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Bruce Scates | Review Article: The Price of War: Labour Historians Confront Military History | Labour History, 84 | ... (5739 words) |
 | Military history was also a facet of Cambridge's aforementioned Australian History Series and again it is instructive that one of the few titles to run to a reprint in that series was Jeffrey Grey's Military History of Australia. |
| His discussion of misplaced military strategy, an expeditionary mentality that bound the fortunes of Australia's forces with the ambitions of one or other foreign empires, is at once engaging and challenging. |
| Their presence reminds labour historians that writing about war is too important, too inclusive a task to be abdicated to the memoirs of veterans or the specialism of military history. |
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| If military historians choose to identify themselves with that military establishment and receive its funding, I have a hard time understanding why they shouldn't be held to judgment for it. |
| I have to say, I think the accusation that someone who worked as an historian either for the military at various posts around the world or at one of the service academy lacks critical distance when it comes to their work is horrendously unfair, not to mention wrong. |
| Since the military's primary interest in military history is in using it to help win future wars, places like the various War Colleges actually encourage criticism of the origins, intent, course, and outcomes of the military's actions in the past. |
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