Category: War and Society
-
An essay on the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) that I wrote last year appeared in print this fall in a book about war atrocities from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.1 The essay focuses on German soldiers and French civilians using the example of the Bavarians. It examines why soldiers…
-
YouTube video: Soviet stop motion animation of matchsticks fighting over a border and then launching the ultimate weapon, ending everything.
-
YouTube video aimed at American soldiers: “Your Job in Germany,” from very early in the occupation.
-
Quotation by Samuel R. Williamson Jr and Russel Van Wyk on the “urgent need for civilian understanding and control of the military forces of the state.”
-
YouTube video: Donald Duck, the working man, pays “taxes to sink the Axis.”
-
Description of a cartoon that takes on Americans’ outsourcing of war.
-
There has been much scrutiny in the press recently about the U.S. outsourcing military missions to private companies like Blackwater. P. W. Singer pointed out many problems with this trend in yesterday’s Washington Post. The most important from my point of view is the weak link between the American people…
-
Historical scholarship can be as much the result of accident as planning. How on earth did I come to write a dissertation on Wilhelm Groener? I thought I liked doing social history, not biography. If I studied the army, I was more apt to find common soldiers interesting, not a…
