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Airman + consultant + aero engineer interested in national strategy, domestic policy, environmentalism, good food, and all things aviation. Views = mine alone. #airpower
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Counterpoint: Robert E. Lee was a treasonous loser who gladly slaughtered his fellow Americans in defense of slavery while being a mildly above average military tactician. He should’ve been hanged in Lexington.

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Candidly, as a civ-mil watcher, this scene at Bragg is freaking me out more than anything else that's happened so far. Just an absolute collapse of professional military norms.

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“INDOPACOM is the priority theater….and by INDOPACOM I mean California”

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

NYT Pitchbot does not miss

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I’d humbly disagree. SECDEF, POTUS, elected officials who lead (i.e. governor of a state with a guard) can absolutely wear apparel from units under their command. It’s in fact probably one of the failings of D admins in not engaging as much with “the troops”

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

81 years ago tonight, tens of thousands of men and women were crowded in ports, on airfields, in hospitals, and in the countless other Allied bases in southern England. They were American paratroopers from the 101st and 82nd divisions.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I always really liked Eisenhower's message before D-Day

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

“My ability to have my grandfather donate a lot of money to a school would be wasted serving my nation”

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This is just morons in the Navy trying to simultaneously juice themselves up while using this as an opportunity to scream for more ships There was very little about this that had anything to do with a conflict with China, and anyone in the building who thinks that should be shitcanned immediately

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

“Little known is how within days of the Normandy landings, allied forces also took Rome and, on the other side of the world, landed on Saipan” “Let this be a reminder to always explore new markets for your SaaS ventures”

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

To whoever put the example form input as: Colonel Robert E. Hogan Luft Stalag 13 Hammelburg, Germany You are my hero

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It is incredibly annoying to read our nation’s premier publications wax poetic about the threat of drones after Bonenplatte Part Deux and just….totally get the analysis wrong.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

“See bro it’s actually better for your neck to just always wear them”

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It is deeply hilarious that the Hudson's Bay Company was founded in 1670 and chugged along for three and a half centuries and Private Equity finished it off in like five years.

submitted 9 days ago • 46 comments

so gun control works is what i’m hearing

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

Meta spent billions on a VR game that like 20 people used and the avatars couldn't even have legs.

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

Joe Biden says he's started treatment for his prostate cancer and the prognosis is good. Donald Trump says Biden was executed in 2020 and was replaced with a legion of clones. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.

submitted 10 days ago • 65 comments

Another example is the American officer corps' admiration of Blitzkrieg as the preferred way to fight. Source: Rolf Hobson 2010 who argues this likely led to post-Vietnam army's reorientation toward operational level war.

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