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The Rakkasans (3/101) are unrepresentative at the best of times, but especially under Steele. Old video here, Hegseth sounds aggressive, but not totally unreasonable compared to more recent record on Fox News.

If you think the lawyer who advised on some of the nation’s most sensitive special operations (including, based on publicly avail info, the cross-border raid to kill UBL) is a “roadblock,” one has to wonder what road you plan to go down.

“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

In addition to using actual archival footage of the Doolittle Raid, Destination Tokyo (1943) secures it’s place as top-tier Saturday Dad TV by prominently featuring some 👌 timepieces.

“[S]tripping the armed forces of senior uniformed legal advisors tasked by law to provide independent advice sends all wrong messages throughout the military legal community, not to mention to commanders and their troops.”

ACAB does not include Hurricane.

Absolutely cracker book, cannot encourage everybody enough to give it a read.

Impulse buy at the local swap meet.

This is real lethality.