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Relevant meme from our blog post on the topic: www.the100.ci/2024/12/05/w...

“how about we send the kurds to ukraine” - the greatest thread in the history of the special activities center, locked by a branch chief after 12,239 pages of heated debate

I thought it was a Platner reference.

For the record I have started the book and could not finish it because it is exactly like the Grahams Platner I knew.

I feel like I'm missing key context here...

Never really loved the “Kuwait is not a real deployment” jokes but I think we can finally put those to be as classless and untrue.

Guy basically billed himself as the misogyny chair at MCU - no official affiliation with the school, but I know for a fact that he was sneaking on campus to leave his monographs lying around.

I guess if we ever decide to take on the terrorist Carmen Sandiego I'll know where to get my SMEs.

Fair warning, this has none of the whimsey of Gorka's thesis. No "Venn-like diagrams." No citing Charlie Wilson's War The Movie...

if you want to see something that is sub-Gorka, I would submit this:

So like, advanced land navigation...

That's a thing at USMA?!?

But seriously, putting her and Gorka in the same academic rung is unfair.

USCENTCOM has an energy about it. What other GCC has socialites?

The Man Inside Me by Dr. Tobias Funke

She even turned her research into a book!

That's unfair. Seb Gorka is an appallingly low academic bar which she vaults.

the most "given, never earned" of area studies.

"What if, instead of these small quadcopters that are IEDs that fly at you we decided to put a minefield in the sky."

I think the missing piece was the fact that she was stalking everyone seen in a photo with him - like my impression of this for over a decade has been two women going bananas with no warning and this all coming out.

Kessler Syndrome...but for the SKY!

I’ll say literally nothing else about it but:

A Pre-Seed cUAS startup I’m tracking was just floated a $300mm valuation from a SF-based VC.

Not on a term sheet, just an idea, but the sound of panic is in the air.

I imagine that it was a "you think I'm the most awesome person ever? Wow! We have so much in common! **I** think **I'm** the most awesome person ever TOO!"

hahahaha.

But man, that entire saga was wild.

At least Narcissus had the decency not to fuck the lake.

People periodically try to rehabilitate Paula Broadwell "she got punished more harshly for the same crime". No. She was certifiably crazy. The whole reason the thing came to light is she was cyberstalking Petreaus after he dumped her and was sending anonymous threats to women he was pictured with.

That there is a restive Shia population there?

That's a hard job and I'm glad you were there.

My point being that this is not a hold up.

Sorry. Thinking about CACO is hard at the moment.

You are assuming a loss of accountability that is horrifying here.

Keeping track of people and things is like a Day 1 lesson at OCS.