The United States has spent decades failing to reckon with the fact that it is, fundamentally, a naval power and to be a naval power, a country must, y'know, invest in their navy.

…I think we might have surrendered in a war because our president gave the treaty the ol’ Apple Terms and Conditions skim before clicking agree.

Don’t see how this holds for two weeks. Or two days, for that matter.

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...

Tough couple of years for MQ-9s between this and Rough Rider in Yemen.

You got NYT going to press with “North American Treaty Organization“ in a headline and as the PREMISE for the entire article. WSJ thinking asymmetric warfare is when ground fire hits a plane.

These people.

Don’t know.

About anything.

Set play. Gorgeous. Watch Cole right from the draw in the upper left.

And it will probably be the case that all of them are correct

I never want to listen to Tampa complain about Florida when this is how they handle losing to Montreal lol

His meaning is "The Greater United States," in the same sense as Grossdeutschland.

We have a naval campaign for key maritime terrain being run by Army strategists using the Air Force.

They've never been super close with Iran despite the Iranian support and seemed pretty content with their separate peace with the U.S. following Operation Rough Rider last year.

I imagine the deciding factors for them will be managing popular sympathy for Iran and their own fuel supplies.

Only because it’s going to take a bit to get forces in place….

I know people hate theory but necropolitics should be a lens more people are familiar with right now.

The problem here is that there is more thought and planning in this thread than will go into the actual decision.

Europe had some carbrain too, but like, the centre of Cologne is significantly nicer today than the median North American downtown.

U.S. foreign policy has been captured by dorks obsessed with the movie 300 and the only way to fix it is to put in power dorks obsessed with the movie Master and Commander.

Look at this excitable little Muppet. You wouldn't let him run a range.

Operation Prop Up The Markets Garden.

Anecdote told to you by a dissident refugee from communist Poland in 1986 type shit

I want to make clear for a second with this comment, it’s not just the green dipshit in this particular thread, it’s the entirety of 21st century fucking politics doing this now. Republicans want manufacturing job where hungover man swings hammer, because of aesthetic.

Hell yeah

Right. Lots of speculation on this site all week about what the Marine Expeditionary Units headed towards the Persian Gulf might do, most of it pretty unhinged, so this thread is MEU 101. I'll keep adding to it as necessary.

Top 10 video game weapons (definitive):

1. Canister shot
2. Trebuchet
3. Springfield Model 1861
4. Thermite rifle (The Order)
5. 12-lb smoothbore
6. Charleville musket
7. Grapeshot
8. Shrapnel shell
9. The shotgun in Doom
10. Katyusha

It is 100% true that great men and women of the past were not sitting around moaning about their feelings. I regret nothing.

It’s really funny that all of these guys would tell you with a straight face that they have read Meditations 1000 times

Content is bad

turning a big dial taht says "Campism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

The political culture of the contemporary GOP is indistinguishable from that of the school shooter community

Guys it’s not happening. The Navy doesn’t have the right ship mix nor near enough hulls nor near enough sailors if it did. It’s too small, overstretched, and underfunded.

Which is what the navalists were trying to say before it was too late.

Well, it’s too late.