The Heathen Historian

Now I wanna send that dude an email and ask if the AUSA article was just a bit

You know the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles soundtrack still holds up

Huh. Is this not going down the way you thought, AUSA?

AUSA.org put that bullshit Major's article behind a paywall cuz of fucking course they did. Cowards.

One of the guys in the office proposed everyone wear speedos for their official photo

Credit scores, divorce rate, and pull ups for maximum lethality

The officer corps is even more broken than I originally thought. There is no saving it from the post-GWOT dank meme podcast cohort.

I would like a career policy professional who doesn't care about "optics" as our SECDEF instead of a Fox News host who put a makeup room by his Pentagon office please.

At this point I wonder if anyone at CENTCOM or in the National Command Authority articulated any risk in bombing Iran, or if they just hand waved risk assessment cuz Venezuela and the last Iran operation were so easy.

Bad policy direction, bad strategic analysis, and bad budgetary oversight really jacked up all the services, not just the Navy. The military can't do what leadership demands it do.

CENTCOM was the supported command for over two decades with Afghanistan and Iraq. We "shift to the Pacific" and they lose their ever-loving minds.

Great power competition using proxies is back baby

If the CENTCOM J3 didn't identify the Strait of Hormuz as key terrain during their planning process then they EPIC FAILED cuz this is just a shit show from start to finish, whenever that is

a bald man wearing glasses and a blue shirt is saying you are halfway through netflix ALT: a bald man wearing glasses and a blue shirt is saying you are halfway through netflix

Happy Wednesday frens

This is a CENTCOM planning fail at every level. How do you miss anything having to do with the strait when every wargame and every scenario with Iran includes it. Epic fail (pun intended)

If the US Navy has to "weigh options" on how to deal with the strait of Hormuz, then Taiwan is absolutely fucked

A rare Flying Floof sighting in the wild

DoD: focuses on lethality

DoD: not focused on the other aspects of warfare (see below)

"Every ship can be a minesweeper. Once."

~ office mate

It was inevitable and wholly expected.
This will make opening the strait nigh impossible.

"Imposing Sharia law" has been an Islamophobic trope for decades now and has been used to justify racism and hatred since at least 9/11. It's always about the people not just the religion.

You literally cannot say both. It is axiomatically incorrect to try and say both. It is not a thing you can do. Like at all.

This is called "lessons not learned and lessons ignored"

Favorite new word: greeblies

Why don't they ever ask historians I scream into the void of nothingness

To be clear, white guys like Andy here have been saying this or that person or group doesn't belong in America since before America was America so yes destroy him but also, it's not a new thing.

I really wish Americans, especially those in the halls of power, would stop mirror imaging or catastrophizing in order to justify their violent bullshit policies. Iran doesn't want a nuclear weapon, nor do they want to strike the US homeland.

Look I know we feel ourselves invincible but the first ship that gets hit and we're right back where we started but with one less ship

Get your motor running
Head out on the highway