Episode 9 - Abel on the Military Enlightenment

from Confused Heap of Facts · host CGSC Department of Military History

Dr. Jonathan Abel joins Dr. Bill Nance to discuss the Military Enlightenment, a relatively new field of historiography. He details how early-modern militaries were the perfect organizations to implement Enlightenment-style reforms, discusses how those reforms were envisioned and practiced, and explains how that implementation proceeded. "History is only a confused heap of facts." - Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield Host: Dr. Bill Nance, CGSC DMH Artwork: Daniel O. Neal Music: SSG Noah Taylor, West Point Band

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