“To prosecute a serial killer would send a dangerous message—what if others began to fear they too could be prosecuted?”

You can tell the difference between the idle chatters and the true believers because only the real heads will allow you to take all of their worldly possessions in preparation

Hey! I did it! I wrote about national security! The thing I allegedly write about! othermeans.substack.com/p/going-down...

JUSTINIAN, to Belisarius: "You're still trying to replace the province of Italia. I told you we can't do it. But we can rebuild it in the aggregate."

I remember Lincoln was more or less a self-taught autodidact when it came to strategy and genuinely could be ranked alongside some of them in terms of his strategy: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/linc...

Wow. Finally, someone answered the question of what the Gettysburg Address would have been like if everyone involved had lead poisoning.

bethesda was really cooking with skyrim

Vermont is America’s Kunar. It’s just full of super independent weirdos who’s identity is based on the valley they happen to live in.

I’m not using my free will to its full potential. I can just say I stopped a conflict between DPR and France. You don’t see a conflict? Well I stopped it, of course you don’t see it

All the Taliban fighters who were bored their office jobs after winning hearing about the Bagram news:

The idea of forcefully retaking Bagram is so crazy because if would basically be a recreation of the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ except with the added modifier that your enemies also have all the thermal optics you left behind

Elon Musk did this

This is like if Confucius had written the Analects on crack cocaine right after his girlfriend dumped him.

Laura Loomer has manically been tweeting about the NCTC for the past 12 hours. I would like to take this time to congratulate the NCTC as this is the first time in its history where it has ever been relevant.

“We’re paratroopers lieutenant, we’re supposed to be surrounded” No not like that

The funny thing about invading Afghanistan to seize Bagram is that it would probably be one of the most legally compliant things Trump has done so far thanks to the fact that the 2001 AUMF is still in effect.

Yeah, We’ll spend a massive amount of money and tie up half of all of our airlift capabilities to keep an air bridge open to support a brigade minus that is struggling to maintain security at an single airfield to create some content for Pete Hegseth’s “Department of War” X page.

Reason number 5728 to build up the European military industrial base www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

I wonder what the brilliant game-plan is for Bagram. We just jump in then…what? Hang out and take IDF all day long?

Beyond being performative premeditated killings, US strikes in the Caribbean are intended to serve a coercive function, including against VZ. Expect the Trump admin is trying coerce greater cooperation on deportations. At the same time, direct strikes on VZ would jeopardize current cooperation.

Mediocre American programmers reading the new H-1B rules

Phenomenology Friday “But since, on the contrary, we are in and toward the world, and since even our reflections take place in the temporal flow that they are attempting to capture … there is no thought that encompasses all of our thought.”

"The people" don't know what that flag is, and will default to assuming you're protesting the cancellation of Firefly.

Oh, is it time to get back to blinkinposting?

We could have been sending JDAMs to Ukraine and instead we’re all arguing about Jimmy Kimmel. This really must have been what the collapse of Rome felt like.

We’re reaching levels of deep concern previously unseen before

This seems like as good a time as any to point out that basically nobody of any rank believes me when I tell them SPACECOM is a geographic combatant command, not a functional command.

Huh. I recall being told by Republicans that concentrating on defending Taiwan was why Trump hung Ukraine out to dry.

The best OPSEC advice comes from random strangers on the internet.

Something the man @mikeduncan.bsky.social will tell you at great and entertaining length is how long it takes for revolts to get off the ground, how often they fail, and how hard it is to predict exactly when they’ll pop off. Slowly and then all at once is a good rule.

"But Afghanistan is in Asia" The Middle East is whatever CENTCOM's AOR is, I don't make the rules

I can’t believe I have to care about Jimmy Kimmel. This is the worst thing Trump has ever inflicted on the American people.

Still incredible this man wrote an entire ass book about how American generals have a personal and professional obligation to speak publicly and forcefully if the president and civilians were doing things against the public interest and he’s doing *handwaves* whatever this is

ai could not replicate

I thought it was worth expanding on my last piece, “the final evolution of the GOP China Hawk frauds” and recapping the last 9 months of the administration’s China policy. Spoiler alert, the GOP China hawks are still frauds. My latest⬇️

Critics of the strikes with experience of how targeting worked in the GWOT: “They’re going to wind up just killing a lot of fishermen” Defenders of the administration: “Bullshit, there was specific intel they were narcoterrorists” Vance: “We’re going to wind up just killing a lot of fishermen!”

This might be the dumbest fucking sentence I’ve ever seen

Market Garden wouldn’t have gone down like that if I was in charge. I would have gotten to Arnhem in time. I would have simply just gone faster.