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.
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.