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Podcast: A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
Episode: JUDGES, NOT LAWYERS: THE "LESSONS" OF HISTORY (PART 2)
Description: You cannot help but approach your sources from your own experiences and backgrounds
Our three-part roundtable on the "Lessons" of History continues as Con Crane, Jacqueline E. Whitt, and Andrew A. Hill discuss the roles of military historians in professional military education and the practical uses of military history in general. If history doesn't teach clear lessons, what use is it to policymakers and leaders? To what extent has military history become insular and disengaged from the policy arena? Have historians ceded the field of practical application to political scientists? And to what extent has the need for novel ideas...