Incredible story. I appreciate very much how the reporters build off earlier journalism, declassified documents, and obscure memoirs alongside their excellent reporting and stellar archival finds to paint such a detailed picture. Masterful.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Software doesn’t hold ground.

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

Casual Russia-haters who found it trendy after 2022 like this guy could never imagine actually doing something non-performative about it. They just prefer to lash out to look serious. I remember wanting Russians dead before it was cool; in 2014.

Pretty cool that you can not only transfer gorillas between units but assign them a different rank and position at their new duty station localnewsmatters.org/2025/07/06/2...

Like idk how anyone could watch this video (which I wouldn’t necessarily recommend because it’s very graphic) and conclude Russian minefields are “rudimentary”

youtu.be/BjEe1NaJgxY New video on US Marine Corps Light Armored Recon (LAR) doctrine, organization & equipment from team to battalion, and how they experimenting to function in a maritime environment (Force Design 2030).

Traditionally armies recover a lot of their wounded and often do it very quickly (20% of WIA in Korea are good to go within 3 days of being wounded). FPV drones shutting down casevac and forcing a lot more permanent injuries through prolonging the window where the soldier doesn't get care is huge.