TIL BAe makes the Compass Call and the RAF isn't buying any. Fascinating. Nor are they buying the A-400M Stand-Off-Jammer that's been floated by Airbus.

I read this as "approximately 18 seconds after HM The Monarch gets on the BBC to explain that a state of war exists we start working on a new National Service Act"

Lenin was also incredibly clausewitzian, to his credit!

I feel like I should post more about my research but I also am deep in crunch and feel like that's procrastinating. Thoughts?

Never forget the time in 2020 Charlie Kirk (dead now) pretended to be a black guy on Twitter but forgot to switch accounts when giving himself a nice compliment.

Ya boy did it again. This time I got drawings for the Forrestal and Spruance declassified in the National Archives! Previously got Kitty Hawk drawings declassed. Just call me the MDR Man.

This isn’t 1989, anyone can dine well at an airport. There’s no cigarette smoke. You can order Starbucks on an app. Layover longer than 2 hours? You problem. Solve it. Stop whining about having to share the Barefoot pinot grigio with a man in a Snuggie, cowboy hat, and flip flops. This is America

Hegseth’s Pentagon “renaming” these bases after obscure veterans with the same names as the Confederates the bases were originally named for has all the subtlety of a school bully putting his hand in your face and yelling “I’m not touching you! I’m not touching you!”

I particularly appreciate her (and the Times) taking a moment to remind us for whom this base was renamed, two genuine military heroes and pioneers who did not, unlike Robert E Lee, commit treason or traffic in slaves. www.npr.org/2023/04/27/1...

Sounds like they're also toying with resurrecting the concept of the CJCS as the Commander of All Troops, an idea killed in 1947 on the grounds that creating a generalissimo was probably a bad idea if civilians wanted to keep running the country.

Major Malfunction reinventing the concept of a general staff from very stupid first principles

lol spoke too soon, the other two options are somehow(!) even dumber “JTF-War” are you fucking kidding me rn

Would you be surprised if I told you people are emailing special collections libraries/archives asking about or to see books & collections that do not exist because AI hallucinated them?

anyway as anyone who has tried to deal simultaneously with USARPAC+8A or PACAF+7AF can tell you, subunified commands are amazing for span of control and COMREL simplification and result in no unnecessary complications or complexities at all

I'm not a legal scholar but yeah "can't be sued but can sue you" seems fucking insanity

Speeding up decision-making and reducing flag rank overhead/billets by making a new super-COCOM so you need an entire other HQ and staff (EUCOM has what, nearly a dozen flag officers on staff?) to sit above the supposedly over-staffed and slow moving HQs?????

I'm confused how adding another echelon to the chain of command makes things easier or reduces the number of required generals? If EUCOM is a *** billet is NAVEUR-NAVAF/USAREUR still ****? Or do we just have a billion *** billets?

Hehehehehheheheheheheh I have done some research on what the army was doing in the early 50s...

Cel Ray is great

FDR is our finest president, and he had serious faults, but he didn't spend 1941 asking the FBI to look into "The Faeries of Shangri-La" rather than Japanese or German diplomats. The FBI's contemporary focus on "Antifa" is effectively the same.

I can think of no uglier betrayal of the Constitution than to strip the country of its eyes, its shields & armor plating while claiming your #1 target is an entirely imagined organization. It's obscene, it was promised, & it's what most Americans wanted or accepted in November 2024. Shame on us.

The most uncomfortable read you'll encounter this weekend. It's 6:30am on December 7, 1941 and the commander of the Pacific Fleet continues to insist the primary threat to Pearl Harbor is sabotage. Park the fighters closer together, take down the useless torpedo nets, Japanese can't fly, anyway.

one thing that i don't think people remark enough on is Bovino is not a political appointee

In my opinion Powder and Artillery are the most efficacious, Sure, and infallibly conciliatory Measures We can adopt. - John Adams.

My preference for no-budget YouTube documentaries where British grad students do their best History Channel impressions seems to have helped me avoid this. God knows where I'd be if I'd needed to police my recommends similarly at 15

the PLA is preparing for this vision of future combat. Why aren't we? By the Editorial Board

Appears the allegations were true

WWI understanders, do we like Dr. Fox's work? www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

A complete non-sequitur from Bovino. True the law does require non-cits carry documents, but citizens do not HAVE immigration documents, by definition. He's at best igoring the question, or what, saying all US-born citizens need to carry their original birth certificate to the grocery store?

plan B youtu.be/ThbfXi0kZRY

"With this Virus we are able to shut down electricity for roughly 4 seco- Hey you! You can't be i-"

The new york times need to be reminded that war is about killing people

Software enthusiasts when I drop an actual physical muntion on them in actual physical reality:

This week had more new measles cases than sales of “American Canto”. Hope the media is proud.

I'd give this more credance if the UK's ramp up in defense spending was rather more urgent than '2.5% of GDP in a few years time'

obligatory HESH pic

Lmao more like heavyweight champion of having a bad gun

crackhead take of the day: Soviet military art (of the 70s-80s) was a tensegrity structure held in balance by the overbearing authoritarian emphasis on commander's intent and the constant exhortation of disciplined initiative, and supported by psychotic weight of fires.

whenever we talk about the eternal humanities versus STEM debate on here, it’s probably worth remembering that an American fascist administration is very actively trying to finish off the already-weakened humanities, even *more* so than it’s trying to do the same to all science it doesn’t like

they're still going lmfao

M103 is pretty cool.

It's remarkable how perfectly this awful story is similar to The Dreyfuss Affair, from the banishment to a cruel tropical prison to the world's worst and stupidest people refusing to let it go even for decades after he was freed.

If you’ve heard the “the Nazis got their ideas from the US segregationists” I beg you to please stop. This is both false and it minimizes historical European antisemitism in a misguided attempt to emphasize the nature of US anti-Black racism. It’s horrific without comparison to Nazism.

A lot of people like to post the cover of this book to argue that the Eastern Front was just like the American Indian Wars when the first 10 pages of the book are the author explaining the ways in which genocides are different are just as important as the ways in which they are similar

There's a sentence that Hochul hasn't made use of the BPRA to its fullest extent, which is wholly without justification. It cites a short description of opposition from climate & labor groups whose position neglects to consider problems of interconnection, finance, or the Clean Path project.

And just because the Silicon Valley types are idiots who are hyping the thing as stupidly as possible doesn't mean they are wrong. I'm throwing my epistemological flag at you if you say that you know that.

My personal view is that we are getting this wrong, because the reasons my service is struggling to adopt them has more to do with how we track supply and how Programs of Record compete for funding than our ideas about the future of war. Simple heuristics suggest we are under-doing it.