读罢《危机四伏的荣耀》,我首先感慨的是一个军事史学者的执着,选择了世界大国军事崛起这个宏大命题,流连于美英各大图书馆,阅读卷帙浩繁的文献资料,又亲自来到中国、蒙古和伊朗考察古战场,这位不穿军装的西点军校历史系教授,对战争研究的严格和认真足以让我们这些穿着军装的人汗颜。虽然在历史的建构中不可避免地带有西重东轻的西方中心论的痕迹,虽然只是对从公 When I read “The Glory of Crisis,” I first of all lamented the dedication of a military historian and chose the grand proposition of the military rise of the world’s great powers. They linger in the major libraries in the United States and Britain, read voluminous documents and come to China Mongolia and Iran inspected ancient battlefields. The professor of history at the West Point Military Academy, uniformed, rigorously and seriously studies the war enough to shame those of us wearing military uniform. Although it is inevitable in the construction of history to bear the traces of the western center of East Light,