Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!

I’m guess college is the new high school. Like a high school diploma means you have a 5th grade education. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

There were precious reports of follow on strikes to kill survivors. In this case Navy picked up survivors. Why? Also SOUTHCOM commander just resigned. Is there a backstory here?

Colin Dueck wrote a book The Obama Doctrine in which he argues Obama was a feckless political hack who nefariously politicized foreign policy. I wonder what Professor Dueck is up to these days?

So US companies are exporting techno-authoritarianism? apnews.com/article/chin...

DoD renaming to DoW is the apogee of GWOT lethality cult thinking

Today’s WTF moment “the aim was to infiltrate Greenland's society and promote its secession from Denmark to the US” www.bbc.com/news/article...

“It has been clear from Israeli actions as well as the rhetoric of numerous Israeli officials that Israel’s war is not simply against Hamas but aimed at all the residents of Gaza,” writes Robert Pape.

New article documenting attacks on academic freedom in the DoD www.advancejournal.org/article/1431...

I’m surprised by the WOTR battle studies series because I thought batttles didn’t matter? Or maybe not everyone drank the koolaid? warontherocks.com/2025/08/the-...

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The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

100% co-sign this thread

“In our planning process, assumptions are assertions about a future condition, upon which the plan is based” Hmm, “assertions about a future condition”? Does he mean if-then statements, if we do x then y will happen?

Gen. McKenzie: “The Doha agreement signed in February 2020 was, to use a phrase from our operational jargon, the proximate ‘defeat mechanism’ that brought down the Afghan government”

Gen. McKenzie says we lost in AFG because of the Taliban sanctuary in Pakistan. He also says it’s Tommy Frank’s fault we didn’t get bin Laden at Tora Bora in 2001.

That’s what’s up

US bureau of statistics next year:

Love this thread

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It is what it is www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump lawsuit against Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward dismissed www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“In the first half of the conflict, 8% of Iran’s missiles slipped through Israel’s defenses. By the second half of the war, 16% got past Israel’s interceptors” “on June 22, two days before the end of the war… 10 out of 27 missiles hit Israel” www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Curious. “No U.S. or allied warship was around to help.” www.wsj.com/world/middle...

So “four alternative concepts” are articulated as force levels and what those force levels can do without really saying much about the logic behind these different “concepts” or how the goals or methods are different. I’d rather get alternative strategies that foreground the goals and causal logic.

I feel like deterrence has not been restored www.bbc.com/news/article...

Plot twist, he endorsed the fucking deal! 😮

Nothing to see here, just Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. USMC (RET.) quoting the Counting Crows

Describing a meeting with Trump: “we had the usual preface of general-bashing that always began these sessions…”

According to Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. USMC (RET.) the US-Taliban agreement signed in 2020 was a real shit deal, an “enormous strategic mistake” even

Drago Bludvist is a right wing populist, just realizing that

Yeah I’m assuming this is Iran’s to-do list

Wait a minute… are you telling me that hiring more STEM people is not the national security silver bullet? We need people—probably immigrants or foreign nationals—who can speak foreign languages?

A real shit sandwich for these troopers

Listened to the Jonah podcast episode on Strauss and still don’t know what it means to be “Straussian”

A million years ago, this was a national scandal. Today, it is just an every day occurrence that we all tacitly accept.

I’ll be supporting inter

Craziest article I’ve read in awhile www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

Can’t wait to hate read this www.nber.org/papers/w33650

This is serious shit. When should American military officers disobey an order? www.linkedin.com/posts/bencon...

Created this for an in-class simulation about climate crisis caused by nonstate actor purposely attempting to raise the temperature on Earth by 10 degrees Celsius

Army gets there eventually “The U.S. Army…plans to equip each of its combat divisions with around 1,000 drones and to shed outmoded weapons and other equipment” www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Unmanned systems account for 70% of all casualties on both sides. Whoa. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/w...

Trump admin begins groundwork to deport nearly 90,000 Afghans. Many were US allies during the war, and would likely face imprisonment or death upon their return. Another shameful betrayal.

My favorite color is chocolate, followed closely by beer.

Another story of 1. Admin sends fascist order 2. Media reports on it 3. People are outraged, say no 4. Admin says “actually that order was a mistake” Lesson is defy fascist orders kslnewsradio.com/shows-podcas...

Anti-leadership “The decision by the academy’s leaders to not protest the original order—which I believe flies in the face of basic academic freedoms and common sense—has put them in the now even stickier position of trying to suppress criticism of that decision.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

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