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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A shame more left-of-center types don't get into military history, a warehouse of free-gratis ammo against the war cockatoos & imperialists.
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@ChMadar left historians have all but abandoned military history, which plays into erasure of Indigenous experience I think2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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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...4 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@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 …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@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 …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@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/ …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@andEps How did I not know about @BoydCothran and his work? Tanks for the tip!
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