VDH is a rock star. 🇺🇸 ⭐️

A savant of a man with a wealth of knowledge of human conflict so vast that he can pluck forgotten gems of history and collate them into introspectives designed to make any who are inquisitive enough to listen understand the possibility of all our existences. As Patton wisely stated, "Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor pale to insignificance."

@daisyq3418

3 жыл бұрын

War is Hell.

He’s brilliant enough to know that he doesn’t know everything and humble enough to admit it.

The man is brillant!

This is just another in a long list of cerebral gymnastics this amazing professor can share with all of us . What a treasure to have an ancient but contemporaneous thought leader like him .

4:55 is when he starts talking.

Brilliant

Nobody on the Left can contend with this man, and if you can show me one who can, I'll be much obliged.

I would hope that he would speak to the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861 by the Confederate States of America. The factors that he cites in his first twenty minutes seem to me to have addressed some of the most fundamental psychological factors of wounded pride, underestimating the adversary, etc.

great speech

"If the general government should persist in the measures now threatened, there must be war. It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils." Comments to his pastor (April 1861) by Colonel Thomas J. (soon to be known as "Stonewall") Jackson, veteran of the Mexican-American War.

Brilliant mind of social identity.

@killerbee2k Don't loose faith, I think the young are interested. I saw Mr Hanson give a very interesting lecture to students at the UCLA. Far from the usual rabble of leftist/post modern nonsense, they were engaged and very intelligent. Furthermore there is a growing youth backlash against post modern thinking. They are not vocal, but they are starting to take an interest in a broader discourse.

@tommyodonovan3883

3 жыл бұрын

So....You're telling me "there's a chance!"

@sinjimsmythe9577

3 жыл бұрын

This did not age well over 9 years! Has got significantly worse, not better ... sadly

@mrniceguy7168

2 жыл бұрын

@@sinjimsmythe9577 he is right about growing backlash but it isn’t big enough. I guess when you’re at the bottom, you can only go up.

Great insights!

Superb!!!

i'm fascinated by his combover.

@errolkim1334

4 жыл бұрын

It is truly epic

@GeorgeGeorgecp

3 жыл бұрын

Bets on what’s under it over/ under on mammal or not

Do you know how Dr. VDH got his first name?

@AmBotanischenGarten

3 жыл бұрын

He was named after an Uncle who died during WWII in the island hopping--Saipan or Iwo Jima.

@harmisajedi Holla!!!

VDH is a brilliant man and a compelling speaker, and he is therefore very dangerous. Perhaps it was only because of his estimation of his audience on this occasion, but he uses his rather uncommonly complete command of many of the details of military history as a rhetorical weapon, throwing them into the mix as if he were a chef seasoning the soup. He began by asking, "Why do wars start?", an excellent question, and then listed three or four mundane suppositions about homeowners fighting over property lines or unraked leaves, leaving the implication that nations are like suburban neighbors. That's astonishingly glib and simplistic. Dr. Hanson, brilliant though he is, ignores what I think he must know if truly he is as much of an historian as I think he is: War enhances state power. Nation states are bureaucratic constructs built upon hierarchy. Political leaders at the top, whether they are kings, dictators, prime ministers, or presidents crave and demand political power, and are dismayed to discover that such power is an ethereal thing which has to be pumped up every so often. When governments feel the citizens becoming, usually in peacetime, too critical of their leaders, an external enemy, even one that is manufactured by the at risk political elite, unites the citizenry behind their savior, the governmental war machine saving the bacon of the elites. VDH may have listed some supplementary factors about the starting of wars, but the likely most common main cause he surprisingly ignores. I think he actually is better than that, so he leaves me feeling confused about his objectives for this talk.

@mengelmoesNL

9 жыл бұрын

I think it's save to assume that anybody who attends such a lecture already knows that. He was giving a lecture about "war and its impact on society", not the state and its relation to its subjects.

@FranzFerdinand76

7 жыл бұрын

He does mention "self interest" which sums up everything you said. He could have ellaborated on that sure, but i don't think that was the point. Good post tho.

@6handicap604

3 жыл бұрын

Although VDH did not illustrate this point specifically, this indeed falls into the category of human nature neve changing. These things have been known of leaders and Kings for centuries.

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Too bad every American cannot have a stay in a Gulag or North Korean prison for at least a month. You'd probably get a lot of citizens who suddenly see the need for a military and would be less likely to fight about it being used when needed. Very naive to think it will not be needed, but also less likely to be used if it's kept strong and ready. Very little perspective these days with people who don't know history and don't care. They live in a dream world. They get sound bites and news from narrow sources and then become instant experts on world events, sloganeering hate speech on cue against those who failed to deliver a perfect world.

that all societies are equal as humans is where you wrong...ones that are on more inhuman level is what we are still doing...

Did Greeks forget about Marathon and Thermopylae and Salamis? I would suppose that the Macedonians never let them forget about Chaeronea.

Taiwan transformed to democracy in peaceful way.

@6handicap604

3 жыл бұрын

Depends on your viewpoint. Taiwan was taken from China through war, after WWII instead of returning Taiwan to China as it did the rest of Chinese soil, Japan at the behest of the Allies, freed Taiwan to become a sovereign country. So actually, Taiwan got it's freedom through war. Taiwan would not be a Democracy today if it had been returned to China.

The audience isn't shown in the video, but I guess people like yourself must make things up to support their world view. Also, conservative academia is dominated by jews and blacks. Thomas Sowell, Milton Friedman, Walter Williams, Shelby steele and on and on. I think that liberals hate black economists especially. As far as backwards thinking... Hammurabi's code was socialist/collectivist. It is Classical Liberalism that is new relatively. It is american liberalism that is backwards.

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@errolkim1334

4 жыл бұрын

Pendejo

@frankpaya690

3 жыл бұрын

@@errolkim1334 translation: stupid

If that guy talked any slower. He would be going backwards.

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I really, really enjoy VDH. However, to me, his analyses seem too compatible with NeoConservatism and what I suspect is the unmentionable Hoover-Institute Pattern. HIP? What he has converted me too was the acceptance that war will be always happen. That is a good education to receive. What I impatient about is that Professor Hanson just does not seem to deal with the genetic bases of conflict and policies. The scholarly analysis of war must deal with biology: ethnicity & race. The biological model is at times made covert and--in turn--proxy discussions are presented as the "real" description of causality. But these deceptions periodically collapse and expose the biology underneath. Thanks, VDH is always thought provoking.

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@GeorgeGeorgecp

3 жыл бұрын

Garbage

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At 46:10, I generally respect his insights but boy he got that wrong. And blaming Obama is just a cop out.

@mengelmoesNL

9 жыл бұрын

Masood Afzal Well... Obozo pulled out... while at the same time arming radical islamists in the country next door... FACEPALM. US should have stayed imo, just like Korea, Germany, Japan etc. Or at least until their new Syria adventure settled.

@tommyodonovan3883

3 жыл бұрын

Obama was a puppet, as was Bush Jr before him.

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@GeorgeGeorgecp

3 жыл бұрын

Take more meds hector

This moderator is lousy at the job. He has to read absolutely every word and doesn’t read well at all. Sounds like a middle school that is a couple of years behind.

Ah, the white privileged great military historian Victor Davis Hanson! He said Japanese Imperialism, but, not Nazi Imperialism. Freudian slip? Doctor? I have Mexicans in my family, he said elsewhere, I love him.