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Friday night coalition wargaming (RAAF rep was in town this week) Evenly matched game so far

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The IAEA was publicly stating all of this days before the strike, so it's fair to say none of this was a surprise to the US IC, going back years Only question is if Kurilla is the one who made the decision to squash including that info in the CONOPS brief or if it was made below him in CENTCOM

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Was trying to explain the Senate's role in US politics to a foreigner recently, got through the filibuster/cloture, the parliamentarian/reconciliation, Senate rules generally, and Senate-brain, but forgot "also over half of them have a substance abuse problem and/or literal brain damage"

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Beltway national security personages (rightly) dunking on Hegseth hate when you point out that - indistinguishable from many of them - he’s also a product of Harvard, Princeton, and a charmed reserve career more valuable for mobility and legitimacy than any actual accomplishment.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Glad Dan Caine is standing up there like a fascist dipshit while this is taking place

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Shades of Hegseth's response to signalgate, when the smart play (however correct/right) would have been to say as SECDEF he's an OCA and he made the determination that material could be shared in that environment Arguably top among his myriad faults is he is not a smart man, even/especially at PR

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

MOP was always supposed to be a threat in being to credibly hold particular otherwise unreachable targets at risk conventionally as an enabler to diplomacy (with both enemies and friends) It was absolutely never supposed to be just another bomb, as apparently it's viewed in this Admin

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Oh, huh

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Once again, if there's anyone in the Dem natsec professional briefcase carrying class listening, tell your boss to haul Kurilla to the Hill and get him on record what his communications have been with the Israeli government

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Similar to how the DPG always includes strong language about "these are my priorities" and "everyone will use this as authoritative guidance in POM development".......and then OSD lets the services do whatever the fuck they already wanted to do

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The IAEA was right in 03 and they're right here

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Any reporting from the White House or DOD that reports, "Severe Damage" from the MOP strikes is making shit up. "Severe Damage" is a nuclear damage term. The only way to know what happened from a conventional attack is ground truth. The ground truth from Iraq was not pretty. Not at all.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Oh huh Wow someone should appoint me DNI apparently

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

There is a narrow demographic slice that basically grew up alongside the internet achieving widespread adoption that were young enough during it to be skeptical of fb meme shit (unlike boomers/xers) but old enough to realize short format video as an info source is dumb as shit (unlike zoomers)

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

You'll get this way when you make a habit of hanging out with teenagers when you're pushing 40

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Amy Chua and her consequences

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

There's zero way to know this at this juncture

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

impressive chuck managed to get this out while only typing with one hand

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

jesus christ lmao

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments