I gave up a long time ago any serious attempt to do historical research or any wish to be a serious professional historian. Nevertheless, by reasons of personal interests and education, I obviously keep being interested in history and historiography. One of the topics I was and still am interested in is the role of …
Continue reading Huế 1968: A turning point of the American War in Vietnam, by Mark Bowden
He’s just taken two wounded and one dead. All he has to report is one confirmed, one probable [enemy fatalities]. This won’t look good. Bad ratio. He knows all sorts of bullets were flying all over the place. It was a point-to-point contact, so no ambush, so the stinkin’ thinin’ goes round and round, so …
On a lazy Saturday evening, I happened to watch on Netflix a 2016 war movie, The Siege of Jadotville. The movie focus on a true episode of the UN intervention in Congo in 1961, when a company of Irish soldiers managed to successfully defend for six days their outpost, with no causality, against the attack …
Continue reading Of Irish Alamos, UN interventions and imperialistic aestethics
I have recently read 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, by Eric Cline. I am totally ignorant about ancient history, and perhaps because of this it made for a fascinating, if mildly disturbing, reading (as I guess any account of a civilization collapse would be). Cline, professor of ancient history and archaeology at George Washington …
Continue reading The end of the Bronze Age, complexity theory and international aid.
Seeking the link 