Martial Literature and Reliability of what is published

 

Martial publications have certain characteristics (in no particular order):

 

1.     Most of them are one time vanity productions, Designed to fill a need, and make an immediate profit for the producer. Not to be sold on a continuing basis.

2.      Anything once in print becomes ‘truth’ liable to be repeated over and over in future authors works, And having been in print becomes a useful footnote.

3.     There is little verifiable martial history that is published in most books.
That does not mean the oral history is wrong, just unverifiable.

4.     And reality is that there are multiple histories based on differing viewpoints which have become realities for those students.

Working out which details are’ truth’ becomes a very complicated endeavor.

 

Take one real event in time, the Battle of Gettysburg from the American Civil War.
Literally thousands of books have been published to explain what occurred on those 3 days, and many more books are to be published in the future, for sure.

If one 3 day period generates so much publication, why would you believe any martial system would be less complicated to understand.

 

Not suggesting it should not be done,

Just there will be other points of view no matter what effort is made.