Not enough attention being paid to how fucking stupid it is to issue ultimatums to the Iranian leadership while simultaneously waging an existential war of extermination against the aforementioned leadership that is completely uncorrelated to whether or not they accept those terms.
I don't see any reason why government officials should be protected from reputational damage for their actions while working in an official capacity.
Let's be clear: you would not be pulling THAADs from South Korea and moving a Marine Expeditionary Unit from Japan to the Gulf two weeks after launching a war on Iran if you had properly anticipated the fallout it would be likely to cause.
this means it is not open for transit
Every game I have ever gotten stuck in, I stop and I think to myself: "This is a fully created environment, literally nothing is put here or said here by accident, let's review what we know."
Endless gen AI characters would take that away, among other things.
So this kinda struck a nerve, unlocked a memory, whatever. An experience I’ve carried forward ( my hopes of a career were over by then) was befriending the SNCOIC of the mortuary detail at Bravo Surgical Co in Camp Fallujah. I met him in the smoke pit the day after I was wounded.
Could this be a solution?
…meaning that Israel used about the same average daily number of munitions (~1,000) in the opening week of a campaign against a military with relatively sophisticated air defenses and 600,000 regular troops as in the first week in Gaza, which is one-five-thousandth the size and where Hamas was…
They heard INDOPACOM saying the PLAN was the enemy and they decided the plan was the enemy
>making a video bragging about hitting singular shaheds with PGMs
“The war with Iran is little more than the joint targeting process unleashed. The Frankenstein’s monster that is the operational level of war, unsatiated after eating strategy, is now feasting on policy”. @bafriedman.bsky.social
It’s cool that this generation gets to find out the answer to “what would you have done when we started interning the Japanese?” and “what would you have done when we invaded Vietnam?” and “what would you have done in Watergate?” all at the same time.
What does that imply?
<Grabs the mic> Consultants mattered when there was nuance between the parties and platforms, you no longer need to pay someone to tell you to end the Gestapo, say Trans rights are human rights, and to prosecute war criminals and pedophiles, those are normal stances people already agree with.
The fact that people like Goldberg are still treated as experts on the region is a huge part of how we got here.
Being repeatedly and catastrophically wrong does absolutely nothing to dent the career paths of guys like this, who just breeze onto their next influential and lucrative gig.
I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”
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SOF industrial complex has broken many brains
For a regime that insisted on renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War, and a new and cocky Secretary of War who can’t stop lecturing about lethality and maintaining a warrior ethos, these guys are surprisingly afraid to call a war a war.
This “it’s not a war but a special military operation” is very Kremlin March 2022. As is the propaganda that we are not starting a war but ending one. As is the confusion of oligarch media as it tries to be faithful in the confusion…
"Unleash Chiang" was something that sounded good to contemporary anti-Communists even though the US military knew it was like Scrappy Doo's "Lemme at em" schtick. Struggling to imagine anyone using this phrase today as anything but a joke.
I can’t think back on a time when I’ve ever been prouder to be a Republican, Marco,” Bush said, before recounting the tale of “Chang.”
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Watching in real time what happens when there are lots of tactics, some low level operations, and no strategy.
"No stupid rules of engagement" is how you shoot down three of your own F-15s in one day. Just a shocking display of martial ineptitude.
The number of fixed-wing aircraft lost in friendly fire incidents today equals the number lost during the entire 20-year span of conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11.
But we're going to touch the stove and we'll be touching it more than probably ever before. And we're not going to get burned. We're not going to get burned
And you know, you can extend from this to a real important corallary to "Everyone is 12 Now" theory is "There has been a generation-long project to keep people 12."
Conservative news and opinon outlets, regressive mass audience entertainment products, etc. all propagandize a chilidish worldview.
Per Bob Citino, the American way of war is whatever the plan is, plus 50,000 tons of bombs. Thus it follows that a war without a plan will simply be 50,000 tons of bombs.
per apparently very well-sourced reporting, in spite of the department of war claiming that it wanted only "lawful use", the department of war was in fact demanding that anthropic do mass domestic surveillance. they were simply not stupid enough to put it in the bold print of the contract
really a good sign about OpenAI's own prediction of its trajectory that it is lunging at the killbot, mass surveillance and porn use cases before a lawyer could even read the contracts
