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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

an author fanning hysteria online to pimp their book is pretty awful having said that, chinese anti-ship ballistic missiles are a real thing and you should read the book I wrote with @bdherzinger.bsky.social

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Blake Herzinger @bdherzinger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Brian Kerg is among the greatest Marines I know. He combines kindness, humility, and a tremendous intellect with exactly the kind of ferocity, warfighting acumen, and physical fitness that the self-appointed "alpha males" imagine for themselves. As ever, thoughtful and well-reasoned for USNI.

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Blake Herzinger @bdherzinger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm no economist but I'm pretty sure this is less than ideal.

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Blake Herzinger @bdherzinger.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Any servicemember in Korea, Bahrain, or Japan that has watched as we ratcheted up tensions with grade schools, families and golden retrievers under the guns of our adversary has wondered, “How viable is this footprint in the missile age?” Now everybody knows.

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Blake Herzinger @bdherzinger.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

My brother in Christ, have you heard of Iraq and Afghanistan?

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Blake Herzinger @bdherzinger.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

lol, no. Try 25 years in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Excellent thread from @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social —>

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Blake Herzinger @bdherzinger.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

So the Coast Guard has finally redeployed the cutters formerly tasked to Patrol Forces Southwest Asia (PATFORSWA), moving them from Bahrain to Singapore and the Philippines.

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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"As the protective value of physical distance erodes, strategic depth — once conceived in geographical terms — must now be measured in the resilience of data and compute.” @bdherzinger.bsky.social

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

ok this is really good but compute is not a noun

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Blake Herzinger @bdherzinger.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

In an age of data-centric warfare and precision strike, real strategic depth now comes from dispersion, elasticity, and optionality in the cloud, rather than just trading space for time on the ground.

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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

“My country right or wrong: when right, to be kept right, when wrong, to be put right.” - Major General Carl Schurz 🇺🇸

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YCAPS - Yokosuka Council on Asia-Pacific Studies @ycaps.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

📕YCAPS is pleased to announce the Alliance Handbook Series with the usstudiescentre.bsky.social 1) US-Japan @marsecbradford.bsky.social @mikebosack.bsky.social 2) Australia-Japan @mikebosack.bsky.social 3) US- Australia @bdherzinger.bsky.social Access below👇 www.ycaps.org/alliance-han...

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Blake Herzinger @bdherzinger.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

When we find that village I think we might need to destroy it, y'know, in order to save it.

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Blake Herzinger @bdherzinger.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Yeah, really got me. I thought I'd gotten away with it until those meddling kids and their stupid dog got involved.

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

It's an unusual form of isolationism...

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Blake Herzinger @bdherzinger.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Merry Christmas, shitter was full!

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

New post out: @ldfreedman.bsky.social talks to @kschake.bsky.social - who's worked at senior levels in the US defense and state departments - on how the military should deal with Trump, Hegseth and illegal orders. (Free to read) samf.substack.com/p/the-state-...

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The State and the Soldier

How should the US military react to a "unprincipled principal"?

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Blake Herzinger @bdherzinger.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

The left’s biggest problem in Trump is that he is genuinely funny. Sometimes even intentionally.

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Blake Herzinger @bdherzinger.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I highly recommend looking into him

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Blake Herzinger @bdherzinger.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

This dude is maybe in my top 5 least favorite people in government.

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Jake Werner @jwdwerner.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Information Office of the PRC State Council furiously scribbling down notes on how you roll out the public announcement of a blockade

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

wrote this week about a topic there's surprisingly little coverage of in the United States even in think tanks focused on the Chinese military: the everyday lives of Chinese soldiers. foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/16/c...

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What’s It Like to Be a Chinese Soldier?

Behind the parades, recruits face long deployments, strict rules, and limited opportunities.

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Blake Herzinger @bdherzinger.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Any declaration of national policy issued in all caps via truth social likely has a bit of legal fuzziness...

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Blake Herzinger @bdherzinger.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I think it's more of a naval quarantine, having named "sanctioned vessels" as the target, rather than a full naval blockade of Venezuela.

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NK Finney @nathankfinney.com · 17/12/2025

“The white paper outlined this plan without deference to or even acknowledgement of U.S. sensitivities, likely putting China on a collision course with the United States in the region in the months and years ahead.” thediplomat.com/2025/12/chin...

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China’s 2025 White Paper on Latin America Sets the Stage for Renewed Competition With the US

The new document declared China’s intention to expand its influence on all fronts, even as the U.S. is turning its focus to the Western Hemisphere.

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U.S. Naval Institute @usni.org · 17/12/2025

#OTD 1907: The Great White Fleet departs Hampton Roads, Va. to circumnavigate the world in 14 months, a journey of 43,000 miles that included 20 port calls across six continents.

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Blake Herzinger @bdherzinger.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

In this house we recognize the blockade as an act of war.

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Blake Herzinger @bdherzinger.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

It is the year of our lord 2025, the Marine Corps is here. We made that choice a long time ago, and it is an institution of incredible value. Don't write stupid stuff.

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Blake Herzinger @bdherzinger.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

What possibly could have led that young man to believe he was in possession of the necessary understanding or insight to write something like this?

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Blake Herzinger @bdherzinger.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

At least there's a solid rebuttal to that gawdawful Harrison Kass piece about getting rid of the Marine Corps thehill.com/opinion/nati...

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Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl · 15/12/2025

China to fall out of Germany’s top five export destinations for first time since 2010 – Reuters: ‘dropping to seventh place as shipments decline 10% to 81 billion euros ($95.04 billion) this year’ ‘as imports from [China] rise more than 7% to around 168 billion euros, accounting for 12% of all’

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China to fall out of Germany's top five export destinations for first time since 2010

China will fall out of Germany's top five export destinations for the first time since 2010, dropping to seventh place as shipments decline 10% to 81 billion euros ($95.04 billion) this year, a govern...

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