Romanticizing History Can Be Worse Than Repeating It

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The cliche goes that those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. But history is more than just a memory and a lesson, sometimes it’s a tool and a weapon. Some pundits are concerned that historians in their ivory tower of academia are neglecting the study of war and policy in favor of identity politics, and in some cases shirking their role of educating the public in favor of an academic elitism that is mostly aimed producing work for themselves and their colleagues to consume.

Brian Laslie is the Deputy Command Historian at NORAD and United States Northern Command. He previously served as the Historian of the 1st Fighter Wing at Langley Air Force Base from December 2009 to August 2012. In 2011, he deployed as the Air Forces Central Command (Forward) Historian to Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, from September 2011 to January 2012. It was while deployed that Brian wrote the majority of what would become his first book.

Brian’s views expressed here are his own and don’t reflect those of the United States government.

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0:24.1	You know I think the romanticizing of history, the mythology of history, there's there's much more danger there.
0:38.1	You're listening to war College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines.
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0:43.0	Hello,
0:45.0	Hello. Hello, welcome to War College. I'm Matthew Gault. And I'm Derek Gannon.
0:58.6	And I'm Kevin Nodell. The cliche goes that those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.
1:05.0	But history is more than just a memory and a lesson.
1:09.0	Sometimes it's also a tool and a weapon.
1:12.0	Some pundits are concerned that historians in their ivory tower of academia are neglecting the study of war and policy in favor of identity politics and in some cases shirking the role of educating the public in favor of an academic
1:23.8	elitism that is mostly aimed producing work for themselves and their colleagues
1:28.5	to consume. Brian Leslie is the Deputy Command Historian at Norad and United States Northern Command.
1:36.0	He previously served as the historian for the first fighter wing at Langley Air Force Base from December 2009 to August 2012. In 2011, he deployed as the Air Force's
1:46.6	Central Command Forward Historian Al-Udeed Air Base Qatar from 2011 to January 2012. It was while deployed that Brian wrote the majority
1:55.3	of what would become his first book. Brian, thank you so much for joining us.
1:59.1	Thanks for having me. Happy to be here. And I do want to state up at the very top
2:03.8	that the views that are going to be expressed here
2:06.1	are your own, and they do not reflect those
2:08.3	of the United States government, correct?
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