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Dr. Jonathan Abel

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Husband and father. Associate Professor of Military History @DMH_at_CGSC. Historian of 18th-c France. Podcaster. @UNThistory PhD. Opinions own/no endorsements

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I’m on other social media platforms, including 🧵and 💙🌤️ at the same name: HistorianAbel
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RT @ArmyUPress: Have you seen the 2024 Annual Estimate of the Strategic Security Environment, brought to you by the US Army War College Pre…
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@KKriegeBlog My one complaint is that the Anglo-French fight is too small. What a Fontenoy he could’ve given us
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@WarintheFuture Modern problems require Napoleonic solutions
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RT @ArmyLdrExchange: Zeppelins, and data and mines, OH MY. The 2025 Fort Leavenworth series @DoleInstitute focusing on technology, innovat…
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@KKriegeBlog Wait but Canada was Britain in that war…
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@KKriegeBlog @AgeofNapoleon This calls for a podcast with all of us talking this out
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@AgeofNapoleon @KKriegeBlog FWIW, I know plenty of otherwise responsible professional historians who refuse to let go Maude-type beliefs about Old-Regime armies. It’s a myth that refuses to die because it’s simplistic and reductive, and it allows us to box up the Old Regime and move on to other topics.
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RT @KKriegeBlog: Today, my book Infantry in Battle, 1733-1783, released. Why should you care? It changes the story of 18th century battl…
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@KKriegeBlog The petite guerre is criminally understudied, especially in English
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@kansasjoyce @SMH_Historians Google Forms is the one people will likely be most familiar/dexterous with
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@KKriegeBlog …how did you know
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@YousraElbagir @MichaelShurkin Ah the Belgians, noted purveyors of peace and justice in central Africa
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@KKriegeBlog Am I correct in seeing that this person is cosplaying as the Kurt Steiner who died in 2003?
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@USArmyCMH And one was enlisted: Buchanan
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@MGKlingenberg I think Tom Wilson shot Gatsby here
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@HerreraMilHist @salisbot As opposed to the UK, where neither the head of state nor the head of government is elected?
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@HerreraMilHist @salisbot Ah but the Borg died
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@salisbot It’s been 39 years, and I’m still looking for the f in “lieutenant”
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There was a big kerfuffle a few months ago about physical vs. digital archives. Reminder that physical archives are not safe either.
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