MY HISTORY PROFESSOR IS TALKING ABOUT HOW GREAT ROMMEL WAS RIGHT NOW AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Great at getting his ass kicked by the limeys, and dying a dog's death
My boss told me we can't come up with ideas like Tupperware with spoons in the lid because we don't have slant eyes today. I feel your pain
speaking as a member of the field, military historians are as a rule the dumbest, chuddiest historians
glantz is the historian who has done the most to redeeming the image of the rkka, but a former us army colonel isnt exactly a conrad
You can like a historian's work while not agreeing with their personal politics or background
There is this author, Myke Cole, who wrote Science Fiction and Fantasy but also had published one military history book when I stopped reading him (think he's up to two now). His military history book is about examining why the phalanx formation dominated ancient combat for so long and why/how the Roman Legions surpassed it. I never got around to reading that one, but I had read his Fantasy and SciFi stuff.
Anyway, this author was a big presence in the SFF author Twitter community until like July 2020. He was a funny, charismatic dude, always cracking jokes with fellow authors, and he made a big show about being woke. One of his things was debunking the Spartan myth. He made a lot of being a Coast Guard officer, which in retrospect should have been a red flag, but he was always dunking on navy policy whenever they were doing something stupid. He was always up in arms about racial injustices and anti-LGBT bigotry and he made this concerted effort to seem all right. Then it came out that he was a serial harasser of women. His entire public persona was a smoke show. Last I'd heard he stopped publishing SFF stuff, but he's still publishing Military History and I think he works in TV or something.
Anyway, that's my only personal knowledge of anyone who works in Military History in any respect, but it's not a flattering impression of the field.
So great he helped commit one of the worlds largest, fastest, and most systematized mass genocides in human history. Oh wait thats not being great, thats being a fucking fascist loser.
"...you stupid fucking fascist pig, look at you ,.. you have horses ... what where you thinking ... You have horses !"
What are the campaigns he's best known for?
North Africa (El Alamein), Sicily, Operation Overlord... I'm starting to notice something about all of these.
Not only was he defeated, but he was defeated in his defensive campaigns that he had multiple years to prepare for.
"But all the best troops were fighting the Soviets! Rommel had limited resources!" no shit dingus, that's because the Red Army was a fucking behemoth.
"I only lost because my best troops were busy losing on another front."
"On a scale from one to cartoonishly fascist, how Ukrainian were your grandparents?"
throw a textbook at his face and then declare the classroom a soviet republic
I would love to take a shitpost all over your professor's social media
We need a :Konstantin Rokossovsky: emote of him glaring with glowing eyes.
And then print it and give it to your professor and he'll be like "who is this?" thus proving for good and all that he doesn't know shit about shit.
