Trent Hone

Military ethicist here. I used to be Associate Chair of Leadership, Ethics, and Law at USNA. We consistently taught our midshipmen that they should refuse to obey illegal orders. The Uniform Code of Military Justice makes this obligation clear. “I was just following orders” is not an excuse, period.

a man in a blue sweater and plaid shirt is making a surprised face and saying oh . Alt: Andre Braugher, in his character from the TV show Brooklyn 99, slowly looking up and saying, “Oh… n… no.”

It gave me an epiphany too…

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Looking forward to the National World War II Museum's International Conference on World War II later this week. I'll be speaking about the development of three U.S. Navy "systems"—tactical, operational, and logistic—and their impact on the war.

More here: www.nationalww2museum.org/events-progr...

Rear Admiral Willis A. Lee, a gunnery expert who commanded U.S. Navy task force that won the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, preventing a bombardment of Henderson Field. Lee won the battle with the guns of his flagship, battleship Washington.

Indeed… and sometimes they did their job quite well, as RADM Lee demonstrated 83 years ago.

It is unfair. I am so sorry.

“If you want to know how a model will behave, the only way of doing it is to run it,” Mensch also suggested. “You do need to have some empirical testing, what’s happening. Knowing the input data that has been used for training is not going to tell you whether your model is going to behave well in [a healthcare use-case], for instance. You don’t really care about what’s in the training data. You do care about the empirical behaviour of the model. So you don’t need knowledge of the training data. And if you had knowledge of the training data, it wouldn’t even teach you whether the model is going to behave well or not. So this is why I’m saying it’s neither necessary nor sufficient.”

flat out lies. these tech ceos take regulators and the masses for fools

No. It was not.

I think the loss of Saipan (which triggered the collapse of the Japanese government) and the capture of the Philippines (Leyte to Luzon), which cut the Home Islands off from points south, would be more deserving of the description.

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100% this.

If you can't find joy in the act of writing, and feel euphoria after editing several drafts into exactly what your thoughts had in mind (or close to it), then I really suggest you don't become a writer.

The idea, the thoughts, are nothing without execution. The work is the thing.

Ok here's the thing about the carrier debate. Both sides are right and both sides are wrong (thread).

We already do, they’re called books 📚

THE OFFICER COMMANDING TOBRUK, AND MEMBERS OF HIS STAFF OUTSIDE THE ARMY HEADQUARTERS.

🚨 Delighted to share that I have signed with Bloomsbury to write my first book: a study of Australia's involvement and strategic interests in the Middle East and Mediterranean in WW2.

A United States that is disintegrating and no longer a leader in Asia As Trump 2.0 hollows out US state capacity, the Asia Pacific must prepare for a world without US leadership

Want to read what I really think about the Trump administration and the Asia Pacific? Here you go. It’s a goddamn catastrophe for U.S. national interests and for the regional economic and diplomatic order.

Fellowships and Seminars

My running list of fellowships and other opportunities has been updated, including a veteran fellowship recently highlighted by Jason Galui - the Stand-To Veteran Leadership Program at the Bush Presidential Center.

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A turreted corrugated armour nightmare box festooned with machine guns, precariously balanced upon the chassis of an unmodified 1940s farm bulldozer.

Bask in the unfeasible glory that is Aotearoa New Zealand's only locally designed and built Tank.

#OnObedience

Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896

IJN Battleship Nagato
Date: October 27, 1920
Location: Off the coast of Sukumo
Photo: Kure Arsenal Shipbuilding Department
Situation: Public exam in progress

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Did you know that the North American Society for Oceanic History has book awards for maritime & naval history & archaeology? If your book on a topic in those categories has a 2025 original copyright, you’re probably eligible for consideration for this year. Give me a shout if you want to know more!

🚨 @smh-historians.bsky.social: Anyone interested in chairing and/or commenting on a SMH panel about place and memory in the Navy? 🚨

Papers are (1) atolls and lagoons, (2) sailors relationship with their ships, and (3) tattoos.

Mine are in the process of expanding beyond my office and throughout the ground floor as I try to finish the latest book. 😂

@honer.bsky.social book Learning Navy (?) Is great.

Thank you. Yes, the book (Learning War) discusses these issues and explores how the U.S. Navy incentivized learning in the first half of the 20th century. I think it offers a useful perspective.

Since military tattoo discourse has become a thing, it's always good to go to the source.

BLUF: Marines don't get Nazi tattoos. If they do, they become - dare I say it - ex-Marines: www.marines.mil/portals/1/Do...

Sounds wonderful! Thank you for sharing.

This is the way.

Hi, speaking as a USian who did a PhD at a Swiss university: Fellow USians interested in a #polisky doctorate should LEAP at this. Leap, leap, leap.

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments