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February 1, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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“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...
Zhang Youxia’s Differences with Xi Jinping Led to His Purge - Jamestown
Executive Summary: At 3:00 p.m. Beijing time on Saturday, January 24, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) announced that Central Military Commission (CMC) Vice Chairman Zhang Youxia (张又侠) and Chief...
jamestown.org
January 26, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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wrong
January 18, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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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!
January 15, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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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
January 4, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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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.
Real black pilled on the military. The oath means absolutely nothing at all, apparently. Happy to be praetorians, just as long as the check clears.
January 4, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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this may come as a surprise to some people. but the american military is largely better at stuff than the russian military
January 3, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Notable “amorphous” enemies the Korean Peoples Army, Panamanian Defense Forces, and Iraqi Republican Guard
December 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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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.
December 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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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.
November 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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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
October 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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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
October 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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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.
October 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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(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
September 3, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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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/
August 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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My latest in which I explain the challenges of the modern combined arms breach:

open.substack.com/pub/breaking...
Into the Breach
Explaining the Challenges of the Modern Combined Arms Operation
open.substack.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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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
July 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM