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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not a dig! Just observing that 4th gen fighters and 70s defense projects in general have had an incredibly long service lives. Also, realized from this the max takeoff weight of an F-15 is 2,000lb heavier than a B-17.

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But think of all the NYC Rutgers fans watching the B1G now!There must be dozens of them!

Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The only issue is letting your rater be surprised you brought something up to your senior rater. But if they know, staff at any level shouldn't be getting in the way of commanders

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gone gone the form of man, rise the poster Gigan! @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On October First I distribute little envelopes with money in them for good luck in the new FY. Those envelopes are colored whatever color of money the person supports

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You don't like screens for a loss?

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And people say this website has no influence

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We made a really big deal about "getting it right," now we're back to running, push ups and abs

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Tell me your unit" made it clear some senior leaders had an active presence, which helped with self-policing. After the Hillsdale thing, most GOs reverted to PAO-type posts. Then the posters took over

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I just don't see it as useful when people say "Joe Biden wasn't left wing enough" they mean "Joe Biden didn't support the single issue I care most about in the way I wanted him to". Add in negative partisanship, and folks who would've burnt tires in Seattle '99 are lamenting the end of free trade

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It really just shows how increasingly useless "left", "right" and"center" are today. In 1985, which direction and which party would a pro-protectionism, NATO-skeptic, pro-market interventionist belong? French Revolutionary-era political distinctions are no longer really helpful

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I would argue that this is among the most important monographs one can read to get a grip on the numerous obstacles encountered by the army in raising, training, and deploying its divisions in WW2. LTC Wiley was quite candid with his assessments. cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

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World War II Operational Documents

The purpose of the study is to give an over-all view of the training of the Ground army from the inception of Army Ground Forces, 9 March 1942, until the spring of 1945, when Army Ground Forces comple...

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

If you can't endure the positional fight, you're not going to get a chance at breakthrough and exploitation.

Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Similarly, the breakthrough and exploitation ends at the Siegfried line. The Allies nearly exceed their operational reach and have to grind through tough terrain and enemy defenses again. Only after the Germans make a last throw of the dice at the Bulge does the opportunity again come for maneuver.

Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The problem of focusing only on D-Day then Operation Cobra is that it ignores the attritional, positional battle that makes Cobra possible. It wasn't that the Allies were too inexperienced to do combined arms until Cobra. The terrain and enemy did not allow for operational maneuver.

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Your state's university must have joined the big 10 before 1900 to be in the Midwest. Sorry, but that's the rule

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 · 31/07/2026

The problem is who gets reflagged? There are a lot less squadrons than 2 years ago 3/4ID switching to stryker also gets rid of one of the oldest armor regiments. It's not a war on history, it's just an overall loss of armor and cav units

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Still plenty of buffalo soldiers: 1,4, and 6-9CAV are still in 1CD, and 1-24IN in Alaska. This change is because the transition to SBCT from ABCT loses the CAV SQDN. They also will reflag 2x AR BNs to IN

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The general is 83 and still tweeting. I hope my takes on the Nigerian-Brazilian Cyberwar of 2073 are half as lucid

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

To be fair, the infantry always looks pretty miserable

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Look, I'm no expert on "rizz" but a chart putting Bon Iver on the same level as Donald Glover/Childish Gambino cannot be correct

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McFlyTG @mcflytg.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Huge thanks to WOTR for publishing my article. I'd love to hear your feedback and critiques.

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The GI Offensive in Europe by Peter Mansoor Not comprehensive, but does a really good job of explaining how the Army was built and what the experience was

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John F Sullivan @johnfsullivan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Between 2015 and 2020, the PLA's National Defense University published three separate versions of its flagship strategic text, The Science of Military Strategy 《战略学》Since neither of the later versions explain the reasons for the updates, here is what I noticed is new ...

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Anyone reading this graph and believing it shows English majors as being more competitive in the job market is really making a case for better data literacy across the board.

Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The CENTCOM commander is a career SWO, with an equivalent (by statute if not practice) line to the president. I don't think it was a lack of experienced sea-persons that got us here

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

two short guys who Austria couldn't stop

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Michael Crichton died in 2008

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☀️🌸idspispopd🥀🌙 @bhaalspawn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Blu Ray (2006) is now as old as SCSI (1986) was when Blu Ray came out.

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Is there an existing scenario with Japan and US vs Russia and China? The Japan map gives opportunities for competing objs for both Red factions too

Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Drop in electric strykers?

Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Another funny thing about this chart and adopting the M7/M8 is that small UAS now give a ton of options for a squad/platoon to close the perceived overmatch distance 6.8mm is trying to solve for. We picked a materiel solution and ignored most of the DOTMLPF-P

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Campaigns are scrambling to get all the Blippis to endorse before November

Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I bet the OP misidentified grits, but unknowingly wandered into another minefield: Should you put sugar on grits?

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Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Jacob Misiorowski just pitched the most insane inning by a starting pitcher in baseball history?

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Yep, right across from the Furlong

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Units sometimes try to go outside the boundaries the scenario and have to be pushed back. You need "The Box" and boundaries within it to give the operations some kind of sense, and get after the training tasks desired. Without it, NTC would just be 10 days of movement to contact and reconstitution

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Exercise design forces them to use certain areas and seize certain objectives, which also allows the smaller OPFOR to mass effects. This is all so that the BDE trains what the DIV CG wants.

Since we're talking about NTC, it's worth noting that anyone who wants a training exercise to be totally free play isn't a serious person. No BDE CDR would willing move his entire force thru the easily defended couple hundred meters of Whale Gap into the shooting gallery of Siberia

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Luke @loadsabot.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

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

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