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If you think the Darien Venture for Scottish settlers to colonise part of the isthmus of Panama and set up a trading hub was only a disaster, think again. Even though nothing about imperial projects is very moral, they’re still windows into many lives. In this case women - Dr Gina Bennett of the University of Arlington at Texas joins Susan Morrison to take us into the worlds of 1690s Scottish female investors, businesswomen and settlers. There’s getting into empire and there’s getting out of it. Samuel Hume at Aberdeen University is researching imperial conferences. What’s one of them? Find out how the British self-governing settler colonies - the dominions like Australia, Canada and New Zealand moved towards full independence with Sam (He’s also a podcaster doing his own history of the British empire at Pax Britannica - https://paxbritannica.info/ ) Finally, the women who would have won ‘Most Wicked Lady in Scotland!’ several years running ha
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Panel: U.S. Began Afghanistan War with Unrealistic Expectations
July 8, 2021 10:50 PM
U.S. Soldiers and contractors load High Mobility Multi-purposed Wheeled Vehicles, HUMVs, to be sent for transport in support of the Resolute Support retrograde mission in Afghanistan on July 13, 2020. US Army Photo
American expectations of what could be achieved in Afghanistan – establishing a democracy by defeating al Qaeda and the Taliban – were too high, and initially too narrowly focused on revenge and justice following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, two national security experts said Thursday.
Over time, the strategy of high ideals to provide governance across the country, broaden educational opportunities for all children, protect women’s rights and build needed infrastructure has shifted “to a policy of negotiations … to get out,” Carter Malkasian, former special assistant to Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford when he was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
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