Hi @herandrews, Vietnam-era historian here. Thought I might continue the dialogue you began on @BethLynnBailey's really fantastic book, #anarmyafire.

First, I appreciate that you are writing for your audience. They're attuned to be angry at the "libs."

theamericanconservative.com/racial-trouble… We live in a hyper-politicized moment. I get it. But you're politicizing the review & distorting the author's argument. In no way does Bailey discuss the army as a tool for social control. That's you, not her. I talk about "bias" w/ students & your review is a classic example.

🧵Reading @ThePlumLineGS's WaPo piece today on a proposed New Hampshire ban on teaching “negative” accounts of US history, I'm struck by the parallels to the early 1950s Red Scare. This article from the November 1951 issue of The American Legion is strikingly similar. The article, targeting parents, speaks of professors who are "easily buffaloed by the communists with the cry of 'academic freedom.'" Pro-communist teachers are the "most fruitful sources of recruitment" and, thus, parents must take stock & "the lead" of educational institutions.

A 🧵on "sympathy for the devils."

I read @EvansRyan202's excellent thread on Afghanistan this week as I was writing an essay on the end of America's war in Vietnam. Revisiting the My Lai massacre after this and @dtaberski's "The Line," I was struck by some rough comparisons. Particularly, the level of support Eddie Gallagher & William Calley, Jr. received from (far, far too many) Americans who supported both once learning of their war crimes. After Calley's guilty verdict, Sen. Adlai Stevenson's office was receiving mail 200-1 in favor of Calley.