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Jul 14, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
While most are familiar with the French influence of colorful Zouave uniforms, fewer are aware that the entirety of the standard U.S. Army uniform of the Civil War era was intentionally nearly a direct copy of Napoleon III’s Chasseurs á Pied. A kepi was later added — also French. ImageImage
*should be “Chasseurs à pied.”
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Oct 19, 2022
Without getting excessively partisan in this space (as is my policy), I just want to point out that the slogan "Defend Our Nation's History" actually means "Ensure that No Change is Ever Made to Our National Narrative, Regardless of Evidence from Historical Research."
"Our History" isn't malleable because historians and the public want to deliberately misinterpret the past to suit their political aims (though this does frequently occur and always has). We learn more about the past as we study it. That's what us historians do for a living.
Our collective opinions about that past, and the lessons we feel are most important to derive from its stories, are infinitely malleable and revisable ad infinitum. There are almost no limits to what we choose to emphasize or de-emphasize while still remaining fact-based.
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Oct 18, 2022
It’s not that we shouldn’t learn from Ukraine or other near-peer fights. It’s not that we shouldn’t be observing, making relevant acquisitions, or evaluating concepts for LSCO.

It’s that it’s not a dichotomy.

We *have* to prepare for the rest too.

Don’t pivot or shift. Expand.
We can’t allow Ukraine to be the new Yom Kippur War. We can’t allow it to function as a “get out of jail free card” for Afghanistan the same way we used Yom Kippur to distract from having to confront our failures in Vietnam.

We have to chew gum and walk at the same time.
If we don’t, future generations of American soldiers engaged in conflicts we can’t begin to imagine the political contours of will pay a very steep price. Just like we did.

The decisions we make now, the actions we take now, can still save them from our own sufferings.
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Oct 5, 2022
The correct way for dismounts to react to contact. Dismount. Get away from the vehicles. Seek to orient and coordinate the pursuit of fire supremacy. Contrast this with so many of the RU helmet cam clusters we’ve witnessed in recent months. 🇺🇦
Although, I will say I would have preferred a little more muzzle awareness during that last burst 😳
Still, even this makes the point. In the early fight for fire supremacy, nothing matters more than noise. Accuracy be damned.

When ambushed: be as loud as you can possibly be. Violence of action and volume of fire, regardless of real effectiveness, will save lives.
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Sep 18, 2022
Nearly 160 years ago this month, my great great great grandfather, Etienne Agnor Larrieu, a free person of color from New Orleans, signed on as a Paymaster’s Clerk aboard the USS Sachem then fitting out for the expedition to put down the secessionist rebellion in Texas. 1/x
Upwards of 5,000 loyal men, white and Black, were part of the amphibious US force intended to secure a beachhead at Sabine Pass, Texas to establish a logistical base that could support operations inland to reestablish US authority and free the more than 180k enslaved Texans. 2/x
Although Etienne had been born a free man, many of his fellow Black sailors had only recently escaped slavery. Most had enlisted into the US Navy as a means by which to serve their country and, hopefully, contribute to the emancipation of their families still in bondage.
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Jun 30, 2020
@AndrewSBledsoe I think it's also important to use this opportunity to highlight the fact that disaffected ex-Rebels did not invent the manipulation of historical narratives and selective interpretation of the past for political ends. It's something people do, even for good and moral causes.
@AndrewSBledsoe The past happened. History is the sum of all the (hopefully evidence-based) stories we tell ourselves about it. The past is unchangeable, but we decide what it meant/means, and that project will never be complete.
@AndrewSBledsoe The "Lost Cause" is an artifact of the timeless social phenomenon of collective memory. We ought to use this chance to inform the public of the existence of that phenomenon generally while we teach them about this specific historical case.
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Jun 1, 2020
When asked by a Georgian if he objected to Rebel monuments, Elisha Hunt Rhodes replied, "Oh no...if you people want to perpetuate your shame, I care little about it. You are simply telling the story to your children of how you tried to pull down the Old Flag and how you failed."
"Another day I stood by the monument in Winchester, Va., and I read upon it an inscription which told how men had died for liberty, had died for constitution in that country. An old gentleman asked me what I thought of it. ‘Oh,’ I said, ‘the day will come when you will put a...
...ladder up against that monument, and you will hire a colored man who once wore the shackles to climb that ladder and efface every word of that inscription, for it is false. There is no truth in it.’ Those men were brave men, and I am willing to pay tribute to their bravery...
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