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10.0 from the East German & Soviet judges. Absolute perfection.

You couldn’t go five minutes without hearing the word “littoral“ for the last dozen years or more, and now things are actually kicking off in the littoralest littoral in the world and the USN is all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The replies are right that’s he scared of nukes but each day it stays in the news cycle probably ratchets up oval office meetings, truth social poasts and off the rails conferences where steam is coming out of the ears and he’s desperate to make it go away.

Lots of discussion about the ARG/MEU team recently.

Here’s a few of our thoughts on what ARG/MEUs can, could, and should do.

www.usni.org/magazines/pr...

Also another thing ball knowers were worried about (vulnerability of planes on the ground to fires) coming to fruition

So that’s 6 damaged and 1 lost (plus 6 KIA) in the last 24 hours

Weren’t they having pretty significant reserve dodging problems? Where are they going to get the manpower for this?

jesus man

That includes the entire city of Tyre!

What my overhead press looks like

It’s Friday my dawgz and dawgettes

after that second happy hour beer hits

Like where is this money going?

so we struck Kharg but not the oil infrastructure?

we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Using Iron Dome to hit MRBMs is a sign something’s gone wrong

this is an acknowledgement the US will have to fight to reopen the strait

Power rankings of US combatant commands:
1. SOCOM
2. CENTCOM
3. SOUTHCOM
4-10. everyone not-INDOPACOM
11. Pentagon Starbucks barista
12. Random taxi driver at Dulles
13. WMATA train conductor
14. INDOPACOM

After soldier is killed in Iraq, France confronts costs of Middle East engagement Emmanuel Macron announced the death of a French service member in a drone strike claimed by a pro-Iranian armed group. Six other soldiers were wounded.

French infantryman killed by Iranian drone in Irbil in northern Iraq

(French forces have been up there for years training and advising Kurdish troops, who French SOF accompany in combat missions against ISIS—last French KIA in Iraq was on such a mission in 2023)

"hey, get a load of this grass-toucher"

Has anyone else teaching at the university level noticed a dramatic decline in participation/student engagement quality this spring? For me the difference from Fall to Spring this year has been DRAMATIC.

All the people these thugs have been harassing and hunting are having one hell of a laugh today.

Here we are like two weeks in and they're finally sending a MEU. What is a MEU going to do with that mess other than make a big show of evacuating any furious people still stuck in the countries being hit?

And as a fun related legal fact, the failure of a commander to punish war crimes by his subordinates is also a war crime under the doctrine of command responsibility.

Published by the Naval War College in 2021:

digital-commons.usnwc.edu/ils/vol97/is...

Anyway that 23 year old who loves Zohran but also Nick Fuentes got me thinking about this survey again

A tall dark cold one on a snowy (?) Friday morning

Anyway airport law is in effect time is not real. Bottom’s up

Innenminister Wilke spricht von "Brandanschlag" auf Asphalt-Werk Nach dem Feuer in einem Asphaltwerk in Wandlitz geht Brandenburgs Innenminister Wilke von einem Anschlag aus. Ermittler sind vor Ort. Die Reparatur soll drei Monate dauern.

Nach dem Feuer in einem Asphaltwerk in Wandlitz geht Brandenburgs Innenminister Wilke von einem Anschlag aus. Ermittler sind vor Ort. Die Reparatur soll drei Monate dauern.

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

FYI 😁
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