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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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You mean “even more dumb,” but yeah. It’s fucking pissant bullshit from people that have been online too long and never had to say their oh-so-clever shit to people’s faces.
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Nah they did that one, it’s jointly named after three dudes that have last names that begin with A, begin with P, and then Hill. Not even kidding.
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Diminishment of the non-US contribution in Afg always makes me think of 40 Commando Royal Marines in Sangin in 2010—a battalion that lost more men than all but a handful of US ones, including Paul Warren, who died on this floor, of a barely-platoon-sized outpost: archive.nytimes.com/atwar.blogs....
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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