I'm just imagining him visiting the Aegean or Sicily and wearing dark sunglasses and just *hating* turquoise waters.

If the AI was going to do this well at all, wouldn't you also have to upload a pdf of the article, thus feeding the Beast someone else's intellectual property? Sure it's probably eaten that dish before, somewhere, but seems sick.

Sokrates vs prejudice is timeless. Fill in the blank with any group you like. (Plato, "Meno" 92b-c)

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. Merde. So many good choices...

It's easier to read the Herculaneum scrolls.

Egads what an ugly helmet. Those are... brass vertebrae, perhaps?

I could share lots of thoughts on the Compact Mag story, but one thing that leaps out to me was "James" belittling the enthusiastic Roman military historian in his Yale cohort. I'm not certain I can identify either, but I think the anonymous guy was probably doing the right thing.

Keep thinking I need to finish my book, Great Power Suicide. It's about the Ptolemies, of course.

Spending the morning reading @dominicmachado.bsky.social’s book on collective action in the Roman army. I have been waiting for this to arrive! puz.unizar.es/2851-volunta...

Right at Hanukkah the Maccabees are in the news, as archaeologists reveal finding a bronze coin from Side and several lead sling bullets at the site of ancient Beth Zecharia. A few thoughts on the finds and how they do--AND DON'T--connect to the Maccabean battle. And happy Hanukkah!

Solid gold, which coincidentally is what I'll have in abundance after shorting your next counteroffensive on polymarket.

After much consideration, I have decided to apologize for my past statements, and I have embraced the need for the DoD to adopt the Silicon Valley Mindset. I'm introducing what I would like to call App-Centric Warfare. othermeans.io/p/app-centri...

I had this assignment where students wrote a short "NSS" strategic outlook, but from the vantage of Peloponnesian War leaders, like the Athenian generals in the Melian Dialogue.

The 22nd MEU has been providing assistance to Jamaica for the last month. Just because no one pays attention to US disaster response doesn’t mean the it’s not routine for Marines. It’s why they’re based forward. www.22ndmeu.marines.mil/News/Press-R...

Happy 70th anniversary of the first day of the Montgomery bus boycott! On this day, 70 years ago, the Montgomery improvement Association formed to lead the effort against segregation and bigoted policies on Montgomery bus system, elected Martin Luther King Jr., as their president. /

Here is a look at how China has expanded Yuchi Naval Base over the last year. The base is built to support Chinese aircraft carriers, alongside other naval vessels.

www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Mar... This article on our Moral Perspective Sorter is the culmination of a collaboration with Dr. Baker in 7 years in my role as Stockdale Chair in Professional Military Ethics. We used this in NWC Leadership and Profession of Arms core courses and at Senior Enlisted Academy

Catiline Conspiracy V: the Lex Rullia became a major contention. We've had a veto imposed, the bill taken to the assembly, the janiculum involved, and a corruption case filed. Cicero saved by some omens so on to the case against Rabienus.

In hoc signo, Hippostratos! #advent #indogreeks

Oh crap, Antipater Etesias and Antigonus Gonatas reference in "Man on the Inside" season 2 on @netflix!

A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself. Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.

JUST IN: Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88

“The people whose rights are being violated don’t have a lot of power, and the people responsible for the pollution are huge mega corporations with a lot of power…And they’ve been getting away with this for decades now.”

The paper concept is clean, demonstrable, and useful, so I think it requires a complicated and controversial numismatic argument before calling it done

Very normal, role appropriate, behavior!

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1

I prefer the old definition of hybrid war that actually involves armed conflict. Maybe its meaningless, but I think its good to retain a term that describes what Russia was doing, e.g., in Donbas 2014. Firing random thoughts into the sky.

Check Bluesky today and its

Trying to write on the Late Ptolemaic Army (like, really late) means having to grapple with the contingent called "Hippothracians" and their astronomical pay rate.

This is America?

New from Bellingcat: “‘Pattern of Extreme Brutality’ — Tear gas, pepper balls among weapons used by federal agents at Illinois immigration protests.” Read the full investigation: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

Happy Halloween from Captain Rex

All about that Bassus

New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.

“For local residents, Russia’s human safari has made sudden death from above an everyday fact of life. During the first nine months of 2025, more than a hundred people were killed and over one thousand were wounded in drone attacks.” www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

If "Sextus' Ship Asclepius" isn't the next Mardi Gras Krewe, I'll be deeply disappointed. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hey Military Historians, esp Grad students! The SMH is announcing its 2026 Summer Seminar in Military history, hosted by the Adams Center at VMI. This is a fabulous opportunity to learn the field outside your specialty, to network, and enjoy the Blue Ridge Mountains. www.smh-hq.org/summersemina...

"Each employee of the United States Government ... furloughed as a result of a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for the period of the lapse in appropriations... at the earliest date possible" But I guess Vought's interpretation is that the paycheck could be months/years in the future?

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.