QOD "...the president’s comment also illustrates a deeper and more troubling pattern in American strategic culture: the persistent tendency to confuse military destruction with political victory."
Isaiah Wilson
compoundsecurityunlocked.substack.com/p/fc6b2271-f...
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I don't care where you stand on Epic Fury, pro or con, but I read nothing about this on CNN/NYT and other news digests, I had to HEAR about it, of all places on NPR and then confirm through Al Jazeera
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
I will say it once, I will say it again. You want ground truth on what is going on with shipping go to:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xUA...
AOD LUCAS = Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System
mickryan.substack.com/p/decapitati...
QOD “A world become one, salads & sun, only a fool would say that”
Steely Dan
1972
Just remember everyone, there is a lot of war going on in world right now—the largest conflict since WWII continues in Ukraine & Afghanistan & Pakistan are at war too, never mind the half dozen wars in Africa.
HERE it is, the largest Military History Department in the world. Yours truly front row 1 from right next to the boss.
This is absolutely an impeachable offense, but Congress is too cowardly www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...
Good Stuff on Spotify by my brother and his partner, Sunflurry
open.spotify.com/album/57IH44...
if you have the clearance, check the old Second Fleet Fighting Instructions from 1980s, they probably have some copies at Dam Neck.
I wonder how hard it would be to "snatch" this guy. Im sure we can drum up some charges in Federal Court against him.
Venezuela seems to respond favorably to unexpected "snatchings"
QOD “Nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror. Much less when war preys on their minds.” Carlos Ruiz Zafon
AOD GRACE=God's Riches at Christ's Expense. Something REAL evangelicals believe.
Putin= Murderer
Trump & Witkoff= credulous putz’s
www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/e...
QOD “Those of low estate are but a breath;
those of high estate are a delusion;
in the balances they go up;
they are together lighter than a breath.”
Psalm 62:9
QOD “don’t believe I’m taken in by stories I have heard.
I just read the daily news & swear by every word.”
Steely Dan
Fm Barrytown
The best song about prejudice & ignorance ever
Penned. In A major.
AOD. INCEL=involuntary celibate. Usually male. Usually a misogynist as a result.
QOD "you cant hide, your lyin' eyes,
and your smile
is a thin disguise" The Eagles (Glen Frey)
www.thefp.com/p/kristi-noe...
“The Trump administration and Kristi Noem are putting undertrained, combative federal agents on the streets with no accountability,”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...
Starlink Users in Iran Get Free Internet Access, Nonprofit Says www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/t...
NYT argues that just cause was a precedent www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/b...
QOD “Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God”
Psalm 42:11
AOD MEU-SOC=marine expeditionary unit—special operations capable. That last part would include unique maritime capabilities like nonpermissive VBSS. Marine supposedly have SOF, what are they doing?? Cmon
@usmarinecorp.bsky.social
Get with the program!
A fire burned overnight at the Salyut plant in downtown Moscow, a facility tied to Russia’s aircraft industry. The site is about 4 km from the Kremlin.
Even the Russian capital’s “safe rear” is starting to look less certain.
QOD “AI is a system to reprocess existing knowledge. Large language models ingest all the data we have ever put into digital form and then spew it back out as probabilistically determined responses to our prompts.” Niall Ferguson
From www.thefp.com/p/niall-ferg...
Chalk another one up to the US Coast Guard, if US Navy isn't careful its going to lose its budget share for this mission to the USCG
@cdrsalamander
@FDD www.fdd.org/analysis/202...
2/ Bella-1
This chase been going on for 2 weeks, so it is not an escalation, as mispresented by New York Times
The US maritime forces pursuing the Bell-1, which reflagged itself as a Russian ship, looks like it has been boarded and seized for violating sanctions and Venezuelan quarantine (Rubio's word, President mistakenly calls it a blockade). 1/
gcaptain.com/us-seizing-v...
AOD SEVAL=Senior Electronic Warfare Evaluator. I did this job in two platforms (see pics). In the 80s and 90s I was the best at something very few people knew about or had the clearance to properly understand. Smug satisfaction in knowing this for some reason.
QOD "In order to garner applause with this happy medium – for true perfection in all things is no longer known or prized – you must write music that is either so simple a coachman could sing it, or so unintelligible that audiences like it simply because no sane person could understand it." WA Mozart
