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Sharp, unfiltered insights from a retired Army Strategist. Strategy, operations, doctrine, and the hard truths no one wants to say out loud. Not easy, but simple. Learn from the lessons of others so you don’t become the lesson.
Strategic Decoupling: The New Great Separation
Globalization’s logic has inverted. Interdependence once stabilized; now it amplifies fragility.
Systems built for efficiency buckle under stress—and miscalculation thrives in silence.
#Strategy #Geopolitics #EconomicStatecraft #NotEasyButSimple
Globalization’s logic has inverted. Interdependence once stabilized; now it amplifies fragility.
Systems built for efficiency buckle under stress—and miscalculation thrives in silence.
#Strategy #Geopolitics #EconomicStatecraft #NotEasyButSimple
Strategic Decoupling: The New Great Separation
How the world’s economic interdependence became its own Gordian knot.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Strategic Decoupling: The New Great Separation
Globalization’s logic has inverted. Interdependence once stabilized; now it amplifies fragility.
Systems built for efficiency buckle under stress—and miscalculation thrives in silence.
#Strategy #Geopolitics #EconomicStatecraft #NotEasyButSimple
Globalization’s logic has inverted. Interdependence once stabilized; now it amplifies fragility.
Systems built for efficiency buckle under stress—and miscalculation thrives in silence.
#Strategy #Geopolitics #EconomicStatecraft #NotEasyButSimple
President Trump says the Gaza ceasefire “will hold”
🕓 14 Oct 2025 | 0400 ES, NC looks past the photo op
The Opportunity for Peace: The War That Didn’t End in Gaza — a strategist’s take on why peace built on exhaustion is still a form of war
Not easy, but simple
#Gaza #Strategy #Ceasefire #USPolicy
🕓 14 Oct 2025 | 0400 ES, NC looks past the photo op
The Opportunity for Peace: The War That Didn’t End in Gaza — a strategist’s take on why peace built on exhaustion is still a form of war
Not easy, but simple
#Gaza #Strategy #Ceasefire #USPolicy
October 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
President Trump says the Gaza ceasefire “will hold”
🕓 14 Oct 2025 | 0400 ES, NC looks past the photo op
The Opportunity for Peace: The War That Didn’t End in Gaza — a strategist’s take on why peace built on exhaustion is still a form of war
Not easy, but simple
#Gaza #Strategy #Ceasefire #USPolicy
🕓 14 Oct 2025 | 0400 ES, NC looks past the photo op
The Opportunity for Peace: The War That Didn’t End in Gaza — a strategist’s take on why peace built on exhaustion is still a form of war
Not easy, but simple
#Gaza #Strategy #Ceasefire #USPolicy
If “lethality” were measured in memos, we’d be unbeatable
Quantico was theater dressed as readiness—a pageant of resolve built on hollow directives
Big Rocks, Small Theater: What Quantico Really Revealed — live tomorrow on Napoleon’s Corporal napoleonscorporal.substack.com
Not easy, but simple. ⚔️
Quantico was theater dressed as readiness—a pageant of resolve built on hollow directives
Big Rocks, Small Theater: What Quantico Really Revealed — live tomorrow on Napoleon’s Corporal napoleonscorporal.substack.com
Not easy, but simple. ⚔️
October 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
If “lethality” were measured in memos, we’d be unbeatable
Quantico was theater dressed as readiness—a pageant of resolve built on hollow directives
Big Rocks, Small Theater: What Quantico Really Revealed — live tomorrow on Napoleon’s Corporal napoleonscorporal.substack.com
Not easy, but simple. ⚔️
Quantico was theater dressed as readiness—a pageant of resolve built on hollow directives
Big Rocks, Small Theater: What Quantico Really Revealed — live tomorrow on Napoleon’s Corporal napoleonscorporal.substack.com
Not easy, but simple. ⚔️
Weekly SITREP
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Weekly SITREP
11–17 September 2025
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Boston, 1770: Soldiers as constables → massacre.
Lexington, 1775: Soldiers as constables → revolution.
2025: A permanent QRF for U.S. elections.
History is warning loudly.
History shows where that road ends.
#CivilMilitary #Strategy #Democracy #History
Lexington, 1775: Soldiers as constables → revolution.
2025: A permanent QRF for U.S. elections.
History is warning loudly.
History shows where that road ends.
#CivilMilitary #Strategy #Democracy #History
Citizen-Soldier or Electoral Enforcer?
How the National Guard’s QRF Risks Turning Elections into Military Operations
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September 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Boston, 1770: Soldiers as constables → massacre.
Lexington, 1775: Soldiers as constables → revolution.
2025: A permanent QRF for U.S. elections.
History is warning loudly.
History shows where that road ends.
#CivilMilitary #Strategy #Democracy #History
Lexington, 1775: Soldiers as constables → revolution.
2025: A permanent QRF for U.S. elections.
History is warning loudly.
History shows where that road ends.
#CivilMilitary #Strategy #Democracy #History
🚨 Launching on Napoleon’s Corporal 🚨
Notes From the Field — a recurring series amplifying raw, unfiltered voices of soldiers, planners, & practitioners. Ground truth, not doctrine
First issue drops Saturday, 13 September 2025
When experience refuses to stay quiet
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Notes From the Field — a recurring series amplifying raw, unfiltered voices of soldiers, planners, & practitioners. Ground truth, not doctrine
First issue drops Saturday, 13 September 2025
When experience refuses to stay quiet
👉 napoleonscorporal.substack.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
🚨 Launching on Napoleon’s Corporal 🚨
Notes From the Field — a recurring series amplifying raw, unfiltered voices of soldiers, planners, & practitioners. Ground truth, not doctrine
First issue drops Saturday, 13 September 2025
When experience refuses to stay quiet
👉 napoleonscorporal.substack.com
Notes From the Field — a recurring series amplifying raw, unfiltered voices of soldiers, planners, & practitioners. Ground truth, not doctrine
First issue drops Saturday, 13 September 2025
When experience refuses to stay quiet
👉 napoleonscorporal.substack.com
Mediation is the Gulf’s new maneuver space—less about peace, more about positioning. From Doha to Riyadh’s summits and Abu Dhabi’s broker role, GCC states play a different game—sometimes at cross purposes, sometimes in unison
#Diplomacy #MiddleEast #SoftPower #NapoleonsCorporal #CoffeeintheDesert
#Diplomacy #MiddleEast #SoftPower #NapoleonsCorporal #CoffeeintheDesert
Understanding Arab Gulf State Mediation in a Changing World
Mediation has become an increasingly prominent feature of the foreign policies of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states over the past fifteen years.
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August 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Mediation is the Gulf’s new maneuver space—less about peace, more about positioning. From Doha to Riyadh’s summits and Abu Dhabi’s broker role, GCC states play a different game—sometimes at cross purposes, sometimes in unison
#Diplomacy #MiddleEast #SoftPower #NapoleonsCorporal #CoffeeintheDesert
#Diplomacy #MiddleEast #SoftPower #NapoleonsCorporal #CoffeeintheDesert
🧠 New from Napoleon’s Corporal:
The strategy we want isn’t always the one that keeps us standing.
From the Lykke Model trap to the ghost of NSC-68—why U.S. planning keeps mistaking guidance for grand strategy
#Strategy #GrandStrategy #MilitaryPlanning #DefensePolicy #Geopolitics #NapoleonsCorporal
The strategy we want isn’t always the one that keeps us standing.
From the Lykke Model trap to the ghost of NSC-68—why U.S. planning keeps mistaking guidance for grand strategy
#Strategy #GrandStrategy #MilitaryPlanning #DefensePolicy #Geopolitics #NapoleonsCorporal
The Strategy We Want vs. the One That Keeps Us Standing
Why American planners confuse guidance for grand strategy—and what it’s costing us.
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August 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
🧠 New from Napoleon’s Corporal:
The strategy we want isn’t always the one that keeps us standing.
From the Lykke Model trap to the ghost of NSC-68—why U.S. planning keeps mistaking guidance for grand strategy
#Strategy #GrandStrategy #MilitaryPlanning #DefensePolicy #Geopolitics #NapoleonsCorporal
The strategy we want isn’t always the one that keeps us standing.
From the Lykke Model trap to the ghost of NSC-68—why U.S. planning keeps mistaking guidance for grand strategy
#Strategy #GrandStrategy #MilitaryPlanning #DefensePolicy #Geopolitics #NapoleonsCorporal
Deterrence doesn’t fail at the moment of attack
It fails when threats lose credibility—when adversaries stop believing
From Syria’s red line to subs beneath the Arctic ice—this is why it breaks when needed most
#Strategy #Deterrence #MilitaryHistory #NuclearPolicy #Geopolitics #Defense #Leadership
It fails when threats lose credibility—when adversaries stop believing
From Syria’s red line to subs beneath the Arctic ice—this is why it breaks when needed most
#Strategy #Deterrence #MilitaryHistory #NuclearPolicy #Geopolitics #Defense #Leadership
Strategic Deterrence
Why It Fails When It’s Needed Most
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August 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Deterrence doesn’t fail at the moment of attack
It fails when threats lose credibility—when adversaries stop believing
From Syria’s red line to subs beneath the Arctic ice—this is why it breaks when needed most
#Strategy #Deterrence #MilitaryHistory #NuclearPolicy #Geopolitics #Defense #Leadership
It fails when threats lose credibility—when adversaries stop believing
From Syria’s red line to subs beneath the Arctic ice—this is why it breaks when needed most
#Strategy #Deterrence #MilitaryHistory #NuclearPolicy #Geopolitics #Defense #Leadership
What You Didn’t Choose Will Kill You.
War doesn’t wait. Delay doesn’t defer cost—it compounds it.
Iraq. Vietnam. Korea. Ukraine.
We didn’t just spend. We forfeited.
🧠 New from Napoleon’s Corporal
#Strategy #OpportunityCost #MilitaryHistory #NationalWill
#Geopolitics #WarStudies #Clausewitz
War doesn’t wait. Delay doesn’t defer cost—it compounds it.
Iraq. Vietnam. Korea. Ukraine.
We didn’t just spend. We forfeited.
🧠 New from Napoleon’s Corporal
#Strategy #OpportunityCost #MilitaryHistory #NationalWill
#Geopolitics #WarStudies #Clausewitz
What You Didn’t Choose Will Kill You
Opportunity Cost in Strategy and War
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August 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
What You Didn’t Choose Will Kill You.
War doesn’t wait. Delay doesn’t defer cost—it compounds it.
Iraq. Vietnam. Korea. Ukraine.
We didn’t just spend. We forfeited.
🧠 New from Napoleon’s Corporal
#Strategy #OpportunityCost #MilitaryHistory #NationalWill
#Geopolitics #WarStudies #Clausewitz
War doesn’t wait. Delay doesn’t defer cost—it compounds it.
Iraq. Vietnam. Korea. Ukraine.
We didn’t just spend. We forfeited.
🧠 New from Napoleon’s Corporal
#Strategy #OpportunityCost #MilitaryHistory #NationalWill
#Geopolitics #WarStudies #Clausewitz
We trained for peace hoping war would never come.
Then we trained for war hoping peace would last.
Now we train for bureaucracy hoping it counts for both.
History doesn’t reward the best brief. It rewards the side that survives contact.
#MilitaryCulture #Readiness #DefenseReform #NapoleonsCorporal
Then we trained for war hoping peace would last.
Now we train for bureaucracy hoping it counts for both.
History doesn’t reward the best brief. It rewards the side that survives contact.
#MilitaryCulture #Readiness #DefenseReform #NapoleonsCorporal
August 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
We trained for peace hoping war would never come.
Then we trained for war hoping peace would last.
Now we train for bureaucracy hoping it counts for both.
History doesn’t reward the best brief. It rewards the side that survives contact.
#MilitaryCulture #Readiness #DefenseReform #NapoleonsCorporal
Then we trained for war hoping peace would last.
Now we train for bureaucracy hoping it counts for both.
History doesn’t reward the best brief. It rewards the side that survives contact.
#MilitaryCulture #Readiness #DefenseReform #NapoleonsCorporal
New NC essay tomorrow, 08/02/25: Paper-Ready, Combat-Dead
The paper says “ready.”
The battlefield says “dead.”
America’s Army Reserve isn’t built for a near-peer fight—it’s built for PowerPoint.
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#MilitaryReadiness #ArmyReserve #LSCO #Strategy #NapoleonsCorporal
The paper says “ready.”
The battlefield says “dead.”
America’s Army Reserve isn’t built for a near-peer fight—it’s built for PowerPoint.
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#MilitaryReadiness #ArmyReserve #LSCO #Strategy #NapoleonsCorporal
August 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
New NC essay tomorrow, 08/02/25: Paper-Ready, Combat-Dead
The paper says “ready.”
The battlefield says “dead.”
America’s Army Reserve isn’t built for a near-peer fight—it’s built for PowerPoint.
napoleonscorporal.substack.com
#MilitaryReadiness #ArmyReserve #LSCO #Strategy #NapoleonsCorporal
The paper says “ready.”
The battlefield says “dead.”
America’s Army Reserve isn’t built for a near-peer fight—it’s built for PowerPoint.
napoleonscorporal.substack.com
#MilitaryReadiness #ArmyReserve #LSCO #Strategy #NapoleonsCorporal
Iran blurs the nuclear line.
Ukraine outpaces Russia.
DARPA’s tech still waits for war.
The U.S.? Late, branded, and briefing-ready.
🧠 New SITREP: 25–31 July
#Strategy #Readiness #Ukraine #DefenseTech #IndoPacific #Deterrence #MilitaryLeadership #NapoleonsCorporal #Geopolitics #Warfighting
Ukraine outpaces Russia.
DARPA’s tech still waits for war.
The U.S.? Late, branded, and briefing-ready.
🧠 New SITREP: 25–31 July
#Strategy #Readiness #Ukraine #DefenseTech #IndoPacific #Deterrence #MilitaryLeadership #NapoleonsCorporal #Geopolitics #Warfighting
Weekly SITREP
25–31 July 2025
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July 31, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Iran blurs the nuclear line.
Ukraine outpaces Russia.
DARPA’s tech still waits for war.
The U.S.? Late, branded, and briefing-ready.
🧠 New SITREP: 25–31 July
#Strategy #Readiness #Ukraine #DefenseTech #IndoPacific #Deterrence #MilitaryLeadership #NapoleonsCorporal #Geopolitics #Warfighting
Ukraine outpaces Russia.
DARPA’s tech still waits for war.
The U.S.? Late, branded, and briefing-ready.
🧠 New SITREP: 25–31 July
#Strategy #Readiness #Ukraine #DefenseTech #IndoPacific #Deterrence #MilitaryLeadership #NapoleonsCorporal #Geopolitics #Warfighting
We were never in the room—but we’ve always been in the fight
The Constitution wasn’t built for us
But we defend it anyway
Not to preserve what it was—
But to demand what it must become
🧠 The Constitution Is Working — That’s the Problem
#PatriotismWithTeeth #SystemDesign #NapoleonsCorporal
The Constitution wasn’t built for us
But we defend it anyway
Not to preserve what it was—
But to demand what it must become
🧠 The Constitution Is Working — That’s the Problem
#PatriotismWithTeeth #SystemDesign #NapoleonsCorporal
The Constitution Is Working — That’s the Problem
America’s Engineered Hierarchy Still Operates
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July 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
We were never in the room—but we’ve always been in the fight
The Constitution wasn’t built for us
But we defend it anyway
Not to preserve what it was—
But to demand what it must become
🧠 The Constitution Is Working — That’s the Problem
#PatriotismWithTeeth #SystemDesign #NapoleonsCorporal
The Constitution wasn’t built for us
But we defend it anyway
Not to preserve what it was—
But to demand what it must become
🧠 The Constitution Is Working — That’s the Problem
#PatriotismWithTeeth #SystemDesign #NapoleonsCorporal
Maps Don’t Lie. But Plans Do.
Terrain still decides wars—because friction still fights back.
Software can’t erase elevation. Satellites can’t fix chokepoints.
If your plan ignores the map, the ground will correct it.
#Strategy #Geopolitics #Warfare #NapoleonsCorporal #KnowTheGround #TerrainKills
Terrain still decides wars—because friction still fights back.
Software can’t erase elevation. Satellites can’t fix chokepoints.
If your plan ignores the map, the ground will correct it.
#Strategy #Geopolitics #Warfare #NapoleonsCorporal #KnowTheGround #TerrainKills
Maps Don’t Lie: Why Geography Still Decides Wars
The contours of the earth still shape the contours of power. Ignore that, and the ground will remind you.
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July 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Maps Don’t Lie. But Plans Do.
Terrain still decides wars—because friction still fights back.
Software can’t erase elevation. Satellites can’t fix chokepoints.
If your plan ignores the map, the ground will correct it.
#Strategy #Geopolitics #Warfare #NapoleonsCorporal #KnowTheGround #TerrainKills
Terrain still decides wars—because friction still fights back.
Software can’t erase elevation. Satellites can’t fix chokepoints.
If your plan ignores the map, the ground will correct it.
#Strategy #Geopolitics #Warfare #NapoleonsCorporal #KnowTheGround #TerrainKills
The silence before the snap.
Israel and Iran pause—nothing’s settled.
North Korea escalates, CBO torches Army’s budget, and drone dominance is built overseas.
🧠 Weekly SITREP | 18–24 July
— Napoleon’s Corporal
#Strategy #DroneWarfare #IndoPacific #DefenseSpending #NorthKorea #MilitaryLeadership
Israel and Iran pause—nothing’s settled.
North Korea escalates, CBO torches Army’s budget, and drone dominance is built overseas.
🧠 Weekly SITREP | 18–24 July
— Napoleon’s Corporal
#Strategy #DroneWarfare #IndoPacific #DefenseSpending #NorthKorea #MilitaryLeadership
Weekly SITREP
18–24 July 2025
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July 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The silence before the snap.
Israel and Iran pause—nothing’s settled.
North Korea escalates, CBO torches Army’s budget, and drone dominance is built overseas.
🧠 Weekly SITREP | 18–24 July
— Napoleon’s Corporal
#Strategy #DroneWarfare #IndoPacific #DefenseSpending #NorthKorea #MilitaryLeadership
Israel and Iran pause—nothing’s settled.
North Korea escalates, CBO torches Army’s budget, and drone dominance is built overseas.
🧠 Weekly SITREP | 18–24 July
— Napoleon’s Corporal
#Strategy #DroneWarfare #IndoPacific #DefenseSpending #NorthKorea #MilitaryLeadership
“Lies and anonymous smears!” — Leaky Bo Pete
Except the Inspector General disagrees
Classified Signal messages aren’t a partisan issue
They’re a command climate issue
Clearances are a privilege. Not a shield
#OPSEC #NatSec #CommandClimate #LeadershipMatters
www.thedailybeast.com/bombshell-re...
Except the Inspector General disagrees
Classified Signal messages aren’t a partisan issue
They’re a command climate issue
Clearances are a privilege. Not a shield
#OPSEC #NatSec #CommandClimate #LeadershipMatters
www.thedailybeast.com/bombshell-re...
July 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
“Lies and anonymous smears!” — Leaky Bo Pete
Except the Inspector General disagrees
Classified Signal messages aren’t a partisan issue
They’re a command climate issue
Clearances are a privilege. Not a shield
#OPSEC #NatSec #CommandClimate #LeadershipMatters
www.thedailybeast.com/bombshell-re...
Except the Inspector General disagrees
Classified Signal messages aren’t a partisan issue
They’re a command climate issue
Clearances are a privilege. Not a shield
#OPSEC #NatSec #CommandClimate #LeadershipMatters
www.thedailybeast.com/bombshell-re...
What You Didn’t Choose Will Kill You.
Dmitry’s Entwined lit another fuse.
He didn’t frame it as war—but I will.
Opportunity cost isn’t theoretical when the currency is time, space, and will.
Korea.
Vietnam.
Iraq.
— Napoleon’s Corporal
#Strategy #OpportunityCost #TimeSpaceWill
Not easy, but simple.
Dmitry’s Entwined lit another fuse.
He didn’t frame it as war—but I will.
Opportunity cost isn’t theoretical when the currency is time, space, and will.
Korea.
Vietnam.
Iraq.
— Napoleon’s Corporal
#Strategy #OpportunityCost #TimeSpaceWill
Not easy, but simple.
Entwined
The 'Post-Scarcity' Lie, Romantic Deficits, & Equilibrium Accounting
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July 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
What You Didn’t Choose Will Kill You.
Dmitry’s Entwined lit another fuse.
He didn’t frame it as war—but I will.
Opportunity cost isn’t theoretical when the currency is time, space, and will.
Korea.
Vietnam.
Iraq.
— Napoleon’s Corporal
#Strategy #OpportunityCost #TimeSpaceWill
Not easy, but simple.
Dmitry’s Entwined lit another fuse.
He didn’t frame it as war—but I will.
Opportunity cost isn’t theoretical when the currency is time, space, and will.
Korea.
Vietnam.
Iraq.
— Napoleon’s Corporal
#Strategy #OpportunityCost #TimeSpaceWill
Not easy, but simple.
It will fall again—not on one city, but on all
South Korea. Japan. Iran
The next nuclear war won’t start with a flash
It’ll start with doubt, then fire
🧠 The Black Rain Never Stopped
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#NuclearDeterrence #Strategy
@frankfukuyama @quincyinst @dandrezner
South Korea. Japan. Iran
The next nuclear war won’t start with a flash
It’ll start with doubt, then fire
🧠 The Black Rain Never Stopped
napoleonscorporal.substack.com/p/the-black-...
#NuclearDeterrence #Strategy
@frankfukuyama @quincyinst @dandrezner
The Black Rain Never Stopped
Hiroshima was history. It was a Prophecy.
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July 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
It will fall again—not on one city, but on all
South Korea. Japan. Iran
The next nuclear war won’t start with a flash
It’ll start with doubt, then fire
🧠 The Black Rain Never Stopped
napoleonscorporal.substack.com/p/the-black-...
#NuclearDeterrence #Strategy
@frankfukuyama @quincyinst @dandrezner
South Korea. Japan. Iran
The next nuclear war won’t start with a flash
It’ll start with doubt, then fire
🧠 The Black Rain Never Stopped
napoleonscorporal.substack.com/p/the-black-...
#NuclearDeterrence #Strategy
@frankfukuyama @quincyinst @dandrezner
The spreadsheet is the kill chain’s weak link
Rune Tech’s TyrOS replaces Excel with AI—predicting needs, routing supplies, & working offline
This isn’t back office. This is warfare.
🔗 techcrunch.com/2025/07/21/a... #DefenseTech #AI #Logistics #NapoleonsCorporal #KillChain #TacticalEdge #ExcelFails
Rune Tech’s TyrOS replaces Excel with AI—predicting needs, routing supplies, & working offline
This isn’t back office. This is warfare.
🔗 techcrunch.com/2025/07/21/a... #DefenseTech #AI #Logistics #NapoleonsCorporal #KillChain #TacticalEdge #ExcelFails
July 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The spreadsheet is the kill chain’s weak link
Rune Tech’s TyrOS replaces Excel with AI—predicting needs, routing supplies, & working offline
This isn’t back office. This is warfare.
🔗 techcrunch.com/2025/07/21/a... #DefenseTech #AI #Logistics #NapoleonsCorporal #KillChain #TacticalEdge #ExcelFails
Rune Tech’s TyrOS replaces Excel with AI—predicting needs, routing supplies, & working offline
This isn’t back office. This is warfare.
🔗 techcrunch.com/2025/07/21/a... #DefenseTech #AI #Logistics #NapoleonsCorporal #KillChain #TacticalEdge #ExcelFails
Four Commissions. No Commission Earned.
The brass gets promoted. The troops get shafted.
The Army quietly betrays its own NCOs—again.
Moral injuries aren’t just from war.
🔗 Read
#MilitaryCulture #Leadership #ArmyValues #NapoleonsCorporal
No medals for surviving betrayal. Just scars—and silence.
The brass gets promoted. The troops get shafted.
The Army quietly betrays its own NCOs—again.
Moral injuries aren’t just from war.
🔗 Read
#MilitaryCulture #Leadership #ArmyValues #NapoleonsCorporal
No medals for surviving betrayal. Just scars—and silence.
Four Commissions, No Commissions Earned
The Army’s Direct Commissioning of Tech Execs and the Erosion of Rank
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July 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Four Commissions. No Commission Earned.
The brass gets promoted. The troops get shafted.
The Army quietly betrays its own NCOs—again.
Moral injuries aren’t just from war.
🔗 Read
#MilitaryCulture #Leadership #ArmyValues #NapoleonsCorporal
No medals for surviving betrayal. Just scars—and silence.
The brass gets promoted. The troops get shafted.
The Army quietly betrays its own NCOs—again.
Moral injuries aren’t just from war.
🔗 Read
#MilitaryCulture #Leadership #ArmyValues #NapoleonsCorporal
No medals for surviving betrayal. Just scars—and silence.
Josh Steinman’s *Tiberius Sceptre* is going after the soft underbelly of defense procurement—speed.
No slides. No vaporware. Just working weapons.
The wrench is coming.
🧵 Read the Note: napoleonscorporal.substack.com/p/defense-pr...
#DefenseTech #ProcurementReform #WeeklySITREP #SubstackNote
No slides. No vaporware. Just working weapons.
The wrench is coming.
🧵 Read the Note: napoleonscorporal.substack.com/p/defense-pr...
#DefenseTech #ProcurementReform #WeeklySITREP #SubstackNote
July 18, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Josh Steinman’s *Tiberius Sceptre* is going after the soft underbelly of defense procurement—speed.
No slides. No vaporware. Just working weapons.
The wrench is coming.
🧵 Read the Note: napoleonscorporal.substack.com/p/defense-pr...
#DefenseTech #ProcurementReform #WeeklySITREP #SubstackNote
No slides. No vaporware. Just working weapons.
The wrench is coming.
🧵 Read the Note: napoleonscorporal.substack.com/p/defense-pr...
#DefenseTech #ProcurementReform #WeeklySITREP #SubstackNote
📡 | Worth Reading
A familiar concern.
Friction, fog, and failure in a software-defined force.
📰 War on the Rocks: warontherocks.com/2025/07/fric...
#MilitaryStrategy #DigitalDominance #WarOnTheRocks #NotEasyButSimple #IYKYK
A familiar concern.
Friction, fog, and failure in a software-defined force.
📰 War on the Rocks: warontherocks.com/2025/07/fric...
#MilitaryStrategy #DigitalDominance #WarOnTheRocks #NotEasyButSimple #IYKYK
Friction, Fog, and Failure in a Software-Defined Force - War on the Rocks
The U.S. military is rushing toward a software-defined future, one where networks are unified, platforms are cloud-connected, and the fight is shaped by
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July 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
📡 | Worth Reading
A familiar concern.
Friction, fog, and failure in a software-defined force.
📰 War on the Rocks: warontherocks.com/2025/07/fric...
#MilitaryStrategy #DigitalDominance #WarOnTheRocks #NotEasyButSimple #IYKYK
A familiar concern.
Friction, fog, and failure in a software-defined force.
📰 War on the Rocks: warontherocks.com/2025/07/fric...
#MilitaryStrategy #DigitalDominance #WarOnTheRocks #NotEasyButSimple #IYKYK
🔥 | Soft Power Isn’t Just PR
Burning 500 tons of food isn’t policy—it’s a moral collapse.
Soft power saves lives.
To care, you must first see foreign children as human.
#ForeignAidMatters #CivilMilitaryRelations #StrategicFailure
📰 [The Atlantic] apple.news/Awgk7ZBvXScG...
—Napoleon’s Corporal
Burning 500 tons of food isn’t policy—it’s a moral collapse.
Soft power saves lives.
To care, you must first see foreign children as human.
#ForeignAidMatters #CivilMilitaryRelations #StrategicFailure
📰 [The Atlantic] apple.news/Awgk7ZBvXScG...
—Napoleon’s Corporal
July 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
🔥 | Soft Power Isn’t Just PR
Burning 500 tons of food isn’t policy—it’s a moral collapse.
Soft power saves lives.
To care, you must first see foreign children as human.
#ForeignAidMatters #CivilMilitaryRelations #StrategicFailure
📰 [The Atlantic] apple.news/Awgk7ZBvXScG...
—Napoleon’s Corporal
Burning 500 tons of food isn’t policy—it’s a moral collapse.
Soft power saves lives.
To care, you must first see foreign children as human.
#ForeignAidMatters #CivilMilitaryRelations #StrategicFailure
📰 [The Atlantic] apple.news/Awgk7ZBvXScG...
—Napoleon’s Corporal
