The problem with stopping escalatory violence is that it requires political factions to see the other side as not an enemy. You can't only find violence targeted at yourself as abhorrent. Which is difficult to square with months of cheerleading for deploying the military to Democratic-run cities.

This picture has been taken ten thousand times on a thousand mountain sides for a hundred years.

We did it broski

Posted a brief article on What an Order of Battle is and how to understand them with some shoutouts to those who put in great work. @romeomike04.bsky.social @battleorder.org @asulembre.bsky.social @wesleymorgan.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jhausdor...

Oh, you all laughed at that cybersecurity training. O,h it was SO boring you said. Why do I NEED to do this annual training you said. WELL LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW

Sneak peak of some of the work I've been doing. Many more to come.

Jesus, I haven't seen frauds collapse this hard since the Syrian army got blown the fuck out in Aleppo. Total regime collapse on live television right now.

Across the Western world, Armies wanted to experiment with and develop new force structures after the Cold War to prepare for the unknowns of the 21st Century. The #ausarmy's A21 restructure was one set of proposed reforms, and this structure is the subject of today's #orbat.

Elon. Tell me EXACTLY which agencies you’re sending that mass resignation email to.

The Australian Department of Defence has accepted the first Arafura class Offshore Patrol Vessel, NUSHIP Arafura, more than three years after it was launched 🇦🇺🦘 www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

🇲🇽 Web format graphic of the Mexican Marine Battalion, or Batallón de Infantería de Marina (BIM). This is current as of 2022 doctrine, but BIMs were structured the same way back in the 2000s as well just with a slight different in service personnel mix (but the same overall strength of 628).

Commander of the British Army's experimental battalion getting some use out of the Warrior platoon graphic it seems

Don’t care for Nazis tbh

People don't seem to grasp that deterrence—the ability to constrain behavior by holding in reserve the threat of violence—has effectively caused cartels to not target (over 1 million) US citizens in Mexico. You lose that deterrence when you actually use violence and disturb the tacit agreement.

The Marines really liked their flame tanks

Today's #ausarmy #orbat is the often-forgotten deployment of 2021 - Operation LILIA.

A great day for eight, battle groups

The AFTA Division (pre-Pentomic test) was like weird ROAD, but also based because it had Combat Commands and unified divisional logistics under a single commander for the first time with the Support Command

Coming to a beach near you - the PLANMC Heavy Battalion #orbat. Now, at face value, this is a lot of firepower. However, scratching the surface, it has some severe limitations.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't need to justify your reading preferences and choices to anyone. Audiobooks count as reading. Also, you don't have to finish books you don't enjoy. Don't read to impress, read for yourself. Life's too short, love yourself, ok? Signed, a librarian.

its still so fucking cool that i got to help make a Battle Order video youtu.be/CrLfZy7m4ac?...

🇰🇷👀 Opposition lawmakers climb over the fence of the South Korean parliament to vote to impeach the president. 🤔 "President has betrayed the people. He is not the president of the Republic of Korea," - says South Korean opposition leader.

Speaker of the Korean parliament: “Wherever the MPs gather, that's the parliament. We will start the parliament meeting immediately.”

And just like that, Yoon has LIFTED martial law. It is over.

A few changes to the #ausarmy’s #orbat have been announced recently. So far we have the ‘disestablishment’ of 6bde and the transfer of 9 REG Royal Australian Artillery from 2nd (Aust.) Division to 10 Bde. …guess I'll have to do an ORBAT soon.

Feelin a little sad this Thanksgiving evening so heres a graphic I made long ago on one of my favorite WW2 formations - the 1st Airborne Task Force during Operation Dragoon.

Whilst researching the 1st Aust. Div in 1999 #orbat, I came across a paper from COL D J HURLEY (yes, the future governor-general) published in 1997. He proposed an Australian army structure that is... interesting.

Today's #ausarmy #orbat for the #orbatboys, the Aust. Army's 1st Division in 1999. 1DIV aimed to move away from the Defence of Australia doctrine and become flexible, deployable, and scalable. It would face its first test during INTERFET.

Poland has taken delivery of the last 2 of 20 M142 HIMARS it had ordered in 2019. mil.in.ua/uk/news/pols...

🇲🇽 The Mexican Marine Battalion (BIM) structure. They have 45 BIMs, plus the Parachute Marine Battalion (BIMFUSPAR) which is organized the same and 4 Amphibious Marine Battalions (BATAIM) which I don't have a TO&E for This shows the doctrinal allotment of officers #ORBATBoys

Very cool video: youtu.be/PN5Plj-BSuA?...

WIP of 🇲🇽 Mexican Naval Infantry Battalion & Independent Company garrisoned, not including the 2 amphibious brigades, the naval police brigade, or their special forces unit (UNOPES) which is like a mixed brigade

(Fictional) tbt to this Marine Brigade from @jhausdorf.bsky.social 's funky little world

Fueled by Bundy, I present the current 7 BDE structure and possible future #orbats. Currently, 7 BDE is a motorised formation mounted primarily in PMV-M's and a mixture of ASLAV and Block I Boxers. The Land907 project removed the tank sqns from all brigades except 3BDE.