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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social
Not an official account of anything or anyone other than a guy who never learned when to shut his mouth. You'll Never Walk Alone.
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I've heard it cited that the correct force ratio for COIN operations is 25 counter insurgents to 1000 civilians I know what that looks like in Baghdad. Someone else can do the math on that for LA

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

Never been a Marine but I'd be willing to bet that nowhere on 2/7's mission essential task list is "support civilian law enforcement"

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

What we have here is a failure of imagination and a failure to properly frame the problem. In short, this is a design failure.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

IF american politics is inherently partisan AND war is politics by other means THEN the American way of war and the American military are inherently partisan someone give me a PhD and install me as a permanent professor at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Here's what kills me. Trump is correct, and anyone with half a brain could have predicted that he would exercise these powers. That said, I defy you to find a SINGLE active duty mil leader who has thought seriously at all about DoD support to civilian LE in this context since Jan 6th 2021.

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

You know how when you scratch a dog in the right place, their eyes go blank and their back leg starts involuntarily starts scratching too? Cynthia Erivo's voice, when she's really belting it, scratches the equivalent dopamine spot in my brain goddamn she has some pipes

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

A thoughtful thread on the nature of the Guard. I don't have much to add save for what I have already said about the importance of the Commander's intent on DOMOPS.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

I know some of you are friends or colleagues with Dr. Schake, if so could you please ask her what in the precise fuck she was thinking when she wrote this? Thanks!

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

@lindsaypcohn.bsky.social how is morale

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

he didn't learn much from his time in the Guard, did he

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Has anyone asked the marathon initiative crew how all this business impacts our readiness vis-a-vis Taiwan

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Once again, the real problem is when the orders are legal but unethical or immoral. The Army trains soldiers to refuse illegal orders. It does not train soldiers on parsing orders that are legal but unethical.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

*whispers* if he makes an insurrection act declaration he doesn't need the CANG, he can send in any active duty unit he wants, all very much within the letter of the law

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

apropos of nothing in particular, I am thinking about how important it is to have a very carefully worded commander's intent during domops

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

"assorted MA-finishers" lmao i would like to report a murder

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments