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Transitions
Dan Arrows does some really interesting stuff about Germany, and fascism, from an actual German perspective. I find his view to be accurate within my existing understanding of history, and his...
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Ignorant Pontificating
I’m going to declare this up front: I have no private knowledge about this topic; my beliefs are formed by a lot of study of the topic since 1978, a lot of strategy gaming, and a lot of news reading....
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It’s Just Words
In the last week, for obvious reasons, there has been a lot of discussion using words like “war”, “terrorism”, “war crimes”, “human shields”, etc. This is good and appropriate for the time. The problem...
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Now Look…
I used to play a lot of Diplomacy with the rest of my high school military history club. It’s a remarkably good game, as long as you don’t mind developing a hatred for humanity as a consequence. The...
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Sympathy For The Devil
Over on Daily Kos, I encountered someone proclaiming officially that it is anti-semitism to conflate the actions of Israel with the actions of nazis. I’d like to noodle around that idea a bit, because...
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This is Relevant, Why Not?
The UN Convention on Genocide [un.org] First, I must note that the Clinton administration cooked up the term “ethnic cleansing” in order to avoid invoking the convention on genocide in Rwanda. It was a...
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I recently managed to find (ebay!) a book I have been looking for for quite a while: Tom Gervasi’s 1986 The Myth of Soviet Military Supremacy. (ISBN 0-06-015574-4) Gervasi wrote a couple of big sellers...
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A Case Study
Gervasi performs a detailed case study regarding how the cruise missile and Pershing II were sold to the American public. Warning: if you’re not already a cynic, this may be hazardous to your mental...
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Merry Whatever
The US is frantically shoveling weapons around the planet: ammo for Israel, ammo for Ukraine, drones and missiles for secret drone bases in Africa, and – now, there are significant naval forces moving...
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A Tiny Place To Pack Stupidity Into
When I was in high school, my mom brightly suggested my dad and I should go see the movie Gallipoli. Dad looked over at me with horror for a second, trying to figure out what to say, other than “that...
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