Why Veterans Should Write for Themselves?
Continuing from where we left off in War Diaries Issue 5, we want to reiterate the importance of veterans writing for themselves.
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Writing Military Biography/Autobiography
The book is an autobiography, and as a historian and biographer, I was given a front-row seat to a firsthand account of the Swedish military experience in the 2000s.
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Veterans and Generals
This idea of the great general who could command and solve every issue through the use of force is perhaps something well suited for ancient history.
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The Continuities and Discontinuities of War
‘Existing military doctrine and training will very quickly prove challenging or out of date during the initial combat of a new war,’ a hypothesis associated with the eminent historian Sir Michael Howard. Before 2022, many theorists and pundits were strongly of the opinion that there was no chance of Putin invading Ukraine.
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Thinking Twice Before Praising War on Social Media
With the ongoing wars in Ukraine, Palestine, Tigray, Myanmar, Central African Republic, and eastern DRC, to name a few, social media has become a space for propaganda.
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