“Military Histories Old and New: A Reintroduction,” published in 2007 by Robert M. Citino, discusses the schisms in the field and the various interpretations of how to study it. The author views military history in terms of three camps and argues that military history has become “a big tent” (1072) and that historians are divided on how to approach the study of military history, as shown by the “old”, which focuses on battles and leaders, the “new”, which focuses on “the interface between war and society” (1072), and a more recent field that applies the “history of memory and culture to the study of military affairs in their broadest sense” (1072).
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