HIST 2120 Study Guide - Final Guide: Al-Qaeda, Philip Caputo, We Were Soldiers
11 Dec 2015
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Traditional military history is often viewed as incomplete and uninformative. The traditional form of military history is vastly different from modern-day, or new military history. Traditional military history heavily focuses on battles, generalship, and campaigns. In contrast, new military history focuses on the connection between armies and the societies they originated from. Traditional military history is a large issue for modern historians for numerous reasons. Traditional military history was narrow- minded, incomplete, and often uninformative. This creates various issues for modern day historians who are trying to derive contemporary information from these documents. Current historians are now not only faced with the task of analyzing the past, but also with the task of understanding an uninformed and seemingly unfinished history of war. Traditional military history proves to be a problem for many reasons. Firstly, the traditional form of military history overlooks numerous aspects of war that should be documented and analyzed.
