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(Not gp) I’d like to read it, but I don’t understand how to even start to make sense of large texts like this. Does one just read and believe, or how does it lo
by wruza 2y ago
(Not gp) I’d like to read it, but I don’t understand how to even start to make sense of large texts like this. Does one just read and believe, or how does it look like? It speaks many insights and facts, but where does it get these? How does one even write such text without being e.g. a highly ranked official working directly in the field for many years? Authors profile https://acoup.blog/author/aimedtact/ https://acoup.blog/author/aimedtact/ doesn’t inspire confidence either.
I’m not overtly critically set against it or anything in this thread, just curious what is the reasonable expectation here.
- esperent 2y agoThe author Brett Deveraux is a fairly well known military historian. So I guess he got to be an expert, learn how to cite his sources and so on the way a lot of experts do: university, followed by many years work.
- cassepipe 2y agoI don't really understand your concerns. Just starting to read it a bit you will see that is not making any crazy points that would need solid sources. It seems to start from "international relations 101" The link you gave is not the author profile just lists all the article from the author which will be almost all of his articles since it his website. As I stated, he is a historian (by profession, the kind that gives classes, write books and engages with the historian academic community) and one of HN's darlings. Not sure why you would got out of your way to say that it does not inspire confidence. You can find the author here for example : https://bsky.app/profile/bretdevereaux.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/bretdevereaux.bsky.social