Source: The American Prospect
by Rick Perlstein
“I’ve wanted to be a historian of the 1960s since I was a young teen, but in college, I started feeling guilty about the ambition: such a small canvass for understanding the world compared to the planet-shattering events of World Wars I and II. Instead, I became the historian and journalist you see before you today, and while I passionately opposed whenever America began yet another ill-conceived semicolonial adventure in some far-off land, I largely shunted off matters military to the margins of my consciousness, both as a citizen and as an intellectual. Interest in how war actually worked (‘tank columns,’ ‘supply lines,’ ‘the Seventh Fleet,’ all of that) seemed reserved for dads who watched what we called ‘the Hitler Channel’ (the History Channel, back when it showed history, mostly black-and-white documentaries about the course of World War II), or slightly creepy hobbyists.” (09/18/24)
https://prospect.org/world/2024-09-18-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-world-war-iii/