The real casualty of the PACOM renaming open.spotify.com/track/7HjR4I...

Ok, but does the nuclear test vehicle on the National Mall know where it is? newsreleases.sandia.gov/aires-tide-a...

Big if true

Man, 'Why are they even bombing us?' is just an incredibly revealing thing to say, the sort of thing most people only say in the presence of Isaac Chotiner. There's a quote for this one...

Pour one out for INDOPACOM

Every time I log on here, I see some nonsensical, hyper-revisionist, crap like this thread and the associated discussion, mixed with just enough cherry-picked points to make it seem smart vs the self-serving nonsense it is. What a website.

I already thought the university I paid excessive tuition to reaching out and asking me to donate more was extra, but the US hospital I received treatment at reaching out and asking for extra donations is... just absolutely ludicrous within our healthcare system. Shits broken.

"Code Pink is now effectively funded by the chinese communist party" is one of those things that sounds like a frothy right conspiracy talking point, except it's 110% true

This is just hilarious, albeit ridiculous that this is what it's taking to build homes sometimes in areas that desperately need them.

Memorial day always has me thinking. I have many dead friends, casualties of war in one way or another. Many who've spent time in this space do. Those who really try to get things done, the folks who are working late nights and are dedicated to the cause, do so because we understand the consequences

Honestly just blows my mind how ridiculously tunnel visioned and oblivious to anything non-nuke--including things with immense impact to them--the US nuclear community is across large swathes of the community.

Rainy days means books and wargames, and Oak and Iron is such a gorgeous game

idk man, you can shoot HE rounds

I see we're being very loose with the definition of "truth" www.ft.com/content/63aa...

Anyways, good reminder that Qing China was very much a colonial power that exerted control over numerous bordering regions

My flights got PLA propaganda movies on board you say? This flights gonna be a lot more entertaining than I expected.

Honestly though, I think this LC back and forth is a good example of one of the broader issues within liberal groups--it's people who don't have depth of expertise in NatSec arguing about things they clearly have no background in. NatSec is an afterthought for too many

Can we stop using "guanxi" like it's some esoteric concept? It just means relations, using the Chinese word for it doesn't make it something different. The PLA relied heavily on informal networks and relationships, that's all we need to say.

Ah glad Ive been so busy that I mostly missed the “knowing the engagement range of a DF-17 is fascist” discourse today. You know, the discourse that got us into this bc folks ceded understanding warfare to the crazies for fear of being shamed about Knowing Things: open.substack.com/pub/breaking...

Anyways this one I find fun, the PLARF uses different missile-range classifications than us. Which always drives me a little nuts when I see a US product on Chinese missiles 近程导弹 (short-range) <1,000km 中程导弹 (medium-range) 1,000-3,000km 远程导弹 (long-range) 3,000-8,000km 洲际导弹 (intercontinental) >8,000km

Wars start long before the first shots are fired

We can all quibble with some of the details, but @bafriedman.bsky.social nails the core of the problem--D natsec base is slim and unpopular, and the issue just gets punted. You can't not do this work and can't not have a serious plan, especially in 2026... Things aren't getting safer.

One of the most awe-inspiring things to be able to witness, and something generations of people have not been able to experience. Amongst all the other craziness, this is at least one thing we're doing right.

This sounds like it is, quite possibly, the most insufferable book of all time.

I do think they’re trying to kill Paparo with stress at this point.

🎶First it was CENTCOM soaking up funds dropping GBU on shit you could kill with guns then it was CENTCOM once again and then it was CENTCOM again and again and again it was CENTCOM and then again it was CENTCOM again fuck when will it end🎶 open.spotify.com/track/7HjR4I...

And so our return begins. To the next chapter of humanity beyond our pale blue dot. There is so much more out there for us than our screens and grievances limit us to day to day.

Man if you take a swing at Diego Garcia and dont understand missile operations well enough to use more than two...

lol USAID was already doing that also the “organization of public diplomacy” you’re looking for is (or was) the US Department of State.

Finally, some reasonable solutions--it's time to nuke a canal. www.chinatalk.media/p/its-time

I'm somehow seeing Trump conservatives quoting John Locke as if it's supposed to be in defense of their stances and... I don't know what to do with this.

I'm reposting this before even watching because Frank Kendall is always on my watch list and any decent administration next will have him front of the line to be SECDEF. That & the China Talk/2d Breakfast team always kills it.

Humankind: Engages in catastrophic warfare almost constantly for thousands of years Some weird sector of internet Christians: "OMG this is the one it's happening"

Honestly it's such a weird time to spent your career working China seriously

Look, what you've gotta understand is OBVIOUSLY the strategy is to bomb to regime change Iran so we can align them with us against China. 5D chessing everything

The only concern I have with a congressional candidate who wants to back Ukraine to the hilt, defend Taiwan, and impose costs on Israel for gross civilian harm is how much money I can donate to them. You fucking losers.

Well that's an unfortunate naming coincidence, but my Air Force days did not include flying planes or retiring in 1996. Don't train the PLA on how to kill us you fucks. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/forme...

Anyways, I'm very sick of having the majority of this field believe in shallow, universally applicable principles that seemingly solve everything, vs the understanding of nuance and complexity of unique situations that the field demands.

I really hate LinkedIn

Can we stop pretending "what would I do in their shoes" is a valid form of analysis? I don't care what you would do. I care about the decision from a complex system of foreign bureaucracies with differing interests, staffed by individuals with different cultures, history, and perspective than you.

Turns out it was there the whole time, who knew.

CSIS PONI's intro series have historically been quite good, and this follows in that tradition--worth a watch. Somehow large swathes of folks have lost the traditional Halperin/Schelling definition of arms control and adopted a narrow understanding of it that loses the actual aims and methods...

I don't understand how so many of the folks I know and talk to here clearly read a ton, but then still somehow post 10,000 times a day.

People would be wise to take all of the Zhang Youxia reporting with a grain of salt... There's a lot of speculation masquerading as authoritative analysis running around. Fact of the matter is very little is known besides the PLA's press releases, and Zhang and Liu are just the latest of many.

@jhu.edu just emailed out their alum magazine and gotta say, I was not exactly expecting the "ALUM ON ICE" cover story to be about... Ice skating.

Look, sometimes law enforcement issues get misinterpreted by folks with no experience in that world, but this seems incredibly clear and unambiguous.... www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

I don't know who needs to hear this but please do not let the anon meme folks whose policy platforms include paying thousands of people to listen for enemy bombers over CONUS send you to the Ukrainian frontline.

Ok these clowns are either just a hilariously inept group of anonymous wannabes with laughable ideas, or the funniest recruiting op for the Ukrainian foreign legion around. I don't even know where to start with this. defenseanalyses.org/fellowship/