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Michael Kulikowsky sums up early Christian "achievements," which -- contra right-wing hyperbole online & elsewhere -- fractured the Roman empire, leaving it vulnerable to the arriving Muslims: "After 636, when the followers of Muhammad’s new religion burst forth from Arabia, 1/
they found a Roman populace with little or no loyalty to the emperor in Constantinople. Syrians and Egyptians did not resist the Arab armies the way the Italians had resisted imperial forces in the Ostrogothic wars. Justinian’s religious policy had alienated the Christians 2/
of the east to the point at which a heavily taxed life under rulers of a different faith was preferable to the intolerable orthodoxy of an ostensible co-religionist.... A dour fanatic, fragile and immovable by turns, Justinian is as unlikeable as he is mesmerising. With his 3/
preternatural stamina, he changed the course of Western history, if not for the better: his ambitions enfeebled the state he tried to restore and the future he bequeathed to Europe was one of poverty and schism. & yet his Code, Digest and Institutes– the Corpus Iuris Civilis 4/
– are the greatest legal monument ever created. " London Review of Books 3/21 reviewing Frier et al, The Codex of Justinian. 5/
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East to get distracted by articles like this:
Giltner, "Trade in 'Phoney' Wartime," International History Review 1997:
German 1939 agreement to permit Danish trade followed from Danish deception and from German government's ignorance of the Danish economy.... Navy not 1/
foreign office made German foreign policy during 'Phoney War'....
As early as September 1939, the German foreign ministry recognized need to "ride shoulders of the military" in order to persuade Hitler to agree to its proposals.... The pattern persisted til '45. Danish 2/
agreement also illustrates a pattern in German-Danish relations: German experts ignorant of key facts about Denmark; their expertise ignored by senior levels of German government; Danes persuaded Germany to forgo steps that appeared to be in its own interests. 3/
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Oy. NO.
Marc Bloch on French defeat, which some blamed on officers' "study of history": that was, he said, "so-called historical study," not history itself, which stood _aux antipodes_ of their instruction: not a set of rules but a "science of change," aware that "two 1/
never reproduce each other, because the conditions are never the same. "Two wars are never the same, since social structure, techniques, mentality are all _métamorphosées_."
But the invariable doctrine of the academies is that the war of 1914 will be that of Napoleon, that of 2/
1914 will replicate 1914's. Reading Foch's lectures from 1910, "Rarement lecture m’a procuré un pareil effarement": "seldom has reading so disturbed me," because he ignored historical change.

Boris perhaps similarly ossified? How one USES one's learning, that's crucial. 3/
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American military actions around the world require careful scrutiny, even if it's painful: for a survivor of military action like Ilhan to be sensitive to this is expected and admirable. Whether this signals a "lurch" is unclear though GOP will try to take advantage.
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much of what P. Wehner has to say these days, but a tweet like this reminds one -- with regret -- how he (reportedly) once dealt with American military issues. Given a choice, I prefer Ilhan:

"Writing days after the release of the final report on Saddam Hussein’s weapons 1/
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