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Brian Kerg

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Atlantic Council Fellow | Military Writers Guild Board Member | Marine Corps Strategist Fellow at Notre Dame | CIMSEC Managing Editor | Personal Account

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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In annual tradition, @cimsec.bsky.social will be featuring a series of short stories that explore the nature of conflict and competition through #fiction. Help us to #WriteFightWin. We want your contributions! Check it out here: cimsec.org/call-for-art...
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The EXSUM really gets right to it:
Mindless pablum from Defense Priorities encouraging the United States to abandon all strategic interests so the PRC can seize the entire Pacific.
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
With love to @theatlantic.com and Defense Priorities:
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
And it's gone international: www.strategicstudyindia.com/2026/09/wher...
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
No, #Taiwan won't just give up. 🇹🇼 1. Nations don't surrender short of credible military coercion. 2. The coercion to make #Taiwan surrender would require #PLA forces landed en masse on #Taiwan. 3. Doing #2 is not operationally feasible. 4. Please read more history.
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
An important piece published today in @cimsec.bsky.social: "The Looming Armageddon of the U.S. Military's New Anti-Beard Policy." #WriteFightWin cimsec.org/the-looming-...
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
#Taiwan 🇹🇼 one-slider from the 1960 #Pacific Command unit history:
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Route map of the #Pacific scatter system, a multilink microwave troposcatter #communication system built by the US to transmit telephone calls between the far east and the Hawaiian Islands in the 1960's. 📻📡 Yes I'm lost in the CINCPAC command chronology again.
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Today in @cimsec.bsky.social: "The Curious Rise of Military Bullshit,"by Colonel Benjamin Gray of the Australian Army. This is a phenomenal piece that lays bare the perverse trend within military culture to hide lazy thinking with complicated language. Read it here: cimsec.org/the-curious-...
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
'Notes from Underground' by Fyodor Dortoevsky:
Dort having a normal one.
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
#Ethics for #Marines by Col Dennis Katolin, #USMC. Because there is no ethos without ethics. Check it out here: www.mca-marines.org/wp-content/u...
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Fixed the headline for you @cnn.com:
Hard to swallow pill.
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Glad to see @usni.org re-up my piece on the Sicily campaign! For modern applications to amphibious warfare, it's worth noting the need to tightly coordinate ops in the air, on land, and sea - as well as the need for massive superiority in each domain to pull off an amphibious landing.
A map of the Allied invasion of Sicily during WWII.
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Make Russia compete under the flag of 'Ukrainian Moscow.' (Yes this is a deep cut joke about the IOC's ridiculous rule for #Taiwan and 'Chinese Taipei'). 🇹🇼
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
😀
Scientific evidence that the B1G is superior to the SEC.
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Welcome to America, fútbol fans! ⚽🇺🇸
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Chowder II takes a shot at CLP and gets laid out: Noting that Paul Van Riper once told his students that GOs grow stale and should stop commenting 5 to 7 years after retirement: "You retired 29 years ago. The average age of a Marine in service today is 24 years-old. Take your own advice." 💀
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
New out from @cimsec.bsky.social : "China is Rehearsing More Than Amphibious Landings." cimsec.org/china-is-reh...
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Read the full report here: digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcont...
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
It only takes a single attack by one Marine Brigade to live rent free in the Army's head for eternity:
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The San Diego #Padres have officially offered #Taiwan diplomatic recognition:
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Next they're going to tell you the operational level of war is real. *Runs*
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Hey now, we are "litorally" cracking the code on doing amphibious ops without amphibs:
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Iron Eagle is better than Top Gun.
Absolute cinema.
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The state of the discourse at the other place involves the guy on the left serving as hype man for the guy on the right:
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Three cheers for that classic military leadership principle, "Do not kill your men."
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Help us Emilio Estevez, you're our only hope.
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
#InvisibleNation is now streaming for free on PBS. If you have any interest in #Taiwan, #democracy, or global #security and the threats to each, you need to watch this documentary. Check it out here: www.pbs.org/show/invisib...
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The good folks at @cimsec.bsky.social have a volunteer opening for a WordPress Environment Administrator! If you're looking for a chance to work with the #CIMSEC team in this role, give the below description a look. #WriteFightWin
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
There are lots of darts one could throw at the article - it would be infeasible to make tours in the FIC dependent restricted, Marines with families would just refuse orders get out, striking at bases with families would be too escalatory even for the PRC, etc. Okay, sure. But if you're wrong:
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
As depicted in RotJ, the Empire should have absolutely massacred the Ewoks. The Battle of Endor will only be credible if a gritty prequel mini-series depicts a decades long Ewok insurgency.
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Debuting at Modern Day Marine: the virtual NJP.
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Consider #writing for @cimsec.bsky.social in response to the latest call for articles discussing the #war with #Iran - see the link below for details. #WriteFightWin cimsec.org/call-for-art...
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
We're doing a Siege of Alesia style 'wall around the wall'... but at sea.
Map depicting the Siege of Alesia. Caesar famously built a wall around the wall of the besieged forces inside Alesia to simultaneously keep the besieged force contained while guarding against intervention by the enemy's relief army.
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
In the latest episode of @cimsec.bsky.social 'Sea Control', I host T.H. Schee to discuss civil defense in #Taiwan. Give it a listen at the link below. #LearnFightWin open.spotify.com/episode/5HvJ...
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Military historians after realizing that Operation Epic Fury (OEF) has the same acronym as Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF):
An epically furious own goal.
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Hey I don't make the rules, I just help apply them when hilarity could ensue and when rare historical references could arise:
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
With all the goings on in #Iran, I'm looking to get my squadron smart on the threat and the theater. What would you put on your Iran/CENTCOM reading list? Think across audiences, from company commanders to squad leaders, and across media - books, articles, videos, and podcasts. #ReadFightWin
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Hemispheric defense is failing:
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Repping #TeamTaiwan at the LA Galaxy game:
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Add it to the archive of "useful maps".
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Remaining pages of the above article follow:
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
One more previous piece that is increasingly timely given #Iran's strikes and the limits of air #defense we are seeing play out in real time. The most reliable defense against fires is earth. #SouthKorea and #Taiwan embraced this reality long ago. The #US and #Japan should as well. /1
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Keeping on theme of implications for advanced bases, below is an old piece I wrote on the risk assumed for families who get stationed in the First Island Chain. If families within Iran's WEZ are at risk, families within China's WEZ are at even greater risk. www.mca-marines.org/wp-content/u...
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Given the recent hits to US facilities, the below article is particularly prescient. In this month's issue of the #Marine Corps Gazette, Bobby Fowler writes about the potential role of Military Police in providing base #defense against modern threats.
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Who keeps letting Douhet attend the National Security Council meetings?!?
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
'An open letter to Secretary Hegseth', authored by an active duty #Marine lieutenant colonel currently serving in a military fellowship at Yale: yaledailynews.com/articles/an-...
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
For those already going through international sports withdrawals, be advised: 'Best of the Best' is streaming free on Tubi. You're welcome.
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Critical hit:
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