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

My review of Kiser, The Business of Killing Indians. No pay wall. www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I couldn't agree more 👇

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Honest question: does the misleading graph encourage or discourage conservative leaning voters?

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026

I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.

The Trump administration says none of this is happening.

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children."

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Its a regular event (but i get the joke!)

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Range day for some UNC faculty. Learning about black powder.

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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.

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

See the Teaching Military History website started by Beth Bailey. Soon to move to SMH web.

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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

Yes, Gerhard is still here. Visited with him this summer, and saw him again at a museum exhibit he contributed to.

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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

Did I mention his 40 (forty!) books? Do read his obit in the link. A life well, fully, and truly lived.

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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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HELL 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

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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 · 02/09/2026

I've always wanted to look harder at that op.

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Very cool! I have an in-class "game" on Mongol logistics. Its very rough still but students liked it

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I understand why Carl worked with the definition he did, but its culturally confined to states. Keegan made this critique also, but got it wrong. This is a l9ng conversation, but bluf: carl was using the last 150 years in europe as his data. There is more. And that more MATTERS.

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

That is a weakness in Carl's definition! If one group has complete success with surprise and eliminates its opponent with infintesimal resistance, its still war.

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

No. Fair point. My original definition that Bret is paraphrasing is that war is collective violence to solve a communal problem. Very often its resources, but "problem" is a flexible definition

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

The violence must be collective. And must be seeking some resource. We could argue about whether avoiding prosecution is a resource related, but typically murder is not an act .of coordinated group violence (although it can be, but all definitios can be undermined with such extreme cases))

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

Once you ask the duration question you get into endless debates, that end up with the dumbass poli sci definition that requires 1000 battle deaths

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

The purpose is to gain at the expense of the other group.

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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 · 31/08/2026

Wait til we throw in whether or not non-human animals use war! (Ants , chimps, and im now working on an article about bacteria who have evolved weaponry)

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

And "power" is ultimately about the distribution of resources

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

My original definition specifies lethal intent or willingness to be lethal

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

For pre-modern contexts, as you know, I tried to show obedience to "law" (custom) was a regular thing. Often violated, but still regular. And Waitman is correct re prisoners. A weird ratio of dead to captured is often a sign of an atrocity (weird is era dependent. There is no one number)

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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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