My favorite living military historian is, because you won't stop asking me, Douglas Porch. https://books.google.com/books/about/Wars_of_Empire.html?id=k0hUPgAACAAJ …http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/military-history/counterinsurgency-exposing-myths-new-way-war …
-
-
@ChMadar I'm a mil historian and most I know in field are left-wing...ur data? SMH wp addresses some misconceptions 2http://www.smh-hq.org/whitepaper.html -
@medievalist1 That's interesting, and counterintuitive to me. But I'm talking more about the popular audience than the professorate… -
@medievalist1 …and I admit I have no data, just an impression of who reads the stuff and who knows, or at least talks as if they know, it. -
@medievalist1 But thanks for the linked paper, looks most interesting--
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
@ChMadar left historians have all but abandoned military history, which plays into erasure of Indigenous experience I think -
@andEps That's v interesting–could you unpack that a bit? -
@ChMadar thoughts are a bit inchoate on this but i get the sense that one of the reasons why westward expansion is still not understood... -
@ChMadar ...and how tactics developed in these confrontations became permanent features of U.S. war-making. -
@andEps Yes. Grist for that mill: US military citing a SCOTUS decision from Seminole War at a Gitmo trial: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/06/07/andrew-jacksons-actions-model-anti-speech-perpetual-war-legislation-37239 … -
@ChMadar And John Yoo looking at the Modoc War for how to treat "enemy combatants." http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/12/17/wheres-senate-torture-report-all-violence-done-natives … -
@andEps Oooh, thanks for that one! For my collection. -
@ChMadar That research comes out of@BoydCothran's really excellent book. I interviewed him on it last year: http://newbooksinnativeamericanstudies.com/2014/12/09/boyd-cothran-remembering-the-modoc-war-redemptive-violence-and-the-making-of-american-innocence-unc-press-2014/ … - 2 more replies
New conversation -
-
-
@ChMadar Like how Foner apparently reads the FT every morning. -
@alexbelkins Yes, exactly! Military science and economics are two discourses of power where radicals ought to make more incursions… -
@alexbelkins We'll be surprised by how squishy the defenses are, how hospitable the terrain is.
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
@ChMadar Most shocking e.g. is the absorption of Wehrmacht history by US Army in 1970s and 1980s facilitated by military-historical complex. -
@adam_tooze Any good writing (lieber auf Englisch) you might recommend on that act of intellectual absorption? -
@ChMadar Have paper and powerpoint. Will send you. Here: Gothic scissors and German tactics cut McNamara's leash.pic.twitter.com/U99r1JepWU
-
@adam_tooze Marvelous, thanks! -
@ChMadar@adam_tooze Scary stuff here about Cold War American rehabilitation of Nazi generals as anticommunist sageshttp://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/american-history-after-1945/myth-eastern-front-nazi-soviet-war-american-popular-culture?format=PB … -
@Peiresc@ChMadar V. Mellenthin and Balck were invited to play war games in Virginia in 1980!!!!pic.twitter.com/rKtU0ZenOq
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.