Thinking about this again today.

Want to share the hard work that the people at University of Guam are doing in tracking the current situation in the Second Island Chain. These folks are doing this with very little money and very little support from the wider security research community. msm.pacificcenterforislandsecurity.com/map

Did you forget you’re the Party’s Army, Tongzhi?

The fighting on the other site is really disheartening, to be quite frank. The open harassment of fellow officers by other officers really shows how far we’ve fallen into culture war bullshit. We’re not going to win a war like this.

🧵 (lifts hand above head, waves in a horizontal circle) Huddle up, make a school circle, & take a knee, #CookingForLieutenants is in session. Task: cook Boeuf Bourguignon Conditions: your kitchen Standards: see the gif

I am pretty sure DOD is going to have to disarm DHS in January of 2029.

Trying to set up a PLA watching server on Discord, please feel free to shoot me a DM if you have an academic interest in the PLA or PRC’s security structure and would like to participate!

I really cannot understate how important it is for Mil and NatSec folks to be reading Bridge Colby’s book right now, if only for the purpose of knowing what exactly to disagree with.

While Washington is asleep, the PRC is slowly and more aggressively showing its willingness to take Taiwan by force. Attempting to attack the Taiwanese Vice President in Europe. www.newsweek.com/china-planne...

Bishop Seitz: “People are afraid to go out for groceries. They’re afraid to go to church. I really don’t believe fear adequately describes it. It’s terror…. I don’t think I’m speaking about politics. I’m speaking about faith. Politicians are messing with my faith.” www.ktep.org/2025-06-26/f...

DHS has acquired paramilitary capabilities and authorities without the same institutional standards and limitations of the DoD and DoJ. You cannot convince me that this is healthy for the Constitutional order.

Liddell Hart cooked here ngl

Feel like I’m screaming into the void regarding PRC activity in the SIC and Compact of Free Association states. America is absolutely asleep at the wheel in the region and it’s going to cost us dearly. Kilcullen’s “liminal envelopment” seems more applicable than ever.

This is Woleai. It’s an island in the Federated States of Micronesia with a population of just over 1,000 and land area of less than 2 sq miles. The highest point is just 7 feet above sea level. Yet, this tiny island is the future of US-PRC competition in the Pacific.

My current role violently oscillates between the single most frustrating experience I’ve ever had, largely in terms of dealing with my peers, and the most rewarding experience I’ve ever had, largely because I love working with soldiers. Trying to hunt the good stuff.

There’s a key difference between understanding war and warfare and being a warmonger, and unfortunately that’s not a difference that a lot of folks who get into politics want to understand nor is it something instilled in the schoolhouses for foreign policy.

Thanks to everyone who participated nationwide!

Every 5 seconds, the hottest Chinese woman you can imagine is sliding into a DOGE kid’s DMs. I guarantee it.

Let’s take a look at Cook Islands’ partnership with the PRC. A thread 🧵 www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

I was laid off this morning from USFWS as part of the sweeping DOGE cuts to probationary employees across the Dept. of Interior. To say I'm devastated doesn't even scratch the surface-I'm losing my dream job working with pallid sturgeon on the Missouri River. Solidarity with all my fed workers. 💔🐟

Islander equivalent of touching grass

No nobler endeavor than to commit your life to our ideas and to our friends. Fair winds and following seas, Sgt Durham.

My hottest take is that the United States is ultimately the imperfect expression of a fundamentally perfect idea. Not ready to give that up yet.

Being in the Army in Alaska is not being able to tell if it’s seasonal depression or existential dread

Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare. Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.” We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽

I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and- Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...

This tweet is legit calling out to me like the Green Goblin mask

Cards on the table. I'm an infantryman, and I believe the infantry is the beating heart of American military power. In fact, this is the core of what I believe - a very hard lesson we learned the last time we fought the PLA:

It’s good that the DoD wants to cut all those brigade combat teams because whenever a major war breaks out armies always find that they have way too many trained infantrymen hanging around twiddling their thumbs.

Fuck it, why not. Inspired by @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social and @sodrock.bsky.social. Starring @aoc.bsky.social, @schumer.senate.gov, and @repcasar.bsky.social #GenerationKill #LibMil @workingfamilies.org @indivisible.org @progressivevictory.win @usprogressives.bsky.social @benwikler.bsky.social

Climate and US Security interests in the Pacific: 🧵 amp.abc.net.au/article/1048...

AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.

JUST NOW: Both undersea cables connecting Taiwan and Matsu are disconnected. The government is responding.

"They serve a common good, and duty, not glory, is their prime motivation." @eliotacohen.bsky.social on the difference between warriors and soldiers, and why Hegseth is both unqualified and a danger.

“I don’t want to be seen as a Gestapo,” one former senior military official said. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

-Douglas Haig

Did not have a sitting Attorney General deciding that military service wasn’t a real job and personally telling me to “get a job” on my bingo card for 2025

I’m really frustrated and increasingly cynical about the prospect of avoiding a cataclysmic and catastrophic war in the Pacific. I don’t have any special indications about this, but the combination of my own superstitions, limited grasp of Mandarin, and cynicism is NOT helping.

Every single thing that everybody suddenly wants to do in Greenland - mine for minerals! use shipping lanes! set up bases! - can be done right now, while Greenland is part of Denmark. The discussion of "occupying" Greenland is just a pointless piece of aggression towards an ally.

Man on Guam arrested by the FBI acting as an agent for the DPRK, including an effort to defraud a South Korean consortium in a real estate deal on behalf of the Regime. Feels like the rest of the world understands Micronesia’s strategic importance. Except the US. kanditnews.com/guam-rota-an...

Finally glad to have found novels about a hypothetical military confrontation with the PRC that don’t suck. @tonystark.bsky.social’s Ex Supra and Tom Gaines’ Quantum Dagger are both supremely well written and highly plausible. Took long enough, but I feel like we’re getting somewhere FICINT-wise

Forgot how much I like Shut Up and Dance

white people don't say mucho texto anymore. they say

Hmm can we workshop the name please? They’re going to be bullied by the skibidi kids

get the feeling my batman underoos turned her off. she must be a marvel fan.

Pretty obvious that the PRC has our name and number in the cyber domain. Clear now that continuing to use “near peer” with relation to the PRC as practiced by some senior officers isn’t fair when they’re flying advanced 5th and 6th gen aircraft and conducting increasingly complex cyberattacks on us

The US Treasury Department notified lawmakers on Monday that a China state-sponsored actor infiltrated Treasury workstations in what officials are describing as a “major incident.”

Some thoughts on things that appear to be occurring within Micronesia 🧵 The first is that Guam and the other U.S. territory (the CNMI) are clearly at the forefront of both simultaneous interactions with PRC civilians seeking work and potential malign actors. www.guampdn.com/news/think-t...