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The Problems of Writing Academic History
Monday, March 05, 2012
This originally started out as a reply to James Daly’s post on ‘Why we write?’ but as it grew in length I have decided to post it here. I have of course taken issue with one aspect of James’ post but it raises an important issue that I think we, and by that, I mean academics, need to be willing to engage with.
See more here: http://thoughtsonmilitaryhistory.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/the-problems
New Blogs...
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
A post intrigued me over on Kings of War by Dr Thomas Rid about how many people read and download certain journals and articles. Of course, an articles importance is measured in its terms of citations, which allows academics, and most notably the REF, consider the all-important issue of impact. However, while all of this is important, and we will always seek to publish our work with journals (This author has just submitted his first article to War in History, so I am as guilty as anyone is), I was pleased to read Thomas’ conclusion about the growing importance of blogs.
See more here: http://thoughtsonmilitaryhistory.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/new-blogs/
Air Power and a Liberal Way in War: The West’s Quest to Remove Battle from War
Sunday, February 19, 2012
I recently put in a proposal for the a conference at the University of Reading on the Liberal Way in War. While the paper was not accepted for the main conference I was asked to deliver my paper at the Postgraduate Symposium being held the day before. The conference itself will see more than 40 papers delivered on this subject including keynotes by Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman and Professor Richard Overy. The conference is part of the university’s Levehulme funded project on the Liberal Way in War and it should be an interesting experience. Given Colin Gray future book on Airpower and Strategic Effect it will be interesting to see how my paper is received. I just need to sit down and write it now as there may be the possibility of publishing it. Here is the abstract:
http://thoughtsonmilitaryhistory.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/air-power-an
The Influence of the Napoleonic Wars upon the British Military, 1815-1854
Saturday, January 14, 2012
For the armies of continental Europe, the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars constituted a seismic event, provoking a period of introspection and military reform and heralding the Napoleonic military revolution. By contrast, there was not a similar level of reform to the British Army.
See more here: http://warstudies.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/the-influence-of-the-napole
The British Army, 1795-1815: An Army Transformed?
Monday, January 02, 2012
Here is the first of the abstracts for our forthcoming book on transformation and innovation in the British military. All of the contributors are interested in your thoughts.
For more see: http://warstudies.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/the-british-army-1795-1815-