War Propaganda and Notions of Civic Duty

Part 1 of 2: The role of propaganda in our current wars

War makes us terrible historians.

This was the topic and title of a piece I published in September 2023 at OnlySky, in the wake of an event in Canadian Parliament that illustrated how much our understanding of complex military histories had been collapsed by the hard fact of another European war in progress. Despite growing up inundated by stories of Wor…