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The “Games of War” hybrid conference at the University of Gdansk is approaching on 24 Feb. I’m honored to be talking about how military educational #wargames can incorporate lessons from Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine. Info and registration here:

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Yup. It would also potentially tell us who was either passively complicit in not talking about Biden’s obvious mental decline out of fear, or actively complicit out of desire for some personal advantage, because Democrats should never allow those people near electoral campaigns again.

To change the narrative that she was oblivious to pocket book issues and couldn’t tell people what would CHANGE from an unsatisfactory situation, and so gladly told her what she wanted to hear instead of what she needed right up until Election Day, making bank all the way.

Whereas the actual report might indicate that a larger factor was Harris’ utter refusal to tell Americans tired of inflation, high prices, and other things that she would do anything differently, and that her campaign flushed money down the toilet to operatives who made bank but did nothing

They could release the entire report. They could just do that. Because hidden data leaked by a not-disinterested second or third party may provide comfort in reinforcing preferred narratives but provides nothing else. B/c saying Gaza cost Harris the election is a comforting reinforced narrative.

The difference between the gold and Canada blasting USA 6-1 was Hellebuyck. That guy better not have to buy a drink fo the rest of his life. #TeamUSA #USAHockey

That was an absolutely epic game with both teams leaving it all on ice. #TeamUSA #USAHockey

Still, #TeamUSA defense was absolutely suffocating in that period.

Oh man, double doink off the goalposts? Brutal. #TeamUSA

#TeamCanada, that was your chance. #TeamUSA not gonna make it easier than that.

That was a nasty, beautiful goal by #TeamUSA

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

They’re really committing to the bit.

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Cocaine’s a hell of a drug.

So you know who hasn’t said anything about the half dozen emerging civ-mil crises right now: Chowder fucking II.

"Mumblesomething LOGISTICS mumblemumble. IT'S ALL Dr. Wictz's FAULT!"

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No, I’m not trying again. Basic understanding of civilian oversight of how our military works seems absent on at least one side of our conversation. ✌️

OK—if Clinton made the policy decision not to send in U.S. forces to halt that genocide, explain to me how the U.S. military gets around that. “Sorry Bubba, the 82nd Airborne is gonna cowboy up anyway, see you when we see you.” That’s not how it works.

Again, you conflate the civilian policy makers with “the military.” I know a good number of people on active duty who have been working as hard as they can to help the Afghans who helped them stay here.

I’m pretty confident they would love to have the support the U.S. military provides back while at the same time criticizing the political decision makers who were the ones that made the decision to withdraw it, because withdrawing it was not a military decision.

Of civilian control. There are plenty enough examples around the world of militaries doing their own thing outside civilian control. That’s a genie that never gets put back in the bottle once let out.

I hated both decisions on Ukraine and Afghanistan. But those were not decisions made by the military—they were made by the civilians in charge of the military, which is how our command chain structure works.

You would not want to live in a world where the military starts acting independently

As for why we left Afghanistan—again, that is a not a decision the military makes independently under the Constitution. That is a civilian policy maker decision. And while Trump set the stage for it, it was Biden—who’s on “the left” last time I checked—who decided to follow through on leaving.

Was the U.S. airlift good or bad? Was the death of those servicemembers to protect the airport good or bad? Seems to me both were good uses of U.S. military power down to the point of servicemembers dying to help evacuate people who weren’t U.S. citizens and whom they’d never even met.

U.S. military conducted a massive airlift to evacuate what people it could under the constraints placed on it by civilian decision makers. And you had a whole bunch of Marines, soldiers, and sailors give their lives to keep the evacuation point at Hamid Karzai airport open for as long as possible.

Independently. That is a policy decision, made by the civilian authority that the Constitution places over the military.

Then let’s look at Afghanistan. It galls me that we pulled out all support to the Afghan government and military and left them to the Taliban. But during the withdrawal, the

Strategic lift, intelligence apparatuses, training, and more to support the Ukrainian military. So was our military not good then either, when it was doing all those positive things for Ukraine? As to when/why that support was withdrawal—that is not a decision that the U.S. military gets to make