Posted on Jan 22, 2016
3 Lessons I’ve Learned From Military History
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Here are a couple things military history has shown me.
It’s often said that if we don’t study our own history, we will be doomed to repeat it. This is probably true, mainly because we can learn great lessons from it and use them in our own lives to grow. Twenty years in uniform taught me a great deal; there’s very little substitute for on-the-job training and experience to help with personal or professional growth, but about halfway through my career, I started asking questions that transcended what was happening to me day to day. How did we get here? Who came before me? Professional Military Education revealed some things, but it always felt distant and watered down. What if I dug deeper? What could I glean from learning the politics and individual experiences of the soldier on the ground? Could I apply it?
It’s often said that if we don’t study our own history, we will be doomed to repeat it. This is probably true, mainly because we can learn great lessons from it and use them in our own lives to grow. Twenty years in uniform taught me a great deal; there’s very little substitute for on-the-job training and experience to help with personal or professional growth, but about halfway through my career, I started asking questions that transcended what was happening to me day to day. How did we get here? Who came before me? Professional Military Education revealed some things, but it always felt distant and watered down. What if I dug deeper? What could I glean from learning the politics and individual experiences of the soldier on the ground? Could I apply it?
3 Lessons I’ve Learned From Military History
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"Since our nation’s birth, American troops have been the only people on earth who have consistently deployed, fought, and died for the ideals that define and exemplify freedom. Liberty, protecting our homeland, and our way of life have nearly always been foremost in the minds of the American soldier — more so than our counterparts from other lands. The U.S. military has been a force for freedom since it’s inception."
Is THAT why we invaded Canada!? Three times! Before FDR's advisers told him that a United States of Europe under the Nazis would be very bad for our economy he hadn't been talking Arsenal of Democracy or any of that.
Johnson pursued the war in Viet Nam so he could avoid charges of being soft on communism that plagued Truman, who committed ground troops to Korea -- a complete reversal of policy -- for the same reason.
Walt
Is THAT why we invaded Canada!? Three times! Before FDR's advisers told him that a United States of Europe under the Nazis would be very bad for our economy he hadn't been talking Arsenal of Democracy or any of that.
Johnson pursued the war in Viet Nam so he could avoid charges of being soft on communism that plagued Truman, who committed ground troops to Korea -- a complete reversal of policy -- for the same reason.
Walt
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