![]() ![]() Teachers should try to imbue these events with some of their drama. And yet military history has a human dimension that surpasses any other subject. It starts, it goes through, and then it ends. Youngsters who are learning history, and particularly military history, in today’s academic world see it as a recitation of events almost like a movie script. By the time today’s students graduate, the stream of events that was set in motion by that War will still be affecting America’s youth, who will still be fighting and dying in the deserts and mountains of the Middle East. To them, it’s ancient history.Īnd yet Gulf War I was a watershed in American history, especially American military history. That war took place almost twenty years ago, in 1991. If you tell your class that “Today, we are going to study the first Persian Gulf War,” you will get an unenthusiastic response.
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