I was a History major at one time and used to pull books off the shelf to look up specific battles depicted in movies as I watched them and I wouldn't have understood a word of that without the 'splanations given.
/single data point suggesting thou art excessively well-versed in military history.
Yeah, fair enough. I'm assuming way too much about the mean understanding of state and military history. But, it would be quite fun to start speaking Tamarian using Terran military history references. Side note: my catalog of Chinese military history is pretty grim, and I'll have to rectify this in order to claim that I'm actually fluent in the Terran dialect of Tamarian.
/single data point suggesting thou art excessively well-versed in military history.