Year: 2007
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YouTube video aimed at American soldiers: “Your Job in Germany,” from very early in the occupation.
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Quotation by Samuel R. Williamson Jr and Russel Van Wyk on the “urgent need for civilian understanding and control of the military forces of the state.”
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The following piece, for my ESOL students, originally appeared on Language for You (now closed) on this date. Students who have spent many years learning English with vocabulary and grammar exercises in their home countries sometimes have a hard time speaking when they arrive in the United States. This is…
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YouTube video: Donald Duck, the working man, pays “taxes to sink the Axis.”
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Description of a cartoon that takes on Americans’ outsourcing of war.
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The following post originally appeared on my old history blog, Clio and Me, on this date. Yesterday I wrote about the present in this blog about my work with the past. What possible justification could I have for doing that? (I mean besides the obvious point that this is my…
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There has been much scrutiny in the press recently about the U.S. outsourcing military missions to private companies like Blackwater. P. W. Singer pointed out many problems with this trend in yesterday’s Washington Post. The most important from my point of view is the weak link between the American people…
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Georgetown University in Washington, DC, did not cancel classes on September 12th, so I went into a class packed with mainly freshman at 9:15 a.m. By that point teaching early modern European history was out of the question, so we talked. After I got home, I sent the following message…