Long History Short
How the past impacts today's world.
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“Those Were My Marines”
On his first day as commander in Fallujah, General Larry Nicholson saw a rocket fly through his window. He was evacuated, then returned to Iraq, still bleeding out the shoulder. (“Nice thing about having a high rank is that no one argues wh...
A History Book That Needs to Be Written
I’m writing on September 30th, 2026. Right now, U.S. forces are withdrawing from Iraq, again. The Iraq War began in 2003; we left in 2011, then re-entered in 2014 to put down ISIS. Supposedly, this will be the end.
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First, They Came for Parliament
In the beginning of 1933, Germany’s President Paul von Hindenburg was no admirer of Adolf Hitler. Hindenburg was a military man and a purebred Prussian, so when he nicknamed Hitler “The Bohemian Corporal,” he meant it as a double-derision....
What Else We Lost
It sounds delusional, even repugnant, to suggest that the weeks and months after September 11th were “the good old days.” For the most part, they weren’t. Three-thousand men and women had been killed. A nation that prides itself on producti...
9/12 and Beyond: The War in Afghanistan
Carter Malkasian is, maybe, the best historian who’s written on the War in Afghanistan so far. His knowledge is both scholarly and up-close; he served as an advisor to US military leaders over there for many years, and he has a deep knowled...
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Exploring: *Imagination and history, which are like toothbrush and toothpaste.* *Articles and pictures to make you wonder.* *Creative avenues to explore in the past.* Filtered through a New Jersey attitude, though I promise not to curse *at* you.
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