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		<title>Visions of War</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2012/01/09/visions-of-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Brewer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 15th President Barack Obama welcomed home U.S. troops from a war he once had called “dumb.” His speech avoided the reasons why the Iraq War was fought and focused instead on honoring the American servicemen and women who fought it.  Inspiring words&#8211;“extraordinary achievement,” “honor,” “sacrifice,” “finest fighting force,” “unbroken line of heroes,” “progress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pernicious Effects of the All-Volunteer Military</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/02/08/pernicious-effects-of-the-all-volunteer-military/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2011/02/08/pernicious-effects-of-the-all-volunteer-military/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Foster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In each class I teach, I ask students to fill out an index card with the usual demographic information, but also to put there anything they think could affect their performance in class.  Usually they write about learning disabilities, commuting, family responsibilities, and athletic teams they are on.  But since 2003, an increasing number write [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Age without Surrender Ceremonies</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/10/an-age-without-surrender-ceremonies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/10/an-age-without-surrender-ceremonies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Dudziak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a snippet from the book I’m finishing up this fall.  This passage is about what I think of as President Obama’s “Mission Accomplished” moment, and it raises questions about how to think about the role of wartime in American history during a period when wars don’t seem to end.






U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Kimberly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking about Remembering</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/03/22/thinking-about-remembering/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/03/22/thinking-about-remembering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Molly Wood</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=2195</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and even though I have not lived there for many years, I still visit regularly. I often think that my decision to become a historian stems in part from the stories of my family history told to me by grandparents and other relatives. I learned from my grandmother, for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 3/10/10</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/03/10/weekly-digest-31010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/03/10/weekly-digest-31010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four years after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japanese cities, the Soviet Union explodes its first nuclear weapon at a test range in Kazakhstan. That the Soviet Union obtained &#8220;the bomb&#8221; is not surprising, but the timing of the test is. Most U.S. intelligence assessments at the time concluded Moscow was at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Foreign Policy: An Assessment After Year One &#8212; Introduction</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/obamas-foreign-policy-an-assessment-after-year-one-introduction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/obamas-foreign-policy-an-assessment-after-year-one-introduction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Johns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan War:  2001-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little over a year ago, I wrote an essay for this page that outlined some of the multitudinous foreign policy challenges that would face Barack Obama’s administration when it took office on 20 January 2009 (“Of Mice, Men, and Presidents,” December 2008).  During the past twelve months, the president and his national security team [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons for Late Baby Boomers</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/lessons-for-late-baby-boomers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/lessons-for-late-baby-boomers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Zeiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m eight months older than President Barack Obama, so we fall into the same generation.  Of course, the similarities end there, including his ascent to a slightly higher administrative level than I will ever reach.  Still, we share some things in common because we gained an awareness of the world around the same time, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A View from the Outside: Assessing Obama&#8217;s First Year as President</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/a-view-from-the-outside-assessing-obamas-first-year-as-president/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/a-view-from-the-outside-assessing-obamas-first-year-as-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama’s run for the presidency was observed by European publics perhaps more than any US election in recent history. Students, for whom the presidency of Bill Clinton was barely a memory and little more than a footnote introducing the Bush era, debated the relative merits of a Clinton or Obama nomination largely in terms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The State Department Wants You! (or does it?)</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/11/23/the-state-department-wants-you-or-does-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/11/23/the-state-department-wants-you-or-does-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Molly Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In October 2007, presidential candidate Barack Obama promised a new approach to American foreign policy.  “It’s time to make diplomacy a top priority,” he announced.  “Instead of shuttering consulates, we need to open them in the tough and hopeless corners of the world. Instead of having more Americans serving in military bands than the diplomatic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 11/9/09</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/11/09/weekly-digest-11909/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/11/09/weekly-digest-11909/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since coming to office ten months ago, Panetta&#8217;s boss, Barack Obama, has authorized as many aerial attacks by C.I.A.-operated drone bombers in Pakistan as George Bush did in his final three years.  What does international law say about the death of civilians? [more]
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday urged Iran to accept a [...]]]></description>
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