Not everyday an American triple ace is laid to rest at Arlington. Fair winds, Bud Anderson! www.dvidshub.net/news/561597/...

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

Parody is dead as a genre.

We have a naval campaign for key maritime terrain being run by Army strategists using the Air Force.

The Maginot Line worked as intended.

I had the opportunity to learn about the much anticipated COMAO #wargame. The miniatures are beautiful when painted and the ability to fit aircraft with different load outs is great! But I think it misses the increased range/scale of modern air warfare. Good for commercial play.

A ballistic missile slug fest is now considered “asymmetric” warfare. We’ve really lost the plot entirely.

This is just more gizmo cult shit In big boy war against an opponent with missiles you lose planes on the ground, this is why you don't do dumb big boy wars of choice against opponents with missiles, but there's nothing you can do to avoid it and really only a couple things to somewhat mitigate it

It’s a simple math problem. 1) finite ramp space 2) the farther away you are the more fuel you burn getting there so less fuel to offload / more gas you need The USAF does not want to put aircraft in ground threat rings, but it’s trying to accomplish whatever it is it’s trying to accomplish.

Losing any aircraft on the ground demands inquiry. AWACS are not easily replaceable (read: basically impossible to replace). That being said, AWACS are not that valuable in many potential fights. They’re old. We really need E-7, but in the pacing AOR we have an ally with E-7s.

What is it about small robots that makes people lose their fucking minds? Is the real UAS payload the death of critical thinking?

It’s interesting to reflect back on how big media is basically always wrong about war. Some writers are incisive, but they’re drowned out by the volume of mediocre or wholly wrong takes.

It is insane how long it takes to get through some phone trees. Would kill to have a person just answer the phone.

Praying for our friends deployed to PSAB in this war. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

I don’t know man, some Wehrmacht generals told me in July of ‘41 that tactics could overcome all. “Victories are enough,” was the exact quote?

An alternative vision is maybe the joint staff finally realized carriers aren’t useful in that fight so they don’t care? (This is facetious, but also most people’s mental models about carriers in a Taiwan fight are wrong)

I mean to be clear the USAF has been trying to figure out how to generate combat power from *within* WEZs. All of those concepts basically assume you will suffer losses on the ground, but you’re hopefully able to minimize them, complicate adversary targeting, and still gen up airpower.

“too much American strategic thinking is entrapped by the seductive belief that if the opening barrage is violent enough, the enemy’s coherence will unravel on schedule. Iran has spent decades developing the ability to deny that outcome.”

My experience was seeing eminently polite 19 year olds who looked like they had no idea what they were supposed to be doing.

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy.

Remember when USPS had a contract to buy a fleet of EVs and Trump made them cancel it and go back to gas?

One of the issues I see with LLMs is it makes it easier to get "answers" to a given question. However, the "seduction of answers" makes it less likely people will spend the time ensuring they're asking the right questions in the first place.

Fascinating that the attacking group blurred out the red cross indicating that it’s a medevac bird (you can still tell from the winglets and nose bump that it’s an HH-60M)

I find this article tone deaf. We haven’t even buried all the Americans killed in this war.

Krugman does a recap on the insider trading yesterday open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Horrible situation all around. My heart breaks for everyone involved.

You could read terrible op eds by people who should know better, or you can read some good humor by @duffelblog.com that actually cuts to the heart of the issue. www.duffelblog.com/strait-of-ho...

Military bases need to adopt new urbanism - on base housing should be 2000 sqft in a 3 story single stair walk up with a px <10 minutes away by foot

I think a popular take on here is that the US military neglected to learn from the War in Ukraine -- this is categorically false. The real questions are "what should we learn from Ukraine" and "how" and "can we cut across our internal politics to implement those lessons?"

The Reckoning is an incredible book.

It’s…probably not a warcrime. Most industry and infrastructure has some element of dual use. It could be immoral, it could be in the context of an illegal war, but it is not definitively a warcrime without additional context.

yeah, i think this is the key problem--how do get information to flow in a practical, functional way between (narrow) professionals and (political) generalists

Yes and no. Certainly national strategy writ large should not be driven by DoD. However, there is also totally a class of “strategists” who have no clue how elements of modern warfare work. Those people are *also* dangerous. You need either some tactical knowledge or real humility.

I’m not going to not take the metro in DC, but having last ridden the subway in a generic European city, it is almost eye watering how slow our capital’s public transit is.

Idk man, I don’t think the military should advertise videos of destruction and people dying. I wish we took a higher road, regardless of the context of the overall conflict.

Best two day food bender in DC? Debating between brunch and dinner vs. breakfast / lunch / dinner. + the choices themselves?

Looking forward to future history teachers using this as a primary source to demonstrate literal insanity.

Breaking: Elon Musk defrauded Twitter investors when he disparaged the company in 2022 in an effort to buy the social media platform for a lower price than his original $44 billion bid, a jury concluded

SMCI down 12% after hours. How much more can the stock market take?!?! www.wsj.com/tech/super-m...

That's the stuff.

Daily reminder that airplanes are not invincible. Threats are many and layered. MANPADs can reach surprisingly high altitudes; AAA is similar. And this is all in addition to “traditional” threats like a SAM. Probability of hit can be misleading when viewed relative to number of engagements.

A NATO ally - whose soldiers died alongside ours in Afghanistan - preparing to blow up runways, sending blood, and readying to fight a delaying action against…..us. Our national humiliation continues unabated.

This graph is making the rounds on the world's dumbest website, LinkedIn, peddled by "innovators" and "strategists." It ostensibly shows how the U.S. has designed little in the past several years except LUCAS. What it doesn't show - because it doesn't fit the story - is how so much *has* changed.

The real, real, real problem with PME is the average officer is pretty dumb and hasn’t read a book in a decade plus. You can’t fix that with a year long course. Not everyone gets into a civilian MA program, and for good reason.

Standing up to ICE requires physical courage. Standing up to Ryan Grim requires moral courage.