Reply To: Stepping Down as Historical Editor

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@oriskany – just for the record, I’m not sure we disagreed as often as you may have thought.

I’m intersted in history and in military history, I think I approach it from a different angle to you, and I’m not afraid of or uninterested in healthy debate.   But it’s very rare that I’ve approached one of your series with a sense of feeling that I know enough to really be able to challenge what you’ve been saying.

Lots of my questions and ‘testing’ or ‘probing’ of your position has been me genuinely exploring your views, testing my own thoughts on the subject rather than from a place of thinking you’re wrong (even just in emphasis).   In face to face debates it’s sometimes fun to play devil’s advocate just for the hell of it.   Online, I’m more likely to do it to explore a subject and test my own thoughts as much as challenge someone else.   At least in this kind of venue where a respectful debate has been all but guaranteed.

Anyway, I’ve always enjoyed our conversations – and as long as Sitrep continues to be accessible via BoW I’ll make the effort to drop by and try it out from time to time even if I’m not likely to be a regular.