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B. A. Friedman

@bafriedman.bsky.social

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Amphibious Warfare, Strategy, and Clausewitz. CLE expat. Malevelon Creek veteran. Substack: https://bafriedman.substack.com/

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 2h

Ugh that would have been awesome.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 5h

Got my first book deal by tweeting at an author "someone should write a book like this" and he responded "you should write a book like that" and tagged his acquisitions editor.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 17h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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David Alman @davidalman.bsky.social · 21h

GO, FGO, CGO

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 1d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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thomas the grim 🏴‍☠️ @thomasthegrim.bsky.social · 11h

It’s the best time of the year.

B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 1d

War in the Chesapeake by Charles Niemeyer covers that front. Not sure about the Great Lakes.

B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 1d

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Jennifer McArdle

Dr. Jennifer McArdle is an Adjunct Senior Fellow in the Defense Program and wargaming lab at CNAS. She also holds affiliations at the Joint Special…

B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 1d

You can't be offensive towards Amphibious-Americans anymore, because of woke.

B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 2d

This won't even be a feast for F-35s. It's an appetizer.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Venezuela has both kinds of Soviet/Russian air defenses: those that don't work and those that only friendly fire.
www.twz.com/air/status-o...

Status Of Venezuela’s Air Defense Capabilities

Growing tensions in the Caribbean could lead to a confrontation between U.S. combat aircraft and Venezuela’s hodgepodge of air defense systems. Growing tensions in the Caribbean could lead to a confro...

B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 2d

The Marine Corps' decision to copyright MARPAT was, in retrospect, actually brilliant.

B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing this skeet out of context is wild, man.

B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 2d

B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Missing an asterisk.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 3d

NARRATOR: This has been a Canadian Heritage Moment

Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 3d

Playoff Vladdy is born.

Grand Slam.

The #BlueJays are up, 9-0.

B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 3d

Me when the Blue Jays are playing the Yankees.

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Tim Renneberg @timrenneberg.bsky.social · 3d

A group of Yankees hasn’t been beaten in Canada that bad since 1812.

B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 4d

B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 5d

I haven't heard it all yet but "Opalite" is a banger.

B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 5d

The "C" in CSIS stands for "credulous."

B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 5d

Littoral Commander: Sea Sicario.

B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 5d

No but for real though. That would be great.

B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 5d

This is from 2020.

B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 5d

We’ll never get over that.

B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 5d

Just bandwagoning. Don’t mind me.

B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 6d

Go Mariners.