"Never studied much about the various wars?"

I don't know where you got that. Of course war was a major topic of world history.

But the lasting, tangible, visible part of history lies in art, architecture and craftmanship, which would include the monuments of war and warriors. The rest is in books, not just "history books", but in the great literature. I had 5 years of Latin, translated Julius Caesar, Virgil, Cicero, Ovid, Horace, Catullus, etc.; 2 years of French language and literature, including 'Les Misérables', 'Candide', and works by Camus, Guy de Maupassant, Honoré de Balzac, Jean-Paul Sartre, Émile Zola, Jules Verne and others; one year of Russian literature including 'War and Peace', 'Crime and Punishment', 'The Gulag Archipelago', 'Doctor Zhivago', and works by Chekhov, Turgenev, and others. One year of the History of Art and Architecture, covering all the major periods, from Pre-Historic to Egyptian, Byzantine, Greek, and Roman to Medieval and modern; 2 years of Philosophy covering the great thinkers and their works, from Socrates, Plato and Aristotle to Descartes, Hume, Locke, Kant, Spinoza, Russell, James and others, including a semester of Philosophy of Science; many years of English and American Literature by the great authors; and a really good dose of mythology by Homer and Virgil. How people thought and what they did in their times are the integral fabric of History.

And, yes, I had many years of Ancient, World and Western History, including the mythological and real wars.

Bottom line, I received a very comprehensive education at McCallie, Vanderbilt and Case Western Reserve. I also served as an Adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt for 13 years, a cut above Miss Cox's venue in USNWR rank.

I do not consider your Miss Cox a true historian. I think she is more of a political hack, and not a very good one because she is far too lopsided and quite borderline dishonest in her biased diatribes. But if she satisfies your quest for historical analysis, so be it. That's great.