military history foundation

The Military History Foundation

Mark Grimsley has tired of the "hand wringing" and proactively started

The Military History Foundation:

I have created The Military History Foundation in response to my

perception that at present, a dearth of ideas and strategies exists

concerning the advancement of military history as an academic

field. The tone among many senior scholars in the field --

including those who hold, or have held, leadership positions -- is

strikingly defeatist. Along with their rank-and-file counterparts,

they complain about the marginalization of the field, blaming it on

a blind prejudice against miltary history among academics in other

fields.

This may be true. It is also irrelevant.

I happen to think the thesis of an unreasoning hostility toward the

field is overblown. But even if it is not, this does not relieve us

of the responsibility for developing and executing plans to

strengthen the academic military history. Since others do not seem

to be shouldering the burden, I've decided to embark on the work

myself....

...I am going to do what I can to generate constructive plans and

insist that the leadership of the Society for Military History

either adopt them or develop constructive plans of its own.

That is the immediate task of The Military History Foundation. At

the moment, it consists of a domain name purchased for $23.90 and a

few web pages.

But it won't stay that way.

Instead of perpetuating a debate whereby many continue to talk past

each other, Grimsley has provided a potential avenue for change. Kudos

for the proactive approach!