David Burbach (also @dburbach Bluesky)(@dburbach) 's Twitter Profileg
David Burbach (also @dburbach Bluesky)

@dburbach

Prof of International Relations & National Security. Space, nukes, civil-military. Cats. At Naval War College but only personal tweets; do NOT represent DOD

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calendar_today10-01-2009 02:39:29

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William B. Fuckley(@opinonhaver) 's Twitter Profile Photo

the real victims of right wing backlash to academia aren't the people at Yale who get off on saying the most inflammatory thing possible but the guy making $65k to teach first gen students about redlining at a state school who loses his job when state legislature bans sociology

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David Burbach (also @dburbach Bluesky)(@dburbach) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is insane, just insane. In 2020, Cotton could at least point to big civil disturbances. The protest at Columbia may be obnoxious and harassing but ~100 yelling students is entirely within the ability of the NYPD to handle
politi.co/4d50cHX

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David Burbach (also @dburbach Bluesky)(@dburbach) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I shouldn't say that, the UK was a gracious host to me when I spend a semester at the Univ. of Glasgow, sharing British cuisine that I still remember clearly... because 35 years later I still can't donate blood due to mad cow disease ๐Ÿฎ

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Theo McLauchlin(@TheoMcLauchlin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Which countries get US foreign military training? Short answer: almost everyone gets some. Beyond that, the variation reflects several different logics, each consistent with the US trying to act like a global hegemon. [Thread.]

New International Studies Quarterly article: academic.oup.com/isq/article/68โ€ฆ

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David Burbach (also @dburbach Bluesky)(@dburbach) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Tounge-in-cheek science proposal:

Lob a big container full of tin foil and titanium dioxide powder right in front of it and disperse. Increase optical and radar brightness so it's easier to track

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hannah gais(@hannahgais) 's Twitter Profile Photo

maybe cultivating a media and political class who have an obsessive interest in blowing up each and every action of 19 year old college students into a national news story was a mistake, actually

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