Israel prepares for hostage release after Hamas agrees to parts of Trump’s peace plan on.ft.com/4o9wdnb

⚡ BREAKING: Starlink 'down across the entire front line' in Ukraine as internet service suffers global outage. The service has become vital for hospitals, schools, and front-line military units across Ukraine. kyivindependent.com/ukraine-affe...

Why is it so hard to study war seriously in American academia? From Clausewitz to West Point’s new major, I dive into the fragmentation, disappearance, and possible revival of war as a subject of tactical, operational, and political thought. My Latest⬇️

A downed Russian surveillance drone type Gerbera contained test footage from the Chinese factory from which it was delivered.

In the flesh and it's fantastic. Great resource from @historianabel.bsky.social with beautiful set of figures

When I see multi-clausal sentences with adjective-heavy triplets in each clause, I begin suspecting my writer was using generative AI. #grading

(headbashing ensues)

The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources: 1. Federal grants 2. Private gifts/endowments 3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students) 4. State $ For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.

76% bot traffic on the other place. Hot damn.

There's definitely a Su-57 Felon in the trailer, so I'd say good chance Russia's involved at some point

This piece is an elegant origami of logical fallacies folded across each other. And - that doesn't mean the topic isn't complicated without the argumentation.

Until today I did not know that the Kori Bustard drops an incredible bass beat as its mating call. Highlight of zoo day.

Delightful pedantry on, perennially, a favorite topic in premodern history courses: life expectancy. "The length of our days is 70 years, or for the fittest, 80"

Gave a talk on writing yesterday and as I gave "is the age of the tank dead/declining/evolving/strong as ever" as an example of recurring debates, I couldn't help thinking "age of professors giving talks on composition" is also on the chopping block.

NEW: US President Donald Trump announced largescale and rapid military aid supplies to Ukraine via NATO and possible future secondary tariffs against Russia. (🧵1/12) Read more in the July 14, 2025 Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment: isw.pub/UkrWar071425

❗️Russia’s major offensive is likely to begin within days or weeks, Putin has massed 160,000 troops along the front line, — CNN reports, citing Ukrainian officials.

Can someone explain to me in simple terms why our defense budget is increasing to $1 trillion, but nearly every HQ is being forced to slash costs, cut manning, and do more with less? Where is all of the money going?

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/t... How about instead of investing in technologies that help students cheat and make them dumber we do what is proven to work: pay teachers more, give them smaller classes, and provide them with institutional support for student development.

The Carthaginians’ greatest victory was a masterclass in tactics — and a lesson in strategic failure. warontherocks.com/20...

Nerds is too imprecise. History is written most of all by pedants. And, well, sometimes, and very successfully, by journalists...

"We’re talking about an adversary that has to cross an 80-mile wet gap... The chances of being able to conduct an uncontested or successful wet gap crossing of that scale is very, very small." Is calling an amphibious assault a 'wet gap crossing' the new 'lynchpin'? www.csis.org/analysis/str...

The basic fear now is that an editor or external reader will be cued to see the em dash and think I used ChatGPT. I could write without the dashes, sure. I use them much less now than I did ten years ago. But I still like them.

It's a competitive field, but extra marks for this extremely stupid essay on "AI and the humanities" for leaning heavily in its author's expertise in the history of technology. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Horrifying

"Praetorian Guard Security Services" What's the organizational vision? "We're an expensive trinket, don't have a great operational record, and routinely kill our own clients?"

I’ve been briefed this morning on an ongoing situation involving targeted shootings in Champlin and Brooklyn Park. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety and local law enforcement are on the scene. We will share more information soon.

Are we at the stage of military preparations and strategy where every serious power will have their "truckbed attack drone infiltration package"? I look forward to it appearing in OWS and Littoral Commander before long, too.

Russian strategic Air Force has become the "How do you even stop this I mean seriously??" meme

Not likely to beat Queen's "Fat Bottomed Girls" absolutely blaring at the bar beside my gate at 6:30am

Warfare in the Ancient World Conferences aren't complete, I suppose, until Graham Wrightson and I have argued about enallax phalanxes and war elephants.

Why Boyd didn't write about Romans. The Romans mess up the game badly. Larger, still skillful, well kitted, resilient. The Roman force imposed the "Pyrrhic victory" dilemma at every step. And the dilemma was your best case. Most opponents just lost.

I'm rather old today. But my kids are using the first real day of summer break to invent Ptolemaic English accents, so there's that.

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

The Kremlin's ongoing cognitive warfare effort aimed at preventing future Western military assistance to Ukraine is rooted in fear and the acknowledgment that Russia's only real hope in defeating Ukraine is by isolating Ukraine from its allies. isw.pub/UkrWar052625

I don't usually post on r/askhistorians, but this is my research area, so I have tried by best, may the moderators have mercy on my answer. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Very fun, admittedly silly, post about Alexander heading west. I think the critical problem in 334 BC is, as Bret identifies, money. Alex was in debt, and he'd be squeezing blood from rocks in Italy, compared to what he faced in the East.

1. Needed more time with Saw's partisans, who have a more Star Wars feel. 2. Kept thinking about the Ghorman massacre as taking place in a context where, by canon, the Imperial Navy has Base Delta Zeroed several non-human planets. Kept expecting someone in Andor to remark on the race inconsistency.

Holy crap! Vauban designed Ghorman! #Andor

It’s one F/A-18 INDOPACOM. How much could it possibly cost?

It's happening!!!!

Andor with the gifts for the childhood PC gaming nerds

Good thread.

Fantastic images and story about work on the magnificent hunting scene at Tomb II at Aigai www.lifo.gr/culture/arxa...

PME lectures have had bad jokes forever: "At the Repeal of the 18th Amendment, an eminent statistician calculated that if the annual national output of beer was poured into a ditch 4' deep and 20' wide dug from the Great Lakes to the Gulf it most certainly would ruin the beer."

I'd not previously noticed the Galatian or Galatian-influenced sword with bilobate pommel here. There's also a trilobate pommel elsewhere on the Athena Polias weapons frieze. The details on the armor are intriguing as well.

Krepinevich's net assessment of US, RUS & PRC strategic forces—nuclear & non-nuclear. In contrast with Cold War, these products must now account for multipolar dynamics and great uncertainty. Many crucial findings in here that should inform defense planning and policy. www.hudson.org/defense-stra...

Sometimes I think about how in 2015 I believed Kylo was a reference to Kylōn of Athens, and he and the knights of Ren would eventually try to seize the New Republic capital, then the Rens all get captured and executed because they ran out of potable water. Anyone else think about Kylōn sometimes?