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Happy to announce that the paperback edition of my book from @UNC_Press will hit bookshelves this August!
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Zachery Fry
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Zachery Fry
@WarHistoryProf
Military History Professor | PhD @OhioState | Author, _A Republic in the Ranks: Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Potomac_ | Views mine alone
Montclair, VA Katılım Mart 2022
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Military Historian here.
Once again, a lot of people have really strong opinions about my line of work, how to do it well, who should be getting funding, and what undergraduate courses should be offered.
I'm barricaded in my office and not I'm going anywhere.
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I recently acquired a gorgeous vintage typewriter and have been experimenting with truly horrific poetry. If we are truly on the verge of an AI apocalypse, you will find me retreating into the analog and probably becoming happier than I’ve been in years.
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Napoleon comforting the mortally wounded Marshal Jean Lannes after Aspern-Essling in May 1809. Painting by Paul-Émile Boutigny, 1894.
📜Echoes of Empire📜@EchoesofEmpire_
What’s your favourite painting of Napoleon?
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Well said.
John Spencer@SpencerGuard
This is a horrible idea/initiative IMO. COVID taught us this. Learning sciences. But more importantly centuries of military service that there are cohesive & career bonding properties of physical shared experiences. taskandpurpose.com/news/army-trai… Soldiers/officers that bonded in schools are later at key locations together in war. A school is a shared experience for those that do it together and with any that attended the same experience. For the U.S. Army, from the American-Mexican war until now...leaders that know each other personally from a shared experience or that have a shared memory of a place/experience. Trying to save money by cutting presence at CGSC, Captains Course, really any institutional school and foundational shared experience is a bad idea with down stream impacts on performance. The military is not a civilian institution. We have drastically different goals. This is the thesis of my book Connected Soldiers. A belief of improving a soldier's individual experiences at the cost of cohesion and combat effectiveness.
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@medievalist1 Submitting lesson plans like this from now on.
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Books received so far for the 2025 Collins Prize for best military history title. Keep 'em coming!--deadline is December 31.
uscmh.org/collins-book-p…
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@RichardPCondon This has Onion’s “Area Man” vibes all over it.
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@e_joseph_murphy We had the same ones at Fort Belvoir as well.
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One final (informal) CGSC Fort Belvoir staff ride—studying the impact of sustained combat operations on the armies of 1864 at Spotsylvania.
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Grateful for the opportunity to have presented at another Civil War Institute Summer Conference at Gettysburg College. Some truly great friends in attendance.
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I'm excited and grateful to share that "Glorious Courage: John Pelham in the Civil War" is now in print.
Order through @SavasBeatie now and I'll personally sign book orders 1-50! (Orders 51+ will receive a signed bookplate.)
tinyurl.com/5ajp4656
#civilwarbook #newbook
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@tomricks1 Thank you for that, sir. I loved every minute of the job and hope I left my small corner of PME better.
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@WarHistoryProf I am so sorry. It is delusional to cut PME at a time when the world is changing to quickly. Potentially dangerous. I hope you land somewhere out of Trump's destructive range.
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This is the post I never wanted to have to make.
Earlier today, news arrived that my position as a history professor for US Army CGSC has been eliminated in accordance with DOD cuts. There is no chance of reassignment, and the entire Fort Belvoir campus will be stood down.
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@MarkHertling Thank you for that, sir. Means a great deal coming from you.
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@WarHistoryProf So sorry for you Zach. A true travesty.
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@AstorAaron And just to clarify, by “stood down,” I mean eliminated.
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@AstorAaron I can’t speak to that, unfortunately. I only know about the satellite program, which graduates nearly as many Majors for the Army each year as Leavenworth does.
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My children have been insulated from the emerging chaos of our new world for the past several months. Not so any longer.
I truly don’t know what the future holds.
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I am devastated. As the sole provider for a family with two little ones, I am now confronting the most dire personal and professional challenge I could ever have imagined.
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Truer words were never written.
Yesterday's Print@yesterdaysprint
Marion County Herald, Palmyra, Missouri, January 31, 1923
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