Military history is about to return to the University of Wisconsin, thanks at least in part to a certain National Review article, according to the Daily Cardinal:

This spring, the UW-Madison history department will welcome a new professor. The position is for U.S. military history, a professorship that has been open for 15 years and is being filled just six months after a conservative journal said: “Wisconsin doesn’t actually want a military historian on its faculty.”
The search officially began in November—­six weeks after “Sounding Taps: Why Military History is Being Retired” in the National Review Online claimed “tenured radicals” in departments across the country wanted to shut down military history programs. It also said UW-Madison’s department let the $1.2 million used to hire the professor remain stagnant.
UW-Madison history professor and chair of the hiring committee, John Cooper, was quoted in the article as saying the department had no immediate plans to hire such a professor.
“[The article was] the ill wind that blew some good because it challenged us,” Cooper told The Daily Cardinal last week. “We said, ‘You don’t think we’re serious about it?’”
History department Chair David McDonald said the fact the search was authorized just six weeks after the article is merely coincidence and that he “wouldn’t attribute [the article coming out] as a direct correlation. It focused on an ongoing discussion. There is an undeniable coincidence that these events occurred.”