Live look of the apolitical military professional:

These guys are better equipped than half the Ukrainian infantry

Lol

If you think that now, wait until more of his work is properly translated and published.

75 years ago today, the 1st Marine Division and the 1st Korean Marine Corps Regiment liberated Seoul from North Korean occupation. We are the inheritors of this legacy and stand ready to defend our allies if called upon again. “Have no fear, the 5th Marines are here.” 🇰🇷 🇺🇸 🦅 🌏 ⚓️

look given the current state of affairs at foggy bottom outsourcing our diplomacy to doha isn't the worst thing we could be doing

Wat

Embrace bill Kristol thought

Live look of the apolitical military professional:

Huh

If we are not citizens by birthright, we are not citizens in any useful sense at all

“What if we put a terminal O-4 in charge of the pentagon?”

CENTCOM starts indiscriminately firing tomahawks into Iran to try to get out of Pete's all-hands meeting

Warrior ethos you say

I wrote something on alternatives to the Schlieffen Plan and why it’s worth thinking about pasts that never were open.substack.com/pub/deadcarl...

My prediction (based on no insider info, just reading tea leaves from the article) is that he will: 1. Unveil the new Nat'l Defense (War?) Strategy 2. Unveil a new (consolidated) global C2 structure 3. Unveil a (substantial) redux in GO/FO positions/ranks www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“ThE PaRtY oF NaTiOnAl SeCuRiTy”

@yalebooks.bsky.social have outdone themselves with the cover of my new book. Out in January for anyone interested.

I assume their theory of victory is “if we stop boats by just blowing them up, we’ll stop drugs.” Meanwhile everything will just keep going through ports of entry smuggled in by US Citizens

a) why would companies build in the United States when the foreign workers that have to actually build the thing and train American workers when they randomly get raided by ice b) trump could taco next week c) it’s only getting more expensive to build

Stove touching truthers:

Getting men involved in collective projects of meaning?

Not just senior members, the NSA to the VP and DNSA to the principal, which is why it’s incredibly hard to take this paragraph seriously

He wants to look cool

The most brilliant campaign in American military history, send skeet

High school?

One of these days we will get a populace capable of reading Glantz on the Soviet military and Citino on the Germans, but it will not be this year

1st Baltic front and 3rd Belorussian Front meeting up after encircling 3 divisions in 48 hours:

“Oh, you’re debating how effective concentric attacks against Soviet tank armies at the end of their offensives were?” Nope

There are questions about WWII that are worth litigating like "Did blitzkrieg meaningfully exist?" Unfortunately we're stuck in "The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact doesn't count" and "What the fuck is a Pacific War?"

i live for these moments tbh when/if i have kids, i'm going to be the academic mom equivalent of a WW2 dad

Really not beating the century of humiliation allegations

“The vice president of the United States is fighting with rando podcasters on the internet”

155% tax rates for billionaires at home, 155mm for billionaire dictators abroad, and 155 SEC investigations into Ticketmaster

I’m sure there is an element of truth to this but there always has been an absurd double standard for elected officials and political appointees when it comes to handling classified info…

something that's cool with this admin is basically anyone can say whatever about anything because there is no coherent messaging control and so you get the Treasury Secretary undercutting Article 5 while SECSTATE/APNSA talks about economic policy and the commerce secretary announces new visas

Ngl it’s kinda funny a coalition of people from his own party and other groups tried to curb his power because he’s nuking an already fragile public education system and he’s still going full steam ahead

Oceans are now battlefields ass sentence

Liberal internationalism is dead so you might as well spinzone this around on them into an election issue

“Divisive feminist agenda”