Jeff Meiser

Nobody really thinks the Iranian people are going to rise up for an immaculate regime change. Israel is mowing the grass and the US now committed to the that shitty shitty strategy.

Everyone please read this.

Nope I guess not!

Thanks to Trump, Xi Has Time on His Side With Taiwan Beijing is less likely to risk an invasion while Trump is facilitating its pressure campaign against Taipei.

Well. I guess this is one way to respond to the Davidson window.

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Rubio to visit Israel next week as US-Iran tensions soar Secretary of State Marco Rubio will make a quick trip to Israel early next week as tensions between the United States and Iran soar amid a massive buildup of U.S. forces in the Middle East, the State ...

Does this mean the Friday evening strikes are off?

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Americans' sympathies in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have shifted dramatically, new poll shows A new Gallup poll shows that American sympathies in the Middle East have shifted dramatically toward the Palestinians after decades of overwhelming support for the Israelis.

Seems like a significant inversion

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Pakistan Strikes Afghanistan in ‘Open War’ Against Taliban Regime

“We must have strategic depth!” shouted the Pakistani general

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/w...

My copy arrived!

The coda for these days.

“The pluralists had lost.”

They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted. Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss.

Wow. I guess not surprising but still, wow.
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Trump’s Military Buildup in Caribbean Limits His Options in Iran While no U.S. aircraft-carrier strike group is in the Middle East, U.S. officials insist there are sufficient military assets in the region to strike Iran.

What is strategy?

www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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I give a simple account of the origins of the army's concept.
That is followed by great analysis from others including @heatheratacts.bsky.social @jwmeiser.bsky.social.
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vibe rn

“In the end, U.S. consumers will wind up shouldering most of Trump’s tariffs, sending the inflation contribution of tariffs up as well.”

The Pentagon and A.I. Giants Have a Weakness. Both Need China’s Batteries, Badly.

This caught my attention.

“There are foreign parts in 100 percent of our weapon systems and military platforms.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/c...

CEOs Are Learning to Live With Trump’s Turn to State Capitalism Some businesses have figured out how to take advantage of an expanded government presence in their boardrooms.

What a sad headline

“CEOs Are Learning to Live With Trump’s Turn to State Capitalism”

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'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed Fifteen people were killed in the shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach, as crowds attended an event to celebrate Hanukkah.

Ahmed al Ahmed thank you brother!

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The 2025 NSS says a strategy is “a concrete plan.”
Who’s responsible for this?

Uncomfortable with the First Thanksgiving Narrative? Good News, it’s Actually a Civil War Holiday Take heart, all you who grow unsettled at the time of year where the narrative of friendly Pilgrims and American Indians is spread around to make us feel good about a brief moment in American histo…

Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!

UCSD Faculty Sound Alarm on Declining Student Skills - Marginal REVOLUTION The UC San Diego Senate Report on Admissions documents a sharp decline in students’ math and reading skills—a warning that has been sounded before, but this time it’s coming from within the building. ...

I’m guess college is the new high school. Like a high school diploma means you have a 5th grade education.
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There were precious reports of follow on strikes to kill survivors. In this case Navy picked up survivors. Why?
Also SOUTHCOM commander just resigned.
Is there a backstory here?

Colin Dueck wrote a book The Obama Doctrine in which he argues Obama was a feckless political hack who nefariously politicized foreign policy.

I wonder what Professor Dueck is up to these days?

Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show U.S. technology firms such as IBM, Dell and Cisco largely designed and built China’s surveillance state, an AP investigation finds. The tech companies deny wrongdoing.

So US companies are exporting techno-authoritarianism?

apnews.com/article/chin...

DoD renaming to DoW is the apogee of GWOT lethality cult thinking

Greenland: Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged influence operation The aim was reportedly to infiltrate Greenland's society and promote its secession from Denmark.

Today’s WTF moment

“the aim was to infiltrate Greenland's society and promote its secession from Denmark to the US”
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The Unparalleled Devastation of Gaza Why punishing civilians has not yielded strategic success.

“It has been clear from Israeli actions as well as the rhetoric of numerous Israeli officials that Israel’s war is not simply against Hamas but aimed at all the residents of Gaza,” writes Robert Pape.

New article documenting attacks on academic freedom in the DoD

www.advancejournal.org/article/1431...

The Importance of the Battle of Leuthen - War on the Rocks In the snowy evening of Dec. 5, 1757, a Prussian grenadier sang out the chorus of the hymn Nun danket alle Gott (“Now Thank We All Our God”), and was

I’m surprised by the WOTR battle studies series because I thought batttles didn’t matter?
Or maybe not everyone drank the koolaid?

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