Webcast for Students: What Students Need to Know About War, and Why

On February 25, 2009, the Foreign Policy Research Institute's Wachman Center presented two 45-minute webcasts with one of the world’s most distinguished historians of war and enabled students from the online and live audiences to “interrogate” our guest as well.

How important is technology in war? How important is morale? What were some of the great errors on the battlefield? Who were the greatest commanders? Why were the 13 American colonies able to defeat the British, the world’s greatest power, in America’s Revolutionary War? Why did the U.S. play such a crucial role in World War II?

Alan Luxenberg, director of FPRI’s Wachman Center interviewed Jeremy Black, professor of history at Exeter University (United Kingdom) and a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Prof. Black is author of many books, including Great Military Campaigns and Their Leaders (Thames and Hudson, 2008); America as a Military Power 1775–1882 (Praeger, 2002); War: An Illustrated World History (Sutton, 2003). and World War Two: A Military History (Routledge, 2003).

Go to this link for the webcasts.