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Title: The Elmer Gantry of Military History
Review: I don't care about the gun control debate. ARMING AMERICA is an example of what happens when an author writes without a shred of intellectual honesty. Bellesiles lifts quotes out of context with such care and regularity that I can only conclude it was deliberate. On multiple occasions the text he cites bears no resemblance to the interpretive statements he makes. These are not errors, it is fraud. Eighteenth century military history in general, and how armies fought in particular, is so little understood in academic history that interpretations so obviously wrong (to scholars in military history) are actually praised in academic journals.
