by Victor Davis Hanson<\/p>\n
PJ Media<\/em><\/p>\n I<\/span>\u00a0used to have a great deal of respect for the\u00a0Chronicle of Higher Education<\/i>. But on their recent gossipy blog, they advertise a recent hit-piece by one Robert Bateman of my\u00a0Carnage and Culture<\/i>, that is now appearing on the website Media Matters, funded if in part and indirectly by George Soros, under an apparently regular feature of Eric Alterman\u2019s called Altercations. The piece is embarrassing and reminds me of playground name-calling in grade school.<\/p>\n Carnage and Culture<\/i>\u00a0has been out for a number of years, and has been translated into over a dozen languages. Reviews have appeared in over fifty scholarly publications, and more mainstream magazines and newspapers, by diverse scholars such as John Keegan and Geoffrey Parker. Its general theme that a unique 2,500-year Western military tradition has allowed European and other Western nations advantages in conventional war over a variety of adversaries is, of course, controversial.<\/p>\n I welcome criticism and debate, and in the six years since the book has appeared have defended the book in a variety of written venues, public debates, and radio and television shows. It has a variety of supporters and critics, and continues to sell a number of copies. But so far no one has introduced his criticism of the book by stating at the outset that I am a \u201cpervert\u201d and that\u00a0Carnage and Culture<\/i>\u00a0is a \u201cpile\u201d \u201cof feces\u201d.<\/p>\n To write such childish slander is unprofessional \u2014 and especially unbecoming of a military officer. In the upcoming weeks, I will try to offer a point-by-point refutation of LTC. Robert Bateman\u2019s serial attacks, and begin here by replying to his initial charges that Mr. Alterman published recently. My reply is in brackets after each paragraph of Mr. Bateman\u2019s.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Bateman on Hanson: An Altercation Altercation<\/strong> [I omit the first portion of his attack that is on a topic other than\u00a0Carnage and Culture<\/i>.]<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2026Our host has been kind enough to provide me a bully pulpit for the next several weeks as I take down one of the most profound perverts of the historical record in the modern era, Mr. Victor Davis Hanson.<\/p>\n [\u201cPulpit\u201d is an unintentionally revealing admission. But who is \u201cour host\u201d \u2014 Media Matters? Indirectly a George Soros? Eric Alterman?<\/strong><\/p>\n I don\u2019t know how \u201cperverts\u201d can also be \u201cprofound\u201d, much less \u201cperverts\u201d of a \u201crecord\u201d (does Mr. Bateman instead mean a \u201cperverter\u201d?) I am flattered that Mr. Bateman thinks I am some sort of \u201cmost\u201d \u201cin the modern era.\u201d But alas, I can\u2019t claim to have any such influence, good or bad, earned or not, to justify the silly phrases \u201cone of the most\u2026in the modern era.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Not a good start.]<\/strong><\/p>\n If you are not familiar with him, Hanson, or \u201cVDH\u201d as he sometimes styles himself, is a historian of classical Greece, or at least he was a historian of that place and era. Now he is something different. Since 2001 he has laid claims to being a military and cultural historian for the ages, in addition to becoming a columnist for the National Review Online and other hyper-conservative outlets. Personally, I do not care what he writes in an op-ed, so long as he does not torture historical facts in order to validate his own pet theories. But Hanson does exactly that, and so, from my seat, he is the worst sort of polemicist: one who claims academic credentials as a neutral observer, but then insidiously inserts political interpretations of his own present-day biases into the historical record.<\/p>\n [I don\u2019t style myself \u201cVDH\u201d. Others may use the term, but since my first book I have been known as Victor Davis Hanson. I am a historian of classical Greece; the most recent book,\u00a0A War Like No Other<\/i>, on the Peloponnesian War appeared in 2005. I wrote a 10,000 word introduction for the upcoming\u00a0Cambridge History of Ancient Warfare<\/i>, and am a professor emeritus of classical languages. So I am hardly \u201csomething different\u201d now, in this sense that I no longer write or lecture on ancient Greece. I have an article coming out on a new fragment of the orator Hyperides, and just wrote a long scholarly article on Salamis for an anthology, and am just beginning to edit for Princeton University\u00a0Press Makers of Ancient Strategy<\/i>, a collection of scholarly essays on the relevance of the ancient world to modern military thought. So I think I am still a classical historian.<\/strong><\/p>\n Moreover I made no \u201cclaim\u201d to anything in 2001, much less being \u201ca military and cultural historian for the ages\u201d whatever that means. \u201cFor the ages\u201d and \u201cin the modern era\u201d are apparently Mr. Bateman\u2019s grandiose phrases, not mine, and thus he need only cite the quotation (with a footnote preferably) if he really believes I claimed or wrote any of that nonsense.<\/strong><\/p>\n I suspect what bothers Media Matters is not\u00a0Carnage and Culture<\/i>, but a perception that I often critique leftist views on contemporary issues, hence the invitation to Mr. Bateman by the David Brock-run megaphone.<\/strong><\/p>\n In the twenty years before 2001 I wrote both military history (e.g.,Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece<\/i>,\u00a0Hoplites. The Ancient Greek Battle Experience<\/i>\u00a0(editor),\u00a0The Soul of Battle<\/i>,\u00a0The Wars of the Ancient Greeks<\/i>, and several scholarly articles on things as diverse as textual problems in Thucydides to Xenophon\u2019s reconstruction of Leuktra, and cultural history (two books on agrarian life,\u00a0Fields Without Dreams<\/i>,Letters to an American Farmer<\/i>,\u00a0Who Killed Homer?<\/i>, several articles and op-eds on modern American cultural and agrarian life).<\/strong><\/p>\n True, I am a columnist for National Review Online, but I don\u2019t think also being a weekly syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services constitutes \u201chyper-conservative outlets\u201d. I am hardly a polemicist in the partisan sense. My mail, at any rate, has as many attacks from the right as from the left, for everything from supporting Israel and opposing agricultural subsidies to suggesting that blanket deportation of illegal aliens is simply a bad idea and that we shouldn\u2019t presently bomb Iran.]<\/strong><\/p>\n Hanson\u2019s best-known general thesis, which he has pounded upon since his book\u00a0Carnage and Culture<\/i>\u00a0came out in 2001, is that there are elements in Western culture (that is to say European culture, but only those who derive their heritage from the Greek\/Roman traditions) that make us unique and always successful in war. His \u201cevidence\u201d is laid out in his version and interpretation of nine battles and\/or campaigns which took place over roughly 2,500 years. In\u00a0Carnage and Culture<\/i>\u00a0these are: Salamis (480 BC), Gaugamela (331 BC), Cannae (216 BC), Poitiers (732 AD), Tenochtitlan (1520-21 AD), Lepanto (1571 AD), Rorke\u2019s Drift (1879 AD), Midway (1942 AD), and Tet (1968 AD).<\/p>\n [I haven\u2019t \u201cpounded\u201d anything. In\u00a0Ripples of Battle<\/i>\u00a0I emphasized how battle changes art and literature.\u00a0The Soul of Battle<\/i>\u00a0discussed the power of democratic armies to fight for perceived freedoms.\u00a0A War Like No Other<\/i>tried to reveal how the Peloponnesian War was fought by the soldiers themselves.\u00a0Carnage and Culture<\/i>\u00a0was one of seventeen books I\u2019ve written or edited, so its theme is hardly \u201cpounded\u201d \u2014 and no more or less emphasized than the others, whether the survival of the family farm (Fields Without Dreams<\/i>), or the dangers of unchecked illegal immigration (Mexifornia<\/i>).<\/strong><\/p>\n Of course, I never wrote that the West was \u201calways successful in war.\u201d How silly! That\u2019s a laughable distortion, and again Mr. Bateman should use quotation marks when he writes what I did not write.<\/strong><\/p>\n Instead,\u00a0Carnage and Culture<\/i>\u00a0took great effort to explain that Western armies often stumbled and cited disasters from the La Noche Triste to Isandlwana. The theme instead was that over space and time, the present dominance of the West was impossible without a military tradition that gave it innate advantages.]<\/strong><\/p>\n Hanson is tricky. He plays upon a uniquely American dichotomy. Generally speaking, we Americans respect academic qualifications, but at the same time harbor deep-seated biases against those we deem too intellectual. The line there is squiggly. Thus, Hanson tries to claim academic qualities, but then immediately switches gears and denigrates any potential opposition as mere \u201cacademic\u201d history (with its unreasonable insistence on things like footnotes or endnotes so that your sources can be checked). Indeed, he dismissed the whole lot by saying, \u201cAcademics in the university will find that assertion chauvinistic or worse \u2014 and thus cite every exception from Thermopylae to Little Bighorn in refutation.\u201d<\/p>\n [One can\u2019t \u201cclaim\u201d academic qualities\u201d (again, unsure here again of Bateman\u2019s vocabulary; is he trying to say, as earlier, \u201cqualifications\u201d?). I have a PhD in Classics from Stanford University, and was a professor of Classical Languages for twenty years at the CSU Fresno campus, as well as a visiting professor at Stanford University, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the U.S. Naval Academy, and presently am a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a retired farmer who produced tree fruit and raisins for some twenty years on our family\u2019s farm.<\/strong><\/p>\n I suppose those are qualifications, but I don\u2019t know what he means by \u201cqualities\u201d any more than I know what a profound pervert of historical record means. There are some serious problems in expression and phraseology throughout the essay that make it difficult to fathom what exactly Mr. Bateman is trying to say \u2014 hence his frustrated resort to braggadocio and slurs.<\/strong><\/p>\n I have no objection to footnotes, and almost all my scholarly books were extensively footnoted.\u00a0Warfare and Agriculture<\/i>\u00a0is heavily footnoted, in the text and at the bottom of the page. An objection to\u00a0The Other Greeks<\/i>\u00a0was that it was too extensively footnoted in tripartite fashion \u2014 Greek and Latin sources cited in the texts, shorter footnotes at the bottom of the page, and then long endnotes at the end of the book citing ancient and modern sources and controversies.<\/strong><\/p>\n My most recent book\u00a0A War Like No Other<\/i>\u00a0was footnoted in traditional fashion, as was\u00a0The Soul of Battle<\/i>. In\u00a0Carnage and Culture<\/i>, intended for a different and broader audience, I limited footnotes to citations of quoted material. So I hardly \u201cdismissed the whole lot\u201d \u2014 whatever that empty phrase means.<\/strong><\/p>\n Instead, what I wrote \u2014 and the argument is easily understandable to any reader \u2014 is that the theme of Western military advantage is controversial on the present-day university campus. And, of course, it is.]<\/strong><\/p>\n He further eroded any potential critique by claiming that such would be part of the \u201ccultural debates\u201d (conservative code for \u201ccampus liberals hate America\u201d). Indeed, that occurred in the very first paragraph of his book when he wrote, \u201cWhile I grant that critics would disagree on a variety of fronts over the reasons for European military dynamism and the nature of Western civilization itself, I have no interest in entering such contemporary cultural debates, since my interests are in the military power, not the morality of the West.\u201d<\/p>\n [Again, another willful misinterpretation of what I wrote. How is it that by stating that I didn\u2019t want to get into campus debates over Western civilization, I \u201ceroded\u201d critique? Again, what I wrote is not hard to fathom: while there is a cultural war over the morality of Western civilization vis \u00e0 vis other cultures, in this particular book, I was interested in comparative military dynamism, not morality.<\/strong><\/p>\n Frequently in the book, I noted the slaughter committed by Westerners from the Spanish in Mexico to the British in Zululand, violence that came as a result neither of their intrinsic barbarism nor high-mindedness, but rather of a tradition that allowed them to draw on superior weapons, infantry discipline, open expression and dissent, capitalism, and a variety of other protocols that had resulted in rather small numbers of soldiers fighting successfully far from home against numerically superior enemies.]<\/strong><\/p>\n His technique worked \u2014 until now.\u00a0Carnage and Culture<\/i>\u00a0was a national best-seller, and Hanson is himself now regularly invited into the highest levels of the executive branch of government to speak and advise. All because he twisted facts to tell a story as he wanted it to be, not as the facts themselves lay out. And because he silenced his critics.<\/p>\n [I didn\u2019t know that I had a \u201ctechnique\u201d much less whether it \u201cworked\u201d Again the scholarly and popular reviews are a matter of record concerning the legitimacy of the argument.<\/strong><\/p>\n Why all the psycho-drama, when Mr. Bateman should just get on with it and make his case on historical grounds, rather than continuous posturing? Mr. Bateman\u2019s use of \u201cuntil now\u201d rather pompously suggests that the apparently uniquely gifted Mr. Bateman, unlike past scholars, alone has the expertise to refute the book in this Media Matters venue.<\/strong><\/p>\n But if this initial effort, replete with inexact vocabulary and factual error, is any indication of what is to come, I welcome the cross-examination. What seems to bother Mr. Bateman most particularly \u2014 and perhaps this explains the invitation of Media Matters to publish his rant \u2014 is his perception that somehow I have some influence with current administration officials and that it is unwarranted. In fact, I have no influence, at least that I am aware of, and live in central California, about as far from Washington and Mr. Bateman\u2019s Georgetown as one could get.<\/strong><\/p>\n So I am not \u201cregularly invited into the highest levels of the executive branch of government to speak and advise.\u201d I had a single dinner with the Vice President as part of his ongoing-series of dinners he had hosted with a variety of historians. Likewise, the President set up a series of meetings with scholars to discuss past wars. In a single one of those many sessions, John Keegan and I and four others were asked to talk about military history. None of these were exceptional events, or private meetings. The number of American academics and scholars who has been invited on one or two occasions to critique present policy is in the hundreds, whether in the Clinton or Bush administrations.<\/strong><\/p>\n I have hardly silenced my critics. Although Mr. Bateman is unusual in using terms like \u201cfeces\u201d and \u201cpervert\u201d, one Gary Brecher in a Russian Online Magazine called me a \u201ctraitor\u201d and dreamed of burning down my vineyard \u2014 somewhat frightening since at about the same time as he voiced that desire, the roadside along my vineyard actually went up in flames, necessitating a visit by the local fire department.<\/strong><\/p>\n Others have attacked from a \u201cneo-Confederate\u201d perspective, on the grounds that I saw culture, rather than race, a determinant in military prowess.<\/strong><\/p>\n The weirdest attack was when John Heath and I published\u00a0Who Killed Homer?<\/i>\u00a0about the decline in classical learning: one Judith Hallet, a self-described feminist classicist upset over our critique of race, class, and gender studies, admitted that she called the FBI to report us as possible suspects in the Unabomber manhunt \u2014 so dangerously influential she thought our arguments.<\/strong><\/p>\n Once when giving a lecture on\u00a0Mexifornia<\/i>\u00a0to a group of House aides, a Nancy Pelosi staffer interrupted the session and stormed out (after trying to steal one of the pizzas that had been catered for the lunch session), furious that I must surely be a racist because I was introduced as a \u201cclassicist\u201d. He blurted out that this meant \u2018a supporter of class divisions\u201d rather than a professor of classical cultures. Classicists to him should be like racists: they use class for their own privilege, or at least that was what he tried to say before being laughed out of the room (and grabbing an entire pizza on his way out).<\/strong><\/p>\n In other words, I am used now to crack-pot furor and personal invective. But I don\u2019t think I have ever tried, much less succeeded, to silence critics. I live by a general rule: refute criticisms promptly, but don\u2019t stoop to slander. So from time to time, I will try to answer Mr. Bateman\u2019s attacks, but will never suggest that his work is a feces or he a pervert.]<\/strong><\/p>\n Hanson\u2019s dismissals of those who would correct the record he distorted are based upon two biases: \u201cCampus liberals\u201d would engage in culture wars, and \u201cnon-military historians\u201d don\u2019t know about military history and are thus unqualified to speak on the topic at hand. Well, Victor, I am afraid that I\u2019m not going to be so easy to dismiss. Although I teach at Georgetown now, I used to teach at West Point, and the topic I taught is the same that I have studied for 18 years, military history. It is one thing for you to brush off an inhabitant of, say, the history departments at Yale or the University of Wisconsin as knowing nothing of the military or military history. It is quite another to attempt the same with an Army Airborne Ranger who also happens to be an academic historian and who thinks that your personal signal work is a pile of poorly constructed, deliberately misleading, intellectually dishonest feces.<\/p>\n [Once again, why all the dramatic and self-important bumper-stickering? \u2014 18 years! Georgtown! Army Ranger! etc.<\/strong><\/p>\n I know many in the history department of Yale and have only the highest respect for them.<\/strong><\/p>\n I don\u2019t know why some resort to the false familiarity of first names, e.g., \u201cVictor.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The truth is I don\u2019t know Mr. Bateman, or he me. Again, quotations are necessary with anything Mr. Bateman writes. In this essay for example, he puts the word \u201ccampus liberals\u201d in quotations, and then here uses it a second time as if I ever had. But the term is his, not mine, so there is no need for the quote since he is quoting no one but himself.<\/strong><\/p>\n Nota bene \u2014 I have never judged any scholar\u2019s work per se by either his academic affiliations or past training, but by the merits of the logic and argumentation. I am happy that you are \u201cnow\u201d an adjunct at Georgetown, but in truth it matters little whether you teach at Georgetown or West Point or Harvard or Stanford or CSU Fresno or at what level you are employed.<\/strong><\/p>\n What is relevant only are the coherence, logic and truth of your argument. But from this first weak effort, your thesis, to the extent it can be identified, in fact, is very easy to dismiss outright on its merits well apart from your current status.<\/strong><\/p>\n I have a great deal of respect for our uniformed military, and your service as an Army Ranger, and hope that gives you special insight as you proceed to reconstruct these nine battles of the past \u2014 although it is sadly of no obvious advantage in this initial effort.]<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u00a92007 Victor Davis Hanson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hanson replies to criticisms of Ltc. 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\nby LTC. Bob Bateman<\/strong><\/p>\n