“The divide between Zhang and Xi no longer centered on debate or planning and instead shifted to execution and direct noncompliance. This problem was clearly visible across the PLA, and it posed a serious threat to Xi’s authority.”
jamestown.org/zhang-youxia...

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The USMC Amphibious Recon Battalion of WW2 is the forerunner of their modern-day Recon and Force Recon Battalions. The images below are how they would have looked as a company and battalion from late 1943 to the end of the war. Neat fact is that 21st Commandant James Jones father commanded them!

right and if you don't understand the difference IN THAT SPECIFIC CONTEXT between JSOC and the rest of SOCOM (or even just the interplay between NSW, USASOC, and JSOC) you have no business yapping about it

But yeah sure alphabet soup lolol abolish SOCOM good luck with that

You want civilian control of the military in a democracy. Well, this is it. Elect better civilians.

You want the military to be part of the checks and balances? That’s a praetorian guard.

this may come as a surprise to some people. but the american military is largely better at stuff than the russian military

Notable “amorphous” enemies the Korean Peoples Army, Panamanian Defense Forces, and Iraqi Republican Guard

I get that everyone is clowning on people hyping drones, but saying drones aren't the future of warfare is as dumb (perhaps more so) as saying that they absolutely are.

Americans want to think there is a technological solution to everything because it is a relatively clean and sterile path as opposed to investing in human beings. One of these things briefs well and the other does not, even if it's true.

In some of the debates that appeared from AUG 22-DEC 23 which saw Russian and Ukraine attempt offensives against various levels of hasty or prepared defenses it seemed a lot of US Army analysis was focused on well they didn’t do combined arms and then everyone nodded their head and that was the end

The M1 rifle was arguably the best infantry rifle in the war (everyone else was still using bolt action rifles). The Essex class carriers were the best carriers of the war. US artillery systems were first rate and could easily match anything the Axis could muster

Tom Clancy would have been just an incredible poster. He'd have 500k followers and a name like "TomCatOSINT" or something. He'd have 100 tweet threads on Russian carrier tactics that end with recommendations on the best places in the Barents to place tactical nuclear mines.

(we actually do have successive obstacle belts in depth over 50-60 kilometers now. We + NTC are taking notes lol). I think yes and no. Yes, AirPower will get you a lot, but I think the fundamental problem is, this isn’t the open desert, which means you can’t put an entire tank CO in a SBF to 2/x

Incredible website identifying “woke” officers who need to be purged from the Army. Includes the former commander of Delta Force, a former Delta squadron commander, a 101st battalion commander from the battle of Ramadi, and an Iraq surge 2/75 Ranger company commander www.restorethemilitary.com/army/

My latest in which I explain the challenges of the modern combined arms breach:

open.substack.com/pub/breaking...

You can read all about barriers to realistic sUAS training here. 2/2 www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

There's something darkly funny about how the not stupid military commentators response to "How would the US military break the stalemate in Ukraine?" was "we wouldn't fight like this" and our SecDef is determined to make us fight like that