Hello and welcome to the culturalist, a part of the Victor Davis Hansen show.

The culturalist is dedicated to events and people, past and present that have influenced

the way we live and the things that we value.

And we're very happy to be able to talk to Victor about so many and far-ranging things

that we can discuss.

Today we're going to be talking about, since we've had current events in Afghanistan and

the disastrous policy that the administration has had and our generals and their, what

seems to be political posturing, although they seem to deny that political posturing.

We're going to talk about the historical precedents or historical events and times in which

we've seen the politicization of the military today.

So that's our topic.

But first let's take a break to listen to our sponsors.

Welcome back and I would like to also say that Victor is the Martin and Ili Anderson senior

fellow in military history and classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and

Marsha Bussk Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College.

His podcasts are published on John Solomon's Just the News and on Art 19 and he and the

rest of us on Victor's team hope you come to our new website at victorhansen.com.

So it's the same URL for the old website but we have a whole new look to the website.

So we hope to see everybody there soon.

How are you doing today Victor?

I'm doing very well as much as anybody can be doing well given the chaos in Afghanistan

and the lack of transparency about that chaos.

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