John T Kuehn
@trost1864.bsky.social
Christian
Retired US naval flight officer, husband,father, grandfather, military & naval historian.
Retired US naval flight officer, husband,father, grandfather, military & naval historian.
AOD MEU-SOC=marine expeditionary unit—special operations capable. That last part would include unique maritime capabilities like nonpermissive VBSS. Marine supposedly have SOF, what are they doing?? Cmon
@usmarinecorp.bsky.social
Get with the program!
@usmarinecorp.bsky.social
Get with the program!
January 8, 2026 at 1:05 PM
AOD MEU-SOC=marine expeditionary unit—special operations capable. That last part would include unique maritime capabilities like nonpermissive VBSS. Marine supposedly have SOF, what are they doing?? Cmon
@usmarinecorp.bsky.social
Get with the program!
@usmarinecorp.bsky.social
Get with the program!
Reposted by John T Kuehn
A fire burned overnight at the Salyut plant in downtown Moscow, a facility tied to Russia’s aircraft industry. The site is about 4 km from the Kremlin.
Even the Russian capital’s “safe rear” is starting to look less certain.
Even the Russian capital’s “safe rear” is starting to look less certain.
January 8, 2026 at 12:33 PM
A fire burned overnight at the Salyut plant in downtown Moscow, a facility tied to Russia’s aircraft industry. The site is about 4 km from the Kremlin.
Even the Russian capital’s “safe rear” is starting to look less certain.
Even the Russian capital’s “safe rear” is starting to look less certain.
QOD “AI is a system to reprocess existing knowledge. Large language models ingest all the data we have ever put into digital form and then spew it back out as probabilistically determined responses to our prompts.” Niall Ferguson
From www.thefp.com/p/niall-ferg...
From www.thefp.com/p/niall-ferg...
January 8, 2026 at 1:03 PM
QOD “AI is a system to reprocess existing knowledge. Large language models ingest all the data we have ever put into digital form and then spew it back out as probabilistically determined responses to our prompts.” Niall Ferguson
From www.thefp.com/p/niall-ferg...
From www.thefp.com/p/niall-ferg...
Chalk another one up to the US Coast Guard, if US Navy isn't careful its going to lose its budget share for this mission to the USCG
@cdrsalamander
@FDD www.fdd.org/analysis/202...
@cdrsalamander
@FDD www.fdd.org/analysis/202...
U.S. Seizes Russian-Flagged Tanker Carrying Venezuelan Oil After Lengthy Pursuit
Tanker Boarded by U.S. Forces: The United States seized the Russian-flagged Bella 1 oil tanker on January 7 after a two-week pursuit across the Atlantic Ocean triggered by its violation...
www.fdd.org
January 7, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Chalk another one up to the US Coast Guard, if US Navy isn't careful its going to lose its budget share for this mission to the USCG
@cdrsalamander
@FDD www.fdd.org/analysis/202...
@cdrsalamander
@FDD www.fdd.org/analysis/202...
The US maritime forces pursuing the Bell-1, which reflagged itself as a Russian ship, looks like it has been boarded and seized for violating sanctions and Venezuelan quarantine (Rubio's word, President mistakenly calls it a blockade). 1/
gcaptain.com/us-seizing-v...
gcaptain.com/us-seizing-v...
US Seizing Venezuela-Linked Oil Tanker After Weeks-Long Pursuit
The United States is attempting to seize a Venezuela-linked oil tanker after a more than two-week-long pursuit across the Atlantic, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday.
gcaptain.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:51 PM
The US maritime forces pursuing the Bell-1, which reflagged itself as a Russian ship, looks like it has been boarded and seized for violating sanctions and Venezuelan quarantine (Rubio's word, President mistakenly calls it a blockade). 1/
gcaptain.com/us-seizing-v...
gcaptain.com/us-seizing-v...
AOD SEVAL=Senior Electronic Warfare Evaluator. I did this job in two platforms (see pics). In the 80s and 90s I was the best at something very few people knew about or had the clearance to properly understand. Smug satisfaction in knowing this for some reason.
January 7, 2026 at 2:41 PM
AOD SEVAL=Senior Electronic Warfare Evaluator. I did this job in two platforms (see pics). In the 80s and 90s I was the best at something very few people knew about or had the clearance to properly understand. Smug satisfaction in knowing this for some reason.
QOD "In order to garner applause with this happy medium – for true perfection in all things is no longer known or prized – you must write music that is either so simple a coachman could sing it, or so unintelligible that audiences like it simply because no sane person could understand it." WA Mozart
January 7, 2026 at 2:36 PM
QOD "In order to garner applause with this happy medium – for true perfection in all things is no longer known or prized – you must write music that is either so simple a coachman could sing it, or so unintelligible that audiences like it simply because no sane person could understand it." WA Mozart
For the record, this president lost me when he said “yeah, we’ll run the place” when a legal President named Maria Machado already exists.
January 3, 2026 at 10:06 PM
For the record, this president lost me when he said “yeah, we’ll run the place” when a legal President named Maria Machado already exists.
AOD VBSS(NP) =visit board search and seizure, non-permissive. This is an operation, usually conducted at sea, against a vessel that one expects to evade, resist, or both.
December 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
AOD VBSS(NP) =visit board search and seizure, non-permissive. This is an operation, usually conducted at sea, against a vessel that one expects to evade, resist, or both.
QOD “China holds 68% of all ships on order and is building the majority of bulkers, tankers, containerships and vehicle carrier newbuildings”
see www.youtube.com/c/WhatisGoin...
see www.youtube.com/c/WhatisGoin...
December 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
QOD “China holds 68% of all ships on order and is building the majority of bulkers, tankers, containerships and vehicle carrier newbuildings”
see www.youtube.com/c/WhatisGoin...
see www.youtube.com/c/WhatisGoin...
just in case you missed it...I am in rare form on this one...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Episode 741: The Lessons of Pearl Harbor at 84, with John Keuhn
Podcast Episode · Midrats · 12/22/2025 · 1h 8m
podcasts.apple.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
just in case you missed it...I am in rare form on this one...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
QOD “Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves”
Philippians. 2:3
Philippians. 2:3
December 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
QOD “Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves”
Philippians. 2:3
Philippians. 2:3
Mick "mans up"
mickryan.substack.com/p/leadership...
mickryan.substack.com/p/leadership...
Leadership Failure in Oz, Putin Rebuffs Peace, the NDAA & the Pacific, Japan & Nukes: The Big Five, 22 December edition
My long update on war and great power competition. This week: Jewish Australians massacred, Putin wants to keep fighting, Japan's resilience, NDAA and the Pacific, & my Big Five recommended readings.
mickryan.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Mick "mans up"
mickryan.substack.com/p/leadership...
mickryan.substack.com/p/leadership...
AOD ATM=Alfred Thayer Mahan.
December 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
AOD ATM=Alfred Thayer Mahan.
QOD “Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings,
ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.”
Psalm 29:1
I read this as something that does not foreclose existence of other sentient life in God’s universe.
ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.”
Psalm 29:1
I read this as something that does not foreclose existence of other sentient life in God’s universe.
December 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
QOD “Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings,
ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.”
Psalm 29:1
I read this as something that does not foreclose existence of other sentient life in God’s universe.
ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.”
Psalm 29:1
I read this as something that does not foreclose existence of other sentient life in God’s universe.
U.S. Coast Guard Is Chasing an Oil Tanker Linked to Venezuela —this is #4
It is stateless & fair game
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
It is stateless & fair game
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
U.S. Coast Guard Is Chasing an Oil Tanker Linked to Venezuela
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:37 PM
U.S. Coast Guard Is Chasing an Oil Tanker Linked to Venezuela —this is #4
It is stateless & fair game
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
It is stateless & fair game
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
AOD TCAW=Toward Combined Arms Warfare. One of the most important documents ever written by an official Army military historian, Jon House. If you fancy yourself a military historian then you must read it, download it for free here: armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/co...
armyupress.army.mil
December 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
AOD TCAW=Toward Combined Arms Warfare. One of the most important documents ever written by an official Army military historian, Jon House. If you fancy yourself a military historian then you must read it, download it for free here: armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/co...
this rubric can be applied to a land invasion of Venezuela as well open.substack.com/pub/mickryan...
Failing to Imagine War and Tragedy in the Pacific
Failure in war, how fiction can help build a better understanding of military failure and strategic tragedy, and a preview of the sequel to my 2023 novel, White Sun War.
open.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
this rubric can be applied to a land invasion of Venezuela as well open.substack.com/pub/mickryan...
Basically a bribe to undecideds & wavering lower-income MAGA voters. Congress controls the purse & any such action SHOULD be legislative. Again, Presidents, Dem or Repub, have too much power that is not in spirit of article I of U.S. Constitution
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
Trump Dangles Cash Payments to Buoy Voters’ Views of the Economy
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Basically a bribe to undecideds & wavering lower-income MAGA voters. Congress controls the purse & any such action SHOULD be legislative. Again, Presidents, Dem or Repub, have too much power that is not in spirit of article I of U.S. Constitution
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
QOD
“Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves”
Philippians. 2:3
“Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves”
Philippians. 2:3
December 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
QOD
“Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves”
Philippians. 2:3
“Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves”
Philippians. 2:3
I have no problem punishing these totalitarian “socialist” states with economic coercion. How is this any different than Drake & Hawkins rapping ding the Spanish treasure fleets??
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/w...
Behind the Seized Venezuelan Tanker, Cuba’s Secret Lifeline
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I have no problem punishing these totalitarian “socialist” states with economic coercion. How is this any different than Drake & Hawkins rapping ding the Spanish treasure fleets??
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/w...
QOD “Learning to resist your own mind is difficult…”
Kaladin Stormblessed,
from Wind and Truth
by Brandon Sanderson
Kaladin Stormblessed,
from Wind and Truth
by Brandon Sanderson
December 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
QOD “Learning to resist your own mind is difficult…”
Kaladin Stormblessed,
from Wind and Truth
by Brandon Sanderson
Kaladin Stormblessed,
from Wind and Truth
by Brandon Sanderson
Good news for us independents www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
Indiana Lawmakers Reject Trump’s New Political Map
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Good news for us independents www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...