34 - Bonura on French Influences on the US Army

Dr. Jonathan Abel and Dr. Bill Nance sit down with special guest Dr. Mike Bonura of DJIMO to discuss the French influences on the US Army from its earliest years to the US Civil War. He outlines how the French were the paradigm army of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and what immediate and long-term influences that had on US Army theory and practice. 

"History is only a confused heap of facts." - Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

Host:

Dr. Jonathan Abel, CGSC DMH

DMH

Podcast Team: Drs. Jonathan Abel, Mark Gerges, and Bill Nance

Artwork:

Daniel O. Neal

Music:

SSG Noah Taylor, West Point Band