Thinking about this again today.

The reality is quite a bit more complicated and the concerning part is that ADM Mitch Bradley has been implicated in exceedingly questionable activity before. He was deputy to Vic Hyder, the DEVGRU SEAL, implicated in war crimes allegations post Takur Ghar.

Fucking send it.

Buttar is fantastic. His Red Army series is easily equivalent with the contemporary histories of the Pacific like McManus and Toll, which is no small feat considering the language barrier and the opacity of the Nazi and Soviet regimes.

Map • Micronesia Security Monitor An interactive map highlights baseline military infrastructure and tracks military, maritime, and diplomatic activities across Micronesia.

Want to share the hard work that the people at University of Guam are doing in tracking the current situation in the Second Island Chain. These folks are doing this with very little money and very little support from the wider security research community.

msm.pacificcenterforislandsecurity.com/map

Did you forget you’re the Party’s Army, Tongzhi?

It absolutely does and I am frankly more disappointed that we are choosing not to address it. It tells me that more people agree with him than we’re willing to let on or that we’ve decided that our institutional values aren’t worth defending anymore. I don’t like either of those outcomes.

I am very appreciative of people like @bradduplessis.bsky.social modeling what our Officer Corps should actually be like, for what it’s worth!

The fighting on the other site is really disheartening, to be quite frank. The open harassment of fellow officers by other officers really shows how far we’ve fallen into culture war bullshit.

We’re not going to win a war like this.

I do actually appreciate that they’ve decided BF3/BF4 are canon and the reason RU/PRC aren’t in it is because they lost in 2020. Battlefield really got the good timeline

Also no!

When are you publishing the full book?

When that Philippine Navy SEAL had his hand cut off, I was pretty sure it was on tbh. Still not sure how that did not end in gunfire

The 1988 clashes between Vietnam and the PLA were the last and most serious fight, but I think the PRC is historically more willing to act against Vietnam, knowing full well that they don’t have a mutual defense treaty with Washington

I think both sides are largely aware that shots in anger mean that it’s on and that there’s no turning back after that point. However, I do wonder about the consequences of a China Coast Guard cutter having another accident during a confrontation with the AFP during a comms interruption…

I am becoming concerned this may well be where we are headed. How we have not had such an incident thus far staggers the mind, quite frankly

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And the fact that we presume that we will be given the opportunity to decide the dynamics of escalation is the height of hubris, frankly!

This kind of discourse is exactly why I am so exceedingly frustrated by the conversation re: the PRC. They have already decided to hold my home (a U.S. Territory) at risk. What makes these people think they won’t hold Alaska, Washington, Cali, and Hawaii at risk if given the opportunity? What then?

I am pretty sure DOD is going to have to disarm DHS in January of 2029.

Trying to set up a PLA watching server on Discord, please feel free to shoot me a DM if you have an academic interest in the PLA or PRC’s security structure and would like to participate!

It’s pretty clear to me that Colby et al in the GOP foreign policy sphere have worked really hard to frame the PRC as an racially otherized enemy (a “Yellow peril”) rather than ideological one. I don’t think that approach will end in our favor.

I really cannot understate how important it is for Mil and NatSec folks to be reading Bridge Colby’s book right now, if only for the purpose of knowing what exactly to disagree with.

Carl maybe has a 2.4 GPA, he’s definitely not getting into college

They’re not trying to win your heart or your mind. They’re aiming for Carl Cornfed, 17, who is currently the star linebacker on Wahlert Catholic High School’s Dubuque, Iowa 4A winning championship team.

I think the most incomprehensibly funny part is they left as soon as they were confronted by the notorious libs of the LAPD

I hate how right you were.

I wouldn’t put it past DHS at this rate tbh. They seem to love LARPing as a DoD entity.

My sole criticism with FD2030 isn’t the focus on the PRC. It’s the lack of bayonet strength and Engineer/protection support within the MLRs tbh. They keep wanting the MLRs to duke it out in the FIC without much mass or survivability to do that with. It’s like boxing without any blocking

Czech intelligence reveals China plan to crash into Taiwan VP-elect Czech miltary intelligence slammed the plot as "unprecedented" and a violation of diplomatic relations.

While Washington is asleep, the PRC is slowly and more aggressively showing its willingness to take Taiwan by force. Attempting to attack the Taiwanese Vice President in Europe.

www.newsweek.com/china-planne...