Victor Davis Hanson | George S. Patton: American Ajax

[daftandbarmy]

Stumbled across this... very good!


Victor Davis Hanson, the Wayne and Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College, is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of classics emeritus at California State University, Fresno. This third CCA of the 2019-2020 academic year will consider the lives and characters of some of America’s greatest generals.

 

[Brad Sallows]

I suppose 360s and psych evals will weed those kinds of people out long before they approach flag rank. Future wars will be more genteel, if costly.

 

[Weinie]

Stumbled across this... very good!


Victor Davis Hanson, the Wayne and Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College, is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of classics emeritus at California State University, Fresno. This third CCA of the 2019-2020 academic year will consider the lives and characters of some of America’s greatest generals.

VDH is awesome, and provides historical context like no other.

 

[daftandbarmy]

VDH is awesome, and provides historical context like no other.

He's clearly 'hard right' of the political spectrum, but great to watch regardless.

I enjoyed this book of his: The Western Way of War - http://luna.cas.usf.edu/~murray/pdf/Hanson-01.pdf