Will Yale

It strikes me as Orwellian that government officials are peddling fake Orwell quotes to legitimize state violence.

People keep comparing MAGA/ICE/CBP/MAHA to 1930s Germany.

It's also more and more like late 1960s China, during Cultural Revolution. Or mid 1970s Cambodia, during "Year Zero."

A war against knowledge itself.

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Thank God military leaders can still attend * checks notes * Liberty and Hillsdale. Every time I think of lethality, Josiah Lippincott comes to mind.

Disappointed and saddened by DOD decision to end decades of mutually beneficial collaboration between our nation's military officers & our civilian universities and think tanks. A loss for both communities with negative long-term implications for national security and civil-military relations.

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.”

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter

...which both benefits the institution and serves as a retention tool. This policy also ignores the fact that in the post-WWII era, these same universities forged close partnerships with the DOD, which have undoubtedly helped make the U.S. military the most effective fighting force in history.

The DOD's decision to sever its relationships with Ivy League universities is insanely stupid and hypocritical, based on mindless propaganda, and will make our officer corps less competent and less intellectually diverse. The DOD sends some of its highest-performing officers to these universities...

Yes, although it's worth remembering if you go aaaaaaaaaalllllllll the way back it started c. 1990 as a nonpartisan (but still dumb) thing because the acq community wanted a snapper title for their customer beyond "end user"

(fascinating receipts here: languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4339)

Pentagon removes senior official from Joint Staff post, sources say U.S. Vice Admiral Fred Kacher only took the post in December.

In the context of a normal administration this would not make any sense whatsoever. www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...

Making the War Colleges Great Again › American Greatness As President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth work to restore the focus of America’s military on lethality and warfighting, one of their major tasks has been to reform the institutions…

The guy who wrote this appears to be Thomas Robb Anderson who went to law school after leaving the Army almost 20 years ago (logistics). He hasn't been at war college for something like two decades.
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BIG yikes

Making the War Colleges Great Again › American Greatness As President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth work to restore the focus of America’s military on lethality and warfighting, one of their major tasks has been to reform the institutions…

I know that I am late to the game, but...this article is embarrassingly bad. Like, it is shocking that a retired O-6 could write this drivel. amgreatness.com/2026/02/16/m...

This picture is violence directed at me personally.

and an extra $500 billion allocated this quickly is ripe for waste, fraud, and abuse. (5/5)

is trying to reform the requirements and acquisition process, but that sort of change does not happen overnight. Finally, this may be hard for those on the outside to believe, but the Defense Acquisition System, and Congress, have a vested interest in ensuring the DOD does not waste money… (4/5)

the DOD wants to procure are maxed out or close to it, and will take years of investment to expand (more procurement may only add to the current backlog). Procuring new Major Capability Acquisitions takes more than a decade, and even other acquisition pathways take years. This administration… (3/5)

is normally announced (in February), bypassing that process by two years. It is not easy to responsibly spend that amount of money. Even the FY26 unfunded priority list only represents a little more than a tenth of that amount. The production lines for most existing munitions and platforms… (2/5)

To those arguing it should be “easy” to spend an extra $500 billion in the defense budget. The defense budget is prepared on a three-year cycle (planning, programming and budgeting, execution). The request to spend an extra $500 billion in FY27 came a few months before the President’s Budget… (1/5)

This is wild! 🤯

My new favorite arcane DC church fact: there is a shrine dedicated to Blessed Karl of Austria at St Mary, Mother of God Catholic Church, and the church celebrates his feast day every year on October 21st with a special mass.

The National Commission on the Future of the Navy: The time is now - Breaking Defense In this op-ed, leaders of the congressionally mandated commission lay out an ambitious plan to assess the Navy's woes and recommend solutions.

Excited for this to finally get off the ground! breakingdefense.com/2026/01/the-...

David Bawden - Wikipedia

For the uninitiated: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_B...

This is the Anglican equivalent of Pope Michael (RIP).

YouTube video by Ensemble Altera Seek him that maketh the seven stars by Jonathan Dove - Ensemble Altera

Also the text of one of the best choral anthems ever written! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMiJ...

The authors of such a harebrained and intellectually dishonest piece are unlikely to accept criticism.

Oh that N Plus One piece on China is real bad.

This is an opportune moment to call attention to the article in Proceedings I wrote on this very subject! I hope the Navy takes up the idea. www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

Kyrie Eleison.