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