Paul Johstono
@profpaulj.bsky.social
Ancient Military Historian at Air Command & Staff College; teaching leadership, ethics, strategy;
@DukeU PhD; @FurmanU
My opinions only
@DukeU PhD; @FurmanU
My opinions only
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The 22nd MEU has been providing assistance to Jamaica for the last month. Just because no one pays attention to US disaster response doesn’t mean the it’s not routine for Marines. It’s why they’re based forward.
www.22ndmeu.marines.mil/News/Press-R...
www.22ndmeu.marines.mil/News/Press-R...
December 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The 22nd MEU has been providing assistance to Jamaica for the last month. Just because no one pays attention to US disaster response doesn’t mean the it’s not routine for Marines. It’s why they’re based forward.
www.22ndmeu.marines.mil/News/Press-R...
www.22ndmeu.marines.mil/News/Press-R...
Happy 70th anniversary of the first day of the Montgomery bus boycott!
On this day, 70 years ago, the Montgomery improvement Association formed to lead the effort against segregation and bigoted policies on Montgomery bus system, elected Martin Luther King Jr., as their president. /
On this day, 70 years ago, the Montgomery improvement Association formed to lead the effort against segregation and bigoted policies on Montgomery bus system, elected Martin Luther King Jr., as their president. /
December 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Happy 70th anniversary of the first day of the Montgomery bus boycott!
On this day, 70 years ago, the Montgomery improvement Association formed to lead the effort against segregation and bigoted policies on Montgomery bus system, elected Martin Luther King Jr., as their president. /
On this day, 70 years ago, the Montgomery improvement Association formed to lead the effort against segregation and bigoted policies on Montgomery bus system, elected Martin Luther King Jr., as their president. /
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Here is a look at how China has expanded Yuchi Naval Base over the last year.
The base is built to support Chinese aircraft carriers, alongside other naval vessels.
The base is built to support Chinese aircraft carriers, alongside other naval vessels.
December 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Here is a look at how China has expanded Yuchi Naval Base over the last year.
The base is built to support Chinese aircraft carriers, alongside other naval vessels.
The base is built to support Chinese aircraft carriers, alongside other naval vessels.
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www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Mar...
This article on our Moral Perspective Sorter is the culmination of a collaboration with Dr. Baker in 7 years in my role as Stockdale Chair in Professional Military Ethics. We used this in NWC Leadership and Profession of Arms core courses and at Senior Enlisted Academy
This article on our Moral Perspective Sorter is the culmination of a collaboration with Dr. Baker in 7 years in my role as Stockdale Chair in Professional Military Ethics. We used this in NWC Leadership and Profession of Arms core courses and at Senior Enlisted Academy
www.usmcu.edu
December 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Mar...
This article on our Moral Perspective Sorter is the culmination of a collaboration with Dr. Baker in 7 years in my role as Stockdale Chair in Professional Military Ethics. We used this in NWC Leadership and Profession of Arms core courses and at Senior Enlisted Academy
This article on our Moral Perspective Sorter is the culmination of a collaboration with Dr. Baker in 7 years in my role as Stockdale Chair in Professional Military Ethics. We used this in NWC Leadership and Profession of Arms core courses and at Senior Enlisted Academy
Catiline Conspiracy V: the Lex Rullia became a major contention. We've had a veto imposed, the bill taken to the assembly, the janiculum involved, and a corruption case filed. Cicero saved by some omens so on to the case against Rabienus.
December 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Catiline Conspiracy V: the Lex Rullia became a major contention. We've had a veto imposed, the bill taken to the assembly, the janiculum involved, and a corruption case filed. Cicero saved by some omens so on to the case against Rabienus.
In hoc signo, Hippostratos! #advent #indogreeks
December 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In hoc signo, Hippostratos! #advent #indogreeks
Oh crap, Antipater Etesias and Antigonus Gonatas reference in "Man on the Inside" season 2 on @netflix!
December 2, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Oh crap, Antipater Etesias and Antigonus Gonatas reference in "Man on the Inside" season 2 on @netflix!
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A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
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JUST IN: Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88
Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88
The Czech-born British playwright is known for Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Coast of Utopia. Stoppard also wrote screenplays for Brazil and Shakespeare in Love.
n.pr
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
JUST IN: Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88
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“The people whose rights are being violated don’t have a lot of power, and the people responsible for the pollution are huge mega corporations with a lot of power…And they’ve been getting away with this for decades now.”
'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
www.rollingstone.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“The people whose rights are being violated don’t have a lot of power, and the people responsible for the pollution are huge mega corporations with a lot of power…And they’ve been getting away with this for decades now.”
The paper concept is clean, demonstrable, and useful, so I think it requires a complicated and controversial numismatic argument before calling it done
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 AM
The paper concept is clean, demonstrable, and useful, so I think it requires a complicated and controversial numismatic argument before calling it done
Very normal, role appropriate, behavior!
November 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Very normal, role appropriate, behavior!
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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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
I prefer the old definition of hybrid war that actually involves armed conflict. Maybe its meaningless, but I think its good to retain a term that describes what Russia was doing, e.g., in Donbas 2014.
Firing random thoughts into the sky.
Firing random thoughts into the sky.
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I prefer the old definition of hybrid war that actually involves armed conflict. Maybe its meaningless, but I think its good to retain a term that describes what Russia was doing, e.g., in Donbas 2014.
Firing random thoughts into the sky.
Firing random thoughts into the sky.
Check Bluesky today and its
a woman is shaking hands with a young man and says `` here 's some money , go see a star war . ''
ALT: a woman is shaking hands with a young man and says `` here 's some money , go see a star war . ''
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Check Bluesky today and its
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Me: You need to learn the geography of Italy.
The Geography:
The Geography:
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Me: You need to learn the geography of Italy.
The Geography:
The Geography:
Trying to write on the Late Ptolemaic Army (like, really late) means having to grapple with the contingent called "Hippothracians" and their astronomical pay rate.
November 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Trying to write on the Late Ptolemaic Army (like, really late) means having to grapple with the contingent called "Hippothracians" and their astronomical pay rate.
This is America?
NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
November 4, 2025 at 2:16 AM
This is America?
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New from Bellingcat: “‘Pattern of Extreme Brutality’ — Tear gas, pepper balls among weapons used by federal agents at Illinois immigration protests.”
Read the full investigation:
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
Read the full investigation:
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Illinois Protesters
A judge recently issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics by federal agents in the state, including those involved in Operation Midway Blitz.
www.bellingcat.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
New from Bellingcat: “‘Pattern of Extreme Brutality’ — Tear gas, pepper balls among weapons used by federal agents at Illinois immigration protests.”
Read the full investigation:
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
Read the full investigation:
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
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“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Happy Halloween from Captain Rex
November 1, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Happy Halloween from Captain Rex
All about that Bassus
Antony, while he has been musing a Parthian campaign, has left that frontier under-defended in the mean time and in 40, the Parthians, with some pro-Pompey dead-enders, invade. Antony is off partying with Cleopatra.
The only man in their way? P. Ventidius Bassus. 21/
The only man in their way? P. Ventidius Bassus. 21/
a man in a tuxedo with a bow tie is sitting in a crowd of people .
Alt: a man in a tuxedo with a bow tie is sitting in a crowd of people making a 'bring it on' gesture.
media.tenor.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
All about that Bassus
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New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.
October 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.
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“For local residents, Russia’s human safari has made sudden death from above an everyday fact of life. During the first nine months of 2025, more than a hundred people were killed and over one thousand were wounded in drone attacks.”
www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...
www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...
Russia’s ‘human safari’ in southern Ukraine is a warning to the world
Russia's escalating campaign of drone attacks on the civilian population of Ukraine's Kherson region highlights the destructive power of modern drone technologies, writes Oleksandr Tolokonnikov.
www.atlanticcouncil.org
October 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
“For local residents, Russia’s human safari has made sudden death from above an everyday fact of life. During the first nine months of 2025, more than a hundred people were killed and over one thousand were wounded in drone attacks.”
www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...
www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...