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 …
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@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/ … -
@andEps How did I not know about@BoydCothran and his work? Tanks for the tip! - End of conversation
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@ChMadar ...why it's still somewhat naturalized as a process of inevitable (if maybe tragic) settler triumph...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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