The Military History Debate

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An older Huw Davies article, from September 2014 'The Instrumentalisation of History' and it starts with:

History is a dangerous thing. Parallels between contemporary events and history are all too easy to arrive at. In unskilled hands, historical events can be manhandled to seemingly deliver lessons and solutions to apparently intractable contemporary problems. This is ‘instrumentalising’ history. In reality, history can be misleading, its so-called ‘lessons’ proving counter-productive if their context is not properly understood.

Link:http://www.thestrategybridge.com/the...ion-of-history

Another piece:http://www.academia.edu/21432841/The...of_its_History