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.
Maybe not my all-time worst, but definitely up there:
As a fanciful flight of imagination, it’s pretty entertaining. As a work of history, it’s utterly unmoored from anything approaching an evidentiary standard.
As a fanciful flight of imagination, it’s pretty entertaining. As a work of history, it’s utterly unmoored from anything approaching an evidentiary standard.
January 22, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Maybe not my all-time worst, but definitely up there:
As a fanciful flight of imagination, it’s pretty entertaining. As a work of history, it’s utterly unmoored from anything approaching an evidentiary standard.
As a fanciful flight of imagination, it’s pretty entertaining. As a work of history, it’s utterly unmoored from anything approaching an evidentiary standard.
This is a fun game, I’ll play.
Most recent entry on my personal list: a book audacious in its effort to tie John Boyd to every US military problem since Vietnam without ever consulting the Boyd archives in Quantico.
Most recent entry on my personal list: a book audacious in its effort to tie John Boyd to every US military problem since Vietnam without ever consulting the Boyd archives in Quantico.
January 22, 2026 at 12:15 PM
This is a fun game, I’ll play.
Most recent entry on my personal list: a book audacious in its effort to tie John Boyd to every US military problem since Vietnam without ever consulting the Boyd archives in Quantico.
Most recent entry on my personal list: a book audacious in its effort to tie John Boyd to every US military problem since Vietnam without ever consulting the Boyd archives in Quantico.
This map only makes sense if you believe that:
-Russia has an ICBM base in Ukraine
-Russia has ICBM bases in Kazakhstan
-Russia would fire all its nukes at a single American city
-Russia has no ballistic missile submarines
Other than that, 10/10, no notes.
-Russia has an ICBM base in Ukraine
-Russia has ICBM bases in Kazakhstan
-Russia would fire all its nukes at a single American city
-Russia has no ballistic missile submarines
Other than that, 10/10, no notes.
January 21, 2026 at 12:34 AM
This map only makes sense if you believe that:
-Russia has an ICBM base in Ukraine
-Russia has ICBM bases in Kazakhstan
-Russia would fire all its nukes at a single American city
-Russia has no ballistic missile submarines
Other than that, 10/10, no notes.
-Russia has an ICBM base in Ukraine
-Russia has ICBM bases in Kazakhstan
-Russia would fire all its nukes at a single American city
-Russia has no ballistic missile submarines
Other than that, 10/10, no notes.
Boy, when you’ve lost racist crackpot Bill Lind, you really have lost middle America:
January 19, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Boy, when you’ve lost racist crackpot Bill Lind, you really have lost middle America:
The Broncos really did offer a human sacrifice to utterly destroy the Bills.
January 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM
The Broncos really did offer a human sacrifice to utterly destroy the Bills.
That was a sloppy game and our offense looked asleep in the first half, but that might be the best defensive play we’ve turned in all season. On to Denver! #NEPats
January 18, 2026 at 11:35 PM
That was a sloppy game and our offense looked asleep in the first half, but that might be the best defensive play we’ve turned in all season. On to Denver! #NEPats
Yup.
The Patriots vs Texans divisional game just started -- and it will determine the level of joy or rage I inflict on all those around me.
a football player wearing a red jersey with the name maye on the back
ALT: a football player wearing a red jersey with the name maye on the back
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January 18, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Yup.
It literally took a human sacrifice to knock Josh Allen out of the playoffs 😳
January 18, 2026 at 2:29 AM
It literally took a human sacrifice to knock Josh Allen out of the playoffs 😳
I remember the Danes at Camp Bastion. & the British. & the Aussies & Kiwis. & the Georgians. & anyone who went through Kandahar remembers the Canadians. As our Marines fought there & died, each contingent fought there & died too.
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
www.marines.mil/News/News-Di...
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The Sacrifice of the Danes
After September 11, Denmark fought alongside its ally. The families of fallen soldiers have a message for Trump.
www.theatlantic.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:45 PM
I remember the Danes at Camp Bastion. & the British. & the Aussies & Kiwis. & the Georgians. & anyone who went through Kandahar remembers the Canadians. As our Marines fought there & died, each contingent fought there & died too.
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
www.marines.mil/News/News-Di...
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
www.marines.mil/News/News-Di...
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My game #LittoralCommander: #SpaceForce is available for presale
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Littoral Commander: SPACE FORCE
Littoral Commander: Space Force is a 2 to 6-player 'grand tactical' wargame which explores warfare 100-300 years from now. The wargame is designed to be accessible to all levels of players, whether ci...
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January 17, 2026 at 1:18 PM
My game #LittoralCommander: #SpaceForce is available for presale
dietzfoundation.org/product/litt...
dietzfoundation.org/product/litt...
Maneuver warfare starter kit part 3: when you’re done reading, #wargame the concepts in my card game from @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social, designed to capture maneuver warfare & modern conflict while fitting in your cargo pocket: #USMC #Marines
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January 13, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Maneuver warfare starter kit part 3: when you’re done reading, #wargame the concepts in my card game from @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social, designed to capture maneuver warfare & modern conflict while fitting in your cargo pocket: #USMC #Marines
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dietzfoundation-org.square.site/product/mane...
Maneuver warfare starter kit part 2: there was much more to John Boyd’s than what the @USMC absorbed. For the first time in print form, get Boyd’s ideas on competition and survival in his own words from @MC_UPress.
Download: www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Mar...
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January 13, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Maneuver warfare starter kit part 2: there was much more to John Boyd’s than what the @USMC absorbed. For the first time in print form, get Boyd’s ideas on competition and survival in his own words from @MC_UPress.
Download: www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Mar...
Order: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Download: www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Mar...
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Maneuver warfare starter kit part 1: “A New Conception of War” from @mcupress & on the @usmc_commandant Reading List since 2019! Learn about @marines intellectual reform after Vietnam & how John Boyd influenced it.
Download: www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Mar...
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January 13, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Maneuver warfare starter kit part 1: “A New Conception of War” from @mcupress & on the @usmc_commandant Reading List since 2019! Learn about @marines intellectual reform after Vietnam & how John Boyd influenced it.
Download: www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Mar...
Order: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Download: www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Mar...
Order: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
New year, new chance to grab your own maneuver warfare starter kit! Read the history, dig into the concepts behind the history, then play the game!
#MCUP @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social #USMC #Marines
#MCUP @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social #USMC #Marines
January 13, 2026 at 2:13 PM
New year, new chance to grab your own maneuver warfare starter kit! Read the history, dig into the concepts behind the history, then play the game!
#MCUP @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social #USMC #Marines
#MCUP @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social #USMC #Marines
Rewatching the #Solo movie, found a fun Easter egg that’s some deep lore. Lando talks about winning a moon “in the Oseon belt,” which of course is where two of the “Lando Calrissian Adventure” novels take place.
January 10, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Rewatching the #Solo movie, found a fun Easter egg that’s some deep lore. Lando talks about winning a moon “in the Oseon belt,” which of course is where two of the “Lando Calrissian Adventure” novels take place.
Not sure the fire-eaters are taking into consideration the fact that because Greenland is part of Denmark, it has access to the most powerful set of both fixed and scatterable obstacles known to man (H/T to others):
January 9, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Not sure the fire-eaters are taking into consideration the fact that because Greenland is part of Denmark, it has access to the most powerful set of both fixed and scatterable obstacles known to man (H/T to others):
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There are some bangers here:
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@honer.bsky.social
@heatheratacts.bsky.social
@joannasiekierska.bsky.social
@iantb.bsky.social
@warinthefuture.bsky.social
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@walkerdm.bsky.social
@honer.bsky.social
@heatheratacts.bsky.social
@joannasiekierska.bsky.social
@iantb.bsky.social
@warinthefuture.bsky.social
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January 7, 2026 at 3:12 AM
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Co-authored by fellow officers from my squadron is this latest piece for @usniproceedings.bsky.social, "Wargaming Beyond the Battlefield."
In this piece, we share how we used traditional #wargaming tools to assess COAs for changing the #USMC comms occfield:
www.usni.org/WargamingBey...
In this piece, we share how we used traditional #wargaming tools to assess COAs for changing the #USMC comms occfield:
www.usni.org/WargamingBey...
Wargaming Beyond the Battlefield
Wargaming has grown as a to
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January 6, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Co-authored by fellow officers from my squadron is this latest piece for @usniproceedings.bsky.social, "Wargaming Beyond the Battlefield."
In this piece, we share how we used traditional #wargaming tools to assess COAs for changing the #USMC comms occfield:
www.usni.org/WargamingBey...
In this piece, we share how we used traditional #wargaming tools to assess COAs for changing the #USMC comms occfield:
www.usni.org/WargamingBey...