Hearing one is Jabari Miller, former aide to Milley. Also see Pat Work, Miley’s XO when he was CSA. Miss me with the meritocracy talk when two of the absolute best are sidelined over this BS. Both have incredible resumes and reputations.

Poasting ain’t fighting!

Parachute assault immediately after the markets close. Declare victory before futures begin trading Sunday. Rinse, Repeat…..

You gotta be lower than snake shit to say “put it in the paper that I think the Nisour square massacre was hilarious” Six months after it happened

Bros.

Favorite part of LTP is the end — use it tell few folks on BCT staff who don’t get much attention how much they crushed it. Today it was a CW2 who leads the topo section. A simple handshake followed by, “Chief, your section is shit hot and it has a lot to do with your leadership,” goes a long way.

Sauron.

Oh, my god

Ukraine fired nearly 400 drones at Russian targets overnight, per Russia's Defense Ministry-- incl. the Baltic Sea oil port of Ust-Luga. The nearby oil terminal of Primorsk, hit early Monday, is still burning. (This has been unusually busy week for Russian/Ukraine air attacks) t.me/mod_russia/6...

Walking to the gym this morning

Apropos of nothing. Me being saved by King Abdullah II ten years ago this month. In the foreground is Jamie Jarrard’s brother.

The mad scientists at Cadbury have invented a Cadbury Creme Egg cluster munition

The office. 1/2

When I worked a sUAS study, GEN Donahue was adamant the army must incentivize master trainers. One option we discussed was a skill identifier promotion boards viewed as equivalent to a master gunner. Also discussed how the position’s name (think flight lead for aviators) mattered.

I think a popular take on here is that the US military neglected to learn from the War in Ukraine -- this is categorically false. The real questions are "what should we learn from Ukraine" and "how" and "can we cut across our internal politics to implement those lessons?"

A thing I think I implicitly knew but have come to appreciate more so over the last month is how 99.99999% of the world's population (including many mil types) has no mental model for what actual competent state on state major league big boy war looks like in the age of the precision strike regime

Couple of new coins. Korean Combat Training Center and NTC Live Fire team. @michaelstahlke.bsky.social, the place hasn’t changed much.

Spent time w/officer leading the data collection and analysis efforts for the 2 CONUS-based CTCs. Once more data is collected, institution will be able to ID what produces effective Brigades, while potentially disproving some myths the institution has embraced despite a lack of empirical support.

The sun came out - so we wandered about to see what spring has been up to.

Sounds pretty wOkE! www.armytimes.com/opinion/2026...

Aid to Ukraine from 2022-2026 was a rounding error. We used more in the first two weeks of the Iran war than we provided in the 4 years of aid to Ukraine.

It is also worth adding that almost nothing we provided to Ukraine is even relevant to this conflict. The only thing that would be is the PAC-3 and we gave a borderline negligible number of interceptors. We're not using GMLRs, Bradleys or 155mm rounds to fight Iran. This is completely made up.

Charles Sowell seeks border contracting advice from former ICE acting director Tom Homan, highlighting ongoing engagements in border security.

"[S]everal industry executives ... said at least [6] companies vying for a slice of the $45 billion Congress has allocated for immigration detention work had hired [Charles] Sowell because he had led them to believe his connections to [Tom] Homan would help their chances of winning government work."

One of my main harassers who will likely see this because he stalks me on BlueSky. I’m still employed training army leaders, Charles. Sure beats making money by putting kids in cages.

96 hour freak out, but yes you are correct. Several of them are likely to be shocked again in the near future.

The second worst part of the last week was being lectured about lethality by people who can’t load, fire, and reduce stoppage on the M240B or fill out a range card.

Many people are saying.

Many people with bios labeling themselves as Christians, Patriots, critical thinkers, and freedom loving are nothing of the kind. Wild part is many of them will commit state and federal crimes by injecting themselves into something they don’t understand, between people they don’t know.

Within 30 minutes of arriving at the office, one of the women who got run off Twitter couple yrs back was at my door. She had no idea what happened to me. She’s currently serving as a BCT CHOPS. Pretty impressed w/her.

Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. Out here using my experience and “credentials” to train a BCT staff on movement and maneuver and protection, including sUAS and C-UAS.

It’s shameful and dangerous for the guy who wrote an article about military education to incite a mob to violence against @bradduplessis.bsky.social, @ryanevans.bsky.social, and @warontherocks.bsky.social for engaging its content. This is how republics die.

Yes because focusing heavily on a tactical/operational/staff-focused education really helped the Prussians!

Put Iran aside. Calling the war to defeat the Islamic State — a war carried out by an 87-nation coalition! — a war “manufactured by Israel” is some wild stuff, and progressives should avoid cheering this rift on. This is a harbinger of anti-liberal, anti-Semitic, right-wing rhetoric to come.

In this resignation letter, not only does Joe Kent blame "Israel and its powerful American lobby" (read: Jews) for the Iran War, he finds a way to blame them for George W. Bush's Iraq War, too. This is the worst kind of conspiratorial antisemitism to avoid taking accountability for what Trump did.

Did not see this coming.

Getting death threats *over this* is absolutely insane

FBI report filed.

There is a writing sample at beginning of the AY. Someone w/PME knowledge would know this. Was this my best writing ever? No. Did numerous people who don’t personally know me, have no mil background, and are not on X understand my points? Yes.

Very normal to post pics of someone’s house, cars, names + pics of family members…Clearly the “debate me bros” are good faith actors.

* Cross-posting. To my admirer who sent me a coded message on X that only I would understand. Received. You should really think about what price you’re willing to pay. I bet my life it’s less than mine.

This is very good on how the cult of tactics and lethality is about to do serious damage to US PME I'd add that anti-intellectualism is a major threat to PME elsewhere, too

If a Republican congressman is mad about an article you wrote, you’ve made it (and you’re right)

7. @bradduplessis.bsky.social said it best: "Militaries fight in social, cultural, political, and economic contexts." Secretary Hegseth's myopic focus on "lethality"will cost a generation of officers the education they need to meet the most turbulent geopolitical moment since 1991. End.

I did not expect discussions of military education policy to generate so many death threats 🤷‍♂️. (Not me, not yet anyway)

This is one of my favorite products to produce because it is about getting the terrain to tell a story to the staff.

Holy shit! I found the “doxxers.” Someone alert the HASC!