[conservativephilosopher-announce] New post at The Conservative Philosopher

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Hello,
	There is a new post on The Conservative Philosopher.  You can read it at:

http://www.conservativephilosopher.com/posts/1109968935.shtml

It begins:

	Last semester my son took a course "US Military
	History 1600-1900." He [i.e. I] had to buy 7 or so
	books for the course, many of them reprints of
	first-hand accounts. Since he was done with the
	course, and since I do not know much about US
	military history, I thought I might expand my mind
	by reading the books, and imagining the lives and
	events represented. One book was the major
	textbook, For the Common Defense by Allan R.
	Millett & Peter Maslowski, Free Press, 1984, rev.
	1994. In reading about the period between the War
	of 1812 and the...