military history

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• 10/15/19
  

  An Act of Betrayal and Infamy

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  To think that the President would sell America’s interests and abandon its allies for the sake of personal financial gain is not merely outrageous but criminal. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/10/19
  

  Military Leaders Fear They’ve Seen This Before. It Ended in the Iraq War.

  The last time the United States abandoned allies in the Middle East, military officials say, it helped lead to the Iraq war.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/10/12
  

  Trump Says the Kurds ‘Didn’t Help’ at Normandy. Here’s the History.

  Kurds may not have been present at the D-Day landings, but there is evidence some fought for the Allies during World War II.

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• 10/13/19
  

  International Resistance in World War 2 Europe

  by Olivier Wieviorka

  While national histories of wartime resistance are plentiful, the European dimension of the shadow army has rarely been taken into account.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  10/10/19
  

  The Forgotten Trauma of a Forgotten War

  by Nick Turse

  As the World Looks Away, Death Stalks the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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• SOURCE: Israel National News
  10/9/19
  

  We put a Nazi general on a pedestal and wonder why we have neo-Nazis

  by Robert Scott Kellner

  The US military made a hero of Field Marshal Rommel, Hitler's favorite general. Is it any wonder there are German and American neo-Nazis?

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• SOURCE: The Intercept
  10/6/19
  

  Why is the Army Still Honoring Confederate Generals?

  by James Risen

  Many bases are named for Confederates who were ardent white supremacists in the South before, during, and after the Civil War.

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• Accessed 10/10/19
  

  “You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war:” Revisiting the War of 1898

  by Ken Lawrence

  The true story of William Randolph Hearst’s 1897 cable to Frederic Remington.

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• 9/29/19
  

  Myth vs History: A Study of Vietnam War Stories and Journalism

  by Jerry Lembcke 

  Australia’s Vietnam by Mark Dapin is important for the rectification it brings to public memory of Vietnam War homecomings.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  9/19/19
  

  Ending the Afghan War Won’t End the Killing

  by Stephanie Savell

  Since 2015, casualties from explosive remnants of war and abandoned IEDs have been rising rapidly.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonianmag.com
  9/10/11
  

  Hurricane Dorian Unearths Civil War Cannonballs at South Carolina Beach

  At first, the couple who discovered the pair of cannonballs thought they’d simply stumbled upon a rock.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  9/8/19
  

  The Living Literature of War

  by Nick Turse

  All-too-human stories can be “written” on our bodies as well as documents. 

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• 9/1/19
  

  Sparta and the Collapse of Greece

  by Jennifer T. Roberts

  Why the Peloponnesian War went on longer than is commonly thought. 

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  8/24/19
  

  Horace Pippin: From War to Peace Exhibit Showcases American History Through the Art of a Black WWI Soldier

  Horace Pippin was a self-taught artist out of necessity, as the society in which he lived had shut most of its doors on him.

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• 8/25/19
  

  World War II – the first great ‘food war’

  by Julian Cribb

  It is an oft-overlooked fact of history that World War II was originally fought chiefly over food and the means to produce it.

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• 8/25/19
  

  Israel’s 2007 Decision to Attack a Syrian Nuclear Facility is History and Warning

  by Edwin Black

  When reading Katz’s book, we are reminded that as complex and difficult as the Syrian strike was, any similar action on Iran’s nuclear capability would be infinitely more daunting and riskier. 

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• 8/25/19
  

  The Short War Illusion

  by Cathal J. Nolan

  Generals may win battles but they hardly ever win wars, for there really is no such thing as genius in modern war.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  8/15/19
  

  The Forgotten Story of Operation Anvil

  by Cameron Zinsou

  In August 1944, the United States executed a gigantic assault on southern France. Why does no one remember it?

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  8/16/19
  

  Brenda Wineapple Reviews WOMEN’S WAR: FIGHTING AND SURVIVING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 
by Stephanie McCurry

  Who wrote women out of Civil War history?

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• 8/18/19
  

  The Civil War and the Black West

  by William Loren Katz

  The integral role people of color played in winning the Civil War.