Christopher A. Lawrence is a professional historian and military analyst. He is the Executive Director and President of The Dupuy Institute, an organization dedicated to scholarly research and objective analysis of historical data related to armed conflict and the resolution of armed conflict. The Dupuy Institute provides independent, historically-based analyses of lessons learned from modern military experience.
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Mr. Lawrence was the program manager for the Ardennes Campaign Simulation Data Base, the Kursk Data Base, the Modern Insurgency Spread Sheets and for a number of other smaller combat data bases. He has participated in casualty estimation studies (including estimates for Bosnia and Iraq) and studies of air campaign modeling, enemy prisoner of war capture rates, medium weight armor, urban warfare, situational awareness, counterinsurgency and other subjects for the U.S. Army, the Defense Department, the Joint Staff and the U.S. Air Force. He has also directed a number of studies related to the military impact of banning antipersonnel mines for the Joint Staff, Los Alamos National Laboratories and the Vietnam Veterans of American Foundation.
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His published works include papers and monographs for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and the Vietnam Veterans of American Foundation, in addition to over 40 articles written for limited-distribution newsletters and over 60 analytical reports prepared for the Defense Department. He is the author of Kursk: The Battle of Prokhorovka (Aberdeen Books, Sheridan, CO., 2015), America’s Modern Wars: Understanding Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam (Casemate Publishers, Philadelphia & Oxford, 2015), War by Numbers: Understanding Conventional Combat (Potomac Books, Lincoln, NE., 2017) , The Battle of Prokhorovka (Stackpole Books, Guilford, CT., 2019), The Battle for Kyiv (Frontline Books, Yorkshire, UK, 2023), Aces at Kursk (Air World, Yorkshire, UK, 2024), Hunting Falcon: The Story of WWI German Ace Hans-Joachim Buddecke (Air World, Yorkshire, UK, 2024) and The Siege of Mariupol (Frontline Books, Yorkshire, UK, 2024).
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Mr. Lawrence lives in northern Virginia, near Washington, D.C., with his wife and son.
Is this the start of thought control in the United States?
Is this the end of thought control in the United States?
It’s just the new team’s agenda of thought control for America. The new dog is peeing on the hydrant.
That was the last four years. Try doing intelligent historical analysis with people who think the American Revolution was a plot by racists to perpetuate slavery. 😉
Q: Was the American Revolution a plot by racists to perpetuate slavery?
A: Only in part, by some plotters.
In order to get beyond merely pointing fingers, what do you think about the following approach to countering some of the effects of what some of the plotters partially put in place in order to perpetuate slavery (with those plotters having seen “the writing on the walls” concerning the anti-slavery direction of sentiment within the British Parliament)?
Racial Reconciliation Recommendation
General Prescription to counter Original Sin (archery term for hitting short of the target):
1. admit that the mark was missed
2. accept the just punishment of sinner or scapegoat (i.e. accept justice or accept mercy)
3. repent (i.e. stop missing the mark)
4. restore (i.e. undo the damage)
Specific Prescription to counter “America’s Original Sin” (referring to institutional/constitutional aiming short of the philosophical target of all mankind being created equal, such that operationally “all men are created equal, but some men are created less equal than others”):
1. admit that the founding father’s compromising on the issue of slavery in order to constitute a single nation from a collection of slave-holding and non-slavery colonies was a mistake (it missed the mark)
2. accept past/present/future deaths from civil war, abortion, pandemic, etc. as just or accept The Great Exchange as merciful transferring of punishment to The Scapegoat
3. repent by treating all men as having been created equal (a step that began with the abolishing of slavery in America)
4. restore opportunities to descendants of slaves through some sort of restorative justice that might involve transferring of government lands and/or other resources (such as government income from lumber and/or mineral extraction fees) to descendants of slaves (making sure that the transferring of government lands and/or other resources doesn’t preclude restorative justice in the case of tribal treaty violations)
By the way, feel free to replace “restore opportunities to” with “repair situation of” — I used “restore” because it links well with “restorative justice” though I realize that “repair” allows for more flexibility to redress the problem in a way that goes beyond just giving back something that was taken (i.e. there may be interest due and there might be secondary effects of the original sin that also have to be redressed, including psychological and spiritual effects that have been passed through generations). Also, consider the distribution, to state citizens, of government income from fees paid by mineral extraction companies to the State of Alaska as an example of the kind of mechanism that could be created in order to accomplish the restorative redistribution by the Federal Government. Finally, it isn’t that difficult to identify descendants of slaves; especially, with the progress made in ancestry research through analysis of DNA (Georgetown University didn’t have difficulty in identifying the descendants of the several hundred slaves that the University had “sold down river” to Louisiana in 1838).
N.B.: “Q: Was the American Revolution a plot by racists to perpetuate slavery?
A: Only in part, by some plotters…”
-A long answer, but you only point out that slavery continued as it had before in many of the colonies. At no point do you address the fact that the only step any Loyalists took to end slavery were steps to turn slaves into cannon fodder (e.g., Lord Dunsmore). No territory that remained part of the Empire abolished slavery during the course of the war, while Vermont and Massachusetts actually abolished slavery. Pennsylvania abolished slavery for most, with eventual liberation for the remainder. At no point do you show that anyone actually fought the Revolution in order to perpetuate slavery.
As for reparations, 1) Statute of Limitations; 2) Qui Bono? Every slave is dead. Every slaveowner is dead. Even their children are dead, as far as I can tell.
VR,
James D. Glick
PO1, USNR (ret.)
Clarksville, TN
Does 4-a-iii mean that the Dept. of the Interior should include the following as part of its descriptive/depictive focus: the beauty, abundance, and grandeur of “brownfields” and other polluted landscapes?