Mike Black

is the third one audit bullshit lmao

"I cast ~dronez swarm~ and proceed to take hellfire potshots at your base for the next 4 turns until you finally kill all of me"

My kingdom for folks to be able to sit in a (various rehearsal exercises which are not Red Flag) debrief, although even a Tier I Flag or a good WSINT vul will give you a sense of the challenge

Because of the baseline rules (which I won't fight because I can sketch out how they plausibly get to yes) springing a surprise MQ-9/GJ-2 attack by deploying them immediately to the nearest range band is a favorite tactic lol

And we can layer effects, so it isn't the cheapos going in alone and unafraid to win the war (like anduril would have you believe) but rather the cheapos doing things in conjunction with other things so I can shoot 5 AGM whatevers instead of 15 to achieve the same effect at 60% of the overall cost

Like yes it's normie dem fanfic, but normie Dem fanfic in 1999 and normie Dem fanfic in 2025 are very very very different things

Sam and CJ making nonstop (redacted) jokes about Trump, Charlie does BLM shit in between law school classes, and Alan Alda's character tries to do a Jan 6 when he loses and gets sentenced to a million years in jail when it fails

The discourse has gotten distorted because of where Dem politics was on (pick an issue) at the timeframe it was made, but viewed through that lens a West Wing made today identically except the foundational politics have been updated for the median normie Dem in 2025 would go extremely hard lol

Put another way, what if it's a scenario where doing the first bit was.........challenging

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Weeeeeeeeeeeeell, we might in a theater where we're on the wrong side of a cost and distance curve (not CENTCOM)

But that's subject to a bunch of other assumptions that are difficult to talk about in public

My standard canned should be an out of office reply answer now: broad theater wide active defense only makes financial sense when (if) we figure out directed energy

Just light the trillion dollars for golden dome on literal fire and be done with it

We can't do this shit on earth (reverse the cost curve of inbounds vs interceptors) but yeah sure man we can totally do it in space

French, Estonians, someone else I think I'm forgetting

lmao there are corners of this place that are never beating the allegations

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It's part of a network of Russian vessels that have been sailing merrily around busting sanctions for years and doing other shenanigans, regardless of what they told President Grandpa there's a decent chance a Harris Admin does this separate from any Venezuela BS

what

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Lol

Yale continues to not beat the allegations

Killing soldiers retreating from a murderous war of aggression is one of the most moral things you can do in an armed conflict, actually

Like was killing nazis in the Falaise Gap an "atrocity"?

Like half of the strikes at Khasham were after they started retreating, because play stupid games win stupid prizes

Yes a gaggle of Assadist militias and Wagner dipshits getting a stick of GBU-38s dropped on them arehelpless against it, also if you're gonna have to kill someone I recommend that

"Are retreating but unsurrendered combatants a legitimate target" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate .

bsky poasters really trying to get this discourse up to 12,000+ pages

do you have a humiliation kink

This isn't remotely a close call by any objective standard of basic professionalism and ethics, just a question if any bar wants to pretend to have a semblance of standards

The lawyers still working at places like DoD OGC know exactly what they're doing and need to be disbarred after this

It's already pretty common for anyone from a FVEY military traveling on orders to not bring any of their personal devices other than a burner phone, which I expect will become universal now

Mike Johnson hasn't seen this news yet but he'll be looking into it

m w Bowman posting "if I was going to argue a really stupid and unpopular position, i'd at least have the self-awareness to not chimp out about extremely well-researched media that disagrees with me lol" .

For posterity