Giled Pallaeon

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

Naval History folks, anyone know of good books on the naval war in the War of 1812, preferably featuring the shenanigans on the Great Lakes?

#navalhistory #history

As basically the one surviving civilian in my organization that is any meaningful way a war gamer, no it isn’t, and it’s a shame.

Also most professional (as in by and for DoD) games aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. Exceptions prove rules and all that though.

Today in Too Clever by Half License Plates:

II11111

I am a huge fan of the Ukrainians getting a Tomahawk-like capability

I am steadfastly opposed to giving them the Tomahawk

Imagine being in charge of nuclear weapons, in charge of developing the weapons systems of the future, of battleships and tanks and bombers and fighter jets and you spend your time mad about whether people are shaving.

This sounds amazing

*begins briefly skimming history of where in Europe who invented what in America immigrated from*

True justice is built on facts. “Justice” built on fake history is wandering around wondering where the line of intellectual masturbation is drawn.

All of that to say you’re in the right imo, even if the sleeplessness is less than ideal.

Honestly this is the best news I’ve seen in weeks

Motion to rename Poaster’s Brain as Noah Smith Syndrome

It’s difficult to succinctly explain the issues with the Quantico stunt, but in terms of strategic mentality issues, this is pretty good

Mike you know commercially available games can’t possibly be serious things

Unfortunately most historical Imperial German awards were reused about 30 years later, usually without or with only one specific modification. And if that’s not disqualifying for you, I kinda want to piss you off.

I’m doing an online historical campaign with friends, and I’ve ended up the overall commander for the German side in an ahistorical 1914. I’ve decided my players will be awarded modern FRG awards for gallantry for a very simple reason: anyone mad about not using historical will be madder at this.

I just want to live in a country that gives me the legal right to burn a flag -- but no reason to want to do so

Alternatively we can discuss how “on average” defense columnists not working for dedicated defense outlets are fucking morons who don’t know a rifle from a pistol.

(Exceptions blah blah blah)

I’m calling for a complete and total shutdown of people talking about what the infantry does or doesn’t need as standards until they demonstrate they know two things:

Infantry != all soldiers

Future war will not require infantry as it once did/any semblance of understanding where war is headed

There’s a reason I consistently describe Stellaris as an RPG. The gimmick is that your role is somewhere between God, fate, and the inevitable course of history.

Those are in short supply though

This is genuinely “Don’t fight a two front war” level insight, down to not accounting for hostile agency.

This is probably in The Art of War, which is very much not a compliment to those hawking it as a revolutionary strategy.

Honestly kinda underselling the density of bullshit here

A page from Jacobsen’s book. Alternatively a crime against knowledge and gross misuse of the English language as the means of the crime.

If I have to know this page exists, with the greatest respect, so do you

It was, repeatedly, roasted to charcoal, the charcoal burned, and the ashes launched into the sun. And the consensus was that was too kind.

AND THAT WASTE OF PAPER AND INK DESERVES IT FOR ALL THE BRAINCELLS IT KILLED

See here or whatever @mikeblack114.bsky.social has tortured himself with. bsky.app/profile/gile...

And I’m not sure that’s even the greatest density of errors per page, it’s just the page I have handy. Does the vitriol make more sense now?

That is a Ground-Based Interceptor, and not all that far off from a ballistic missile of its own in performance. Except rather than boosting a warhead bus, it boosts this small* satellite with a giant attitude problem whose whole job in life is to win a game of chicken with the warhead bus.

Now, midcourse intercept is hard. The missile bus is above the atmosphere*, the motor is likely both off and separated, and truly advanced missiles may have started to deploy decoys and confuses. That being said, this is where we’ve dumped (quite a few) billions into building this missile.