Quote Originally Posted by William F. Owen View Post
We have yet to usefully re-develop an approach to military history which seeks to usefully inform.
And that's possibly because everyone seems to have a different "spin" on both useful and inform....

Seriously, history is more of an objective art than a subjective science, and will most likely remain so due to the involvement of humans in history. I'd actually say that it's more important to teach folks how to read and comprehend history (both good and bad types) so that they can use that knowledge base to inform their own history selections and build their own theoretical base. Learning to understand and recognize bias helps one separate the wheat from the chaff...and that's a skill that seems to be seldom taught these days. It can also help one mine nuggets of great information from sources that might otherwise not be considered.