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When you read political philosophy its precisely then that you begin to understand military history because you understand the philosophic motivations of Carlylean heroes.

Its precisely when you read military history that you begin to ruminate philosophically on matters intellectual.

If you would like to be a politician... read military history NOT political philosophy... invent your own political philosophy... create your own pizza... based on studying the actions of Carlylean heroes.

If you would like to be a novelist... read political philosophy NOT military history... understand the motivations of Carlylean heroes in history... aim for biographical exactitude NOT creative expression... be a poet of history NOT a historian of poetry... based on studying the philosophic motivations of Carlylean heroes.

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>>22440281
Literally the opposite of what is true. Read military history, study geography, logistics and world history, familiarize yourself with the history of technology, and so on. Political philosophy is infinitely useful, but it is useless if it's taken in its abstraction

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>>22440281
Did you really write this?