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DavidRetherford

@historydavid81.bsky.social

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Historian of US Army in The First World War. Interested in intelligence and learning development. Available for book reviews. Social media manager at the Strategy Bridge. 🇺🇸&🇬🇧

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DavidRetherford @historydavid81.bsky.social · 11d

Word!

DavidRetherford @historydavid81.bsky.social · 11d

Outstanding

DavidRetherford @historydavid81.bsky.social · 16d

Very excited for this new book by Anthony Tucker Jones. #SWW

DavidRetherford @historydavid81.bsky.social · 19d

7,776..,days.

DavidRetherford @historydavid81.bsky.social · 29d

Michael Howard has a tall shadow in the history world definitely read some of his stuff

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The Strategy Bridge @thestrategybridge.bsky.social · Sep 24

New Podcast-==>

Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · Sep 23

I had a great time discussing the role of #OperationalPlanners and the Marine Corps University's School of Advanced Warfighting on @thestrategybridge.bsky.social podcast with @prbeckman.bsky.social:

open.spotify.com/episode/5fYA...

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DavidRetherford @historydavid81.bsky.social · Sep 23

@markstout.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Secret Service takes down network that could have crippled New York cell service

US agency dismantled hidden telecom network that would have unleashed chaos ahead of UN general assembly

www.theguardian.com

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The Strategy Bridge @thestrategybridge.bsky.social · Sep 23

We have a new #StrategyBridgePodcast episode with @prbeckman.bsky.social dropping tomorrow! Stay tuned!

thestrategybridge.org/the-podcast

The Podcast

thestrategybridge.org

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DavidRetherford @historydavid81.bsky.social · Sep 13

Congratulations sir. Hike on!

DavidRetherford @historydavid81.bsky.social · Sep 5

Everything just got better! #beer-life #grilling

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Specified Purpose, Department of History and the Arts and Humanities Institute | University Vacancies Ireland

universityvacancies.com

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War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · Aug 28

Want to write for War on the Rocks?

War on the Rocks - Submissions

Want to write for War on the Rocks? Start here.

warontherocks.com

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DavidRetherford @historydavid81.bsky.social · Aug 28

@markstout.bsky.social chapter 5 has an excellent intelligence section from the German perspective definitely worth reading. Fyi

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DavidRetherford @historydavid81.bsky.social · Aug 26

YES!

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Jonathan Boff @jfb1066.bsky.social · Aug 25

Wars end with one of 2 kinds of negotiation:
1) treaty imposed by the victors on losers who spend years working to get their revenge
2) genuine compromise between 2 sides dealing in good faith.
Neither situation is close to obtaining in Ukraine
The quickest path to a lasting peace is 🇷🇺 withdrawal

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 24

JD Vance: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · Aug 23

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏

The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information:

The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations.

The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past

Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.

All collections are of equal importance. Every letter, photograph, or other artifact has an important story to tell.

The collections and their contents are not edited or censored. Our role as historians is not to judge the past in light of the present, but to present everything in its entirety at the time of its creation.

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Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Aug 19

I started a #Substack on #AI and #HigherEd. This is #4, on how we grade in an era of AI. Happy back to school!: michaelneiberg.substack.com/p/a-return-o... Are there #AI starter packs out there? Thanks.

A Return of the Blue Book?

Grading and Shifting Skills in an Era of AI

michaelneiberg.substack.com

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DavidRetherford @historydavid81.bsky.social · Aug 12

Shots fired in the great postcard war of 2025. Thanks

DavidRetherford @historydavid81.bsky.social · Aug 8

Everything just got better!

DavidRetherford @historydavid81.bsky.social · Aug 7

My newest acquisition. Long over due. Happy to read operations from the German perspective. Exciting. #FWW #operations

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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · Aug 3

I have uploaded my book chapter about the Turkish official military histories and personal war narratives of the First World War.
Enjoy
www.researchgate.net/publication/...