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Mark Wilson

@ProfMarkWilson

History professor at UNC Charlotte. Research and writing on history of US military-industrial complex. Now at https://teapawt.net/t.co/Gdt5VFYjaQ

 Charlotte, NC
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Joined August 2012
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Just published, this edited volume has eighteen papers plus discussions from a conference held in January 2023. My essay in it surveys the history of US defense budget reform since the 1940s. bookshop.org/p/books/defense…
Defense Budgeting for a Safer World: The Experts Speak

Defense Budgeting for a Safer World: The Experts Speak

America is facing the most dangerous and complex geopolitical environment since World War II. Ensuring the adequacy and flexibility of our defense budget is essential to keeping our nation secure and...

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Penn Press@PennPress12 Sep 2023
DESTRUCTIVE CREATION by @ProfMarkWilson—which explores the relationship between government and business during WWII military mobilization—is one of dozens of great paperbacks you can get for 50% off during our Back to School Sale! Browse the collection: pennpress.org/back-to-school…
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THE MILITARY AND THE MARKET by @MittelstadtJen & @ProfMarkWilson provides "an excellent analysis of how the United Statea defense establishment shapes, and is shaped by, external economic trends," according to a new review from @Strategy_Bridge. Read more: ow.ly/XCQu50Px1Ak
#Reviewing The Military and the Market

#Reviewing The Military and the Market

Looking beyond more traditionally studied factors such as battlefield tactics, leadership, and military strategy, new studies under the general War and Society umbrella take into account social...

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Certainly it would be fair to suggest that today’s Congress is too polarized and dysfunctional to rise to the challenge.
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At high levels of unionization and low levels of income and wealth inequality. The US-UK WWII model is a better one for present day challenges than Tooze suggests…
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A strange take by Tooze. True, US & UK didn’t do as much “dirty work” of land warfare. But instead they developed and fielded incredible new tech, along with massive output of needed items from government financed, privately operated new plant…
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@adam_tooze16 Jul 2023
Despite fond liberal imaginings, WWII was not won by New Deal or FDR's bomber program. At home USA barely broke sweat. Work of crushing Nazis done by Stalinist SU. If we are "declaring war on climate change", will it be China carrying fight this time? foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/15…
How Climate Change Has Supercharged the Left

How Climate Change Has Supercharged the Left

Global warming could launch socialists to unprecedented power—and expose their movement’s deepest contradictions.

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Replying to @CalumDouglas1 @HarksenNiels
I agree that there should be more work on the history of machine tools, but check out relevant articles by top historians such as Risticcia & Tooze, Phil Scranton, Hermione Giffard, Ross Thomson, David Noble.
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How can we improve conversations between political scientists and historians? See this new H-Diplo roundtable @rosellacappella and I curated, w/ contributions from @secolbourn, @JimGoldgeier, and @JordanMBecker, @BeatriceHeuser, Jeffrey Reynolds, and the late Bear Braumoeller.
Rosella Cappella Zielinski (@rosellacappella) profile pictureRosella Cappella Zielinski@rosellacappella28 Jun 2023
For security studies scholars it's imperative historians & political scientists talk w/each other. The job market, needs of APSIA & PME schools, being a part of the policy process all demand it. @ProfMarkWilson & I got the best of the best together to talk about how to do it
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Replying to @arielronid @RrjohnR @nelsonhist @EnergyHistorian
Have you worked with the micro level returns? search.ancestry.com/search/d…
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Replying to @varma_ashwin97 @EricLiptonNYT
Sounds good. Maybe email me at my UNC Charlotte address to set it up?
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Replying to @varma_ashwin97 @EricLiptonNYT
I'm working on a book about this. One of the most notable changes is the rise of Congressional micromanagement of the defense budget. Also, if you are thinking about long-run shifts in sensibilities, deference to commercial solutions has increased over the decades.
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It’s obvious that you want more agility in defense acquisition. But much of today’s mainstream discourse, including this front page piece by @EricLiptonNYT, fails to do enough to discuss the ways in which the complaints from the smaller firms are misleading and self-serving. 2/2
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What exactly is meant here by “1950s era contracting system”? Let’s please remember that that system created Silicon Valley in the first place, as it developed and fielded hyper-advanced new weapons, such as Polaris, in just a few years. 1/2
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The Pentagon, in our story from today, is struggling to figure out how to rapidly acquire these new warfighting & surveillance tools. It's stuck with a 1950s era contracting system-built around giant prime contractors that generally don't innovate as fast as Silicon Valley types
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Replying to @arielronid
Sorry for the typo. FFRDC. Federally funded research and development corporations. crsreports.congress.gov/prod…
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Replying to @arielronid
Are you going to write it? I would recommend including state and municipal level entities, as well as semi public enterprises such as the public authorities Gail Radford has written about, and FFRFCs, important in the defense sector.
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Replying to @varma_ashwin97 @david_alman @arpitrage
Are you in touch with Charles K. Hyde? He was able to get special access to Chrysler records, and generally knows the terrain.
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Congratulations to the co-winners of the Hagley Book Prize Hannah Farber and Alejandro Gómez del Moral #bizhis #BHC2023 @UnivNebPress @UNC_Press thebhc.org/hagley
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Last #BHC2023 sessions on #bizhis #war #professions #clusters and more starts at 🕛 4:30 pm on 📅 Saturday 18. RT if you see your name here, and post your thoughts if you attend any of these sessions. We would love to hear from you!
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Great lineups on Saturday at #BHC2023 with panels on #business and the #regulation, #sellinghistory, #state, #megaprojects and much more 📅Saturday March 18 2023 🕗8 am - 9:30 More programming here thebhc.org/meeting-program/3…
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Penn Press@PennPress9 Mar 2023
LISTEN: @MittelstadtJen, @ProfMarkWilson, and @KaraDixonVuic discuss the new edited volume THE MILITARY AND THE MARKET with @jessicaannlevy on the @WhoMakesCents podcast: ow.ly/izbf50NeLZx
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