Check out this great work by @strategictrends.bsky.social (and shoutout to allies, partners, and amphibious defense)

This is a great article. While the PLA is extremely capable, the invasion of Taiwan would be the most difficult landing operation ever attempted. There has never been an amphibious landing in the face of CDCMs. For comparison, Taiwan has hundreds of missiles and the PLAN as eight LPDs.

Just casually reminding everyone of the largest infantry division on earth (which also happens to exist specifically for amphibious operations)

Even Reuters is making the case for the Landing Ship, Medium

This is a great visualization of the Chinese "shadow navy" threatening Taiwan. www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...

Hindsight is foresight www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23638...

Even though UK’s CSG reached FOC in European waters, it was built through years of interoperability with allies and partners in the Pacific. Proud to have played a small part in a major milestone for one of our closest allies across the pond.

Coast Guard landing craft North Africa for no particular reason...

This is really good. Anyone comparing just the cost of a threat and the cost of the counter-measure isn't looking at the whole picture, usually on purpose. warontherocks.com/2025/11/the-...

You know you’re getting old when the new Ken Burns documentary is more exciting than Sunday Night Football. www.pbs.org/kenburns/the...

Marines no longer lose free trip home if they take US leave while moving between overseas assignments

Shoulder-to-shoulder with our allies after Typhoon Kalmaegi 🇵🇭 🇺🇸

I think we are in an existential war against the darkness. Our ammunition is not bullets & explosive shells but joy & love. Our guns are not rifles or cannons but our interactions with people around us. We have no choice in this. You either fight or you allow the hate & evil to take over our world

Hard copies of “Snowmobiles and Grand Ideals” are in! This is THE definitive John Boyd text—almost 700 pages of Boyd in his own words on conflict and competition. Email Marine Corps University Press at [email protected] for your free copy today!

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

Literally a false Idol.

After one deployment & couple of days before sending the Marines out on leave, I was doing a fireside chat with a small group. As we talked about how to assess the time I said "This was less than a year of your life. A defining time, but if statistics hold, you'll live many more. We saw<

This Veterans Day, I’m humbled by those who served before me, honored to once again serve as a 5th Marine, and proud to pass on our legacy to younger generations who will write the next chapter of our history.

📢 NEW ANALYSIS: Japan & South Korea Lean in on Nuclear-Powered Subs 🇯🇵🇰🇷⚓️ What drives their nuclear submarine ambitions — and what hurdles remain? Read the commentary below👇 rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publica... @marsecbradford.bsky.social @mikebosack.bsky.social

Happy 250th Birthday to all Marines, past, present, and future!

Happy 250th Birthday to the Marine Corps! 🎂🇺🇸 Our November/December issue of Naval History features a variety of articles showcasing various chapters of their illustrious history. usni.org/magazines/n...

“Diverse people who ran curiously to type, with drilled shoulders and bone-deep sunburn, and a tolerant scorn of nearly everything on earth. Their speech was flavored with navy words…” 1/

Happy 250th Birthday, Marines! It’s been an honor to share a few of those years with all of you. Here’s health to you and to our Corps for many more!

The past 30 years, I always called my Grandpa Don on Nov 10 to wish him a happy USMC birthday. He grew up without running water, and enlisting in the Marines, and then returning after college as an officer, dramatically changed the trajectory of his life. He died in Sept at age 96. Miss you, Marine.

(HAC)Mateship 🇦🇺 🇺🇸

African-American history is our history, too, and we are all poorer and lonelier without it.

Happy Veterans Day to all the brothers and sisters sisters who raised their right hand, served in tough times and great times, made lifetime friendships, and then returned to be citizens-----without making their time in uniform their entire personality.

“Whenever the world makes you cynical, whenever you doubt that courage and goodness is possible - stop and think of these men.”

Praying for our friends in the Philippines 🇵🇭

Hard copies of "Orchestrating Power" are in the wild! I hear those that pre-ordered should be getting them soon. You only have a month left to pre-order and get your copies before the official release date: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

We come from a land of fire and ice

Even if paid, our most junior service members and their families pay the price of a government shutdown.

We are people of the stars and seas.

For a generation of Marines caught in the tech boom, mentorship is key. usni.org/magazines/p...

Just a reminder, it’s D-4, everyone. 🦅 🌏 ⚓️

Praying for our friends in the Philippines 🇵🇭

Force Design 2030 has deep roots.

BZ to PACFLT and Pacific Partnerships for strengthening our Pacific Islands family. 💪

Let’s pay all Feds the constitutional way.

Let’s pay our troops the Constitutional way 🇺🇸

“The move rests on the idea that a Vietnam-era law called the War Powers Resolution does not apply to airstrike campaigns.”

📢 YCAPS COMMUNITY EVENT: YCAPS Executive Director @marsecbradford.bsky.social will lead a Walking Tour through #Yokosuka — exploring Navy sites, #Verny Park, #Dobuita St. & more More info below 👇 www.ycaps.org/yokosuka-wal... #Japan #IndoPacific #Event

I was trying to find the movie and got a strong rebuke by Google

Yoshinobu Yamamoto to America

Dave Roberts to Will Smith

My thoughts on the World Series right now

Looking for a weekend read? Our November/December issue of Naval History highlights the Marine Corps 250th birthday with multiple articles dedicated to heroic events of the Corps’ history. Read it here: usni.org/magazines/n...