Trent Hone

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Historian & Management Consultant. Author of Learning War, Battle Line, & Mastering the Art of Command.

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All the calls for “everyone” to “cool down the rhetoric” etc feel like how families so often put the burden of keeping the peace on the family members who are already working hardest at that, since the difficult/abusive folks are unfixable/cannot be reasoned with.

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(Via Ben Ansell from the other place)

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Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly

Indeed. This is the paragraph that resonates with me the most and I have yet to reconcile it with my faith in the US.

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scott⚡️mccloud

Joy!

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Breaking: George III demands restatement as King of America, points out that the Boston Massacre was an official act.

I agree. Not from the south, but I grew up in a politically active household. It was such an obvious shift that many of us learned about it from discussions with relatives.

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Dreadnought Holiday

You say “assault” like these aren’t beautiful examples of the modernism of the nineteenth century Third Republic. ;)

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Do you have a podcast related to military history, counterinsurgency, or decolonization? Are you teacjing a course that touches on related topics? I would love to join you to talk about my book!

Publication day is still a ways off—September 15!—but the book is available for peorder on @CornellPress' website with the 30% off discount code below. Check it out!

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"This is not just about parsing words; it’s about understanding the implications of those words in their entirety." newrepublic.com/article/1830...

Why Is Snopes.com Helping Trump Clean Up “Very Fine People”?newrepublic.com The generally valuable debunker of right-wing lies made a very odd ruling recently that may have ramifications for the election.

New originalist argument just dropped…

Donald Trump on George Washington: “You know, they thought he had slaves. Actually I think he probably didn’t.’” www.cnn.com/2024/06/24/p...

Fact check: Trump says George Washington ‘probably didn’t’ own slaves. Washington did | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com Former President Donald Trump delivered another litany of false claims during two speeches on Saturday. And he expressed an opinion on American history that is clearly contradicted by the facts.

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I wrote this takedown of Victor Davis Hanson's Carnage and Culture (2004) at the Other Platform, but why not bring it over: Here is a not-even-close-to-exhaustive list of serious defects w/ VDH's famous(ly damaging) book, which you shouldn't read (both this thread and the book). 1/

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US v. Rahimi shows that a majority of the Supreme Court realized that it could apply Bruen as written, or it could not embarrass itself by having to stand by Bruen’s batshit consequences, but it could not do both My analysis out now in Balls and Strikes ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/rahim...

John Roberts Did a Very Bad Job Cleaning Up the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment Messballsandstrikes.org The Supreme Court's Rahimi opinion shows that the conservatives aren't as sure about this "history and tradition" thing as they thought.

Excellent!

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Booking producers who are now wondering who they should be talking to about originalism and the Supreme Court's decision in US v. Rahimi.....allow me to reintroduce myself

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For #legalsky and #lawsky, I don’t know much about the law or Supreme Court, but whenever I read about originalism I look back at this quote on the Jefferson Memorial

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I just joined the editorial team of the Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies (@sjms.bsky.social) So do send us your good stuff in the broad field of military studies! See the recent editors' note here for more info: sjms.nu/articles/10.... #CivMilSky #Polisky

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Dr. Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS

As a parent, empty little shoes really get to me.

Make a movie milder: The mediocre, the tolerable, and the meh

Make a movie milder: The Militarized Interstate Dispute of the Worlds

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Make a movie milder: The Militarized Interstate Dispute of the Worlds

Make a movie milder: The Adequate Gatsby

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History)

Garzke and Dulin cover it well. The original intent was four quadruple turrets, but the desired protection and speed could not be achieved within the 35K ton limit. By the time that was clear, the quadruple was progressing.

It became a choice between 10x14in with desired levels of speed and protection or 12x14in without. The Board of Admiralty chose the former, even though it necessitated a new double turret design.

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if you are currently writing a book my best advice is to start reading like a fuckin maniac. doesnt matter if it's related, just try to cram as many books into your brain as you can like it's a race. for me at least, swimming in a surfeit of words always helps

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Justin Pyke

This fills me with joy. 🤣

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Today's arts & crafts - a scale model of the survivorship bias airplane

Tell me you don’t understand technology without saying you don’t understand technology.

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prbeckman

I really enjoyed it. Nice look at the evolution of Mahan’s ideas.

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Jeffrey Vagle

For an in-depth look at the Navy’s approach to learning during that time, you might enjoy “Learning War” www.usni.org/press/books/...

Learning Warwww.usni.org The U.S. Naval Institute provides an independent forum for those who seek to advance and strengthen the naval profession.