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Military History

See also history.

Military history is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing intra and international relationships.
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Adam Gopnik
[A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think it’s a good plan.
Adam Gopnik

Smedley D. Butler
No one told them that dollars and cents were the real reason. No one mentioned to them, as they marched away, that their going and their dying would mean huge war profits. No one told these American soldiers that they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with United States patents. They were just told it was to be a 'Glorious Adventure' (Page 44) ...more
Smedley D. Butler, War Is a Racket

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