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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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If you study the successful rebellions and resistance and civil rights movements of the past, you will note that “people who spend their time publicly bumming out everyone around them by emphasizing how totally fucked everything is” do not play a central role, or indeed, any role at all
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If only there were a DoDI that spelled out prohibited activities
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Or Ethiopian Barbecue! www.smokenashbbq.net
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There used to be years when the big real world issue related my teaching was some proposal to rejigger the flow chart for making the defense budget.
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The irony of podcasters and media personalities accusing immigrants from the “third world” of not doing useful work.
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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