Abstract
Studies of war published in the last twenty years by distinguished historians who are not military specialists represent a call to military historians to engage these studies on the common ground of war itself, in effect working to bridge the gulf that has kept military historians on the margins of the historical profession. None of these studies is flawless, but at the same time their great value calls for constructive help from military historians who study the same wars, and who can build on these works to achieve more satisfactory syntheses.
Keynote Address, 2008 SMH Conference, Ogden, Utah
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John Shy, “History, and the History of War,” The Journal of Military History 72, no. 4 (October 2008): 1033–1046.