This article is excellent.

Tactical Success, Strategic Failure? Washington Walks the Path to Defeat in Iran Six weeks after the United States and Israel launched a war against Iran, what was the political object? Not the military means and objectives — those are

War will forgive many sins, but not the confusion of aims and desired outcomes. The war on Iran follows an American tradition of striking with precision in the absence of strategy. But as with all these days, it's got that extra...je ne sais quoi
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Captain Ahab remained invisibly enshrined within his cabin.

Hope with all my heart that my beloved country won’t commit further atrocities under the current corrupt leadership. The miasma of moral weight caused by such heinous acts will hang over us for a very long time. The contrast with the joy of the moon mission is so sharp. That’s who we’re meant to be!

there are many horrors contained in the Trump admin's war in Iran. but one of the lesser ones is the way he has turned us into the audience for his reality TV show. will he or won't he? tune in at 7! grotesque voyeurism that implicates us all.

FD2030 remains vindicated

At least now I know what the Brits felt like watching their global prestige collapse during the Suez Crisis.

guy who has only read Henry V....

"im getting strong Harfluer vibes here"

He called it a ”neurological“ strike in the podcast episode.

Lock, Stock & One Smoking Barrel

If you leave biscotti and espresso out for Giulio Douhet, he’ll bring you another century of misused airpower.

Well I sincerely hope there isn’t a *third* time we land C-130s at a desert airstrip in Iran, after how this time and the previous time went. Incredible that none of the rescuers were killed and a testament to them, but holy shit, talk about history rhyming.

agreed.

Days - 1500
Casualties - 1,380,000🌻
Economy - ⬇️💩🚽
☢️threats - 🥱
War crimes - ♾
NATO - +🇫🇮&🇸🇪
Arrest Warrants- ↗️
Warships- ⛴️⏬
Aircraft - 🚀💥
Submarine - Sub marine
Oil refineries - 🔥
Oil exports - ⬇️40%
Dead generals - 20+
Army - Stuck
Trolls - Coping
Red lines - Crossed

I remain a master strategist.

Writing is thinking and hard and painful and worth all the damn effort.

a man is wearing a black sweater and making a funny face . ALT: a man is wearing a black sweater and making a funny face .

Noooooooooooooooo.

All senior officers serve at the pleasure of the President. Firing lots of them is a bad idea both because it squanders talent and causes the public to view our military as partisan.

Congrats to the new attorney general and army chief of staff Marcos Rubios

Thanks.

@iantb.bsky.social I just learned about remarks Boyd made to the USMA in 1987. Do you know anything about this?

I’m glad you enjoyed it!

I just realized this was published almost 10(!) years ago.

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“Did we hit the given object? Exactness. Ought we have hit the object? Appropriateness.

Or, in Clausewitzian terms: Can we hit at which we aim? Tactical precision. Ought we have hit that object? Strategic accuracy.”

Points that have gone entirely unheeded.

Targeting Clausewitzian Judgments: Fusing Precision and Accuracy to Strategy and Tactics Just as no war can take place without an enemy, there can be no war without targets. Considering the enemy, as a whole, a target, while true, borders on tautology. Instead, we subdivide the enemy into...

“Targeting Clausewitzian Judgments: Fusing Precision and Accuracy to Strategy and Tactics”

It’s fun to remember, I already wrote the thing I would like to say!

@thestrategybridge.bsky.social

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Re-upping my article from 2018 for @warontherocks.bsky.social

“Geopolitical Gerrymandering and the Importance of Key Maritime Terrain“

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Opinion | Is It 1914 in America?

This is phenomenal.

And, even better, I might be able to use it in my dissertation!

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Wow!

Learn about the other 304! Opha May Johnson is not the first female Marine you’re looking for.

h/t @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social

Oh, this is awesome.