What is maddening about this debate is that citation practices are not just about AI hallucinations. Scholars should be familiar with the ongoing conversations in their fields. Citations aren't throwaway padding. They are about matters of methodology, ethics, and care. 🛢1/2

Read the article here! @mitpress.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @intsecurity.bsky.social

I enjoyed being on the Generals of WWII Podcast with John Viscardo for a discussion of the Battle of Guadalcanal. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/3UM5...

Looking forward to delivering the opening remarks at the @usni.org annual meeting this afternooon. www.usni.org/events/ameri...

Happy Mother’s Day.

some wisdom from james wilson, framer. "The truth is that, in our governments, the supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power remains in the people."

Nice to see this article in War on the Rocks make effective use of my book Learning War. The article follows my analysis of the battle very closely.

there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

Brilliant!

What’s better than 1 Boyd podcast this week? How about 2? I was happy to join the MCA “Scuttlebutt” team as they focus on the Commandant’s Reading List to discuss “A New Conception of War” from MCUP: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2... youtu.be/VgOPzQmUWVQ?...

Ok on a serious note, it cannot be exaggerated how bad formalized Iranian control of the Strait is for the world. The entire global economy rests on an American guarantee of free commercial shipping. That guarantee is gone. We don’t know exactly what will happen but none of it will be good.

A weakness of a good deal of analysis is that it applies Clausewitz's maxim that "war is the continuation of policy by other means" externally—to international relations—and not to internal politics. To understand the U.S. administration's approach, I think the latter is essential.

No humans have ever seen this before.. a total solar eclipse seen from the far side of the moon! #ArtemisII

Depluralize a movie. The Magnificent.

Sportsball! What a comeback.

My book is on sale! Cornell University Press has a 40% off & free shipping sale right now during the @smh-historians.bsky.social Annual Meeting. Enter 09EXP40 for the sale price. @cornellupress.bsky.social @bethanywasik.bsky.social

Really appreciate this explanation for how to make a course more engaging and valuable.

TFW an anonymous reader of something you wrote describes the scholarship as "excellent."

In addition to @bafriedman.bsky.social’s excellent thread yesterday on fundamentals of the MEU, let me offer a starter pack of readings on amphibious warfare in general and #USMC ops in particular. And as I have told others on this site: do the reading. There is no substitute.

I liked it better when it was comedy...

This is of course broader than just legal writing. Having just finished writing a second book, the friction was not typing the words, nor was it figuring out which words to say what I wanted to say. It was figuring out what I wanted to say in the first place.

If you're anywhere near Kalamazoo, join us tomorrow with @bretdevereaux.bsky.social to campus to discuss "The Appearance of Accuracy: The Perils of Historical Verisimilitude and the Public's Understanding of History." This is the 1st of 4 lectures for our dept this year on Public & Ancient History.

My first @thetls.bsky.social byline! But I’m afraid it’s for a book that will infuriate most historians. (That’s why you can read almost all of the review in the preview - you probably didn’t want to read 1500 words of my head exploding.)

I served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Education and Training for three years before the office was disestablished last year. I owned the policy on professional military education for all five services. I have listened to Secretary Hegseth's announcement. I have thoughts. 🧵

Historical analogies are dangerous, but the way the Iran war has developed reminds me of the final stages of World War II in the Pacific and poor U.S. understanding of Imperial Japan’s calculus for a negotiated peace. 1/n

*sobs*

every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

Can’t help rhetorically asking if these were “known unknown” projectiles or “unknown unknown” projectiles. IYKYK…

There’s a great authoritative study out there on the Japanese use of small suicide boats (think Kamikaze on the water) during the Okinawa campaign. Even with total “sea control” a few motivated individuals in small boats can make a mess of things.

New episode just posted (featuring @honer.bsky.social):

MCUP read my mind, restocking “Snowmobiles and Grand Ideals” just as my first box ran out! It’s the definitive John Boyd—600 pages of him in his own words that you won’t find anywhere else. Download for free here: www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/... Order here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

In my research on Admiral King and his influence on JCS decision making in WWII, one thing that leapt out was his regret of a public announcement of unconditional surrender because of how it constrained the Allied approach to war termination. One can only wonder that he would think of this.

My latest at The Atlantic on why the US using up so much of its missile inventory on a war we didn't need is going to have downstream consequences. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The launch event chaired by @dmorganowen.bsky.social hosted at St. Andrews University, will feature presentations from contributors and @draefox.bsky.social for the book Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict. #firstworldwar #WWI #militaryhistory #upkansas

War is a continuation of betting-market price discovery by other means.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 181015: If you're feeling creatively exhausted, then fill your tank with creative things. Read books. Watch films. See plays. Listen to music. Look at art. Remind yourself what creativity means to you.

Was nice to come home to this the other day. #NavalHistory

Not even close...

The “Games of War” hybrid conference at the University of Gdansk is approaching on 24 Feb. I’m honored to be talking about how military educational #wargames can incorporate lessons from Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine. Info and registration here: gamesofwar.ug.edu.pl

Excited to be sharing thoughts about the Tenth Fleet and the development of ASW in the US Navy in World War II at the WNHA Symposium aboard USS Midway this morning.

Day 2 of the Western #Naval #History Symposium. This line up is superb 🙌

A few thoughts on possible US-Iran conflict (1/11):

Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

Sunset over Bamburgh, 2016, photo by north-east photographer Sophie Henderson.

"Both elected branches seem to have grown uninterested in making political...arguments to the American people, & rely on both active-duty & retired officers to do it for them. Ms. Schake rightly warns that this practice undermines their long-term interest in political supremacy over the military."

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college Nagarjuna to Nishitani Soils Soren Kierkegaard From Blues to Rock Sanskrit (loved it)

Caught myself telling the youngest this morning, “There’s much more to life than the internet.”

Helmand, July 2009. Danish soldiers resting after 8 hours of breaching minefields and clearing houses. Seconds later, I had to wake them to move forward again. To claim allies weren't on the front lines is a lie and an insult to those who served and lost. We stepped up. That's what allies do.