Studying Mars and Clio
Or How Not to Write about the Ethics of Military Conduct and Military History
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 4494581 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Huw Bennett (0000-0002-3325-3077, Cardiff University), Michael Finch (0000-0001-7770-1102, Australian National University), Andrei Mamolea (McGill University, autor de correspondencia), David Morgan-Owen (0000-0002-0551-2836, Kings College London) |
| Año | 2019 |
| Volumen | 88 |
| Páginas | 274-280 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2019-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Editorial | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbz034 |
| OpenAlex | W2968286902 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 5 |
| Referencias citadas | 9 |
In ‘Savage Warfare: Violence and the Rule of Colonial Difference in Early British Counterinsurgency’ (History Workshop Journal 85, 2018), Kim Wagner rightly argues that violence was a ubiquitous feature of colonial rule and that this fact must be acknowledged if we are to fully confront the legacies of empire, and their implications for conflict today.1 In presenting his case, however, Wagner makes serious historical errors as well as the sweeping accusation that military historians, especially those working in military education, are guilty of abandoning the scholarly standards of the historical discipline, perpetuating indifference to suffering outside the Western World, and having ‘weaponized’ history to justify military interventions and coercive and unjust treatment of non-white populations. These unsubstantiated accusations constitute an attack on the ethical and scholarly integrity of an entire field of history and the scholars within it. We have written this response to address the deficiencies in Wagner’s assertions about the use of expanding bullets and colonial military conduct, the historiography of colonial violence, and the current state of what he calls ‘parochial military history’.
Colonialism · Criminology · False accusation · Historiography · Military history · Political science · Sociology · History · Law · Military History and Strategy · Peacebuilding and International Security · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
Understanding War
Explosive Missals’
The British Army and the Origins of its Minimum Force Philosophy
The British Army, ‘Understanding’, and the Illusion of Control
Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
The minimum force debate
Troops were then forced to fire
Myth and the small war tradition
Savage Warfare
| Obras citantes distintas | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 1,25 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Velocidad de citación | recent |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 4 |