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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well. Nice to see my work provoking interesting thoughts on modern war.

Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So at least some folks are using my book to rethink moden ear. Hat tip to @bretdevereaux.bsky.social for alerting me. Liberal Currents? youtu.be/2Zbfdte1Hnk?...

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The War with Iran Has No End

YouTube video by Liberal Currents

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

that's right. AI is so incredibly helpful (see image). Thanks Rocket Mortgage. (FTR, this went on in this loop for several more iterations, just for fun)

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The University of North Carolina is hiring a historian of Science and Technology, with time, place, and theme otherwise open. Military historians with that expertise should feel encouraged to apply. careers.historians.org/jobs/2260958...

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Lord Piss @lordpiss.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

just the most pathetic dipshit loser

Pete Hegseth served in the National Guard for 19 years, leaving as a major in his 19th year. To anyone who served in the military this raises several red flags.

He would have come up for promotion in his 15th thru 18th years. This suggests he was passed over multiple times, even though the promotion rate is close to 70%. In his book he stated he voluntarily left the military in his 19th year because the military was “woke.” His definition of “woke” must be that he’s willing to accept that thousands of white majors were promoted instead of him but he can’t accept that hundreds of Blacks and women were also promoted ahead of him.

If you know any former military members, ask them how many of their fellow soldiers voluntarily left in their 19th year. This just doesn’t compute because serving a few more months to his 20th year would mean that he could retire and receive a check every month for the rest of his life. The more likely scenario is that he was asked to leave. This would help explain his vendetta against Blacks and women. He has pulled senior Black and female officers from responsible positions and deleted their names from promotion lists.

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Why is Ultimate Man actually Christopher Walken? Women, what say you?

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Konrad Jarausch passed earlier this month. He was an extraordinary scholar of mod. Germany. I was on many diss. committees with him, and I greatly respected his intellect and his keen insight into helping students progress. UNC is lesser without him. obits.endswellfuneralhome.com/konrad-jarau...

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Konrad Hugo Jarausch Obituary Sep 1, 2026 - Endswell

View Konrad Hugo Jarausch's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 16/09/2026

This is why they wanted Pentagon reporters to sign an oath promising to seek approval before publishing anything. They wanted to lie without pushback. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

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Dozens of aircraft, hundreds of buildings: US loss to Iran attacks revealed

The Pentagon watchdog's report paints a picture of significant losses to US forces and facilities in the region.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You'd think the fact that the son of the President of the "party of family values" 2nd marriage is to the daughter of Epstein's banker and it was funded by a Rusisan oligarch involved in the mass kidnap of Ukrainian kids during a KGB agent's illegal war Would be bigger news..

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every once in a while you find a bar that you don't want to share. Because you like it the way it is.

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Headline: A lying liar lies about the real cause of oil - diesel shortage. (Seriously, like so much else, his desperate desire to distract through obvious lies is so transparent. We really need better headlines)

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

C'mon North Carolina. This choice isn't hard. Come out in waves.

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I love the Daily Tar Heel. The students do such a great job of pointing out obvious UNC administration missteps. And in this case, it's a misstep in response to previous critique of a misstep. In the midst of which, Chancellor Lee Roberts remains effectively mute. dailytarheel.com/480536/opini...

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Column: In response to Vice Chancellor Dean Stoyer’s letter to the editor

"It’s easier to defend military education at large, a position essentially no one disputes, than to defend our chancellor’s dodging of a direct question about the Pentagon program with a shrug."

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Stable genius and successful real estate developer. 🙄

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 06/09/2026

In their efforts to explain the boat strikes to the public and respond to Trump’s illegal uses of force, many members of Congress are missing the basic truth, which is that the U.S. is committing mass murder, writes @seharrison7.bsky.social. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

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The Boat Strikes Aren’t Part of a War. They’re Murder.

By debating war powers and war crimes, Congress is missing the simpler, graver truth: The president is directing summary executions.

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

November nears. Impeachment hearings should follow. This isn't by itself criminal, as such, but it tells you how absolutely horrific things are inside their puny little minds. I'm sorry, am I ranting? Damn straight. Ride em out on a rail.

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Let's be absolutely clear. The Trump-enabled Hegseth is actively undermining and degrading the US military.

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

But the Republicans are better on economic issues...

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Sebastian Bae @sebastianbae.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I did not have the PLA Navy playing my "Littoral Commander Indo-Pacific" #wargame on one of their ships on my bingo card for 2026. Absolutely wild. 🎲 #wargaming

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SMH Historians @smh-historians.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The Board of Trustees of the Society for Military History has approved the following statement of protest regarding the recent closure of public access to the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC).

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Trump lies versus reality. Trump: S Korea never paid anything for US defense. Reality: Since 1991, S Korea has been paying the US Trump: I got S Korea to agree to pay $3 billion a year Reality: Trump received a one-year agreement from S Korea to increase its support by 8% to $1 billion. 1/2

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Is it a coincidence that 50,000 North Korean troops are being provided to Russia and that Trump then does this? I'm not the firstest to adhere to a conspiracy theory, but could Trump possibly be any more effective as a Russian agent than what he is doing/has done?

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Genuinely excited to be back in the classroom this week. I'm prepping my day 1 mini-lecture on the history of gaming, and I'm still jazzed about being able to include this gem from the Society of the Cincinnati library

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

When you have decided you want to piss off absolutely everyone....

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Check this whole thread. The online syllabus movement is stupid from the jump, but it's also a grift. And no part of it will help students in any way; it will only create confusion by there being multiple documents out there purporting to describe what a class is about and what will happen in it.

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This should be front page news in every venue. Imagine the outrage if a Democrat president did this.

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

For no reason whatsoever, I'm re-upping this piece. Ironically, written earlier this very year. You can skip ahead to the "lessons" if you're wondering what I'm talking about. warontherocks.com/the-importan...

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The Importance of St. Clair’s Defeat

In the fall of 1791, Gen. Arthur St. Clair pushed an unready, ill-trained, and poorly supplied American army of militia and regulars into the woods of

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I'm interested in the thoughts of experts in my follower group on this post (see the full thread!). It both excoriates the dune buggy, and blames Hegseth for them (are they his fault?). It DOES seem like a bad idea, but are JLTVs and Bradleys safer?

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The twists and turns of procurement have always been beyond me. But good lord, this has long been an obviously growing problem. Every tweak added to a missile system reduced ability to produce and stock it. I began to hate capabilities lists, because all I could see was "we won't have enough."

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Zuri Linetsky @zurilinetsky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

An excellent after action review of the US war on Iran. And what an utter failure all the key US players knew it would be. Good thing Trump doesn’t read and cannot stay awake to care about any of this. And now we have a military devoid of fire power. www.amerikanets.com/p/they-saw-i...

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They Saw it Coming

How American military planners anticipated failure in Iran

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God @thegodshow.com · 09/08/2026

Can I get an amen?

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Carmela 🌍🌹😎🍷🌊🇺🇸🇺🇦 @carmelacruz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

“Experts in the military and veterans of the DOD with whom I have spoken consider Hegseth not only to be the worst SecDef in our history—by a mile, but also believe his record is the most egregious example of defense management malpractice in our history” www.thedailybeast.com/the-worst-ca...

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The Devastating Proof Pete Hegseth Has Gone Full FUBAR

The secretary of defense has done so much damage to American strength in so little time.

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

well, that looks pretty clear.

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Among other things, Kori nicely summarizes each half-baked step in the Administration's actions. Worth reading.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The party of rapists, by rapists, for rapists.

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In January I visited the Getty Villa exhibit on the Griffin Warrior and the associated sites and finds around Pylos and the western Peloponnese. My review of the exhibit is in the Journal of Military History, and on my academia.edu page www.academia.edu/171336957/Le...

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

#ThickTrunkTuesday 🌳 Much Marcle Yew 🌳 This yew is believed to be at least 1,500 years old. Its girth exceeds 30 feet, with benches within its hollow trunk. 📍St Bartholomew's Church • Much Marcle ⛪️ www.nationalchurchestrust.org/church/st-ba... #History

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Look. This was obvious to anyone who knew ANYTHING. But that's not the current admin leadership. Who know only about self enrichment. (At which they are quite skilled)

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Any money on that being AI slop?

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 30/07/2026

Fire Hegseth. You know you want to. He's annoying. Do it. Do it.

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A short version of the arguments in my The Cutting-Off Way are now out as an article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Military History, "Native American Warfare in Eastern North America." Includes new case studies not found in the book! doi.org/10.1093/9780...

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Native American Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500–1800

Abstract. The limits of our sources on Native American warfare mandate a structural analysis that begins with the basics of Native American subsistence sys

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Typical UNC admin opacity. They announce a new Senior Service College Fellows program, but don't say who is running it, where it will be housed, supporting programs, etc. I ran one at UNC, 2011-2016. Did they ask me about it? Of course not #institutionalknowledgefail uncnews.unc.edu/2026/07/22/u...

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UNC-Chapel Hill named Department of War fellowship partner - UNC News

Press the play button above to watch the video The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been approved as a partner for the Department of War’s Senior Service College (SSC) Fellowship. The S...

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

War crime? It's more complicated than at first blush, but yes: Specifically targeting civilian infrastructure or populations *expressly as retaliation* is a war crime. It's called "reprisal," and it's what the Nazis did in occupied Europe. Not good company.

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