Thermidorian Reaction

Orphaned Tactics Oops we did it again

“The war with Iran is little more than the joint targeting process unleashed. The Frankenstein’s monster that is the operational level of war, unsatiated after eating strategy, is now feasting on policy”. @bafriedman.bsky.social

Found YouTube videos that’s just fixed camera recordings of mice playing snd now my cats are addicted to tv.

Growing up was me going from thinking the execution scene was Patrick swayze’s worst acting to his best acting. I have a vague memory that they showed this film to some former anti-Nazi partisans and they were like “this is the greatest war film ever made. Army of shadows is stale piss next to this”

My arguments are fort necessity: both indefensible and the inevitable results of my world historic mistakes.

You don’t understand modern warfighting: we’re leveraging joint assets across multiple domains so we can employ fires to achieve full spectrum dominance and enhance lethality. So we can bomb them.

Proud heritage American here.

Family lore has always been that our ancestors who disappeared from Kentucky at the start of the war and then popped back up in Texas after spent the entire war just stealing a tremendous amount of horses and selling them to various armies disinclined to ask questions.

I mean, as your examples indicate it’s a hugely fact dependent question — what other vessels were nearby? How safe was the area? What measures were taken? — we can’t possibly answer at this time.

Aggression — the crime of starting an illegal conflict — is a leadership crime policymakers are guilty of. It doesn’t render operational and tactical commanders guilty of a crime everytime they launch an otherwise legal attack within the illegal conflict.

It’s perfectly lawful to kill unarmed combatants. Being temporarily unarmed does not render you hors de combat.

No. If I’m tracking what y’all are talking about this ship was part of Iran’s armed forces. Unarmed combatants are generally lawful targets unless they are surrendering or others hors de combat — you don’t have to wait for an infantryman to pick up his rifle to shoot him.

I mean, didn’t it also fail in Venezuela? The regime is still in power and their big “concession” to us is they get to sell a bunch of their embargoed oil.

Did they focus group this announcement so every adjective would be more repellent?

Man, my intrusive thoughts would be like “two more American planes and you’re an ace” every time I went up.

Could never do it. I frequently travel to Columbus, Georgia out of grim necessity, not because I want to.

No it isn’t I know that for a fact.

As a fully licensed doctor (of jurisprudence) that is a classic radioactive spider bite dude is becoming Spider-Man.

The best time for China to invade Taiwan was 1683 and they absolutely nailed it. Great job, Qing dynasty.

My wife is a native Spanish and English speaker. Once we were talking in Spanish and I asked her why she used the subjunctive in a sentence and she had no idea what the subjunctive was. She uses it all the time!

What a spectacular analogy.

I don’t even know how many tenses English has, then in Latin I’m like “ah yes, future passive participle, must be a passive periphrastic.” It’s bizarre to know nothing about the grammar of the language you’re fluent in and everything about the grammar of the language you can barely sight read.

Contra Prince, you should absolutely *not* go crazy if an elevator tries to bring you down. Completely normal elevator behavior.

This is the plot to the battlestar galactica remake.

Rise of Skywalker is the only Star Wars film I’ve never watched because I missed it in theaters and at home I always get bored and decide to do something else about 15 minutes in. The made for tv Ewok movies better hold my interest.

Tfw my ignorance, which finds not till it feels, making not reservation of myself,
still my own foe, delivers me as most abated captive to some nation that won me without blows.

I don’t know which party Calvin would support if he were alive in America today, but I know in my heart he would set fire to, just, like so many dudes.

How do you ask a man to be the last man to eat a spat in chicken sandwich because of a mistake?

The most powerful thing you can do in electoral politics is suplex a protestor who rushes the stage. Supleces are always the most powerful thing you can do.

If a clod be washed away by the sea because it cannot afford importation taxes at the port of entry,
America is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each good’s schedule of tariffs diminishes me, For I am involved in trade.