Abstract
AbstractAlthough neither Herodotus nor George W. G. Forrest is a military historian, both offer valuable models for that discipline. This chapter surveys key moments in the historiography of war, explaining why early military historians tended to misuse Herodotus and later ones to ignore him. Three trends in late 20th-century military history — the ‘new military history’, John Keegan's battle history, and the Thucydides revival in professional military education — would have benefited from consideration of Herodotus' work. On reflection, Herodotus turns out to have been a better military historian than generally acknowledged, while Thucydides, as Forrest himself pointed out in a little-known paper, has been overrated. Both were ahead of their peers in humanizing military history, and it is no accident that so many ancient military historians were students of Forrest.
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