Glen F WelchDr. Welch is a retired United States Army Master Sergeant (just like Joe) and a retired Civil Servant (also like Joe). With a background in history and business, he would rather ask the "what if" questions. Historians dismiss these as "counter-factua" and only write about what did happen. Your author would prefer to write about what could happen in order to learn from what did happen and explore how it might have been different. Without that, history is of little use. Read More Read Less