture but never adequately addressed educationally or institutionally: the reality of the "small wars" and how they're fought compared to the major ones. Our martial culture, such as it is, is built, rationalized, and mythologized around "the big battles" and that all conflicts have a good guy and a bad guy with clear desires on both sides. The world doesn't look, or act, that way. Most wars look more like the War of Bavarian Succession than they do World War II...but we spend most of our time studying that one (and ones like it). I don't know how we change that effectively with a lasting impact, but it's one we do need address
Are you suggesting there's been more than one German political leader in history? And that his example is also of interest when looking for analogies with the present? Sounds like misinformation to me.
This touches, maybe not directly but at least tangentially, on an issue long extant in American military culture but never adequately addressed educationally or institutionally: the reality of the "small wars" and how they're fought compared to the major ones. Our martial culture, such as it is, is built, rationalized, and mythologized around "the big battles" and that all conflicts have a good guy and a bad guy with clear desires on both sides. The world doesn't look, or act, that way. Most wars look more like the War of Bavarian Succession than they do World War II...but we spend most of our time studying that one (and ones like it). I don't know how we change that effectively with a lasting impact, but it's one we do need address
Are you suggesting there's been more than one German political leader in history? And that his example is also of interest when looking for analogies with the present? Sounds like misinformation to me.