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Professor, African Military Historian, Co-Editor of the Journal of African Military History. Opinions expressed are solely mine. My book, Ujamaa’s Army, is available now!! https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780821425596/ujamaas-army
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'There no places for men to be men. There's no community spaces for us.'
There's only the Masons, Elks, Oddfellows, Rotary, Knights of Columbus, etc. Plus church associations. Want to feel extra manly, join a Trails Alliance. Hard to be more trad-masc than clearing trails by crosscutting a log.
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I don’t see a way out of this without politicians and media willing to say that the barbed wire and guns are stupid, and we should put all of that money into more and better visa processing and less punitive immigration administration systems
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Maybe they can dual hat that kid from the counter terror post? He looks like a go-getter!
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Huntington is so well liked by the military because his theories more or less absolve the military of having to do anything and just do war
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Admittedly Thursdays were newaza days where old age and treachery came to the fore! Sadly the job got super intense and I had to stop rolling with them, which I still regret!
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Right!? I keep trying to remind people of that as well. Or doesn’t anyone remember how necessary it was going to be to pivot to video?! How do we have a whole class of credulous rubes somehow in charge of all decision-making!?