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Patrick Link is on page 86 of 312 of Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
Tenko, the Imperial Renovation Society, Althusser’s Pascal line, “Kneel down, move your lips in prayer, and you will believe.” Marxism being proven wrong by a 3000 year uninterrupted line of Japanese emperors, are all excuses for not wanting to be in jail, and on a certain level that’s OK.
Oct 03, 2024 02:22PM Add a comment
Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)

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Patrick Link is on page 58 of 374 of From Party Politics to Militarism in Japan, 1924–1941
I need to read more about urban development in the 1920s and 1930s in Japan.
Oct 03, 2024 01:41PM Add a comment
From Party Politics to Militarism in Japan, 1924–1941

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Patrick Link is on page 58 of 374 of From Party Politics to Militarism in Japan, 1924–1941
Going back on the gold standard in January 1930 proved not to be a good move for Japanese democracy.
Oct 03, 2024 12:20PM Add a comment
From Party Politics to Militarism in Japan, 1924–1941

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Patrick Link is on page 154 of 448 of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
Liberal Republicans grow to subvert the Radicals.
Oct 03, 2024 10:18AM Add a comment
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction

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Patrick Link is on page 69 of 320 of Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America
If Americans aren’t familiar with this material already they would be shocked by this book.
Oct 03, 2024 09:18AM Add a comment
Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America

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Patrick Link is on page 35 of 320 of Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America
The first chapter “What Was Operation Condor” is what I would recommend reading if you only ever want to read one chapter about Condor or clandestine intelligence cut outs in the 1970s.
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Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America

Patrick Link
Patrick Link is on page 86 of 312 of Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
The procurators pushed rehabilitation of thought criminals and then put them in a panopticon.
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Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)

Patrick Link
Patrick Link is on page 58 of 374 of From Party Politics to Militarism in Japan, 1924–1941
Just skimmed over the 1927 financial crisis. Wish more was covered on the failure of the Jugo Bank.
Sep 10, 2024 10:52AM Add a comment
From Party Politics to Militarism in Japan, 1924–1941

Patrick Link
Patrick Link is on page 57 of 312 of Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
The rehabilitation of political thought criminals in 1930s Japan is probably a wet dream for John Yoos of the world.
Sep 06, 2024 05:48PM Add a comment
Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)

Patrick Link
Patrick Link is on page 21 of 374 of From Party Politics to Militarism in Japan, 1924–1941
Following on from another book on Japanese party politics that ended with Yamamoto stepping down after the Semens scandal his return in 1924 with an all star cabinet and the turmoil of the Great Kanto Earthquake seems like a host of missed opportunities blocked by the Seiyukai now firmly in a conservative position.
Aug 29, 2024 10:49AM Add a comment
From Party Politics to Militarism in Japan, 1924–1941

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Patrick Link is on page 52 of 193 of Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture
I certainly buy depoliticization as a motive for the cartel narrative.
Aug 28, 2024 04:56PM Add a comment
Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture

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Patrick Link is 56% done with The Comanche Empire
Internal social relations were in a stable flux.
Aug 23, 2024 07:33PM Add a comment
The Comanche Empire

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Patrick Link is 47% done with The Comanche Empire
The economic and political detachment of New Mexico and the devastation of northern Mexico by years of raids, both done by the Comanches, was crucial to the victory of the US in the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848.
Aug 19, 2024 04:08PM Add a comment
The Comanche Empire

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Patrick Link is 41% done with The Comanche Empire
Fantastic. Going to have to read the whole thing again to really grasp it. But the differing actions by the Comanches toward New Mexico and Texas show that they and not Spanish, or later Mexican, officials were in the driver’s seat.
Aug 16, 2024 04:44PM Add a comment
The Comanche Empire

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Patrick Link is 58% done with Santa Cruz 1942: Carrier Duel in the South Pacific (Osprey Campaign #247)
So much trouble with reconnaissance. Nagumo’s timidity and Halsey’s recklessness. Also, the IJA just not cutting it against the Marines on Guadalcanal.
Aug 16, 2024 04:39PM Add a comment
Santa Cruz 1942: Carrier Duel in the South Pacific (Osprey Campaign #247)

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Patrick Link is 28% done with The Comanche Empire
The examples of Comanche dominance in their alliance with the Spanish in the 1780s is fascinating.
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The Comanche Empire

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Patrick Link is on page 10 of 193 of Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture
“The War on Drugs is a cipher that masks the political strategy of large-scale community displacement for the appropriation and exploitation of natural resources that, if not for the War on Drugs, would remain unattainable for national and transnational capital.”

I’d buy that for a dollar.
Aug 09, 2024 05:59PM Add a comment
Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture

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Patrick Link is 21% done with The Comanche Empire
The Comanche conceptions of trade and equity served them well against the baffled Spanish officials of New Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana.
Aug 08, 2024 08:48PM Add a comment
The Comanche Empire

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Patrick Link is on page 127 of 448 of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
Wish I had a better grasp of the limits of Radical power. The klan smugness is that peculiar type of white Southern smugness that persists to this day.
Aug 05, 2024 05:03PM Add a comment
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction

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Patrick Link is 14% done with The Comanche Empire
Equestrian nomadism was an evolutionary turn of a highly innovative people with keen diplomatic skills and drastic caloric increase enabled them to dominate a large sections of current-day New Mexico and Texas by the 1760s.
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The Comanche Empire

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Patrick Link is 4% done with The Comanche Empire
I’m not at all familiar with the Comanches and Hamalainen is direct in saying his approach is different from the standard historiography. It sounds interesting.
Aug 02, 2024 07:24PM Add a comment
The Comanche Empire

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Patrick Link is on page 97 of 448 of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
Mead’s behavior as military governor reminds me of the stories of McClellan wanting to throw the war.
Aug 01, 2024 09:36AM Add a comment
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction

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Patrick Link is on page 78 of 448 of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
George Ashburn’s murder in Georgia sounds typical of all Klan murders. Also, finding out about the alternate spelling of Tuscaloosa as one favored by klansmen was a surprise that shouldn’t have been for me.
Jul 31, 2024 11:33AM Add a comment
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction

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Patrick Link is on page 60 of 448 of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
The failure of the Johnson impeachment showed the limits of the Radical Republicans and we’d be a lot better off if they’d succeeded.
Jul 26, 2024 08:19PM Add a comment
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction

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Patrick Link is 61% done with Operation Ro-Go 1943: Japanese air power tackles the Bougainville landings (Osprey Air Campaign #41)
Confusing torpedo boats and landing craft for carrier and cruisers shows the psychological toll on the inexperienced Japanese airmen.
Jul 25, 2024 12:22PM Add a comment
Operation Ro-Go 1943: Japanese air power tackles the Bougainville landings (Osprey Air Campaign #41)

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Patrick Link is on page 181 of 298 of Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922
The political instability from having the military ministers not answerable to civilian control is toxic as all get out.
Jul 25, 2024 11:54AM Add a comment
Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922

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Patrick Link is on page 22 of 448 of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
1965 report from Schulz to Johnson on the conditions of the south sounds interesting.
Jul 25, 2024 11:52AM Add a comment
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction

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