Would Americans be better served if Military History and Military Science were taught in our public schools?

Question

I think most people who are critical of the War are ignorant as to why we are fighting and whome we are fighting. If more people read history -especially Military History- and paid attention in history class, there would not be so many historically moronic insults levelled at America. For example, who stands to gain from the Democrats fearmongering and the media's disinformation? Islam!
You don't believe me? Pay attention, then, to Military Science:

1) The Art of War -Sun Stzu
2) The Prince -Macchiavelli
3) Isinde Al Qaeda -Mohamed Sifaoui

If you can comprehend these monumental works, then your eyes will be opened.

Answer 1

You raise a very good point, but I think it should be taken a step further to recognize that the general history we teach in schools currently is at best inaccurate and boring. Not only that, but it stops just shy of discussing any of the wars or political ideologies behind them in recent history. This blatant omission of all wars fought post WWII and the reasons behind them has left our whole society with virtually no understanding of the state of the world.

Yes, I think we should be teaching military history, political history and recent and current events, also a course on ideologies. First, we need to tell the truth in what we are teaching currently. For example, get Chris Colombus off his pedestal, he was a genocidal, tortuous pedophile who started slavery in the "New World." What kind of people are we that we celebrate such a creature?

Answer 2

You're curious about military history & how to win?
Good points : )

I would add another example ... if I may.

"Muhammad turned to raiding caravans bound for Mecca. Caravan-raiding was an old Arabian tradition and according to Watt was "a kind of sport rather than war" and that the object of the raids was to take animals and other goods but killing was carefully avoided.

Muslims justified the raids by the Meccans' confiscation of the property they had left at Mecca and the state of war deemed to exist between the Meccans and the Muslims.

In March of 624, Muhammad led some three hundred warriors in a raid on a Meccan merchant caravan. The Meccans successfully defended the caravan and then decided to teach the Medinans a lesson. They sent a small army against Medina. On March 15, 624 near a place called Badr, the Meccans and the Muslims clashed. Though outnumbered more than three times (one thousand to three hundred) in the battle, the Muslims met with success, killing at least forty-five Meccans and taking seventy prisoners for ransom; only fourteen Muslims died. This marked the real beginning of Muslim military achievement."

Answer 3

I was tempted to write a flippant "they sure should teach something remark"

Seriously,
First you will need qualified teachers to put military history and the modern era in perspective. This would require a level of understanding beyond that which is taught in middle or high school levels.

But i think you idea is otherwise sound. Too much is taught about how things ought to be in some idealized way, and not how things are in the real world.

Political and religious conflict is just economic warfare disguised.

Answer 4

Absolutely not!! I am Indian and am living in the U.S. I am 13 and am an honors student. I will not be a pupil who has to spend time in school listening to some American patriotism and propaganda.
I don't care about what really happens to the U.S. The U.S thinks
its right to invade other countries and rape woman but I am Indian. My country is a future super power and I care about
their developments. America is starting to bug other countries and tell them to close their nuclier weapons program when
America has the most nukes to start off. If America really ticks some country off they will pay for it and the time is coming.

Answer 5

The LIBERALS run the schools and we'll never get military history taught while they do .
Great idea but hard to do at this time .

Answer 6

military history is taught through us history in high school (espically in ap us history). as far as military science is concerned, unless it was taught as a class that studied different countries as well as the us, it wouldn't be effective.

Answer 7

i believe so. i love that stuff. I think it would be better for us to avoid war, or if we are engaged in war, to be better prepared for battle, where even a low level grunt, or minor officer would be better prepared through the years in bits of military strategy to keep his troops alive.

Answer 8

yes