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Chris Ingram

@chrisgingram.bsky.social

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Strategist || Military Writers Guild Board Member || #MilSky Admin || Intersection of Foreign Policy, Conflict, Economics, Politics, History, and Writing || Non-partisan, but not amoral || Opinions my own.

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Chris Ingram @chrisgingram.bsky.social · Nov 11

Welcome new followers!

I’m not certain what you were looking for, but I hope you stick around so we can build a community of positive discourse.

My background/interests range widely: economics, politics, military strategy, writing, history, art, hiking, and cocktails. 🧵

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 6d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 6d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Chris Ingram @chrisgingram.bsky.social · 7d

Not sure where the name originated, but emphasis on transformation which, to your point, requires integration at all levels. The new structure reflects that core function.

Background is two “V”s (Vision to Victory), broken to indicate doing things differently. Colors are black/gold/white (Army)

Chris Ingram @chrisgingram.bsky.social · 8d

So it begins.

U.S. Army Futures Command and U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command have cased their colors. Born from both, with an even larger mission, is U.S. Army Transformation & Training Command (T2COM); responsible for Force Design, Force Generation, and Force Development.

US Army Transformation and Training Command patch.

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Chris Ingram @chrisgingram.bsky.social · 8d

Same. It has taken effort to recondition myself to listen without that bias.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 12d

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

www.chosun.com

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Eric M. Murphy @ericmmurphy.bsky.social · 15d

I tend to think that we think of deterrence in too limited a way. We ignore entanglement, norms, awareness of non-bilateral relationships, restraints, all manner of behavioral psychology factors, etc.

I think many scholars and diplomats think about this…but no one who learned it in PME. 😉

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Chris Ingram @chrisgingram.bsky.social · 18d

“Letter from the Birmingham jail” is one of the best strategic documents ever written.

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Chris Ingram @chrisgingram.bsky.social · 20d

A profession; if we can keep it.

Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 20d

Military officers should have civ-mil relations embedded as a core part of their PME directly at commissioning, not once they reach field grade

Maybe then it might sink in

Chris Ingram @chrisgingram.bsky.social · 20d

The weekend begins.

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Rosemary and black tea-infused gin, lemon juice, honey, mint leaf garnish.

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Diva of the Dark 🎃🫶👠👑🥩 @queenofthinair.bsky.social · 24d

I think it's probably time for a deep #Profession rethink like post-Vietnam.

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Chris Ingram @chrisgingram.bsky.social · 24d

Or, are we killing TRADOC and rebranding Army Futures Command?

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · Sep 10

Polish and Dutch fighters, directed by Italian early warning aircraft, German air defenses on alert. Dutch PM: “I’m glad that Dutch F35 fighter jets were able to provide support. The Netherlands stands shoulder to shoulder with our NATO ally Poland.” Common defense working as designed.

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Audie Klotz @audieklotz.bsky.social · Sep 7

🧵 worth reading on challenges facing academic journals

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · Sep 7

This is roughly equivalent to World War I conditions, with an extension of a few kilometers here or there. Supplies had to be brought up at night or by foot, MPs got good at noting artillery patterns to help move traffic along, and logistics governed the pace of everything

Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · Sep 7

“the so-called kill zone now extends 12 to 14 kilometres behind the front – the range at which a $500 drone, flying at up to 60mph, can strike. It means, Afer adds, that “all the logistics [food, ammunition and medical supplies] we are doing is either on foot or with the help of ground drones”.

‘It is a war of drones now’: the ever-evolving tech dominating the frontline in Ukraine

Models for reconnaissance, rescue, interception and attack are changing the way both sides operate

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Ingram @chrisgingram.bsky.social · Sep 6

The weekend starts now.

Everything just got better.

This we’ll defend…

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · Sep 3

1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat.

Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable.

Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️

Legal Issues Raised by a Lethal U.S. Military Attack in the Caribbean

The Trump administration’s extraordinary lethal attack on this purported smuggling vessel raises significant potential legal issues.

www.justsecurity.org

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Chris Ingram @chrisgingram.bsky.social · Sep 4

I went to American University for grad school during ***checks notes…sigh** the Clinton Administration. Some things haven’t changed.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · Sep 3

Why is it so hard to study war seriously in American academia? From Clausewitz to West Point’s new major, I dive into the fragmentation, disappearance, and possible revival of war as a subject of tactical, operational, and political thought. My Latest⬇️

The "War Studies" Problem

The Challenges of a Disciplinary Approach to a Multidisciplinary Problem

secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · Sep 2

An Army veteran, known in his community for the work he did trying to get people to safety after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, was arrested for his protests against ICE. The charge is alarming. Latest by @aglantz.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice

Legal experts say the charges against Afghanistan war veteran Bajun Mavalwalla II mark an escalation in the Trump administration’s crackdown on first amendment rights

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · Aug 30

“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.”

My latest in @thebulwark.com

www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...

Honoring Ashli Babbitt Dishonors the Military

If there’s no difference between upholding the Constitution and attacking it, then there’s no honor in service.

www.thebulwark.com

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War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · Aug 22

What looks like containment today may become a crisis tomorrow.

The Islamic State Prison Camps in Syria are a Powder Keg - War on the Rocks

There are approximately 50,000 veteran Islamic State members and their families currently being held at 27 prisons and detention centers across northeast

warontherocks.com

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · Aug 20

Huntington's theory of "objective civilian control," the separation of military and civilian spheres reinforced by an "apolitical" professional ethos, remains a lodestar for the American military. Yet its foundation is flawed and, as events in DC show, continues to do more harm than good. My latest⬇️

Samuel Huntington’s Prussian Paradox

Clausewitz, Military Professionalism, and the Myth of a “Apolitical” Military

secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com

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Diva of the Dark 🎃🫶👠👑🥩 @queenofthinair.bsky.social · Aug 18

This is a good discussion to be had. I think its not quite as binary as this, but expected the military to solve it IS a potential threat to civ control. (See #OnObedience and linked article)

thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · Aug 18

This is our Trolley Problem, and the military can't solve it.

Only citizens exercising political pressure on civilian leaders can solve this problem.

thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · Aug 18

and so some folks on here are backing themselves into a paradox: they want the military to refuse unethical legal orders, but they want a military under civilian control.

we can't have both!

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · Aug 17

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵

An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

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Military Writers Guild @milwritersguild.bsky.social · Aug 5

The Pen and the Sword podcast is now up! Check out episode 1, “Writing as a Community with Nathan Finney” at the link below.

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Writing as a Community with Nathan Finney

Podcast Episode · The Pen and the Sword · 08/04/2025 · 39m

podcasts.apple.com

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