| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Gregory C. Kennedy and Keith Neilson, editors. Military Education: Past, Present, and Future. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2002. Pp. xii, 239. $64.95.
The ten essays collected in this volume are the products of a symposium held at the Royal Military College of Canada to consider the problem of military education over time in a variety of settings in Europe, Canada, and the United States. Together, these essays nicely complement those presented in Elliott Converse, ed. Forging the Sword: Selecting, Educating, and Training Cadets and Junior Officers in the Modern World (1999). Like that volume, this one describes the processes of change over time that have converted military education from a narrowly defined professional training program largely run by fellow practitioners into a serious academic program run by officers and civilians that is designed to place national defense requirements into their widest and most cogent contexts.	1
Like Converse's volume, this one has the benefit of outstanding contributors. Among them are Dennis Showalter, Andrew Lambert, David French, and Mark Grandstaff, all of whom are widely published and respected in their fields. Although each essay has a particular focus, three themes especially stand out. First, there exists the problem of identifying exactly what military professionals should study. One school of thought contends that officers need to learn the precise nuts and bolts of their specific branch of service or unit. As virtually all of the contributors argue, this model became much less relevant over time, because it tended to produce men who were of greater utility to their service than to their nation as a whole. Consequently, military education came to focus more on general topics such as history, area studies, languages, and nonapplied sciences.	. . .

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