Winston Churchill once said, “Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.” Last week leaders from the 1st Cavalry Division and 3rd Cavalry Regiment spent time
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The Afghan conflict has refocused world attention on Waziristan. Once one of the British Empire s most volatile territories, the remote small province in northwestern Pakistan is now home to Taliban insurgents, al-Qaeda fighters, rogue elements within
Director, Center for National Defense A view of a Douglas SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber in the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana. Education Images / Universal Images Group / Getty Image
Key Takeaways
The presumption in much of modern academia appears to be that only warmongers would teach about war.
Knowledge, critical thinking and prudent judgment are as vital as military hardware, artificial intelligence, and powerful economies.
There is no question that the United States needs to better think the future. That requires getting back to fostering critical thinking and judgment.
Distinguished war historian Max Hastings recently lamented, “In centers of learning across North America, the study of the past in general, and of wars in particular, is in spectacular eclipse.” This created a bit of a buzz among “classically” educated national security professionals i.e., those who learned the blocking-and-tackling basics of