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I’ve put together a quick overview of all naval rams and related artifacts on my personal website, along with some relevant publications. It’s meant to serve as a handy reference and a “current count” table. Will updated will more info later!
stephendecasien.com/naval-rams/
stephendecasien.com/naval-rams/
Naval Rams
Archaeologically Attested Three-Bladed Waterline Rams: Current Count: 33 Name:Publication: Acqualadroni RamBuccellato, C. A., & Tusa, S. 2013. The Acqualadroni Ram Recovered Near the Strait of …
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And the cult of SOF is a real problem given that, if we've seen one thing in Ukraine, it is that in a near-peer conflict, highly-trained, ultra-elite infantry cost a lot to form and field but get shredded by firepower at exactly the same rate, if not faster than, regular infantry.
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And this all starts right out of the academies or ROTC, are the top of the class going into arty or armor or logistics, no they’re all going to the 173rd airborne or ranger school, so you can see how the army has become so light infantry/SOF centric
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Presumably the logic is just not taking “no” for an answer at this point.
Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.
Basically, he flew the generals in to announce a policy to make it less pleasant for Black men to be in the military.
(again, I would note that these profiles are invariably temporary, usually days, not like you see Black men with civil war-style beards)
(again, I would note that these profiles are invariably temporary, usually days, not like you see Black men with civil war-style beards)
The practical reason to be clean-shaven is so your gas-mask seals.
But, since Black soldiers are more likely to get shaving profiles (a medical excuse) for pseudofolliculitis barbae, a racist like Hegseth is obsessed with the small number of Black soldiers allowed to temporarily grow beards.
But, since Black soldiers are more likely to get shaving profiles (a medical excuse) for pseudofolliculitis barbae, a racist like Hegseth is obsessed with the small number of Black soldiers allowed to temporarily grow beards.
And I got the edition wrong, 3rd was print, this is the new online edition!
My bad! I lost track...this is the new online edition.
For those without access, DM me for a PDF.
And the OCD3 allows for expanded (although not infinite) bibliography, so the article gives a sense of the exciting work going on at the moment in Roman military history, which I feel very grateful to be allowed to synthesize here.
And the OCD3 allows for expanded (although not infinite) bibliography, so the article gives a sense of the exciting work going on at the moment in Roman military history, which I feel very grateful to be allowed to synthesize here.
Very happy to announce that my article *armies, Roman, Republic Republic* has been published online as part of the Oxford Classical Dictionary 3rd Edition.
doi.org/10.1093/acre...
doi.org/10.1093/acre...
doi.org
The military *depends* on women and minorities to stay at above half-strength.
Generic ballot seems like a lagging indicator right now.
Hegseth: "It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the secretary of war can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals."
Arendt famously noted that mechanisms of internal oppression developed in a colonial context soon get directed at folks at home (concentration camps, etc.).
These slobs apply *the aesthetic* of the Iraq/Afgan occupations to unconstitutional oppression at home.
Instagram fascism.
These slobs apply *the aesthetic* of the Iraq/Afgan occupations to unconstitutional oppression at home.
Instagram fascism.
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Building a "comrades massacre" vibe. That's the meeting in July 79 when Saddam Hussein announced his Baath party purge and had bewildered party officials led out of the auditorium and ... well. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Ba...
MAGA's fiercest warrior is unquestionably the guy who writes the NYT headlines.
Right before the government shuts down and strands them away from their commands!
The entire "warrior ethos" is one of many toxic legacies left over from the Iraq debacle and needs to be nuked from orbit at the next possible opportunity.
WAPO SCOOP: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to travel on short notice from around the world to hear him make a speech on military standards and the “warrior ethos,” multiple people familiar with the event told The Washington Post.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has summoned hundreds of generals for what is expected to be a short lecture on the “warrior ethos.” But top brass is bracing for possible firings or demotions.
www.washingtonpost.com
Amy Russell's The Politics of Public Space in Republican Rome is quite good.
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CHOTINER: So, tell me about this ‘possession for all time’ idea.
THUCYDIDES: Well, my book should be useful to anyone who wants true understanding of the past.
CHOTINER: Because present and future events tend to resemble the past, right?
THUCYDIDES: Absolutely.
THUCYDIDES: Well, my book should be useful to anyone who wants true understanding of the past.
CHOTINER: Because present and future events tend to resemble the past, right?
THUCYDIDES: Absolutely.
The last bill passed despite vehement senatorial objection.
So Roman voters seem to have connected being a great nation with a large citizen body, explicitly enough that Plautus could shortly afterwards riff a joke off this strategic principle.
So Roman voters seem to have connected being a great nation with a large citizen body, explicitly enough that Plautus could shortly afterwards riff a joke off this strategic principle.
Just prior we see two major tribunician laws expanding citizenship.
A bill 189 requires the censors to register all claimants with free parents (perhaps benefiting children of irregular relationships during 2PW).
And a bill in 188 granted full citizenship to Formiae, Fundi and Arpinum
A bill 189 requires the censors to register all claimants with free parents (perhaps benefiting children of irregular relationships during 2PW).
And a bill in 188 granted full citizenship to Formiae, Fundi and Arpinum