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How, exactly, did Truman decide not to seek a war declaration for the Korean War?
[i] I will link together occasional book-in-progress-related posts as part of Forever War Chronicles. [ii] I am using the contemporary terms North Korea and South Korea to avoid confusion. The proper country names at the time were Republic of Korea for the South and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea for the North. [iii] Letter from George M. Elsey, Administrative Assistant to the President, to Sen. Alexander H.
What Statistics Cannot Say: On the Uncounted Dead
My last sight of my brother may have been in a fundraising video. A man with longish gray hair lay face down on the walkway of a park in Southern California. The wheelchair behind him was like the kind my brother would have had. It was draped with a green sweatshirt and a bag of belongings. A medical worker knelt down and spoke to him about a motorized wheelchair, which he was hoping for. “He has refused help,” the narrator said to the camera.
Humane Wartime
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 50:32 — 115.6MB) | Embed October 13, 2022 Humane Wartime Try a simple riddle, about the time and climate we Americans are living in, today: Do we call it (a) wartime or (b) peacetime? Tense time, for sure, and there’s war in the headlines. But we’re not at war, not declared war anyway. There’s no draft, and no body bags coming home that we notice. War spending is up steeply, but it’s on weaponry for faraway Ukraine, fending off Russia.
Opinion | Drones Help Distant American Public From Its Deadly Forever Wars
Opinion | Drones Help Distant American Public From Its Deadly Forever Wars | Mary Dudziak
Afghanistan a year later: Will 'over the horizon' normalize Endless War?
When President Joe Biden announced on August 31, 2021, that the war in Afghanistan had ended, he also emphasized that the U.S. use of force in the region would continue. “We just don’t need to fight a ground war to do it,” he explained.
Lasting Cruelties
Lasting Cruelties Reign of Terror situates the War on Terror as part of a longer story of domination that can be traced back to the founding of the United States as a settler-colonial and slaveholding behemoth. ▪ Winter 2022 Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump by Spencer Ackerman Viking, 2021, 448 pp. On the heels of the U.S. invasion in 2003, Iraqis plundered and burned government offices, banks, businesses, and hospitals.
Drafting a Constitution: Thurgood Marshall in Kenya
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Before he began writing constitutional law as a Supreme Court justice in 1967, Thurgood Marshall spent nearly three decades arguing the law for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the battle against segregation. A less well-known part of his life is that which was spent as a maker of a constitution. He was, briefly, an actual framer, “crafting constitutional principles” from the start, as legal scholar Mary L.
Making the Forever War
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H-Diplo Essay 307- Mary Dudziak on Learning the Scholar’s Craft
Reader: this H-Diplo series is full of great examples. Outstanding scholars with inspiring and even heartwarming stories that might inform your own journey. This one is the counter-example. I must confess: I did everything wrong.
George Floyd Moves the World
The killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer has thrust the United States into an uncomfortable light, as people around the world have taken to the streets to decry American racism. In Milan, protesters sat with hands around their necks in front of “I can’t breathe” signs, quoting Floyd’s dying words. The phrase was spelled out in candles in Australia.
El daño de Donald Trump, por Mary L. Dudziak
Actualizado el 06/06/2020 a las 05:50 Las protestas en Minnesota después del asesinato de George Floyd hicieron de ese estado “el hazmerreír de todo el mundo”, afirmó el presidente Trump en una llamada a los gobernadores estatales. Más tarde se comprometió a pasarles por alto a los que toleraran las protestas y a usar el ejército para “dominar” las calles.
Roundup Top Ten for June 5, 2020
A 'Hamilton'-esque Scandal Helped Give Trump His Cudgel by Gautham Rao The real impediment to Trump's use of the Insurrection Act is historical precedent and norms; If Trump doesn't have any regard for them, there is little to stop him from following through on his pledge to deploy the military in American cities.
Opinion | The Damage Trump Has Done This Week Extends Far Beyond America’s Borders
Sixty-three years ago, American troops were deployed to quell racial unrest. It made this country a better place. By Mary L. Dudziak Dr. Dudziak is a historian and legal theorist. June 4, 2020, 11:50 a.m. ET Federal troops moving quickly to break up a crowd gathering for a demonstration in Little Rock, Ark., in 1957. Protests in Minnesota after the killing of George Floyd made the state “a laughingstock all over the world,” President Trump claimed in a call to state governors on Monday.
Shedding light on secret laws governing presidential power
The recent saber rattling against Iran raises the question of whether the president can take the country to war on his own. Unfortunately, much of the legal advice that presidents have received on war powers remains in a veritable lock box in the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel.
War Time
https://global.oup.com/academic/covers/pop-up/9780199315857 An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences Mary L. Dudziak Compact, lively analysis of American war time Raises the question of what 'wartime' really is, and why we should think about its meaning in society today Intersects topics across disciplines including history, anthropology, law, and policy War Time An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences Mary L. Dudziak Table of Contents Table of Contents Introduction 1. What Time is It? 2.
What Thurgood Marshall Would tell the Roberts Court
by Mary L. Dudziak Ms. Dudziak is Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History and Political Science, University of Southern California. Her newest book is Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall’s African Journey (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008). This week’s anniversary ofBrown v. Board of Education falls nearly 100 years since the 20th century’s greatest civil rights lawyer, Thurgood Marshall, was born (July 2, 1908).
Roundup Top 10!
; 3/7/19 Roundup tags: Roundup Top 10! Women in Ancient Rome Didn’t Have Equal Rights. They Still Changed History by Barry Strauss If we look hard at the history, we discover some women who made their mark, either working within their prescribed gender roles as wives, lovers, mothers, sisters or daughters, or exercising so much political, religious or, even in a few cases, military power that they smashed those roles altogether and struck out on their own.
Perspective | The toxic legacy of the Korean War
The war was the first large overseas U.S. conflict without a declaration of war, setting a precedent for the unilateral presidential power exercised today. The Korean War has helped to enable this century’s forever wars. A peace deal, which Trump has talked of reaching, would not undo this forgotten legacy, but renewed American attention to the Korean War should be an occasion to rethink the president’s war powers.
War Time
https://global.oup.com/academic/covers/pop-up/9780199775231 An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences Mary L. Dudziak Compact, lively analysis of American war time Raises the question of what 'wartime' really is, and why we should think about its meaning in society today Intersects topics across disciplines including history, anthropology, law, and policy War Time An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences Mary L. Dudziak Table of Contents Table of Contents Introduction 1. What Time is It? 2.
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China Doesn’t Want a New World Order. It Wants This One. Why would China go to the trouble of capsizing the global order when it can simply take it over?
Ferguson from Afar
As the turmoil in Ferguson, Missouri, unfolds, questions about the United States’ commitment to human rights are once more headlining news coverage around the world. The uncomfortable international spotlight on such domestic problems should not be surprising. American racial inequality regularly dominated foreign news coverage during the 1950s and 1960s. U.S. policymakers were eventually forced to respond, in part to protect America’s image abroad.
Donald Trump and America’s Moral Authority
Although the United States has never perfected the practice of its principles, American leaders from both parties have long seen their country as a model worthy of emulating. The Republican presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump, departed from this view in a striking interview this week with The Times. Mr. Trump was asked about orders from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey to detain tens of thousands of Turkish citizens.
How War Lost Its Politics | Dissent Magazine
As the Obama administration announced plans to step up its military campaign against ISIS this spring, a twenty-eight-year-old army officer, Captain Nathan Michael Smith, took President Barack Obama to court. He argued that the war against ISIS is illegal because Congress has not authorized it. Smith’s action highlights persistent problems with the legal basis for the military campaign, and has generated interest and support from leading legal scholars.
The Fuss About Josephine Baker
“Josephine and I,” a new one-woman show starring Cush Jumbo, is set to make a successful follow-up to its well-reviewed London run in New York this week. The show alternates between the story of a modern-day woman and Josephine Baker, the woman known in 1920s France as “the Bronze Goddess.” Josephine Baker’s rise from St. Louis slum to queen of French theater was predicated on the racial tolerance that could be found in Roaring Twenties Paris.
How the World Sees the Protests
As the turmoil in Ferguson, Missouri, unfolds, questions about the United States’ commitment to human rights are once more headlining news coverage around the world. The uncomfortable international spotlight on such domestic problems should not be surprising. American racial inequality regularly dominated foreign news coverage during the 1950s and 1960s. U.S. policymakers were eventually forced to respond, in part to protect America’s image abroad.
An Enduring Condition: On War Time
The phrase “war on terror” is rarely heard these days. Our fight in Iraq ended last year with the pullout of the remaining troops. Combat forces are set to be withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2014, and their fade-away has been highlighted by the fact that more private contractors are getting killed in the country than GIs. President Obama has declared, with apparent justification, that the end of our post-9/11 wars is near.
50 Years After Hiroshima
How War Lost Its Politics Election years used to be occasions for pitched battles over whether to go to war. Why aren’t they still?
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