Roy Doron
@konstrukt.bsky.social
Historian of Africa, Founding Editor of the Journal of African Military History.
Currently CD Spangler Distinguished Professor of African/African American History at Winston-Salem State University.
Lifelong West Ham Supporter.
Lover of Metal.
Currently CD Spangler Distinguished Professor of African/African American History at Winston-Salem State University.
Lifelong West Ham Supporter.
Lover of Metal.
Just one look at the map of this "plan" and you realize that this is a barely passing grade for an undergraduate poli sci or urban planning project, so who would have thought a project dreamed up by an imbecile nepo baby (Kushner) would be in any way feasible or even sane?
“President Trump has extravagant plans for the Gaza Strip. The only problem is that they bear no connection to the grim realities on the ground,” Hussein Ibish argues.
Trump’s Gaza Plans Are Profoundly Unserious
Conditions on the ground call for immediate humanitarian relief, not gauzy real-estate fantasies.
bit.ly
February 11, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Just one look at the map of this "plan" and you realize that this is a barely passing grade for an undergraduate poli sci or urban planning project, so who would have thought a project dreamed up by an imbecile nepo baby (Kushner) would be in any way feasible or even sane?
Just had a colleague submit a course proposal that was entirely AI generated slop. A history course with no history methodology, no actual content, but hey... he had a catchy title "Coded Kingdoms".
Is this the end result of embracing AI? And he's of course on the university's new AI taskforce.
Is this the end result of embracing AI? And he's of course on the university's new AI taskforce.
It is exhausting to sit in meetings a/b “AI” & to have colleagues who’ve got nothing but logical-fallacy-laden big tech pro-AI talking points basically project on you their own laziness & malpractice. Care to see my no-genAI policy, bud? It’s got dozens of carefully considered rationales & footnotes
February 4, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Just had a colleague submit a course proposal that was entirely AI generated slop. A history course with no history methodology, no actual content, but hey... he had a catchy title "Coded Kingdoms".
Is this the end result of embracing AI? And he's of course on the university's new AI taskforce.
Is this the end result of embracing AI? And he's of course on the university's new AI taskforce.
In Germany they are giving away 4000 tons potatoes because of a record harvest. In the US they would have destroyed them to protect corporate profits.
4,000 tons of potatoes to be given away for free - The Berliner
Berliner Morgenpost and Ecosia are giving away an enormous crop of potatoes for free to Berliners to save them from waste.
www.the-berliner.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:25 PM
In Germany they are giving away 4000 tons potatoes because of a record harvest. In the US they would have destroyed them to protect corporate profits.
To be honest, most of these people would better choices than who's actually on it.
January 23, 2026 at 4:51 PM
To be honest, most of these people would better choices than who's actually on it.
Maybe it's time to rethink the World Cup this summer? Too bad FIFA have their nose so far up Trump's ass that it will never happen. Scotland have essentially won Group C if Brazil, Morocco, and Haiti are banned.
The US is no longer processing visas from these 75 countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, /1
January 14, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Maybe it's time to rethink the World Cup this summer? Too bad FIFA have their nose so far up Trump's ass that it will never happen. Scotland have essentially won Group C if Brazil, Morocco, and Haiti are banned.
When Trump invades Greenland, and he will, what is to become of NATO article 5?
January 5, 2026 at 2:27 PM
When Trump invades Greenland, and he will, what is to become of NATO article 5?
After watching West Ham today I take solace in the fact that my day is not as bad as Maduro's
January 3, 2026 at 10:18 PM
After watching West Ham today I take solace in the fact that my day is not as bad as Maduro's
This seems like something @nytpitchbot.bsky.social would come up with
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
To compete with superpowers like China, the U.S. military must follow the lead of America’s private sector, writes the editorial board.
To compete with superpowers like China, the U.S. military must follow the lead of America’s private sector, writes the editorial board.
Opinion | America’s Military Needs a Culture Shift
The benefits of serving have never been more appealing, but the Pentagon needs a better approach to recruiting new talent.
nyti.ms
December 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
This seems like something @nytpitchbot.bsky.social would come up with
To be fair, Calibri is not an esthetically pleasing font, and I prefer using Garamond or Constantia.
That being said, all my emails will be in Calibri for the foreseeable future.
That being said, all my emails will be in Calibri for the foreseeable future.
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
To be fair, Calibri is not an esthetically pleasing font, and I prefer using Garamond or Constantia.
That being said, all my emails will be in Calibri for the foreseeable future.
That being said, all my emails will be in Calibri for the foreseeable future.
Student emails me asking why he got a zero. He claimed he did not use AI. His submission:
December 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Student emails me asking why he got a zero. He claimed he did not use AI. His submission:
I yearn for a world where this is the most important piece of news.
Drunk raccoon found passed out on liquor store floor after breaking in
The intoxicated animal suffered no injuries and was released back into the wild by animal protection once sober.
www.bbc.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I yearn for a world where this is the most important piece of news.
Had Tom Cotton been a senator during the Vietnam War, he would have been one of the ones trying to prosecute Hugh Thompson for stopping the My Lai massacre.
Q: What did you see in the second strike?
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Had Tom Cotton been a senator during the Vietnam War, he would have been one of the ones trying to prosecute Hugh Thompson for stopping the My Lai massacre.
A few photos from my trip to Potsdam for the SHoW conference, which is one of my (if not THE) favorite conferences, and not just because it gives me an excuse to avoid Thanksgiving in the US. @sochistorywar.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A few photos from my trip to Potsdam for the SHoW conference, which is one of my (if not THE) favorite conferences, and not just because it gives me an excuse to avoid Thanksgiving in the US. @sochistorywar.bsky.social
My new book, Biafra: A Military History is coming out on MONDAY.
If you order from this link, use the following 30% discount codes:
UF2530 for orders in the Americas
IUP30 for orders outside of the Americas
If you order from this link, use the following 30% discount codes:
UF2530 for orders in the Americas
IUP30 for orders outside of the Americas
Biafra
The Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970), also known as the Biafran War, remains one of the most politically charged and divisive issues in contemporary Nigerian...
iupress.org
August 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
My new book, Biafra: A Military History is coming out on MONDAY.
If you order from this link, use the following 30% discount codes:
UF2530 for orders in the Americas
IUP30 for orders outside of the Americas
If you order from this link, use the following 30% discount codes:
UF2530 for orders in the Americas
IUP30 for orders outside of the Americas
Oliver Coates from Cambridge University speaking at the conference on Military Leadership in African History at the Nigerian Defence Academy.
July 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Oliver Coates from Cambridge University speaking at the conference on Military Leadership in African History at the Nigerian Defence Academy.
Harry Raffal from the @rafmuseum.bsky.social speaking at the Military Leadership in African History at the Nigerian Defence Academy.
July 18, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Harry Raffal from the @rafmuseum.bsky.social speaking at the Military Leadership in African History at the Nigerian Defence Academy.
When I get these requests, I reply that without a documented reason, I am required to give everyone the same treatment. But it is maddening.
But these requests come in more frequently and later in the term than they ever did before.
But these requests come in more frequently and later in the term than they ever did before.
Opinion | When Students Want You to Change Their Grades
They say “it never hurts to ask.” But it does.
www.chronicle.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
When I get these requests, I reply that without a documented reason, I am required to give everyone the same treatment. But it is maddening.
But these requests come in more frequently and later in the term than they ever did before.
But these requests come in more frequently and later in the term than they ever did before.
This new mantra of meeting students where they has gone a bit too far toward enabling the inmates to run the asylum.
Opinion | Meet Students Where They Are? Maybe Not.
Lax standards will void the value of a college education.
www.chronicle.com
June 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This new mantra of meeting students where they has gone a bit too far toward enabling the inmates to run the asylum.
Must be nice to be financially secure enough to resign in protest and not worry where your next meal will come from.
A military ethicist resigns in protest. From @radiofreetom.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Military-Ethics Professor Resigns in Protest
Over the course of several months, Pauline Shanks Kaurin concluded that she no longer had the academic freedom necessary for doing her job.
www.theatlantic.com
June 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Must be nice to be financially secure enough to resign in protest and not worry where your next meal will come from.