Many others have already dunked on this extreme poor op-ed from someone who should know better... So let me pile on.

My "Littoral Commander Baltic" #wargame is featured in Yaah! magazine! What a delightful surprise. 😁

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Academia is a wonderfully strange place where you might hear, "this is a great piece of research that will make a big splash," and "it's just that I think it's all wrong," as one, unbroken sentence. Anyway, I've survived my prelim defense and am now ABD.

SO... democracies and war. It's easy to imagine that democracies, with all of their inefficiencies, are somehow hampered when it comes to war. It's perfectly logical when you consider that unity of effort and unity of command are principles of war invoked by doctrine & military maxims.

Military forces designed by authoritarian regimes are optimized for authoritarian purposes. They aren’t dumb. They didn’t get into power by accident. They may be ruthless, immoral, or evil… but not dumb. So their force design and management should not be dismissed as just budget restraints.

The French Army's Wargaming Bureau has some EXCELLENT taste in #wargames. Not biased at all by the fact they feature two of my games from the "Littoral Commander" series. 😁 🎲 💥

Fun side fat about this race: Rep-Elect Gregory was a military spouse… married to a West Point classmate and fellow cavalryman (and great guy)

“Tactical friend with benefits”

Exogenous Shocks and Brittle Systems: 🧵 A thread that is not about what you think it's about, nor is it about the other thing you're now thinking of.

Welcoming an incredible scholar and friend to the BSky, @nechamahuba.bsky.social Nechama’s research is in the political psychology of radicalization, intelligence operations, and other security/peace/conflict studies. Welcome her with a follow

My "Littoral Commander: Baltic" #wargame is featured in Defense News! www.defensenews.com/global/europ...

Let’s just call this the A.I.Pak Hands program. mwi.westpoint.edu/the-army-bui...

This list should 100% include "Littoral Commander: Baltic Edition" Great for kids E-1 to O-10 www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/mil...

Now available! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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My "Littoral Commander: Baltic" in Germany! LET'S GO!

Finally, the Catholicism I remember from 12 years of Catholic school

My "Littoral Commander: Baltic" #wargame is featured in Defense News! www.defensenews.com/global/europ...

I’m pretty mid… better polish off the ol’ resume…

🪖 NEW ARTICLE 🪖 Since the creation of functional areas for Army officers, there has been the dual worries about a “brain drain” of talent from combat branches and a concern that officers are “quiet quitting” in “easier” billet… so which is it? warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/fun...

Just to keep the record straight, yes, it was. The Baathist regime was killing tens of thousands of Iraqi Kurds and Shia in horrific attacks. After needlessly attacking Kuwait and sacrificing tens of thousands of their people. After needlessly attacking Iran sacrificing tens of thousands.

What the hell is the National Guard doing?!?!?! Everyone knows the active duty force trains for this exact mission every Red Cycle. Get these amateurs out of here and let’s get a Battalion of OPERATION Clean Sweep veterans for this vital mission.

I’m no historian but… Was the negotiation in Carthage just haggling over the price of salt? Was the negotiation in Berlin “who’s gonna put this shallow ditch out? It’s on fire with Hitler in it” It seems like there’s a serious knowledge gap here.

Calling All Army Functional Area Officers!!! If you have 5 quick minutes (even on your phone) could you answer this short survey about how functional areas impacted your mid-career decisions to stay or leave the Army. duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Important perspective from @risabrooks12.bsky.social, one of the sharpest civ-mil experts around. The military can't save democracy, but in my judgment they can and should save their profession by defending its values.

The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million preapproved dollars intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure, according to documents obtained by The Post.

Is anyone else expecting Putin to open a second front declaring the longstanding and traditional status of Alaska as Russian territory and launching a deNazification campaign?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t the “Border Tsar” on CNN saying ICE was detaining people using “physical appearance” as being “reasonable suspicion” of a crime? Man, that’d be an embarrassing example of hypocrisy… www.cnn.com/2025/07/13/p...

Besides the hilarity of Derek Guy’s response, “Alex” and his ilk bother me. They want Derek to not comment on matters outside his narrow expertise but have elected football coaches into high office. Which is it?

Gentle souls, This movie is LITERALLY shown in the Defense Nuclear Weapons School’s course on Nuclear Policy. But considering how many tropes from post-apocalyptic movies we’re all now living through, I’ll forgive you if you don’t have it in you to imagine this nightmare too.

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As always, I’m eager to hear @proftalmadge.bsky.social ‘s thoughts on this development. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...

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A reminder: military build up in the face of threats is not a way to make an adversary “docile”. It is a way to credible signal to that adversary that you are going to increase the costs of aggression. Particularly with the hope that the cost will seem too high and the adversary won’t invade.

More evidence that US efforts to coerce China in a Taiwan conflict by closing Straits of Malacca unlikely to be successful www.wsj.com/world/china/...

6 figures is a rounding error to the Federal Budget. It’s less money than the $6 million (7 figures!) the government obligates every single minute of every single day, all year long. An unelected bureaucrat put that over children’s lives, without shame or remorse.

“Adversaries will see this hasty withdraw as yet another example of flagging American will.” -NYT, or Foreign Affairs, or maybe The Onion. Who can tell at this point.

This is basically my issue with Western policy on Ukraine. There’s no consideration on how the Russians fear us and how we can use that to our advantage. The conversation is only ever about Russian escalation.

Okay, just in case this happens, I’m publicly laying claim to the new theory about comedy overcoming authoritarianism. President Colbert 2028?

So I’m no economist, but if you have a supposedly high-end luxury good and you think an extremely inexpensive substitute is cutting into your sales then you’re item/brand isn’t worth the $100 markup as a signal of conspicuous consumption. Apropos of nothing, I’m really like my new Kirkland pants

Listen, I love Mexican Coke as much as the next guy, but if you’re trying to re-shore industries and appeal to a rural, domestic base, how does cutting a major consumer of US corn products and shifting their purchases to a resource that the US does not have a comparative advantage in?

I am no legal scholar (re: earlier posts) but as a card carrying political scientist, this does not end well regardless of the judge’s sentencing decision. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

With emergency ruling issued that confuse constitutional scholars, but ordered without outlining any logic or reasoning, it is only a matter of time that people begin to ask if certain members of the judiciary are implicated in the Epstein files.