Ian TB
@iantb.bsky.social
Retired #Marine, scribbler, #wargame analyst, podcast co-host, geek. Author of “A New Conception of War” on #USMC reading list. All views my own.
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
It’s the “if only I had tinkerbell fairy dust, I could fix everything” strategy.
If the CMC showed up to work this morning and started implementing these “ideas,” he’d be fired by noon chow.
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More is needed to turn the Marine Corps' aspirations into reality
If the force is truly to have balanced lethality and battlefield resiliency, it will need more ships, missiles, and money.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It’s the “if only I had tinkerbell fairy dust, I could fix everything” strategy.
If you supported my #ManeuverWarfare #cardgame from @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social—this is a great reminder how each purchase makes the academic goals of the future generation possible! & if you haven’t got your copy yet, you still can!
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November 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
If you supported my #ManeuverWarfare #cardgame from @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social—this is a great reminder how each purchase makes the academic goals of the future generation possible! & if you haven’t got your copy yet, you still can!
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I’m breaking my “no Xmas before Thanksgiving” rule: my #ManeuverWarfare #cardgame from @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social is a great stocking stuffer for the #wargamer in your life. Crunchy like a big game but slides into your cargo pocket—or stocking!
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November 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I’m breaking my “no Xmas before Thanksgiving” rule: my #ManeuverWarfare #cardgame from @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social is a great stocking stuffer for the #wargamer in your life. Crunchy like a big game but slides into your cargo pocket—or stocking!
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Sad Josh Allen is my favorite Josh Allen.
November 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Sad Josh Allen is my favorite Josh Allen.
Yeah let’s get this day started with a little hot death from above:
November 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Yeah let’s get this day started with a little hot death from above:
Weekend #wargaming—more “Battle of Hoth,” trying to break through Rebel lines to get off the board.
November 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Weekend #wargaming—more “Battle of Hoth,” trying to break through Rebel lines to get off the board.
Need a maneuver warfare “starter pack?” Do the reading w/ “A New Conception of War” & “Snowmobiles & Grand Ideals” from MCUP ([email protected]).
Then play the concepts w/#ManeuverWarfare from the @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social:
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Then play the concepts w/#ManeuverWarfare from the @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social:
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November 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Need a maneuver warfare “starter pack?” Do the reading w/ “A New Conception of War” & “Snowmobiles & Grand Ideals” from MCUP ([email protected]).
Then play the concepts w/#ManeuverWarfare from the @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social:
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Then play the concepts w/#ManeuverWarfare from the @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social:
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Hard copies of “Snowmobiles and Grand Ideals” are in! This is THE definitive John Boyd text—almost 700 pages of Boyd in his own words on conflict and competition. Email Marine Corps University Press at [email protected] for your free copy today!
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Hard copies of “Snowmobiles and Grand Ideals” are in! This is THE definitive John Boyd text—almost 700 pages of Boyd in his own words on conflict and competition. Email Marine Corps University Press at [email protected] for your free copy today!
We really don’t deserve this goodness after all that other goodness. But we’ll take it. #NEPats
Patriots vs. Jets recap: Pats do enough to win 27-14 on Thursday Night Football.
Patriots vs. Jets recap: Pats do enough to win 27-14 on Thursday Night Football
New England improves to 9-2 on the season on Thursday Night Football.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:18 AM
We really don’t deserve this goodness after all that other goodness. But we’ll take it. #NEPats
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Patriots vs. Jets recap: Pats do enough to win 27-14 on Thursday Night Football.
Patriots vs. Jets recap: Pats do enough to win 27-14 on Thursday Night Football
New England improves to 9-2 on the season on Thursday Night Football.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Patriots vs. Jets recap: Pats do enough to win 27-14 on Thursday Night Football.
For me it’s never quite real until I hold it in my hand…& today’s that day! Print copies of “Snowmobiles and Grand Ideals” w/ Frans Osinga are in; email MCUP at [email protected] to request your copy!
& yes, it’s a chonky little fella; doubles as a SAPI plate if needed.
& yes, it’s a chonky little fella; doubles as a SAPI plate if needed.
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
For me it’s never quite real until I hold it in my hand…& today’s that day! Print copies of “Snowmobiles and Grand Ideals” w/ Frans Osinga are in; email MCUP at [email protected] to request your copy!
& yes, it’s a chonky little fella; doubles as a SAPI plate if needed.
& yes, it’s a chonky little fella; doubles as a SAPI plate if needed.
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"School curricula and training programs of instruction all have fixed amounts of time available for students. So if you plug in wargaming, something else needs to come out."
- Ian T. Brown @iantb.bsky.social (Wargame Analyst at Group W, an SPA Company), writes for @armchairdragoons.bsky.social
- Ian T. Brown @iantb.bsky.social (Wargame Analyst at Group W, an SPA Company), writes for @armchairdragoons.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"School curricula and training programs of instruction all have fixed amounts of time available for students. So if you plug in wargaming, something else needs to come out."
- Ian T. Brown @iantb.bsky.social (Wargame Analyst at Group W, an SPA Company), writes for @armchairdragoons.bsky.social
- Ian T. Brown @iantb.bsky.social (Wargame Analyst at Group W, an SPA Company), writes for @armchairdragoons.bsky.social
Since we’re living in unprecedented times anyway, it would amuse me to no end for Pope Leo to remind Vance (& Rubio, & others in the admin) that excommunication & interdict were tools used by previous popes to humble kings who forgot that power resides in many places, not just a temporal throne.
Looks like JD Vance is going to need to change religions again.
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Since we’re living in unprecedented times anyway, it would amuse me to no end for Pope Leo to remind Vance (& Rubio, & others in the admin) that excommunication & interdict were tools used by previous popes to humble kings who forgot that power resides in many places, not just a temporal throne.
To the brave keyboard hero whose response to this was that I was a “delusional militarist” who should kill himself—thanks for the input & upon reflection, if I did things over, I’d write the same thing but use smaller words so you could follow along better:
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November 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
To the brave keyboard hero whose response to this was that I was a “delusional militarist” who should kill himself—thanks for the input & upon reflection, if I did things over, I’d write the same thing but use smaller words so you could follow along better:
armchairdragoons.com/serious-peop...
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There’s a saying: the dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.
November 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
There’s a saying: the dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.
No matter the clime or place, the danger or boredom, 2 years or 20—if you’re a veteran, you did something few undertake. And you didn’t ask for gold or glory, just the chance to be with your other brothers and sisters on the wall and tell evil: “not on my watch.”
#VeteransDay
#VeteransDay
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
No matter the clime or place, the danger or boredom, 2 years or 20—if you’re a veteran, you did something few undertake. And you didn’t ask for gold or glory, just the chance to be with your other brothers and sisters on the wall and tell evil: “not on my watch.”
#VeteransDay
#VeteransDay
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If you want to make it to Veterans Day
you first have to survive the Marine Corps Birthday.
you first have to survive the Marine Corps Birthday.
November 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
If you want to make it to Veterans Day
you first have to survive the Marine Corps Birthday.
you first have to survive the Marine Corps Birthday.
Get your #wargaming week going with my AAR of the “Wargaming as an Analytical and Training Tool in Military and Civilian Environment” conference at AWL a few weeks back. It was a deeply illuminating experience:
people…
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people…
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November 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Get your #wargaming week going with my AAR of the “Wargaming as an Analytical and Training Tool in Military and Civilian Environment” conference at AWL a few weeks back. It was a deeply illuminating experience:
people…
armchairdragoons.com/serious-peop...
people…
armchairdragoons.com/serious-peop...