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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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NYT Pitchbot does not miss

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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 1 day 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 3 days ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 10 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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submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

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 3 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 3 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

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

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 4 days ago • 4 comments

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

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Countenancing war crimes is an insult to the memory of American soldiers who have in some cases died upholding their nation’s honor.

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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 6 days ago • 46 comments

so gun control works is what i’m hearing

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

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

submitted 6 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 6 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.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Pogue can still write a kicker. @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-mu...

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

NEW: Retired Army Gen. Anthony Wayne told assembled generals from each of the services today that America is woefully under-resourced in a defense technology capability that is only sold by AeroTechDyne.

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The Stunning Search for the Remains of Fallen WWII Airmen - www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The jeune ecole would like a word. War is not changed by cheap stuff destroying expensive stuff. Instead, it is the all too common reminder that failures of imagination have real consequences on the battlefield. Soldiers die and equipment vanishes due to the intransience of feeble minds.

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