because of Trump, you can’t do the Canadian girlfriend thing anymore

Tyler Austin Harper should escort Reza Pahlavi into Tehran.

Running through our stockpile of advanced munitions that are time and tech intensive in the middle of a chip/memory shortage in a war of choice is some real strategic brilliance.

the plan, such as it is, appears to be “bomb a country of 90 million people that is already facing a water crisis into a failed state, walk away and declare victory” this is a monstrous nightmare regardless of whether or not it “works”

Don’t ask Kermit Roosevelt Jr what Ike had him doing in 1953.

i think there's a sort of dynamic at play where the GOP get more leeway on international conflict due to how they're dad/man-coded whereas Dems are not

the average understanding of natsec for the average voter is "make the bad images go away"

“... and special capabilities we can't list here!“ Graphic design is my passion ass AI generated poster.

Chris Murphy: "It won't be the billionaire children of Donald Trump and his buddies that die. It's going to be the children of middle class and poor families all across this country that are gonna die for a war of choice, a war of vanity, an illegal war."

There’s something extremely 21st century about war profiteering via a weird combination of insider trading/gambling.

This isn't Ted Cruz trying to distance himself from the bombings, it's Ted Cruz dodging the question of where Iran's ~900 pounds of 60% enriched uranium is and whether the administration has a plan to secure that material.

I think bluesky would be roughly 300% better if people here were capable of reading “this is an assessment of the empirical reality of a situation” without assuming it comes with an implicit “and therefore I endorse the reality of that situation”

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

Creating a massive sucking maw of a power vacuum in Iran by killing every national leader and having a plan to prevent that action from destabilizing the Middle East and creating the material and social conditions to radicalize even more people into political violence Vs. “No, it’s not his job”

Anyone going to tell Centcom its really fucking hard to surrender to a jet?

Oh hey the Strategy Cheese testifies to Congress this week about the new National Defense Strategy. You should make it known to your representatives how upset you are with him specifically.

apropos of nothing: A stark reality has therefore emerged in modern warfare: ...AI is reliably providing an alibi for the prosecution of wholesale methods of killing without, in turn, provoking much by way of substantive political censure or legal accountability. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I do worry about us trying to do Original Flavor JSOC Counterproliferation Mission and then it going sideways

Anyone check in on that 23 year old “counterterrorism expert” at DHS recently?

Mission Accomplished

scrawny 18-year-old about to fall out of an army helicopter over tehran: this is so epic. this is totally sigma, right babe? AI e-girl operated by a balding intelligence officer in virginia: that's right baby, Iran is totally cringe

the guy who wrote the literal book on this stuff is dunking on the admin:

The enemy has a vote.

Well. He’s a list of actually credible defense people to follow I suppose.

The state of the union address was like 72 hours before the US and Israel chose to attack Iran’s capital and call for regime change, and Trump did not even mention his policy toward Iran before Congress, much less ask for a declaration of war.

Starting operations at 8 am local time is absolutely insane. Admin saying fuck them pilots I guess.

I guess all of our drone defense lasers are all in El Paso.

Betting on war is evil and wicked biblical senses.

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

there's a weird dynamic about Americans who basically treat international politics as an extension of their own world (a couple of days ago, there were a couple of people doing this about the Pakistan-Taliban war)

Vet 1: "I was in OEF" Vet 2: "Which one?"

Just want to note that 3am in Washington is like 11:30am in Tehran. The American people are the ones he snuck up on in the dead of night to conduct this illegal attack, not the purported enemy.

"No new wars" really just meant "f*ck Ukraine" and everyone knew it.

This one guy's gender affirming care is really getting out of hand, folks.

To lib out for a moment:

For everything else about this, it's such a good example of how half-assed, performative, and scattershot these policies are. This looks to be related only to <100 Senior Service College Fellowships, but the Services have people at these places too. You can get an MPH at GW still!

Man theres a group of colleges that have been funded and granted land by the federal government for the education of the public and for the general public good and the best we can get from the DoD is a list of joke colleges. What a fucking stupid country I’m affiliated with.

Imagine being Texas A&M and not making this list.

In today’s case of likely AI slop, I present you, ”Pak F-16 shot down by the Taliban”

On the eve of a possible attack on Iran, Pete is focusing on the real enemy, the Ivy League.

European commanders discovering machine guns kill Europeans too in 1914:

An actual company (Anthropic) told me no, so now I'm going to pick a fight with children to feel big and strong

We’re going to end up with a Guntuber in congress who wants to bring back smoking on planes before we get GTA 6

Labour's swing toward racism is perhaps the biggest unforced error in British political history; burnt their base to ashes and won them not a single vote on the right.

happy 14th anniversary to all who observe

While I was in the Army we called this the average Taco Tuesday.