Babe wake up - new Jack Watling just dropped

This is hard to prove but my impression is when thinking about large-scale combat operations, the U.S. Army, and particularly its armor branch, has suffered from a decades long weakening in understanding of combined arms employment/battle that has also leaked into the civilian side

Do they surrender to the Imperial Remnant in this one? m.youtube.com/watch?v=_pa1...

Oh yeah. Fall is coming

DOWN GO THE IRISH!!!!!

Oh man - we haven’t had Once an Eagle discourse in a minute!!! (I kinda agree with the author)

Fuck I need hockey to be back

This is a great article that investigates Robotyne and how an ABCT might have to change its concept of operations (and probably its current DOTMLPF-P alignment) to compete in such an environment mwi.westpoint.edu/the-army-and...

LANDPOWERRRRR

Read on to hear how the 11th ACR Blackhorse, the Opposing Force for the Army’s National Training Center (NTC), has tried to merge global battlefield observations into a representative, yet realistic threat that challenges visiting Rotational Units mwi.westpoint.edu/reconnaissan...

Literally the source article describes how this is a myth and ignores that 1) the militia mostly sucked 2) Fredrich von Steuben

I love how every pair tanks and drones article for the Army is like just pair them and then manuever is back boys Uh have we considered that the enemy might not simply allow our drone battalions to massacre their conventional battalions before we commit armor? mwi.westpoint.edu/steel-and-si...

“Russia is not an imperialist power”

What did we want to use AI for in the military again?

Lol

While objectively bad - the GWOT comparisons will be hilarious

If you thought DC staffers were annoying before just wait simply going to Capital Hill Books (suspected producer of anti-Coalition Provincial Authority messaging) is a courageous act of resistance

Just lost my girlfriend in a Michael’s…

Book kid sounds superior Though I did always annoy my dad Dad: I’m gonna take away all your books if you don’t start behaving Me: All 200 of them. You’re just gonna take them and move them where?

George Lucas did it again

Everyone a rifleman out Everyone an air defender in

Interesting warontherocks.com/2025/07/stee...

I’m increasingly convinced there’s gonna be an even more distinct INDOPACOM/EUCOM split between I Corps and III/XVIII ABC in which the three Corps all have the same people and tech but their missions demand unique flavors (wow METTC-I anyone?)

Something I’ve ben thinking about in regards to the US Army and convergence/MDO is the class efficiency vs effectiveness question. How much do we need to be looking at increasing our conformability with reducing some synchronization/coordination (efficiency) to increase VOM (effectiveness)

Play (combined arms breach) theory

Read Theory

Revenge of the nerds

So now that people besides USARPAC are making this argument can we admit Flynn (the other one) wasn’t crazy for this?

George Lucas did it again

But the Russians and their artillery use is so much better My brother

A question I have is what did historical reconnaissance units do once two main bodies had met? Like Combatant A and Combatant B with Recon forward meet in a meeting engagement. Combatant A wins recon fight; killing Bs recon and enabling As main body to close unimpeded. As recon now does…what?

For all the GWOT vets

Some CSM in some division somewhere just added a requirement for 15 minutes of drill and ceremony after PT

I literally did Irwin to San Antonio over Christmas by Mapquest just for the hell of it *I didn’t just go 15-10 and then east I did some back roads/highways across NM and west Texas

This does make more sense now tbh

www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Mil... Oh yeah we need 25th, 101, 82nd in the INDOPACIFIC. Just perhaps not the way you expect

First thing I saw this morning Me: Oh did the UAF hit a base with a drone and knock out a couple jets Me five seconds later: Oh lmao

@whatismoo.bsky.social did you mention a while back that the Soviets had done extensive calculations on tank regeneration and repair. You got any sources?

Oh come on

Also the boys of 1st Tank Brigade, AFRF, Donetsk 2024 as seen by 1x UAF FPV

This is niche and I’m here for it

Map guys - look what I found this morning www.themaparchive.com

This can’t be true. I was assured the Russians doing this was absolutely stupid and a sign of desperation. Not an example of tactical adaptation to changing battlefield conditions

Getting on a flight: Down 3-1, in the third, Stars probably aren’t gonna come back Getting off a flight two hours later: Lmao

I think a lot about this first line. Both as I came out of lien command and now getting ready to take an HHT. And I have much longer, much more rambling thoughts, but suffice to say it’s a comment that makes you think

And so the One Chicago universe expands once again

Girlfriend: Hey so let’s have the politics discussion to make sure neither of us are red pilled or something Me: Simple as

And so once again it will come down to the infantryman supported by the artillery, tanks, and engineers.

There has only been two books that I’ve never finished due to how horrific they were - this is one