rich in content and perspective...I attended an Ivy League school , as did my son...and we never had an engaging, exciting, thought-expanding professor like this man....he is a TREASURE...no matter what one's political position!!! Pepperdine is blessed indeed....THANK YOU for sharing this with the public on youtube....
As a professor of Organizational Leadership, I am increasingly convinced that VDH is a national treasure. Thank you for this series. It is wonderfully refreshing from the standard fare. Professor K.P. Gerhart | Houston, Texas USA
10/24/24..as always VDH is most impressive with his indepth knowledge of facts & human behavioral traits which make his relaxed conversational style sooo interesting & a compelling listen. Your Pepperdine students have a great communicator in their classroom...hope they make the time to read all his reference list. A+ Pepperdine & ✅️ VDH!😊👍
I would love to hear VDH discuss the Crimean War and compare that to the Ukraine War. Britain vs. Russia (again, indirectly), the Charge of the Light Brigade, the outcome of the Crimean War vs. the likely outcome of Ukraine. VDH would be outstanding!
This is why, cannot wrap my head round this. Feel like Europe genocide. Awesome interview and love history. I’m still hoping Russia will release more information on memoirs of soldiers and generals. So much more to absorb and learn.
I have read that the Americans supplied Australia with aircraft, but that eventually the Australian pilots were replaced by American pilots. Was MacArthur less inclined to share military decisions with our allies than his counterparts in the European Theater?
Nothing but admiration and respect for VDH, but his info is a bit off regarding the P51 and Sherman Firefly. The Hawker Tempest and several other fighters could out climb the P51, and it wasn’t the fastest. The Firefly’s gun was crammed into a turret only big enough for a 75mm. The gun barely fit, was turned on its side and was awkward to reload. The recoil issue was these tight quarters, not really the tank getting kicked back. As far as killing Tigers from a mile distance, maybe there’s a report of that happening, but it wasn’t a regular occurrence.
Interesting that Victor recognied the selflessness of Britain . I ,personally despise Churchill ,but that is another story . Only a few years ago Britain finally paid off reparation to former slave owners eststes the US. Our greatest legacy to the world was the ending of the slave trade .again we had nothing to gain .It cost us so much money ,more importantly it cost us sailors lives in the squadron assigned to stop the slaver's ships .2 originally was all we could commit ,the French were taking advantage of the American war. Later it grew to 20. The point is we had nothing to gain other than doing the right thing . What will be Trump's legacy ? Check out the Battle of Bamber Bridge .
Every Victory comes at a price and GB did well to recover from the 1914-1918/39-45/50-53 wars. I can comprehend the lease-lend' arrangement between the US and GB for the periods Sept 39 to Dec 41 but have difficulty understanding that same arrangement for the years 41-45 (not including the Marshall plan).
Hanson:" The combattants of WWI... didn´t have the technology... to inflict damage on civilian siners." That´s not true. The English naval blockade was highly effective and murdered 723.000 German civilians.
I wanna see VDH actually debate someone like that historian who's claiming Churchill wasn't all that great. Somehow I think VDH is gonna lose because he's just too stuck in a world that died by the late 80s. Nice ideas, they just didn't work.
Victor sounds like he’s describing today. The man who he talks about as a totalitarian sounds alot like a man who had many years of experience with Roy Cohn. 🤔 I wonder who the man who’s been called various things by his party since 2016…
First let me say that VDH obviously one of the most intelligent and well versed in so many areas. Secondly I don’t think any one can truly understand what war is unless you have been in combat. There is something about holding your 17 year old comrade screaming for his mother while dying in your arms as you pray for the medavac to come. Anyone that has ever smelled burned meat after the fast movers dropped napalm will never forget that or the screams of the dying. My one great grandfather was Robert Morris who financed the revolution. The ones that are more intimate with war are: My 4th great uncle fought in the Mexican War. My 3rd great grand father was a surgeon in the civil war. My grandfather was a pilot in WWI first with the French then the Americans. His brothers fought there too as an artillery and engineering officers. My wife’s grand father (A second generation Italian immigrant) fought in WWI for the Americans. My father fought in the Pacific on BB60 battleship. (He lied about his age at 16 to sign up). and ended up at most of the significant pacific battles. My three uncles fought one in Europe with the 82nd airborne one in the Pacific building airfields and one in the merchant marine. I went to theater of action in Southeast Asia. My best friend growing father flew a B17 in Europe. We all know war and made a promise that if I ever got home alive my children were not going to know war if I had anything to do with it.
I am of two minds with regard to the Treaty of Versailles. VDH may be right about the language vs. action. The Allies certainly failed to stop Germany when they began to rearm.
rich in content and perspective...I attended an Ivy League school , as did my son...and we never had an engaging, exciting, thought-expanding professor like this man....he is a TREASURE...no matter what one's political position!!! Pepperdine is blessed indeed....THANK YOU for sharing this with the public on youtube....
As a professor of Organizational Leadership, I am increasingly convinced that VDH is a national treasure. Thank you for this series. It is wonderfully refreshing from the standard fare. Professor K.P. Gerhart | Houston, Texas USA
Thank you gentlemen. I could listen to VDH for hours, and have.
Same.
I wish he would of answered some of my questions I've sent to his emails in past years
History forgotten is doomed to be repeated. Thank you for this
Thank you fir bringing Victor's expertise to us. Brilliant man.
He is a successful “speaker” his knowledge, his life experiences, and his ability to speak well delivers a wonderful class
Thank you for having Victor Davis Hanson on your show.
Hanson, the great thinker and farmer from the Central Valley.
Dr. Hanson, always sees things outside the box. This is what makes him special!
I'm happy to see you again and looking well. Thanks for all that you do Mr. Hanson, I'm grateful to you
Dr.Hanson is a very rare type person. The thing he teaches his family lived.
Awesome series! Victor is a great history teacher! Thank you!
Victor David Hansen is fascinating and wealth of historical knowledge. Love his books
thank you for loading this, very compelling and time well spent indeed
Thank you for having VDH as a guest.
Yay!!! Office hours are back with VDH!!!!!
VDH is a national treasure, and the greatest living American commentator. A scholar and human of the highest order. Thanks for this content.
Thank You Dr Hanson, your insights into our history are astounding
Great video!!!
Very quality content. Keep it up. Need more views!
No comments yet? Could listen to Victor all day. Hope his students appreciate the man. Brilliant. And many thanks to Dean Peterson for sharing.
Incredible- thank you all
10/24/24..as always VDH is most impressive with his indepth knowledge of facts & human behavioral traits which make his relaxed conversational style sooo interesting & a compelling listen. Your Pepperdine students have a great communicator in their classroom...hope they make the time to read all his reference list. A+ Pepperdine & ✅️ VDH!😊👍
First here, love your talks Mr. Hanson if you're seeing this.
Thanks VDH.
thank you
Riveting. Thank you!
Sterling thanks.
Just brilliant
Always here for DVH!
I would love to hear VDH discuss the Crimean War and compare that to the Ukraine War. Britain vs. Russia (again, indirectly), the Charge of the Light Brigade, the outcome of the Crimean War vs. the likely outcome of Ukraine. VDH would be outstanding!
The Merlin engine in aircraft in a P 51 was suggested by an American diplomat.
Excellent. VDH is on his game.
Victor Davis Hanson is a G, so knowledgable. How do we stop the gathering storm Dr. Hanson?
"The Gathering Storm"....see what you did there... ;)
The Soviets divied up Poland with the Nazis under the Molotov Ribbentrop pact. They invaded Poland from the East starting 16 days after the Nazis.
Napoleonic wars were fought on such diverse landscapes
I wanted my daughter to go to pepperdine university
"Teamwork makes the dreamwork." - The Allies
VDH is a national treasure
I agree with General Tojo. Why would the Emperor be pushed aside as a figurehead?
One of the things that always gets my goat is using the morality, ethics, and mores of today in earlier periods of history.
This is why, cannot wrap my head round this. Feel like Europe genocide.
Awesome interview and love history. I’m still hoping Russia will release more information on memoirs of soldiers and generals. So much more to absorb and learn.
Make California great again!
I have read that the Americans supplied Australia with aircraft, but that eventually the Australian pilots were replaced by American pilots. Was MacArthur less inclined to share military decisions with our allies than his counterparts in the European Theater?
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Winter War lasted 105 days, three months.
One thing VDH conveniently left out was the Axis Powers didn’t lose a single battle until the battle of Second Battle of El Alamein.
Versailles treaty was a ticking bomb for WW2 and decolonization.
Does WWII inform us about our current military adventures?
Do you feel informed?
allies starved a million to death with the blockade in ww1, so they were ruthless too.
The Germans did view the Dutch, Scandinavians, Swiss and British as German, which they were/are. They are all Germanic peoples.
Nothing but admiration and respect for VDH, but his info is a bit off regarding the P51 and Sherman Firefly.
The Hawker Tempest and several other fighters could out climb the P51, and it wasn’t the fastest.
The Firefly’s gun was crammed into a turret only big enough for a 75mm. The gun barely fit, was turned on its side and was awkward to reload. The recoil issue was these tight quarters, not really the tank getting kicked back. As far as killing Tigers from a mile distance, maybe there’s a report of that happening, but it wasn’t a regular occurrence.
Interesting that Victor recognied the selflessness of Britain .
I ,personally despise Churchill ,but that is another story .
Only a few years ago Britain finally paid off reparation to former slave owners eststes the US.
Our greatest legacy to the world was the ending of the slave trade .again we had nothing to gain .It cost us so much money ,more importantly it cost us sailors lives in the squadron assigned to stop the slaver's ships .2 originally was all we could commit ,the French were taking advantage of the American war.
Later it grew to 20.
The point is we had nothing to gain other than doing the right thing .
What will be Trump's legacy ?
Check out the Battle of Bamber Bridge .
Every Victory comes at a price and GB did well to recover from the 1914-1918/39-45/50-53 wars. I can comprehend the lease-lend' arrangement between the US and GB for the periods Sept 39 to Dec 41 but have difficulty understanding that same arrangement for the years 41-45 (not including the Marshall plan).
Hanson:" The combattants of WWI... didn´t have the technology... to inflict damage on civilian siners."
That´s not true. The English naval blockade was highly effective and murdered 723.000 German civilians.
Be careful kodor this channel is editing comment not commensurate with their prescribed narrative. Revisionism.
Those numbers are peanuts 🥜
I think he meant relative to WWII
"Murdered"?
War isn't bean bag.
Germany lost 8.6 mill im ww2 incl the winter expulsions 44 to 46. Japans population dropped 5 million taking births into account.
I wanna see VDH actually debate someone like that historian who's claiming Churchill wasn't all that great. Somehow I think VDH is gonna lose because he's just too stuck in a world that died by the late 80s. Nice ideas, they just didn't work.
Victor sounds like he’s describing today. The man who he talks about as a totalitarian sounds alot like a man who had many years of experience with Roy Cohn. 🤔 I wonder who the man who’s been called various things by his party since 2016…
First let me say that VDH obviously one of the most intelligent and well versed in so many areas. Secondly I don’t think any one can truly understand what war is unless you have been in combat. There is something about holding your 17 year old comrade screaming for his mother while dying in your arms as you pray for the medavac to come. Anyone that has ever smelled burned meat after the fast movers dropped napalm will never forget that or the screams of the dying.
My one great grandfather was Robert Morris who financed the revolution. The ones that are more intimate with war are: My 4th great uncle fought in the Mexican War. My 3rd great grand father was a surgeon in the civil war. My grandfather was a pilot in WWI first with the French then the Americans. His brothers fought there too as an artillery and engineering officers. My wife’s grand father (A second generation Italian immigrant) fought in WWI for the Americans. My father fought in the Pacific on BB60 battleship. (He lied about his age at 16 to sign up). and ended up at most of the significant pacific battles. My three uncles fought one in Europe with the 82nd airborne one in the Pacific building airfields and one in the merchant marine. I went to theater of action in Southeast Asia. My best friend growing father flew a B17 in Europe. We all know war and made a promise that if I ever got home alive my children were not going to know war if I had anything to do with it.
I am of two minds with regard to the Treaty of Versailles. VDH may be right about the language vs. action. The Allies certainly failed to stop Germany when they began to rearm.