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Amphibious Warfare, Strategy, and Clausewitz. CLE expat. Malevelon Creek veteran. Substack: https://bafriedman.substack.com/
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The Athletes United Softball League is playing their first game right now. It’s available through the MLB app or MLB.tv. Give it a watch to support as the league launches so we get more ball to watch. Bandits lead the Talons 2 to 1 in the bottom of the fourth.

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Everyone wants to be a Realist (insist that foreign policy is an amoral object of study) until it’s time to do Realist things (actually counter a potential regional hegemon)

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Given the chance, I will never let anyone forget that the first global war in human history began over control of Ohio.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

And 13 different countries provided troops.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Michigan and inappropriate surveillance, name a more iconic duo.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

How can the Onion possibly compete with reality!?

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Me, as they put me up against the wall in front of the firing squad, desperately trying to think of final words that will echo down the ages: “Oh yeah? Your mom wanted a blindfold and a cigarette, too.”

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Bet all those people who said Suetonius was making shit up "because emperors didn't really act that way" are feeling pretty fucking stupid tonight

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

In case you needed another dose of schadenfreude, Russia's Bryansk airport just appears to have experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

TL;DR: when you flush trash you have problems.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

No they’re all Lepidus.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

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Are the Rockies playing the White Sox?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"A convoy of troops in Cybertrucks under General Big Balls left Starbase near Brownsville Texas today only to spontaneously combust on Northbound 77 between Raymondville and Sarita today."- some newscaster tomorrow, probably.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Shovel ready? Guys I'm not sure the Navy understands how ships are built.

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WTF THE POPE DID IT www.sportico.com/business/tea...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

There's a PhD dissertation for someone studying whether this outcome is caused by deference to the military or the fact that DoD has better organized and better resourced staffs than everybody else. Or both.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments