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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦

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Military historian at NUS, Habs fan, Gunner tragic, and, most important, father of Conor. All opinions my own. Standing with Ukraine. 🇺🇦Denouncing terrorists. 🇨🇦 living and working in 🇸🇬. Trump will be defeated. Stand tall Canada. Never 51.🇨🇦

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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · Jun 15

Delighted to announce my forthcoming book with University Press of Kansas, kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700639953/
Very pleased to join their excellent Modern War Studies series. To be released in early November.

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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 6h

If they come up with an actual idea, please let us know.

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t think you grasped his point. A band aid will stop a skin cut bleeding, but if there is internal bleeding it won’t be nearly enough, so we should not think it has really solved any serious problem. Don’t get lulled into complacency by band aids, useful as they are.

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 6h

From this outsiders perspective, for decades now the answer seems to be: if our guy does something, whatever it is, it is okay or at least excusable; if their guy does something very similar, it is grounds for immediate removal from office. Trump pushes the line to extremes, but it predates him.

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 6h

It would be interesting to see how many Farage followers can manage A level English.

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OTD Military History @otdmilhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Saying fighting to help the Nazis is bad is apparently "sentimentalist lalaland politics".

The Cold War really destroyed some people's brains.

This comment is about the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician).

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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 7h

Feed him to the sharks

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 1d

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t normally disdain to argue with anonymous heroes but your comment was so asinine I felt obliged to tell you so. Your opinions and convictions no doubt match your worldview and principles: hollow, shallow, trending. You are a coward not worth the time.

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 10h

“Far fewer are dying.” So summary public executions in the street don’t concern you? The very people in whose behalf you protested are now being lynched by their own and that doesn’t bother you?
So it was never about them? They never really mattered?
Disgusting.

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 10h

Perhaps a protest could be aimed at Hamas instead of our own govts? Does that even enter your worldview?

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 15h

Cue the protesters in major Western cities: … waiting … wtf are you all?

Masked fighters seen executing men in Gaza City as Hamas fights with rival groups | CNN

Violent clashes have erupted between Hamas and rival groups in several areas across Gaza, including an incident that culminated in an apparent public execution, as worries grow about the security situ...

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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 1d

That’s true, to be fair. Bunch of wankers at best.

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 1d

Yes because of course personal misbehavior scandal was unheard of on the left …

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 2d

He didn’t. So your admonition is pointless.

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 2d

That file is missing.

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 2d

In southern Gaza, a group opposed to Hamas has refused to lay down its arms. One of its commanders, Hussam al-Astal, posted on Facebook Saturday: “To all the Hamas rats, your tunnels are destroyed, your rights no longer exist. Repent before it’s too late – there is no Hamas from today onward.”

Hamas asserts control in Gaza and targets alleged collaborators as ceasefire takes hold | CNN

Hamas is reasserting control of parts of Gaza not occupied by Israeli forces as the ceasefire takes hold – amid continuing uncertainty about security in the territory if the group is disarmed.

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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 4d

Trump announces 130% tariffs on China. The global trade war just came roaring back | CNN Business

President Donald Trump announced he will impose an additional 100% tariff on goods from China, on top of the 30% tariffs already in effect, starting November 1 or sooner. The threat is a massive escal...

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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 5d

War crime.

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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 6d

As a Canadian, I can tell you that wanting to put a bag over your head to hide in embarrassment from the latest defence procurement bungle is all too common an experience. Oh Canada …🇨🇦

Canadian Army vehicle procurement worth up to $1 billion facing serious problems

The Department of National Defence won't say if the vehicle procurement project worth up to $1 billion will be cancelled.

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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 7d

The problem so often includes tying the degree to specific job: if you study poetry it must mean you are hoping to be hired as a poet.

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 7d

train people we hire to do our job. We want people who have already been trained to think critically, analyze, ask informed questions, communicate clearly; that’s why we are always open to hiring humanities graduates.” The wider evidence has borne this out in advanced economies since the 1990s.

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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 7d

Absolutely right. Part of the mistake comes from conflating professional technical degrees tied to a job ((law, engineering, medicine), with general education degrees. The latter have held their own well in Fortune 500. The CEO of JP Morgan Asia told me years ago”we don’t need technocrats we will

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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 7d

Trump understands the purpose of the auto pact. That’s why he wants to end it.

Trump says trade talks 'complicated' but Canada will be 'very happy' with eventual deal

Despite the warm words, Canada remains the only G7 country not to have reached a trade deal with Trump this year.

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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 10d

Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests

The move is not a ban on protests but "about restrictions and conditions", Shabana Mahmood tells the BBC.