{"id":122244,"date":"2020-11-28T21:26:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T18:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-traditional-masculine-attributes-still-matter-on-the-battlefield\/"},"modified":"2020-11-28T21:26:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T18:26:21","slug":"why-traditional-masculine-attributes-still-matter-on-the-battlefield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-traditional-masculine-attributes-still-matter-on-the-battlefield\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why traditional masculine attributes still matter on the battlefield"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Why traditional masculine attributes still matter on the battlefield<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Heroism \u2014 the willingness to put your life on the line for family, tribe, duty, honor, country and God in the face of the greatest possible adversity \u2014 used to be considered one of the foremost masculine virtues.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the history of western civilization from the ancient Greeks to the recent present has been the history of heroism as well: the last stands at Thermopylae, Masada, the Swiss Guard at the Vatican in 1527, the Alamo, Khartoum, and Stalingrad are still names to conjure with, learn from, and celebrate.<\/p>\n

Indeed, just 70 years ago this week, the First Marine Division fought its way into the pages of history with their gallant stand at the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea. In temperatures as low as minus-30 degrees, the Marines held off some 100,000 Chinese attackers and fought their way in hellish conditions back to the allied lines.<\/p>\n

Today, however, we live in a decidedly unheroic age, one in which the traditional masculine attributes of courage, physical strength, and moral fortitude have been disparaged by feminists and soy boys nearly into oblivion.<\/p>\n

Dismissed as outdated and derided as \u201ctoxic,\u201d masculinity and the martial virtues so vital to the maintenance of society and social<\/a> order have been stuffed into the cultural closet in favor of wishful thinking, politically correct fantasy, and dangerous good intentions. It seems we\u2019re too rational, too sophisticated, too civilized<\/em> for definitive brutality anymore.<\/p>\n

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Battles like the Alamo conjure up thoughts of men taking a stand and dying for their unwillingness to retreat.<\/span>Universal Images Group via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But are we? As I argue in my new book, \u201cLast Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost<\/a>,\u201d the notion that a progressive \u201carc of history\u201d has somehow made war obsolete and men superfluous goes against all the evidence of history.<\/p>\n

As my study of more than a dozen notable last stands shows, the decision to fight to the end not only affects history, it changes it. The Spartans at Thermopylae stopped the Persians and gave birth to Western civilization. The Hungarians and Croats staved off the Ottoman Turks under Suleiman the Magnificent at Szigetvar in 1566 and halted militant Islam\u2019s incursion into Europe. The \u201cTexians\u201d at the Alamo helped create the modern territorial United States. In each battle, the defenders died to the last man.<\/p>\n

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Remembered as one of the bloodiest battles in history, the battle for Stalingrad left an estimated 2 million casualties.<\/span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Others survived, but at a terrible cost. The Union Army under Grant and Sherman was surprised and nearly overwhelmed by the Confederates at Shiloh, but they regrouped and won through the following day; the Civil War might have turned out very differently had they lost.<\/p>\n

The Sioux and the Cheyenne warriors who annihilated Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 never again mustered so large a force, or defeated the US Army. A Russian loss against the German Wehrmacht at Stalingrad during the fierce winter of 1942-43 \u2014 where the combined casualties were 2 million dead, wounded, missing or captured \u2014 would have left Hitler the sole master of Europe.<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t think it can\u2019t happ<\/a>en again, because while technology<\/a> changes, the human animal does not. Battles are won or lost most often by which side wanted victory more, even if they had to pay the ultimate price. \u201cThe human heart,\u201d wrote Col. Ardant du Picq in his treatise, \u201cBattle Studies\u201d (1880), \u201cis then the starting point in all matters pertaining to war.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wonder Woman fantasies aside, that heart is usually male. Men fight for women, both to woo and win them, and to protect them. They also fight for their children, both born and yet to be born. But most of all, when everything is on the line, they selflessly fight for their comrades in arms. From this grim reality come our notions of duty, honor and country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe state of peace among men living side by side is not the natural state; the natural state is one of war,\u201d wrote philosopher Immanuel Kant in 1795. Nothing has changed. As the old saying goes: si vis pacem, para bellum: \u201cIf you seek peace, prepare for war.\u201d That\u2019s a lesson we forget at our peril.<\/p>\n

Michael Walsh\u2019s book \u201cLast Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost<\/a>\u201d (St. Martin\u2019s Press), is out Tuesday.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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