maybe we should decrease public literacy wrt national security (2025)

We're Wey Boyz now, the term navalist is just too disgraced to be of further use

All veterans should have full access to reproductive care, whether it is contraception, counseling, abortions, IVF, or surrogacy. They should not have fewer benefits than the All-Volunteer Force or civilians. This furtive policy change is an insult and an attack on America's promise to veterans.

this is just insane

Don't forget to use the holiday slowdown to rack up your CL credits and get your DAWIA certs

me irl

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

I disagree with a few parts of this about intent from RIS in the sabotage campaign but agree with the conclusion that the more Russia tries to escalate horizontally the best response is to double down on Ukrainian assistance

Good morning to Lisa Franchetti only, I hope she is having a good day

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense force working on railguns instead of modular gold-plated hulls.

I see posts saying $10-15b for the first tranche of 10 ships and no that’s gonna be for the first two units (minimum)

Make Nearer my god to thee the new navy song

Army folks logging on like “Oh is there a shipsball going on?”

All Wet Boyz in play are placed in [Psychic Purgatory]. While in [Psychic Purgatory], Wet Boyz cannot die from Psychic Damage, but at each application thereof Wet Boyz accumulate Insanity Tokens. At 50 Tokens, Wet Boyz undergo [Deep Navalization], becoming eldritch-type creatures— [Moist Men]

make it stop make it stop make it stop make it stop make it stop make it stop make it stop make it stop make it stop make it stop make it stop make it stop make it stop make it stop make it stop make it stop make it stop make it stop make it stop make it stop make it stop make it stop make it stop

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So: 2 battleships in the initial block buy 8 more to follow, with a total of 20-25 Will have hypersonics, railguns, lasters, SLCM-N (BLCM-N) Complete in 2.5 years (just like Golden Dome)

artist rendering of the new Trump-class

live look at Chris Kastner

dawg we're doing BLCM-N I need to lie down

calamity

Sure looks like rain today www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Right, so based on what POTUS is apparently planning to announce later this afternoon, have a thread on why surface combatants *might* want to be large. (Capital scale artillery is out. Go invent a Time Machine if that’s what you want.) This comes down to requirements, as all engineering does /1

lighting incense and praying to the ancestor gods to just make it an arsenal ship and not whatever else our president and his fluids are asking for

In a brief post shared with her 3.7 million Instagram followers, Malala Yousafzai looked back fondly on her travels to Egypt, Greece, Tanzania, and Ireland. She also wore an Eagles T-shirt in one of her photos. Go Birds. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/eagles-...

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posting a request for advice in the group chat

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This is consistent with a D+9 environment

Pakistan strikes $4 billion deal to sell weapons to Libyan force, officials say reut.rs/3Y7LwBK

An updated concept for Frankel's Dual State model for the US where the normal stuff like NATO working group is going on, regular exercises occur, joint planning is reportedly good. And then on top of that you have all this shit on top of it that may or may not interfere with the normal functioning

man Reis looks real old

🎶Standing at the Gaaaaaate🎶

On December 21, 2025, a major naval platforms delivery ceremony was held in Istanbul Naval Shipyard, which marked the delivery of naval platforms to the Turkish Navy and Pakistan Navy 🇹🇷 🇵🇰 www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

Good bit of research on what's going down with the Russian fiscal picture in 2025. Spoiler! Its bad, but not so bad www.bruegel.org/sites/defaul...

‘Russia’s military and security services give Putin regular updates that inflate Ukraine’s casualty numbers, stress the country’s resource advantages, and play down tactical failures, two officials said.’ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Returning to my peasant roots by getting into obscure Christmas ales

peedf of the day dair.nps.edu/bitstream/12...

Is he…y’know…a theater kid?

This isn’t even my final Eels

Who decided to call it “Avatar, a saga of families and relationships being built in a new land of ageless immortals and epic beasts where the creatures of the natural world struggle in wars against the invading forces of devastation” and not The Jimarillion

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I still can’t believe Shin James Cameron flexed on us all by giving the people Na’vi David Thewlis and his traders flying aboard jellyfish zeppelins pulled by cloud squids and that’s not even the 5th most insane and perfect choice in the movie

I wanna ride on Na’vi David Thewlis’ jellyfish zeppelin