James
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James
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· Sep 21
For the sake of posterity, the reading lists I made for military theory and war related literature.
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Union forces had suffered some 5,800 casualties but inflicted twice that on the rebels. When a chaplain asked General Thomas whether the dead should be sorted and buried by state in the new military cemetery, the Virginian who stayed loyal replied "Mix 'em up. I'm tired of states' rights.” (21
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Union forces had suffered some 5,800 casualties but inflicted twice that on the rebels. When a chaplain asked General Thomas whether the dead should be sorted and buried by state in the new military cemetery, the Virginian who stayed loyal replied "Mix 'em up. I'm tired of states' rights.” (21
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I don't even have much to say. This was a good vessel, the USN panicked at the slightest hint of delays and now is killing the program. There has not been a single vessel in US Navy service that hasn't been redesigned, delayed, and had some cost overruns in the last 60~ years.
This is the stupidest and most self-destructive USN procurement decision in at least a decade.
Constellation was a relatively healthy program and progressing on a realistic budget and schedule, mostly baseless criticism of it notwithstanding.
Constellation was a relatively healthy program and progressing on a realistic budget and schedule, mostly baseless criticism of it notwithstanding.
BREAKING: Navy Cancels Constellation-class Frigate Program, Considering New Small Surface Combatants — USNI News
news.usni.org/2025/11/25/n...
news.usni.org/2025/11/25/n...
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I don't even have much to say. This was a good vessel, the USN panicked at the slightest hint of delays and now is killing the program. There has not been a single vessel in US Navy service that hasn't been redesigned, delayed, and had some cost overruns in the last 60~ years.
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I don't think MAGA is dead but it certainly seems to be in its dying throes, its Blitzkrieg on democracy from earlier this year has stalled out and the internal contradictions of its fragile coalition that is only held together by a shared rapaciousness and cruelty are ensuring its days are numbered
Alex Jones: “I’m seriously inches away from not supporting Trump anymore”
MAGA is dead
MAGA is dead
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I don't think MAGA is dead but it certainly seems to be in its dying throes, its Blitzkrieg on democracy from earlier this year has stalled out and the internal contradictions of its fragile coalition that is only held together by a shared rapaciousness and cruelty are ensuring its days are numbered
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Someone (Rubio?) is MEGA pissed at the Ukraine peace plan situation if they leaked a full on *recording* of this Witkoff call (with transcript, lol).
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Someone (Rubio?) is MEGA pissed at the Ukraine peace plan situation if they leaked a full on *recording* of this Witkoff call (with transcript, lol).
You people WILL be getting a three season HBO series on the Peloponnesian War and you WILL like it or you’re going to the re-education camps.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
You people WILL be getting a three season HBO series on the Peloponnesian War and you WILL like it or you’re going to the re-education camps.
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There’s a reason I have a print of Little Phil at Cedar Creek in my office.
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
There’s a reason I have a print of Little Phil at Cedar Creek in my office.
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#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1
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SECARMY is negotiating a peace deal on behalf of POTUS while the SECDEF is threatening a SASC member w/a uniform inspection and prosecution.
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
SECARMY is negotiating a peace deal on behalf of POTUS while the SECDEF is threatening a SASC member w/a uniform inspection and prosecution.
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Part 2 of the thread with over 5000 words is here, gathered together on my stack sub (or reverse).
-all videos included
-all maps included
-Why the Sahelian militaries revolted
-Why it was a disaster
-Why the French were kicked out of the Sahel
-all videos included
-all maps included
-Why the Sahelian militaries revolted
-Why it was a disaster
-Why the French were kicked out of the Sahel
Part 2 has been uploaded on Twitter, will also do the same on Linkedin and Substack. Due to its sheer size (over 5 000 words!) I am simply unable to copy paste it all here. Will post the links tommorow for the interested.
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Part 2 of the thread with over 5000 words is here, gathered together on my stack sub (or reverse).
-all videos included
-all maps included
-Why the Sahelian militaries revolted
-Why it was a disaster
-Why the French were kicked out of the Sahel
-all videos included
-all maps included
-Why the Sahelian militaries revolted
-Why it was a disaster
-Why the French were kicked out of the Sahel
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Posts from Ukraine
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Posts from Ukraine
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Thank God woke(tm) is dead, the standard is the standard, and meritocracy has returned to the Defense Department.
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Thank God woke(tm) is dead, the standard is the standard, and meritocracy has returned to the Defense Department.
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I think it’s worth saying that assuming a ceasefire in place is reached in Ukraine—like with Israel and HAMAS in Gaza—it’ll merely be a temporary suspension in fighting that doesn’t resolve core tensions that created the conflict.
Russia isn’t going to stop wanting to erase Ukrainian sovereignty.
Russia isn’t going to stop wanting to erase Ukrainian sovereignty.
Makes you wonder what Vance will say if Trump orders a US military attack on Venezuela
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I think it’s worth saying that assuming a ceasefire in place is reached in Ukraine—like with Israel and HAMAS in Gaza—it’ll merely be a temporary suspension in fighting that doesn’t resolve core tensions that created the conflict.
Russia isn’t going to stop wanting to erase Ukrainian sovereignty.
Russia isn’t going to stop wanting to erase Ukrainian sovereignty.
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I'm re-upping our new open access article on why armies shoot their own soldiers in light of recent reports that more than 100 Russian officers have been confirmed as ordering the execution of their own soldiers in more than 12,000 reported incidents
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Fratricidal Coercion in Modern War | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Fratricidal Coercion in Modern War - Volume 79 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I'm re-upping our new open access article on why armies shoot their own soldiers in light of recent reports that more than 100 Russian officers have been confirmed as ordering the execution of their own soldiers in more than 12,000 reported incidents
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A lot of my boys write for Liberal Currents, and if you're going to give your money to something besides Ukrainian Military units so they can kill Russians—you should actually give them money.
It's very much worth having a liberalism that's confident in itself.
It's very much worth having a liberalism that's confident in itself.
Larger media outlets have wavered since the first Trump term, but we've remained steadfast in our categorical rejection of MAGA in all its aspects and our affirmation of liberal democracy and the principles that it rests on.
In the second Trump term, we are growing: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
In the second Trump term, we are growing: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
A lot of my boys write for Liberal Currents, and if you're going to give your money to something besides Ukrainian Military units so they can kill Russians—you should actually give them money.
It's very much worth having a liberalism that's confident in itself.
It's very much worth having a liberalism that's confident in itself.
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getting my beverage before mnf
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
getting my beverage before mnf
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Theres a little known refinement of Chekov's Gun known as Lineman's Gun where if a character is established at having telephone lineman experience it will prove to be crucial to resolving the plot. This basically only ever comes up in Three Days Of The Condor
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Theres a little known refinement of Chekov's Gun known as Lineman's Gun where if a character is established at having telephone lineman experience it will prove to be crucial to resolving the plot. This basically only ever comes up in Three Days Of The Condor
I'm in my MARINA era. I'm going Youmi Zouma mode. I'm Audrey Hobertpilled. It's my Sabrina Carpenter arc.
November 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I'm in my MARINA era. I'm going Youmi Zouma mode. I'm Audrey Hobertpilled. It's my Sabrina Carpenter arc.
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We are close to $30,000 raised in the first 12 hours. It's a good start.
We like to think the same can be said of our growth as a publication—that it's a good start.
But as we head toward 2026, 2027, and 2028, we need to do much more. Give now to push us onward: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
We like to think the same can be said of our growth as a publication—that it's a good start.
But as we head toward 2026, 2027, and 2028, we need to do much more. Give now to push us onward: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
We are close to $30,000 raised in the first 12 hours. It's a good start.
We like to think the same can be said of our growth as a publication—that it's a good start.
But as we head toward 2026, 2027, and 2028, we need to do much more. Give now to push us onward: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
We like to think the same can be said of our growth as a publication—that it's a good start.
But as we head toward 2026, 2027, and 2028, we need to do much more. Give now to push us onward: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
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Late November 2025.
Mali is still under heavy siege by Al-Qaeda forces.Burkina Faso in quagmire.Niger not any better. And Islamic State is clearly gaining power.
How did we get here? Can Al-Qaeda run the show or cannot as others say?
🧵A three-part thread. Sorry for the delay.
Mali is still under heavy siege by Al-Qaeda forces.Burkina Faso in quagmire.Niger not any better. And Islamic State is clearly gaining power.
How did we get here? Can Al-Qaeda run the show or cannot as others say?
🧵A three-part thread. Sorry for the delay.
November 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Late November 2025.
Mali is still under heavy siege by Al-Qaeda forces.Burkina Faso in quagmire.Niger not any better. And Islamic State is clearly gaining power.
How did we get here? Can Al-Qaeda run the show or cannot as others say?
🧵A three-part thread. Sorry for the delay.
Mali is still under heavy siege by Al-Qaeda forces.Burkina Faso in quagmire.Niger not any better. And Islamic State is clearly gaining power.
How did we get here? Can Al-Qaeda run the show or cannot as others say?
🧵A three-part thread. Sorry for the delay.
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Who is even the constituency for this?
United Fruit Company?
United Fruit Company?
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Who is even the constituency for this?
United Fruit Company?
United Fruit Company?
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I have a copy of one of these studies from the Helmand HTT, and it basically says exactly what @brasidas.bsky.social summarizes below and the portions of it about endemic child abuse are quite disturbing
(Also, funny that they didn’t learn the correct name of the Marine unit they were supporting)
(Also, funny that they didn’t learn the correct name of the Marine unit they were supporting)
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I have a copy of one of these studies from the Helmand HTT, and it basically says exactly what @brasidas.bsky.social summarizes below and the portions of it about endemic child abuse are quite disturbing
(Also, funny that they didn’t learn the correct name of the Marine unit they were supporting)
(Also, funny that they didn’t learn the correct name of the Marine unit they were supporting)
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I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.