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@historydavid81

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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I’m reading World War II air operations 82nd 101st airborne. Focused on memoirs and biographies, then operational considerations. Right now it’s just curiosity, but I could see it evolving into something.

04.03.2026 23:16 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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@ericmmurphy.bsky.social Newest acquisition. #TSB

19.02.2026 00:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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12.02.2026 23:13 👍 35 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0

This is excellent! Also, a name I know from the First World War.

10.02.2026 02:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In the digital age of AI,trained historians are the best executioners of getting things done using the AI tool. It’s all about proposing the correct question.

09.02.2026 18:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

In the digital age of AI,trained historians are the best executioners of getting things done using the AI tool. It’s all about proposing the correct question.

09.02.2026 18:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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If you know, you know! #cornhole

08.02.2026 22:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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07.02.2026 20:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Every now and then I am reminded that what @thestrategybridge.bsky.social did for over a decade mattered.

It mattered then; it matters now.

thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge-i...

07.02.2026 03:10 👍 24 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 1

Access a decade of peer-to-peer professional writing with the sole purpose of developing the next generation of leaders
in strategy, national security, & military affairs ==>

thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge-i...

07.02.2026 03:39 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

@ericmmurphy.bsky.social

05.02.2026 01:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My current obsession! #SWW

05.02.2026 01:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I ordered it,should be here in a couple days. 🍺

05.02.2026 01:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A great book!

05.02.2026 00:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

@markstout.bsky.social @ericmmurphy.bsky.social and @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social Might see snow in the sunshine state this weekend! At 5am for 2 minutes BUT that counts!!! Hope all is well. ☃️❄️☃️

31.01.2026 16:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Where are you in this picture with the globe?

28.01.2026 14:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Party like it’s 1999

27.01.2026 02:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I enjoyed watching the snow from Florida:)

26.01.2026 19:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Approved

10.01.2026 00:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I feel like this is a story that was experienced by somebody 😏

06.01.2026 23:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy new years🎉

31.12.2025 13:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Approved

28.12.2025 22:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My newest acquisition! #SWW

27.12.2025 04:16 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Everything just got better

27.12.2025 03:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Approved

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Home A platform for analysis, commentary, debate and multimedia content on foreign policy and national security issues through a realist lens.

Today in War on the Rocks:

Anchoring Intelligence: Ground Truth in an Age of Synthetic Deception

17.12.2025 14:00 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Professor Gary Sheffield – Military Historian and Battlefield Guide

Please visit my new website
profgarysheffield.com

Includes articles, reviews of books old and new, and other material including my obituary of Professor Brian Bond. A work in progress, it will be updated regularly with new stuff

14.12.2025 15:07 👍 38 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 4

Grateful for reposts!

14.12.2025 15:09 👍 15 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
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Wreaths across America. It was my honor to help in this event.

13.12.2025 15:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@tyrellmayfield.bsky.social welcome to the swamp baby

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