.........lack of military history teaching is bad at the primary and secondary levels of education, but even worse at the university level where any focus on war itself is intentionally diminished. In an article by military historian Victor Davis Hanson he explains the results of a 2004 survey of the top 25 U.S. history departments:
When war does show up on university
syllabi, it’s often about the race, class, and gender of combatants and
wartime civilians. So a class on the Civil War will focus on the
Underground Railroad and Reconstruction, not on Chancellorsville and
Gettysburg. One on World War II might emphasize Japanese internment,
Rosie the Riveter, and the horror of Hiroshima, not Guadalcanal and
Midway.
The burying of military history in modern academia may be a result of the generally anti-war views on college campuses, or a result of it not fitting in with the overall ideological agenda, but regardless of the specific excuse, it is a great disservice to those who want to be educated about the consequences of human nature.
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