The next installment of the Kill the Corps series is still coming but I’m not sure when. This case is a beast and it’ll easily be twice as long of a post or more.

Every time I hear folks complain that Livy is boring, I just shake my head. Livy is fantastic. I just did a quick (partial) inventory of land allotments in Roman colonies, entirely from Livy who records the specific allotment sizes for at least 14 Roman colonial settlements in Italy. Data!

I’ve been walking around all day chuckling to myself about this perfect joke.

Hegelly Blonde

I want to clarify for all the commenters who clearly don’t have experience with modern combat. It’s extremely complex and few people have a view of the entire context of a mission.

Starting to think this whole thing was planned for Army SOF to gain some rep back after America watched Nancy Wheeler and Jim Hopper merc like a company worth of Army SOF in the Upside Down like it was nothing.

You want civilian control of the military in a democracy. Well, this is it. Elect better civilians. You want the military to be part of the checks and balances? That’s a praetorian guard.

Never bet against the USAF when it comes to air defense. Just don’t.

Well at least we can reset the tracker for all the “but we haven’t done an amphibious operation since 1951” clowns.

Time to reup the real National Security Strategy:

Xi Jinping watching the U.S. squander its power but also another example of a regime security focused military being totally useless.

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¿Qué está haciendo la defensa aérea?

High-end Russian air defense trying to stop an air assault that was telegraphed three months ago.

Fixed it.

This is a good write up of what we're seeing in mechanized warfare in Ukraine with good recommendations for the Army. But really, if the Army wants to avoid that kind of fight, they should be asking for a bigger Air Force. warontherocks.com/2026/01/why-...

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Nancy Wheeler’s arc is instructive. If shooting first and asking questions later causes problems, just keep doing it until it works. Persistence and commitment are the keys to success.

“I just don’t think the Alabamans can do it.” Colonel John Wilder at Chickamauga, 1863 and Coach Curt Cignetti at Pasadena, 2026.

Army group center put up more of a fight than Alabama is

We haven't seen an Indiana squad turn back an Alabama offense this decisively since Antietam

Good day to set a goal for the year.

The folks watching Mamdani getting sworn in.

40 days, one hour, and eight minutes until Spring Training

To do what? Yes, these deployments were awful but they were also a waste of time for units that should be training to do real shit. Don’t waste their time again for some revenge fantasy.

Me watching this game as someone raised to hate Michigan but married into a family raised to hate Texas.

This lives in my head rent free forever.

This.

congratulations to [everyone who has ever poked the bear Liberalism], the bear is very sleepy and hard to wake up but also good goddamn are you gonna wish she stayed asleep

You know you’re getting old when you see your favorite band in this context.

When China literally calls themselves the aggressors, it’s very important you listen.

its not sephiroth posting. its kefka posting. most of the time its kefka posting

Mamdani will be sworn in in the station that inspired the Turtles lair in TMNT 2: The Secret Of The Ooze

Navies are too small to do their traditional scientific exploration mission and at least one army is busy trying to convince everyone oceans are just blue land.

Alaric to the Visigoths in 410

Me opening this app and seeing the Bismarck skeet and immediately leaving.

I’ll do it because while all these bands had perfect albums and there are a lot of perfect that decade the Black Album is the best perfect album of the ‘90s.

“Write like you talk.” Absolutely not. They are different media and need to be approached differently.

The more I think about this battleship the more I think it’s a shiny distraction to keep attention away from the LSM and the frigate, both of which can be built in the near term. Some of these weapons don’t exist yet except on paper. No ship ever built could power all of these.

I’m very tired.

The Marine Corps when OPNAV and DoN will be too busy fighting over the trim on useless battleships to screw up the LSM.

The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense force working on railguns instead of modular gold-plated hulls.

LCS 2: Lost in New York

Apropos of nothing, a time when we tried to fix a genuine problem (not enough ships) by buying anachronistic ships. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squadro...

I’m on leave for the holidays and I shouldn’t have looked at this app I should have just started drinking instead.

Go Indiana.

If this is true, I know a lot of folks think the U.S. won’t fight just because the current POTUS wouldn’t want to and boy is that take really, really wrong.

rise and grind