Les Paul Atreides

This probably feels really good for the satellite

Iranian leaders think they face US government led in the tradition of Ronald Reagan or Barack Obama when in reality the fate of the United States is in the hands of a President whose instincts are a merger of Mao Tse-Tung with PT Barnum

I’d argue that you can trace this back even further all the way back to the civil war when the army was beginning to intellectualize

This isn't funny. My CENTCOM gets very anxious when he has to do something besides hit empty patches of desert with TLAMs.

Seem to be regional? I'm in Southern Ontario

MOOOOOOOOOM THE ENEMY IS VOTING AGAIN

Broke: politics is the art of the possible. in a world of finite resources, people of good faith will always disagree about the best path forward

Woke: the other guys are insane corrupt Nazis

Area poaster discovers poasting is not real life, doubles down on poasting, many such cases

It's also notable to me that these goals aren't strategic goals in any kind of political sense. It's just narrowly defined military objectives.

Geordi leaning on bulkhead outside Dr. Brahms quarters, straightening up and hurriedly changing setting on visor as you approach

The fabulous, most groovy

these were called 'record stores'

Guys, you're still trying to replace the British Empire. I told you we can't do it, and we can't do it. But what we might be able to do it recreate it, we recreate it in the aggregate.

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

May the bawdy headphone noises loft you towards the divine heights of tinnitus.

Wouldn't have pegged you as a power metal guy. But carry on.

CSPAN @cspan . @SpeakerJohnson after House blocked War Powers Resolution: "We're not at war, we have no intention at being at war. The president and the Department of Defense have made it very clear, this is a limited operation."

Darkly funny he had enough self-awareness to revert to "Department of Defense" here.

Every now and then the Indian security brain trust is forcibly reminded of what living under the multilateral might makes right world order they want to bring about actually entails

RIP Baudrillard you would've loved this episode of imperial decline

The likeliest scenario for a very hypothetical Canadian involvement would be a navy task group to help protect shipping in the Gulf.

reading "Bombing to Win" on the subway and shaking my head to show everyone I'm against bombing to win

Logistics is woke. Supply is woke. End-state planning is woke. Force protection? Believe it or not, woke

the problem with aughts critiques of games like CoD is that they all assumed that the single player campaigns were the most culturally influential forms of the medium

Not a ton of learning value from an organizational perspective. Just a measuring contest at a tremendous scale.

Blowing up a half billion dollar exercise because you think the premise is naive is just a vanity play. "I'm smarter than everyone" in marquee letters. It's the kind of move Boyd and Naveh love (and it's often interesting in what it reveals) but it's ultimately corrosive of morale and cohesion.

Broke: regime change
Woke: we changed the regime

People who moved to the UAE for tax purposes are now, I assume, closely examining a map of the region.