#Military

1/ On October 2nd, the Tama-Toledo News published a letter to the editor written by Joyce Wiese. Ms. Wiese implied I would not represent our community well because I’m a
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As much as I hated Obama when I was a Republican, I never once felt I had to report a tweet of his as I am reporting Trump's tweets on
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San Antonio has 41 comprehensive district high schools (depending on how you count). Does anyone want to guess how many are named after people of color? I was curious. So
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A thread on how the @BBCNews has deliberately propagated lies about the situation in Jerusalem.Describing it as “clashes” belies the reality of this being a military assault by a powerful
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Western officials on the Russia-Ukraine war, afternoon of April 29th: Western officials: Russian missiles targeting Ukrainian rear areas but still only "fixed targets rather than dynamic" i.e., fixed infrastructure vs
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I've been so stressed and overwhelmed all week I hadn't noticed my research on military-civil fusion (from an essay in @Strategy_Bridge) was quoted in this piece by @ewong and @julianbarnes
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China's aggression amid a pandemic: The India-China skirmish near the Himalayan pass of Naku La — which left several soldiers on both sides injured — has come as Chinese coast
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I liked Captain America for a time as a child, but he wasn't my favorite b/c he took a serum to become a hero, unlike having an accident that you
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I recently discovered I dress like a homosexual. I thought I was doing pretty good staying masculine in startup land, but I wasn’t. Living in SF for years and then
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@Tracinski Perhaps another way to revisit my previous point comes from Chinese military history. Chen Shen was a general in the draconian Qin dynasty. En route to a rendevouz he
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A big eye opener for me in terms of TW identity was my grandma who was a KMT nurse married to a KMT military doctor. I recently asked if she
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Turkey - Greece stand-off : Trump and oil.The worsening stand-off in the eastern Mediterranean, frequently described as a gas conflict, has been gaining momentum.Large reserves of oil and gas were
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Ostentatious military exercises and coded language out of Moscow indicate #Russia may be considering a conventional ground forces deployment to #Syria. My latest for @TheStudyofWar explores this unlikely, but dangerous
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AMERICAN flag storyDawn is coming, will the flag be flying like it was at sunset last night?Through the night as battle raged we caught sight of the Stars and Stripes.
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Omo mi, buzz off jare. What rubbish good life did colonial masters give us? I am sorry to say this, you are spoilt and lazy. Did you use candle or
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1918, Spanish flu: HISTORY REPEATSback then, those who refused wearing masks had to go to prison! Let's take a look at these pictures and be amazed how exactly the same
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