. They are used compare past wars and events, such as World War 1 and Vietnam. They could be used as guidelines for the future, and a reminder of the past. “All human events possess unique qualities, thus making reasoning by historical analogy a precarious enterprise.” as described in our historical analogy packet, “The future has no place to come from but the past, hence the past has predictive value.” Meaning that almost every course we take in life, it somehow relates to the past, which could be compared with past events to the fut ....