Elliot AckermanOvjeren akaunt

@elliotackerman

Places and Names / Waiting for Eden / Dark at the Crossing / Green on Blue

Vrijeme pridruživanja: svibanj 2011.

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  2. “Trainees who enter the elite forces directly from civilian life, rather than transferring in, are most at risk for developing “an unhealthy sense of entitlement” ... great reporting by ⁦⁩ for ⁦⁩ ⁦

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    Hey, hey, thanks Kirkus "A trio of government-engineered superheroes navigate a war-torn, divided nation: the United States of America ... a keen extrapolation of a country launched down a radically altered historical continuum."

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    27. sij

    This is not a healthy look for civil-military relations. The military does not have a monopoly on suffering or death; insisting on primacy of grief is inconsistent with the Army value of selfless-service.

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    26. sij

    Last DC stop for Philippe Lançon on his tour for the US release of ‘Disturbance’ (‘Le Lambeau’) . Never seen so many people gathered at Union Market. Among them, many US readers of

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    25. sij

    Yesterday, Philippe presented his book ‘Disturbance’ with in front of a packed auditorium at . Missed it? Join us tonight at 6pm Union Market where Lançon will be in conversation with

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  7. “So the mob has the final edit.” A brilliant piece by George Packer.

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  8. I’m very much looking forward to discussing Philippe Lançon’s remarkable new book. If you’re in DC, I hope you’ll come out.

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  9. I reviewed “Lord of All the Dead”, Javier Cercas’s new book for ⁦⁩. It’s a brilliant meditation on family, violence, and place.

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    19. sij

    Wonderful meditation on coming home from war by , in the form of a book review. via

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    20 million people died

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    17. sij

    This is a great clip from actor on why “Moderate Muslim” is so problematic. In fact, it’s probably one of the dumbest terms imaginable, and no sentient being should ever use it for the rest of eternity:

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    13. sij

    Huge congrats to Marine Maj. Jasmin Moghbeli, who just graduated with her NASA cohort to become an astronaut. I profiled her when her journey started:

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    8. sij

    “Both of our nations have little appetite for a protracted conventional war,” writes . “If there’s a shared appetite for anything, it is de-escalation”

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    "Nearly a decade at war left me with many dead friends and, when tallying up how they died, I can trace more of their deaths to the barrel of an Iranian-supported Shia militiaman than to card-carrying members of al-Qaeda." in

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    8. sij

    Que nous apprennent les vétérans américains ? Nous avons interrogé trois d'entre eux, qui ont connu trois guerres différentes. Ils nous livrent la vérité des combats, mais aussi leur regard désabusé sur ces guerres contemporaines, combattues dans l'ombre et dépourvues de sens.

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    5. sij

    What's coming in 2020, you ask? New books from , Camilla Läckberg, , , Anne Tyler, Diane Keaton, Priya Basil, , , and (if you can believe it) more!

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  19. Barnes’s attitude sort of sums up my feelings on the current should we have/not have killed Suleimani ....

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    5. sij

    I always think about him when I see her holding forth. And it reminds me of the importance of Congress holding the executive accountable and reasserting it’s role in war policy. Something I think about as I watch the current crop of presidential candidates.

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    5. sij

    I was dumbstruck. Anyway, after the event I remember chatting with a soldier with one partially functional limb who was full of rage that she’d lie to our faces.

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