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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Just update this classic:

Book Cover of Eyewitness Visual Dictionary of Special Military Forces.

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It's a piece of key terrain at NTC. Brigades have fought through it since the '80s

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

"March Madness should start in January!"

Cat reading newspaper "I should buy a boat" meme

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

What they consider as RMAs:

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

For what its worth, Goldberg had what he called a "half-baked idea" about buying Greenland in 2021, but has been consistent in the last year that its not worth blowing up NATO and our national honor. thedispatch.com/article/dona...

We should acknowledge the truth of this. Put aside questions of law, the Constitution, or policy. It’s true we could take Greenland militarily, gangster style. It’s also true that I can take a gun and rob my friends. Again, legality aside, the question I have is, “Would that be honorable?” In Trump’s terms, the seizure of Greenland would make us more “respected,” but it would not make us more honored. We would be betraying our allies (and ideals), and not just Denmark but all of NATO, by breaking our word. For what? Territory. Territory we have every right to use by treaty already. Would we be prouder of our military once it became an instrument of mercenary conquest?

St. Augustine once asked, "Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies?” George Washington was passionate about notions of honor and virtue. In his Farewell Address, he insisted that we should honor our commitments “with perfect good faith.”

An America that honors its commitments has allies who will honor theirs. An America that betrays its commitments by force or by the threat of force will find the cost of political capital exorbitantly expensive at the earliest opportunity.

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I think this is great weakness of Boyd - he basically was a guy with a slide deck, not a historian or (rigorous) theorist. Maybe in his 90 min brief he described how the principle of Schwerpunkt was used in 1945 Manchuria, but it's not really apparent in most published versions of the slides.

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This is the plot to "The Bear and The Dragon"!

Tom Clancy, author and prophet, with laser eyes

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

"2500 Americans are killed daily by cardiovascular disease. By properly classifying the precursors as WMDs, we can fight a Clausewitzian Active Defensec against the transnational organizations destroying American lives..."

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Blink twice if you're being held hostage by Jeff Katzenberg

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

"Great moments are born from great opportunities..."

LinkedIn post but with the 4 year old coach giving the Miracle speech

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Once again, "The future of war is here, and, conveniently, I have it for sale" warontherocks.com/2025/08/dron...

The DoD should clearly articulate initiatives to research, test, and procurement distributed systems infrastructure independent of cloud provider dependencies.

Emma Bates is founder and CEO of a startup selling self-contained distributed systems for defense

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

A lot of people just read the first part of the book and skipped the "Last Man" part

Excerpt from Fukuyama's "The End of History and the Last Man": But supposing that the w o r l d has become "filled up," so to
speak, with liberal democracies, such that there exist no tyranny
and oppression w o r t h y of the n a m e against which to struggle?
Experience suggests that if men cannot struggle on behalf of a
j u s t cause because that j u s t cause was victorious in an earlier gen
eration, then they will struggle against the j u s t cause. T h e y will
struggle f o r the sake of struggle. T h e y will struggle, in other
words, out of a certain boredom: f o r they cannot imagine living in
a w o r ld without struggle. A n d if the greater part of the world in
which they live is characterized by peaceful and prosperous liberal
democracy, then they will struggle against that peace and prosperity, and against democracy.

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

A true sicko team - above .500, but less than 250 yds/gm. Punter must be off the charts

A zoom in on a dot. Winning percentage above .500, less than 250 yds/gm

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

The whole article is wild, but this quote was the most revealing to me. The man has no reason to exist beyond just existing. A society organized around merely existing as "the highest virtue" sounds incredibly shallow and dystopic.

Excerpt: Embedded in existence....it will be conditioned that existence itself is the highest virtue

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The cost ratio still doesn't work, but MPAT-Air has been around awhile, and the new AMP round (should?) work better for air targets. "Wall of Steel" isn't exactly a new TTP for air threats

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

As a Wisconsinite, I was legally obligated to try these.

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The Ender's Game quote really completes the whole "Don't Create the Torment Nexus" meme

Slide of fantastical academy with quote "The enemy's gate is down"

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

"For most American officers, the dominance of highly mobile and lightly armed infantry was simply a principle of warfare..." It's interesting that Pershing saw the adaptations the Brits and French had made since 1914, and still believed in the superiority of American "open warfare"

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 13/05/2024

"DoD personnel recently conducted a global wargame. A defense official playing the Chinese won thru a military strat of conquering Australia tied to alliance with Africa and S. America. By the conclusion of the game, China had control of Asia and invaded Alaska thru Kamchatka..."

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

Who counseled this guy? He couldn't scratch the same itch through a branch transfer or an SF packet? Go to Ranger School? The Army is a big place with options if you're unhappy with your current track

Highlight from article: "I was kind of at a point in my life in the Army where I felt unfulfilled....so it was either get out or go into the civilian world..."

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

Started "Real Soldiering" and a couple things really interest me: 1. No one knows they are an interwar Army. There only are post war armies juggling new responsibilities with post war cuts. 2. Post-war, the Army has always struggled to recruit and service has usually been seen as a low status job

Cover for Real Soldiering: The US Army in the Aftermath of War, 1815-1980

By Brian McAllister Linn

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 04/02/2024

This sounds like when "unnamed sources" from rival teams "raise questions" about a much more successful franchise

Quote from article "I don't know if in the coming years people will be looking at the US as a model for democracy" - An Arab diplomat

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

I'm going to keep telling myself that this can't be the darkest timeline because we have Dorotos Locos tacos

A single Dorito has more extreme nacho flavor than a person in the 13th century would experience in their whole lifetime

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

At first, I read this as a very niche group of Clark Griswold impersonators

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Started "To the End of the Earth", and was reminded how warped our popular memory of the Pacific is. Some islands were "Hell in a Small Place," but Leyte, Luzon, Okinawa took multiple US Army corps. It's not a huge stretch to imagine the Army's role in an INDOPACOM conflict, we've already done it.

To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945 by John C McManus

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Any JeffReff LinkedIn post:

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