Jeremy Salkeld
@enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social
🇭🇰🇬🇧 Historian, wargamer, nerd. PhD student at GWU studying the afterlife of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Reposted by Jeremy Salkeld
My infantry Bn had a really hard time parsing the gender and sexuality issues of Southern Helmand.
When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.
When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.
November 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
My infantry Bn had a really hard time parsing the gender and sexuality issues of Southern Helmand.
When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.
When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.
But not in the eyes of its adherents, who consider Fomenkoism to be a Russian nationalist rewriting of Tartarian history.
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
But not in the eyes of its adherents, who consider Fomenkoism to be a Russian nationalist rewriting of Tartarian history.
Sidenote: it is terrifying to me that that post is now nearly four times as old as the first Anglophone Tartaria conspiracy post was at the time I wrote it.
November 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Sidenote: it is terrifying to me that that post is now nearly four times as old as the first Anglophone Tartaria conspiracy post was at the time I wrote it.
Also striking was how much shorter the list of war dead was for 1939-45 compared to 1914-18: www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/it...
Cirencester - WW1 and WW2 Tablet
Memorial type: Board / Plaque / Tablet
www.iwm.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Also striking was how much shorter the list of war dead was for 1939-45 compared to 1914-18: www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/it...
I've not been to that part of Europe myself, but I think my most visceral reaction to a British war memorial was in Cirencester, mainly because of how enough room was left under the dedication that they chiselled in an extension for WW2.
October 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I've not been to that part of Europe myself, but I think my most visceral reaction to a British war memorial was in Cirencester, mainly because of how enough room was left under the dedication that they chiselled in an extension for WW2.