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Writing about America’s post-9/11 wars and their aftermath https://linktr.ee/wesleysmorgan Author of THE HARDEST PLACE https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/227894/the-hardest-place-by-wesley-morgan/ Signal wesmorgan.01
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Dutch East India Company fort, a little ways off the beaten track at Sadras, Tamil Nadu—complete with Dutch cemetery, and seemingly designed for seventeenth-century Dutchmen of approximately my stature

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when I was younger I thought the subplot of Ender’s Game in which Ender’s siblings shitpost themselves into running the world was the least realistic part of the book I am coming around to the idea that it was by far the most realistic

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FOLLOWUP: SECDEF Hegseth also firing the CNO, the USAF Vice-Chief, and somewhat unusually and ominously to do in the same breath, the senior JAGs of the Army, Navy, and USAF

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Trump met and was impressed with then-Brig. Gen. Caine (he kept talking about his name afterward) on his visit to al-Asad in Iraq during his first term, when Caine was the SOJTF-I deputy commander. Air National Guard SOF officer who rose to be become JSOC’s Air Force one-star assistant commander.

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This account is like the GWOT, once you go in, you aren't getting out.

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Russia’s executions of Ukrainian prisoners point to systematic policy https://www.ft.com/content/d73113b4-f58a-442e-ae10-a74973ebc49f

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I knew quite a few of those dudes and, well, lol (it's extremely accurate)

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This by the anonymous Ranger Instagram artist “@Barracks_Party” is darkly hilarious and fucked up, but also more complete history of the Ranger Regiment’s story arc in the GWOT 2001-2021 than anything the Army or SOCOM has put out. Hats off to him www.instagram.com/p/DGQvB8mu57...

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They arrived at the United States border from around the world, hoping to seek asylum. Instead, they were detained, shackled and flown by the U.S. military to a faraway country, Panama. Our exclusive look at a new front in Pres. Trump’s immigration crackdown:

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This—government civilians providing the continuity and expertise while uniformed personnel come and go—is also true in important parts of DIA, NSA, etc.

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The DoD firings are going to be... interesting. The DoD civilians are the ones who actually keep the major functions on every base up and running. The military personnel move around so much, there's no continuity without the DoD civilians.

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Chinese military MultiCam knockoff #EverythingIsMultiCam

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Ministry of Defence confirms UK special forces blocked resettlement of 2000 Afghans who worked with British forces - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Quadcopter recording wedding in village in Tamil Nadu

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The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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"Hamas maintains itself through its security services, its administration, but also its volunteers, such as those nicknamed its 'drones'—teenagers who spy for the movement in every district of Gaza. They never disappeared, even during the war." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

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

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