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Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...

submitted 16 hours ago • 3448 comments

Perhaps he'll make the offer that worked so well with Kim -- building condos in exchange for denuclearization.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I've never seen so many geese flying north as this year. It's been a cacophony for the past few days. But I guess fleeing the United States for Canada makes sense now.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Navarro's family should move him to a safe place. Perhaps they could give him a fake television studio to rant senselessly.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Trumpism is the rearguard operation of domination based on gender and race rather than qualification.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

As I've said many times, I question the ethics of anyone who considers a felon and unhinged pathological liar qualified to be president.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

How about that Trump stock market?

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I assume Musk's position is that all of those pikers relying on social security should have had a father with an emerald mine.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I've always found the vast majority of civil servants to be honorable and principled so I can understand why Trump would see them as threat.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The flags in Pennsylvania are at half staff. I assume it is to honor the passing of America's global leadership. By this time next year I expect the Russian flag to be flying with the American one. Elections matter.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I'm having bumper stickers made.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I'm glad I don't have to be a participant in the politicization and degradation of the US military.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Since it's too cold to ride or flyfish, I'm addressing my reading backlog.

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

I'm continuing to develop my ideas on next gen insurgency.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

"...offenders in Ghana...viewed their actions as 'legitimate retribution for colonial injustice'.”. theconversation.com/online-roman...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

I'm remembering why I despise United Airlines. I had a flight from Toronto to Harrisburg this week connected at Dulles. The flight out of Toronto left two hours late so I missed the connection. The only option the agent offered was to take a flight to Harrisburg the next day

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

For example

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

I don't think my mood has ever been darker. I fear the demise of America's constitutional democracy, a devolution into personalistic proto-fascism, and an abandonment of holding leaders to any ethical standards.

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

Nicely phrased.

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

I am deeply pessimistic about the future of American democracy because of the malignant information ecosystem that I cannot see a way to cure.

submitted 93 days ago • 3 comments

The past month has been one of the most difficult in my life. As I said many times, I question the ethics and judgement of anyone who considers a felon, sex offender, unhinged pathological liar and, frankly, unintelligent man suited to be president.

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments

Could a modern US carrier have defeated the entire WW II Japanese navy? youtube.com/watch?v=474R...

submitted 104 days ago • 4 comments

Others have noted it but I will too: The big reason Bluesky is so hot right now is that the people who add value to social media - the frequent posters in specific fields - are here now, talking to each other and creating the "spectator value" that draws users and attention.

submitted 107 days ago • 936 comments

Personal stuff: Since I'm no longer teaching full time I've spent the last three months setting up my dream aquarium. I've been in the hobby for 45 years and have three other tanks, but this is my first foray into discus--the "king of the aquarium."

submitted 109 days ago • 5 comments

Podcast on next generation insurgency. ssi.armywarcollege.edu/SSI-Media/Re...

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

New publication: The Challenges of Next Gen Insurgency press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/viewcont...

submitted 192 days ago • 0 comments

I'm finally reading "August 1914" and think about counterfactuals. Would it have been better for the world if the Schlieffen Plan had worked? Probably no Nazis or Soviet communism.

submitted 223 days ago • 2 comments

I'm organizing the lecture for Landpower in the Asia Pacific in my Singapore course around what I call the "six managements": psychological effects; strategic narrative; deterrence/coercion; partnerships/coalitions; mobilization/sustainment; and adaption/learning/innovation.

submitted 226 days ago • 0 comments

Historically fascist parties support crime that they feel advances their agenda. "Law and order" is simply a useful slogan. Fascism is a revolutionary ideology focused on personalistic rule, faux populism, and hypernationalism, It degrades or destroys constraints on personalistic rule.

submitted 251 days ago • 1 comment

Does anyone know of an online security studies syllabus database? If there's not one I may create one.

submitted 260 days ago • 1 comment

Like the drug problem, addressing the demand side of illegal immigration would be more efficient and effective than supply side solutions.

submitted 262 days ago • 1 comment

I'm a huge free market guy but there's nothing that would jump start economic expansion like the nationalization of the child care industry. For a while my daughter with two preschoolers was spending 50% of her income on child care.

submitted 264 days ago • 2 comments