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Keep trying to be a 'former' scholar of civilian-military relations ... Author of Our Army: Soldiers, Politics, and American Civil-Military Relations. Former Army infantry officer. Into bikes-beer-coffee.
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Yep. www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019...
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"Hey did you ever call bullets 'freedom seeds' when you were in the military?"
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wait, process matters? :)
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I'm sure the Chinese have
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Speaking at Arlington National Cemetery, Garfield emphasized its history as the home of Robert E. Lee—“who lifted his sword against the life of his country”—and as a site of enslavement.
“But, thanks be to God, this arena of rebellion and slavery is a scene of violence and crime no longer!”
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is there a backup online somewhere, or are we burning very records folks could use to assess foreign aid records and learn to be more efficient/effective? I know there hasn't been any interest from either party in doing that with DoD or USAID, but I can imagine historians making good use someday
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Abu Ikhlas had been living in Kunar since the ‘80s and was more local militant advisor than terrorist. But CIA encouraged 10th MTN to expand into Kunar because the agency believed it would be good for cross-border intel collection.
Here are 10th MTN leaders with their CIA paramilitary liaison.
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Guk!
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Maybe this page from Rovere might help.
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Thanks for clarifying, Pete!
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I've created a quick and dirty website to save and share papers published in DoD publications that have been scrubbed due to EOs and other misguided guidance. If you have any articles you can't get published or that have been removed, please contact me and I'm happy to add them here.
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it will go back to a wilderness and become another Africa …Suppose they elevate Charles Sumner to the presidency? Suppose they elevate Frederick Douglass, your escaped slave, to the presidency? What would be your position in such an event? I say give me pestilence and famine sooner than that.” (6/6)
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and as for our women, the horrors of their state we cannot contemplate in imagination. That is the fate which abolition will bring upon the white race … We will be completely exterminated, and the land will be left in the possession of the blacks, and then (5/6)
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war will break out everywhere like hidden fire from the earth, and it is probable that the white race, being superior in every respect, may push the other back …(or) we will be overpowered and our men will be compelled to wander like vagabonds all over the earth; (4/6)