Dr Emma Salisbury

For the nerds

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

For an administration that is trying so hard to change the Department of Defense to the Department of War, it's amazing how reluctant they are to say "war."

Department of Major Combat Operations won't fit on the sign, I guess.

The first US strikes on Tehran look to be TLAMs launched from USN ships in the Gulf.

He wants his Warmonger badge

Innovation is not the preserve of the great powers, and lowers the cost of entry to fighting them

If you want to read something that runs the full gamut from misguided to just plain incorrect, boy do I have a recommendation for you

A better cosplay if I cause a senior officer to yell "GODDAMNIT"

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Royal Navy: "No photography will be permitted on your visit to the aircraft carrier."

Me: *sadly packing away my Maverick cosplay*

Hearing that the US Fifth Fleet is dispersing out of Bahrain.

Here we go again (derogatory)

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I am aware that I should catch up on the SOTU speech because it's, like, my job, but ughhh

That went very well for him, right? (No spoilers)

I mean, he's technically correct

We're always told that people get more conservative as they get older, but the longer I spend in this timeline the more I wonder whether we should just eat the rich.

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"Will bombing Iran be a distraction from the child sex trafficking or the economic suicide?"

Ford carrier group arrives in Mediterranean, bringing more potential strike options against Iran The arrival of the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group in the Mediterranean Sea brings a naval firepower boost as the U.S. amasses airstrike capabilities in the Middle East amid rising tensions with I...

My first outing in Stars and Stripes, talking about US strike options in Iran:

www.stripes.com/branches/nav...

This this this, it's the best

I have been asked to clarify that this is not meant to be offensive to weasels as a species, merely as a comment on their strategic acumen when stuffed in a bag, thank you for your attention to this matter

I've done a lot of interviews about this now - every journalist asks me what's going to happen.

I tell them that if this were literally any other administration, I'd be able to make a confident prediction, but the US is currently run by the functional equivalent of several weasels in a bag so 😬

Sadly no, but that does make things easier!

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I am visiting an aircraft carrier next month and I am being exactly as chill as you'd expect about it because I am a **professional**

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Multiple press interviews today about US carrier deployments in the Middle East, love being an expert on scary shit

What we ban here in Europe is mainly stuff in the neo-Nazi realm so this sounds an awful lot like Völkischer Beobachter dot gov

I got to go nerd out about naval drones at Kraken today, 14/10

Battlespace Advantage Symposium 2026 - The Air & Space Power Association Battlespace Advantage Symposium 2026 - Achieving Battlespace Advantage Across and Through all Domains | The Air & Space Power Association

I'll be talking Air/Maritime Integration at the Battlespace Advantage Symposium in London on 25 March.

Come say hi if you'll be there!

airspacepower.com/conference/b...

I think they count as LARP-safe

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Went to play Airsoft today and there was a kid there in Waffen SS camo.

Pretty sure he got shot **a lot**

My favourite animal since I was small!