Sometimes I’m reminded our ambassador to the country that helped us win the Revolutionary War is Charles Kushner, and then I’m upset for a bit.

Who would have known Argentina would have so much trouble battling a remote Atlantic archipelago?

I saw a joke about the requirements of being a founder these days and 2/3 of it was “do you have a substack and a podcast”

One of my least favorite trends is every defense tech idiot starting a substack. "Here's what AI means for national security" - a person who knows about neither "Here's how my five years as a junior officer before business school makes me understand future war" - *gouges eyes out*

The year 2026 and I can’t schedule an appointment with a medical provider until I fax (!!!!!) over notes from my primary care. Kafka would weep.

Huge thanks to WOTR for publishing my article. I'd love to hear your feedback and critiques.

>andreesen >anton Mfw

This is why you can’t have a death penalty, among other reasons. The moral risks of getting it wrong are undefinably high.

I don't know, I may be a convert to LLMs. I wrote a thing, had the LLM take a look, and the interaction back and forth definitely made it better. The LLM came up with a garbage first draft on its own, however. I guess it's the case of "human + LLM" > human > LLM.

Will the real Haywood Hansel please stand up

Interdiction paired with strategic attack against oil like ya read about!

Well yeah, if Watergate happened again it would have gone off without a hitch because no one would have known about it until a year later when Woodward and Bernstein's book came out.

Donahue is best known for his role as 82nd Airborne CG at HKIA during the 2021 Afg evacuation and got commanding Delta Force during the onset of its campaign against ISIS in 2014-15, but here are some other career highlights. On 9/11, he was a captain at the Pentagon, serving as an aide to the…

Al Gea better watch out.

Oh, hey, cracked 400 followers. Welcome, new friends. I'm Eustis Bell, and I like: -Airpower -Wargaming (gaming in general, really) -History (Especially LatAm, Spanish, UK, and American) -Mid-tier low effort online comedy -Democrats and liberalism So whichever brought you here... Welcome!

Nothing says “not a prime” and “disruption” like sponsoring a NASCAR race 🫠 www.anduril.com/news/anduril...

As a contractor w/ 15 years doing assessment, monitoring, & evaluation of US foreign assistance, security cooperation and international development programs I've worked at the Pentagon, the State Dept, and USAID - I'd sat that just about everything Eric Robinson has written here is entirely correct.

Call me crazy, but I don’t think it’s good for civ-mil relations to direct commission tech executives - who help polarize and radicalize Americans and who lean a certain way politically - as O-5s / O-6s in the military.

This is unbelievably good. Eric Robinson both diagnoses the problem and offers a solution for future Democratic foreign policy / defense talent. Read and share widely. @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/no-more-cupb...

Navy Reserve Intelligence direct commissioned Ensigns weren’t enough; we need an arms race to eventually direct commission the CJCS. Slap in the face to everyone who actually volunteers to serve. taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-te...

Mein fuhrer.....steiner.......steiner es gelang nicht genügend Poolfolie zu mobilisieren

In another example of us learning nothing from the war in Afghanistan, we negotiated a peace agreement that is highly contingent on the cooperation of a third actor more interested in continuing the war than upholding an agreement they see as against their interests😑 www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...

This is unbelievably good. Eric Robinson both diagnoses the problem and offers a solution for future Democratic foreign policy / defense talent. Read and share widely. @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/no-more-cupb...

Afghanistan: “Can you believe Pakistan is harboring warlords protected by their intelligence agency?” The U.S.:

“Mother, I've weighed the risks - which I prefer to living in a world dominated by Nazis. Bill" Thank god for Bill and so many more like him (Pic from @profpeterdoyle.bsky.social on X)

Ukraine launches TrophyLab: they are opening access to captured russian weapon technologies for our global partners. Every missile, drone, and vehicle seized on the battlefield is now a source of knowledge for the free world.🧵 1/2 trophylab.mod.gov.ua/en/

kid’s career path from age 18 to 22 went Senate intern -> a16z congressional lobbyist -> founding derivatives exchange fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...

“Detractors might scoff at Musk’s ambition to die on Mars, but at least the dying part would be easy.” — @henrywismayer.bsky.social #mars #spaceexploration #spacex

this is fucking CRAZY

Idk man, Ossoff ads accusing Collins of being a "rich kid" seems a bit too likely to blowback.... Ossoff has probably already reached escape velocity, but I hope the eventual bio acknowledges the whole "son of rich kid, bought way to ownership of company, then ran based on family money"

The U.S. military: “our people our the greatest asset we have” Also U.S. military: only 40% of new people took flu vaccine* *yes I know flu vaccine has relatively low efficacy but these are 18 year olds, just make them get it

“George Washington was a woke idiot which is why he did vaccines for his beta war; also we celebrate REAL American WARRIORS in this 250th year by disregarding centuries of medicine.” I hate everything. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

The irony of US-Israel relations is that the best thing for Israel itself would have been an America that restrained it dramatically. Israel post Oct 7 could have had generational goodwill from the world. All squandered, not to mention all of the crimes committed.

We need an international treaty to ban the use of the word “expert” to describe anyone under the age of say, 45. It’s really disingenuous too, because the only people who typically claim the title or use it are people who should know better.

Text of my letter to the editor of @economist.com here.

It’s always funny to see the media discover decades old concepts like “interdiction.” This is how the USAF would have fought from the start - isolating the battlefield. A Twist in Ukraine’s Drone Campaign Is ‘Really Hurting the Russians’ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

*whispers* tax the rich and use it to fund a social safety net at home and a military to defend liberal democracy abroad

Happy “new Isaac Chotiner” interview day to all who celebrate the ritual humiliation of interview subjects

Paying Anduril to build a CCA with no internal weapons bay is insane. It’s basically MALD for most relevant fights. The entire defense tech movement is filled with so much grift it’s disgusting. Will take years to undo all of the damage. breakingdefense.com/2026/06/air-...

Who cares if his defense was “fiery”? Whether “critics” say it or not, this agreement appears to be significantly less effective than the JCPOA negotiated by President Obama. And what the heck is “even less” doing there? Obama’s deal was very good, and looks even better in retrospect.

whatever happens, the thing that is going to inevitably be true is that netanyahu will have actually made the biggest blunder in israeli foreign policy history

Just insane own goals. Generational errors. Trump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/c...

Indeed. A lot of tech-bro wannabe types who have listened to a podcast on 'Realism 101' and read an AI-generated summary of the 19th century and now think they understand foreign affairs.

There's a kind of "LinkedIn Grand Strategist" disease doing the rounds among the elite where a bunch of people with no background in military affairs or foreign relations convince themselves that there's a hidden Machiavellian brilliance behind transparently stupid moves.

Hypothesis: It is extremely deleterious to the Air Force's intellectual health that it has no actual equivalent to the Naval Institute where junior personnel can write about issues. The dominance of the Mitchell Institute, ruled by the opinions of like three people, puts a brake on thought.

speaking as someone who has worked inside the media for almost my whole career: I think there was a brief, very unusual period when mass media, for all its flaws, created a consensus view of reality shaped, at least in part, by earnest efforts at truth-telling, that is gone forever

I wonder if we'll get similar levels of outrage at the end of the war of choice turned debacle that was Iran as we got over Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan?

Lessons from a great British military disaster - the Fall of Kut. Incoherent policy, a miserly government unwilling to spend on defence, terrible logistics, and underestimating the enemy - sound familiar? Let me know what you think. crackingdefence.substack.com/p/disaster-i...

“We’re going to continue to pollute predominantly black communities to power a racist AI system run by a demagogue, who is also a trillionaire and mass murderer, that we use to do targeting in a war of choice because our objectives make no sense.” Hellscape. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...