Need a second new book for the new month? Then check out the definitive John Boyd—“Snowmobiles and Grand Ideal” w/ @osinga.bsky.social, also from MCUP: Order: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... Download: www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Mar...

Need a new book for a new month? Check out “A New Conception of War” on John Boyd, the #Marines, & maneuver warfare. If you’re in the #USMC reading it counts toward #PME as it’s on the CMC’s Reading List! Order: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... Download: www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Mar...

Ok here it is, with enough of the weekend left for people to read it. Kill the Corps V: The Battle of the Potomac. bafriedman.substack.com/p/kill-the-c...

Excited to learn that my abstract “Teaching the Tryzub: Lessons from Ukraine in Military Educational Games” has been accepted for the “Games of War” conference hosted by University of Gdansk! It’s on Feb. 24, online, and registration is free. gamesofwar.ug.edu.pl

Well…it’s gonna be an uphill battle in two weeks #NEPats

WE’RE GOING TO THE SUPER BOWL #NEpats

We are doing this the hardest way possible #NEPats

Our D is on lock but God our offense looks like @$$. Figure it out at halftime boys #NEPats

About f***ing time #NEPats

WTF are we doing #NEPats

Alright sportsball, make me happy. #NEPats

“Our country was founded on law enforcement.” Founding Fathers: “Ackshually…”

This isn’t hell but you can see it from here.

I’d bet even money one of those fuck-sticks mishandled and accidentally discharged his own weapon, and then the rest of the fuck-sticks responded by mag-dumping their own weapons.

So I always like to go "What would have happened had a Marine done this in Afghanistan" and it's so obvious in this case as to make the exercise moot.

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Left: NATO fatalities in Afghanistan. Right: Coalition fatalities in Iraq. Some of us, at least, remember.

Maybe not my all-time worst, but definitely up there: As a fanciful flight of imagination, it’s pretty entertaining. As a work of history, it’s utterly unmoored from anything approaching an evidentiary standard.

This is a fun game, I’ll play. Most recent entry on my personal list: a book audacious in its effort to tie John Boyd to every US military problem since Vietnam without ever consulting the Boyd archives in Quantico.

This map only makes sense if you believe that: -Russia has an ICBM base in Ukraine -Russia has ICBM bases in Kazakhstan -Russia would fire all its nukes at a single American city -Russia has no ballistic missile submarines Other than that, 10/10, no notes.

Boy, when you’ve lost racist crackpot Bill Lind, you really have lost middle America:

The Broncos really did offer a human sacrifice to utterly destroy the Bills.

That was a sloppy game and our offense looked asleep in the first half, but that might be the best defensive play we’ve turned in all season. On to Denver! #NEPats

Or not.

Man this is a sloppy game. Need to get points off these turnovers. #NEPats

I said this many times but we are not paying Marcus Jones nearly enough money #NEPats

Yup.

Love the #USCG flyover. They’re the only ones who can fly in this weather. Respect. #NEPats

It literally took a human sacrifice to knock Josh Allen out of the playoffs 😳

I remember the Danes at Camp Bastion. & the British. & the Aussies & Kiwis. & the Georgians. & anyone who went through Kandahar remembers the Canadians. As our Marines fought there & died, each contingent fought there & died too. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec... www.marines.mil/News/News-Di...

My game #LittoralCommander: #SpaceForce is available for presale dietzfoundation.org/product/litt...

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Maneuver warfare starter kit part 3: when you’re done reading, #wargame the concepts in my card game from @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social, designed to capture maneuver warfare & modern conflict while fitting in your cargo pocket: #USMC #Marines dietzfoundation-org.square.site/product/mane...

Maneuver warfare starter kit part 2: there was much more to John Boyd’s than what the @USMC absorbed. For the first time in print form, get Boyd’s ideas on competition and survival in his own words from @MC_UPress. Download: www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Mar... Order: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Maneuver warfare starter kit part 1: “A New Conception of War” from @mcupress & on the @usmc_commandant Reading List since 2019! Learn about @marines intellectual reform after Vietnam & how John Boyd influenced it. Download: www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Mar... Order: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

New year, new chance to grab your own maneuver warfare starter kit! Read the history, dig into the concepts behind the history, then play the game! #MCUP @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social #USMC #Marines

Not pretty but a W is a W. LFG #NEpats

Rewatching the #Solo movie, found a fun Easter egg that’s some deep lore. Lando talks about winning a moon “in the Oseon belt,” which of course is where two of the “Lando Calrissian Adventure” novels take place.

Not sure the fire-eaters are taking into consideration the fact that because Greenland is part of Denmark, it has access to the most powerful set of both fixed and scatterable obstacles known to man (H/T to others):

There are some bangers here: @bafriedman.bsky.social @walkerdm.bsky.social @honer.bsky.social @heatheratacts.bsky.social @joannasiekierska.bsky.social @iantb.bsky.social @warinthefuture.bsky.social www.military.com/feature/2025...

Co-authored by fellow officers from my squadron is this latest piece for @usniproceedings.bsky.social, "Wargaming Beyond the Battlefield." In this piece, we share how we used traditional #wargaming tools to assess COAs for changing the #USMC comms occfield: www.usni.org/WargamingBey...

My thanks to John Bicknell & the Cognitive Crucible for the chance to talk about my new book! His first question about how I saw the current strategic landscape hit hard. Answer? It needs Boyd’s strategic perspective. Desperately, urgently, immediately. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I’ve said it a lot, I’d have been happy with breaking .500 this season after the debacles of the last few years. Going from last year’s dumpster fire to the #2 seed? Unreal. #NEPats

Hi, I’m sandstorm.

#YearInReview on this episode of the #NoWayOut podcast, I discussed many previously unpublished insights from the transcripts of John Boyd, to include correcting erroneous narratives about what he did or didn’t say: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...