"A bugler blows taps at the close of Memorial Day service at Margraten Cemetery, Holland, where lie thousands of American heroes of World War II." APRIL 30 1945. VE Day is still more than week away

This isn't pretentious over 50 white guy behavior. This is just dad behavior. When you hit a certain age you're given a specific war or military system that becomes your special interest

That blog post this week about AI purportedly being better at social science research than actual social scientists, in which people’s preference not to have their entire livelihoods destroyed was termed as “rent seeking,” was one of the more how-do-you-do-fellow-humans moments I’ve seen recently

It would explain the dogshit naval procurement (though that was low key a Ford thing too, they actually cancelled the Nimitz program between 1974 and FY81)

The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.

Part of solving the literacy crisis has to be a really hard look at how and why left-leaning organizations ended up ignoring the actual scientific research in favor of teaching nonsense. We can't fix it if we're not honest about it.

Except no child left behind wasn't the problem. The problem is we haven't been teaching phonics. Bush actually wanted to mandate phonics instruction as part of NCLB but the teachers unions and Democrats fought against it. There are valid criticisms of NCLB but this isn't one.

People really do not understand just how much damage LLMs enable. The key tool for limiting bad behavior by pro ses in the legal system is the time required to do so.

I know everyone wants to make fun of this. But holy crap everyone just run with it and no one let the tyrant know that this isn't how things work. I prefer gas to not be $27 per gallon.

We're in uncharted territory- if WTI crude holds these gains tomorrow- the current rise of 29.9% or $27.16/bbl would be its largest single day price jump- in both percent and amount- ever. Ever. EVER.

as I've said for a while now, the entire plan and theory of victory is, 100% accurately, described as "I dunno bomb stuff I guess" near perfect tactical execution all things considered, operationally incoherent, and strategically vacant, that's the DoD/USG promise

I think the problem is that people got psyoped by Big Illiteracy into thinking more rules = harder to learn, play, and run when that isn’t always true. “A longsword does d8 plus your strength modifier in damage” is easier to learn, play, and run than “idk sis, u figure it out.”

"The appeal to the mystical image of the “warfighter” is that it avoids having to discuss war in concrete terms. It sells the attractive myth that by doing more of the parts of war that look cool and really make you feel like a man, you can actually win wars." www.deadcarl.com/p/clausewitz...

don't make me tap the sign

i want to draft white papers for 85k a year that nobody reads. this is my real calling

don't forget the moment where he had an affair with a journalist (this is seperate from the alleged rooftop embassy sex)

you may not care about counterintelligence. or foreign policy. or collective security. but as each of those things goes to shit, the world is going to hell in a handbasket

"Voters don't care about any of that, just focus on [insert kitchen table domestic issues]" may be right, but you do need to find someone who will treat it like an election winner anyway because the alternative is careerists playing with other peoples' lives for attaboys and think tank appointments.

I'm not really a RETVRN guy, the present is better, but we did have more direct names back in the day. Defense Threat Reduction Agency is just goofy vs Defense Nuclear Agency. Same with Global Strike Command vs Strategic Air Command, or Air Combat Command vs Tactical Air Command.

Tech worker direct commissions if I was in charge www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnDe...

If you asked me, they should have to go through the whole officer training pipeline. If the Marines did this they would make them go through TBS, sooooo

Years ago my team at CNA did a review of the US use of proxies. A pertinent finding: “Policymakers & the US military should restrict the use of proxies to irregular warfare activities against states or other nonstate armed groups & avoid any temptations to use them as surrogate conventional armies”

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Small Brain: The Cold War never ended Big Brain: The Cold War began in 1919 Planetary Brain: The Cold War began in 1854 Galactic Brain: The Cold War began in 1830

[soapbox about why military affairs are hard at a detailed level but that doesn’t absolve citizens from responsibility to at least be proficient in the basics, same as civics and Christ knows how many other things]

suas are not OWAs like they are two completely different types of systems and problems, you might as well be trying to say a toy rc car is the same thing as a honda civic

FF(X) and BBG(X) is the most embarrassing force structure proposal the US Navy has ever made. 30,000 tons with 128+12 VLS 4,750 with none that isn't even a bad joke, it's a suicide note!

USA 🇺🇸 NYC Les mosaiques de l'aéroport ''Idlewild'' alias ''JFK'' Airport, American Airlines Terminal (1960s)

Airstrikes targeting Shia militia leaders south of Baghdad?

oh everything about this is incredible. “The editor acknowledged that the editorial team is at fault for overlooking the fact that our case was real during the review process,” Abdulsatar said, adding that she was told correcting the correction “would be difficult.”

Reading Victory through Air Power on the subway and nodding my head to show everyone I'm in favor of bombing as a concept

The Marine Corps now officially flies the most deadly air to air fighter in the world.

PLEASE GIVE US F/A-XX

On god as my witness the City of New York used to be better when you read about people's sex lives in gossip columns and from shouting matches out of windows.

PROMOTE ABOVE PEERS

Real Galtieri Hours

The implications are detailed in the 2011 first person shooter released by DICE, Battlefield 3

I'm sure this is fine

JACK NORTHROP'S LIGHT FIGHTER VINDICATED GRAND CELEBRATION! COME SEE IT MAMMOTH HOG 900 POUNDS

McDonnell Douglas. We'll kill you.

weird that this incident comes with it's own soundtrack www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdMC...

This post was Chiang Ching-Kuo'd by Real Soviet-Taiwanese Patriots

THE ONLY THING THAT CAN KILL A BAD MCDONNELL JET WITH A GUN IS A GOOD MCDONNELL JET WITH A GUN

I think there’s actually kind of a broader doomsday scenario where the general ethos of “it’ll all work out” that has pervaded institutions during Trump 2.0 gives way, and everyone looks around and realizes a criminal madman is running the US, like the moment Wil E. Coyote looks down

When this war started & they started talking about regime change through urging an armed uprising, all I could think about was the Kurds getting murked by Saddam in 1991. I didn't expect history to repeat itself quite so specifically, & that's on me

unleashing CHANG

“how about we send the kurds to ukraine” - the greatest thread in the history of the special activities center, locked by a branch chief after 12,239 pages of heated debate