The Education Exchange: Is Putin a Modern George III?

Military historian Kevin Weddle sees parallels between the war in Ukraine and the American Revolution.

Book cover of "The Compleat Victory" and photo of Kevin J. WeddleA Professor of Military Theory and Strategy at the US Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, Kevin Weddle, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Weddle’s new book, The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution, and how the battle of Saratoga parallels Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

Peterson recently highlighted Weddle’s book in “Teaching Patriotism: Civics, fundamentally, is learning one’s history as a country,” for Education Next.

The Compleat Victory is available from Oxford University Press now.

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