What are some emerging and disruptive technologies the military should be looking at besides the usual AI, autonomy, additive manufacturing? @marforbluesky.bsky.social

Everyone on the internet went from being an expert in the federal budgetary process to being an expert on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship in the last 24 hours…

No machine can ever do what a human can... that is, be human. LLMs are designed to find statistically significant relationships between words to sound convincing...The are not designed to be accurate. Even hooking them to a data base doesn't change this. "AI"is just high speed iteration; not thought

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This guy literally said, “It’s great when Congress cannot pass a budget because it allows the military to flout civilian oversight” as if that’s an unqualified positive.

don't make me tap the sign

Seen in the wild on a T-shirt: “What’s more punk than a public library?” 🤘🔥

@terminallance.com I found him!

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.

In Northern Virginia, 45 mph limit = drive 35 mph 25 mph limit = drive 35 mph

Footnotes are superior to endnotes. Fight me.

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

Ridiculously bad framing. Settling with abuse victims or not settling with them are far from the only options. The state has a responsibility to both give victims justice and fund public education.

The state of defense thought in the U.S. is so poor this seems like a cry for help. “Build us a machine to think for us because it’s too hard.”

And when they say well 'those people' don't have as much of an attachment to the United States or our values, remind them the most decorated combat unit in American history was a regiment formed almost entirely of 2nd-gen. Japanese-Americans recruited out of *internment camps* for goodness' sake.

Not to be a combat arms chauvinist, but, "Cyber Branch soldiers are warriors who should be viewed as combat arms like armor and artillery but also who cares if they are physically fit or maintain Army appearance standards" is maybe not a winning messaging strategy. sites.libsyn.com/116143/hacke...

Okay I am shocked. I expected nothing but silence from the NRA. I still find it despicable, but at least it has some kernel of principles.

I cannot emphasize this enough: you cannot change it *back* to the Department of War. The Department of War became the Department of the Army, not the Department of Defense.

This is something I’ve been thinking through for another piece I’m working on, is it easier to: a) stop an amphibious assault on the beach (dieppe) b) contain the amphibious assault, prevent a breakout, and attrition the attackers over a period of time (Gallipoli)

So it turns out some of these people never actually believed the 2nd Amendment was inviolable. Get ready for deafening silence from the NRA. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/doj-m...

This is how you write a headline

“But yeah we were also pretty soundly trounced on the battlefields and the seas.”

Breaking: Man responsible for vanishing minorities, dismantling of Hong Kong’s autonomy, and deadly games of chicken in the South China Sea whines about “bullying.”

For the n=1 case, there exists at least 1 "C" in C5ISRT. Assume that we have created an acronym with n "C"s: C(n)ISRT. This acronym describes a capability that either we or our adversaries must counter, requiring a C(n+1)ISRT to do so. Therefore, it's C∞ISRT. Turtles all the way down.

There is wisdom here. A large group is about transmission (and should have been an email) or about something else (and shouldn’t be a meeting). Slides are stupid. If you need slides, send an email. Hard stops! If you go long, next time you go last. No actions? Should have been an email! Etc.

We are seeing more and more the wisdom of the Allies in destroying Spandau Prison so it could not become a rally point for resurgent Nazism.

Louder for those in the back

97% of school shootings between 1966 and 2019 were perpetrated by cisgender men. Transgender people are four times more likely to be the victims of violent crime than cisgender people. Where are the calls to lock up white men until we figure out why they keep perpetrating mass shootings?

Objectively the wrong decision. I don’t wish to add to the pain of Babbitt’s family, but you forfeit the right to military honors when you participate in an insurrection. thehill.com/policy/defen...

Only in America do we repeatedly and angrily insist, over the bodies of our dead gunshot children, that guns have nothing to do with gun violence.

You become a planner or strategist because you are interested in imposing some semblance of order on a fundamentally chaotic endeavor: war....only to find yourself planning constabulary operations on the border or presence patrols in DC. Ain't that a bitch (existential)

Both sides come together to reach a settlement, the Great Emu War, Australia, 1932

Dönitz and Hirohito really negotiated the shit out of their unconditional surrender

We’re in the endgame now—just a little longer and my next volume on John Boyd will be available from Marine Corps University Press. Contact the Press at [email protected] to reserve a free hard copy! #USMC #Marines

Referring to a mediocre breakfast restaurant as your culture and heritage is one of the whitest things I've ever read.

This is fucking horrifying and every single professor who is sinking into the AI bog should be ashamed of themselves.

First, I am all for this and it is long overdue. However, one thing jumped out at me: Col Cuomo says “Rifle squads will be able to reach out to 20km *for a fraction of the cost*.” The cost of what? A Javelin? Sure. A 155m shell? Not so much. 1/ m.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Fa...

If only history could offer us some examples of what happens when a generation of men grow up apart from women under the tutelage of extremists…

“Indeed, a spectacular and unexpected victory can build up expectations in a way that makes the usual reality of attritional warfare seem almost like a defeat.” Excellent insights from @kabinettskriege.bsky.social

Wait, you mean abuse is rampant in an organization that abducts people and holds them with no due process? This is my shocked face.

By removing, at least for the time being, the threat of greater U.S. sanctions, Putin’s diplomatic offensive is merely creating breathing space for his troops to continue their war of aggression. Thus, the latest peace talks, far from ending the killing, are perpetuating it. wapo.st/4oIv9HH

I discussed a Marine’s understanding of maneuver warfare with Amos Fox on his Revolution in Military Affairs podcast! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Found the welfare queen! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...

“14 August.” 80 years ago today. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2P0i...

Maybe they’ll do something about the criminally high drink prices?

Same as “do your own research!” To adapt Vonnegut: you either need to read a lot more, or stop reading altogether.