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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The Defenestration of Cleveland (2026, colorized)

The Cleveland Guardians throw the Pope's White Sox out of the playoffs from Terminal Tower.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When you lean back to laugh at the Hegseth running video but throw your back out in the process.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We are not scared of the White Sox Pope magic.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The divorced Kirk Van Houten energy in this post is something else.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In my off time, when I’m not working as a strategy analyst or working on my PhD in international relations about naval strategy. This you?

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

(I know it’s not this simple but gotta hit the meme button).

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@hupplescat.bsky.social Gray Research has eight copies of Clifford’s Amphibious Warfare Development. The copy I randomly grabbed was the author’s gift to Robert Hogaboom!

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There are obviously a lot of counters to the USMC part of a Pacific fight but if “extend operational reach” to “attack them at the source” means sending troops to fight Marines on islands, they’re going to have a bad time.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

More munitions from PACOM arriving in CENTCOM.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The rest of college football watching Ohio State right now.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Next up should be Rick Atkinson’s liberation trilogy starting with this one.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I haven’t touched the European Theater yet (two more chapters before I do) but I can give you some starting spots. If he was in Algeria he was liked involved in Operation Torch. I haven’t read this yet but it’s is a recent book on it.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Gallipoli dissertation chapter is final complete. Now I can finally move on to serious work on Imperial Japanese amphibious warfare.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

But we’ll just keep trying to find that one decisive battle until it all breaks.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Calling this game Tanks instead of Self-Propelled Artillery is stolen valor.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

General Vandegrift after the Battle of the Tenaru.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

All because Cal Raleigh angered the baseball gods during the World Baseball Classic.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Got a hot date this weekend thanks to @lmbd1418.bsky.social who digitized this for me from the UK National Archive in Kew.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

And then the ACFT helped us win right?

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Which is really just Boyd being vindicated.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

OK but MacArthur was only in charge during the disasterclass defense of the Philippines because Marshall put him there and then protected him from a corruption investigation after Eisenhower found out about MacArthur embezzling funds. MacArthur was horrible but only because Marshall protected him.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"Well, if they'd send us more guys and maybe bomb the hell out of the North, they might, uh, they might give up."

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