Where to Discuss History?
We believe history lives, and think that applied history generally belongs in with the here-and-now issues to which it applies, rather than cloistered off in its own dusty forum. Where the focus of a thread is on the lessons of history to current conflicts or issues, treat it as a history-based thread in the relevant conflict- or issue-specific forum. Examples: Malayan insurgency lessons applied to current ops in Afghanistan go in the OEF-A forum; the impacts of the early formation of the modern Middle East on current issues might go in the appropriate regional conflict, global issues, or international politics forums. If a thread is more focused on the practice of history, a discussion amongst historians, or on specific historical details more rather than their lessons for today, it should go as a conflict- or issue-based thread in the Historians forum. Examples: interpretations of Harolds moves in the Battle of Hastings; debate over how Rhodesian tactics influenced public opinion at
