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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I’m very excited to be teaching the Game Theory as part of this awesome Virginia Tech course and awesome graduate certificate in wargaming. Huge thanks to @ctreese2.bsky.social and the entire team at VT SPIA

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Dr. Daalder is one of SO DAMN MANY who've been assigned Clausewitz, pretended to read Clausewitz, quotes Clausewitz, but APPARENTLY ONLY INTERNALIZED A SINGLE PARAGRAPH HEADING FROM BOOK ONE CHAPTER ONE AND THEN DECIDED THAT'S THE WHOLE G-D THING.

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

SO... democracies and war. It's easy to imagine that democracies, with all of their inefficiencies, are somehow hampered when it comes to war. It's perfectly logical when you consider that unity of effort and unity of command are principles of war invoked by doctrine & military maxims.

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Finally, the Catholicism I remember from 12 years of Catholic school

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I’m wearing its Airborne twin right now while getting this little man to bed

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I have 2x Bulovas (A-15 Pilot and a Hack) and a Hamilton (Khaki Field King Auto) and while I switch them around constantly, my new go-to is a Praedidus A-11 made from a C-47 door that dropped Paratroopers in WWII. The same company made a version with sand from Iwo for @sebastianbae.bsky.social

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

This is my selection of just CAA and Strategic Wargaming Division Aloha shirts from many USINDOPACOM and USARPAC wargames

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Okay, just in case this happens, I’m publicly laying claim to the new theory about comedy overcoming authoritarianism. President Colbert 2028?

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

More disturbing, the countries who stand to benefit: Include the top sugar beet producer, Russia, and the #3 sugar cane producer China.

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Listen, I love Mexican Coke as much as the next guy, but if you’re trying to re-shore industries and appeal to a rural, domestic base, how does cutting a major consumer of US corn products and shifting their purchases to a resource that the US does not have a comparative advantage in?

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

With emergency ruling issued that confuse constitutional scholars, but ordered without outlining any logic or reasoning, it is only a matter of time that people begin to ask if certain members of the judiciary are implicated in the Epstein files.

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Look, we’re all trying to find who did this.

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Get your fill! No seriously, great Prof. Definitely read his latest, “Thanks for your Service” and @eclipticevader7.bsky.social’s “Dangerous Instrument” for a concerning look at public sentiment and military professionalism.

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

You can return to the tribe when you kill one, skin it, and wear it as your trophy

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

He went through OCS, Infantry OBC and shipped off to Korea to lead an Infantry platoon. 3 weeks later, he was medevac’d off a North Korean hilltop, to South Korea. Then to Okinawa, then Hawaii, then San Antonio, then Fort Belvoir VA. He was, and is, my hero.

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The end of the nonpartisan military ethic was when commanders felt compelled to ask soldiers to self-report dissent rather than remind them to act professionally as befitting a visit by POTUS

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Most of all, @sebastianbae.bsky.social who @snarkystrategy.bsky.social introduced me to while I was at Gtown. Sebastian sent reading lists, wargaming syllabi, and patiently shepherded an apprentice into my first wargaming gig. Since, he’s been a generous co-author, lead designer, and advocate.

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Cont #WeekofGratitude As blessed as I was to have amazing Soldiers, I’ve been blessed to have incredible peers and comrades to my left and right. Here’s a picture of some of them carrying me at my wedding, but to be fair they’ve carried me through most of my career.

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I was also fortunate to serve in an Airborne Infantry and a HQ Troop in the 82d ABN. An Airborne leader jumps first, eats last, and always wins. If I ever achieved those lofty ideals, it was because of the Officers, NCOs, and Paratroopers of D/1-508 PIR and HHT/5-73 CAV (ABN) who made command easy.

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Throughout the rest of that deployment, I relied on a Canadian Warrant, Matt Harris, who was a rock for a shaken young LT to steady himself on. Without the men of Red Plt, Banshee Troop, 1-71 CAV, I would not have survived my first deployment, learned how to lead, nor developed as an Officer.

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

In 2010, I served as a Recon Platoon Leader in Task Force Kandahar. There I met a group of amazing men. On 5 November 2010, we lost one of them, SGT Michael Francis Paranzino. He was an incredible man, solid NCO, and the backbone of our PLT.

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

#WeekofGratitude This week, I was selected for promotion to Lieutenant Colonel, so I will spend this D-Day -1 thru D-Day+5 as a week of gratitude for the many people whose support, guidance, and advice have helped me get this far. THREAD 🧵👇

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Might I suggest not shutting down satellite locations for PME when their costs of operations are offset by the savings in PCS costs

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Wait… “Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.” I am very confused.

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Will @sebastianbae.bsky.social’s trolling never end?!

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

This is great surprise on my birthday. Thank you to @sebastianbae.bsky.social for crediting my (meager, insubstantial) contribution to this incredible game.

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

And this isn't just about paratroopin' either. This goes for any formation pressing against the front line, but it goes especially for paratroopers, Marines, or anyone else who could be called to perform early entry, penetration, or infiltration.

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Why? My grandfather was terrible wounded in Korea. He took seven units of whole blood on the battlefield and continuous transfusions while he was medevac'd from North to South Korea to Japan to Hawaii to Texas to Fort Belvoir VA. Here he is at OCS graduation as a new 2LT.

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It was so important to me that the last thing I did as a commander was launch this program and begin it with a blood donation drive with the Armed Service Blood Program. 👇

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

One of the basic conclusion our discussions of future war came to was that the Air bridge was untenable. That is to say, when paratroopers are dropped in, the air corridor that would, doctrinally, keep a steady inflow of equipment and troops. Importantly, this would allow evacuation of casualties.

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

It is sickening to think that an issue as uncontroversial as "our meritocratic system ought to be based on merit, not on bias" or that disregarding spouses' career could harm retention, is now verboten. This is what you see when you try to access my articles now.

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

“Show us on this regression plot where the Stata touched you”

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Leaving your enemy's most lethal assets uncovered while self-inflicting chaos in your Defense, is a bad thing actually. I'm just talking about hockey. What are you talking about?

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Had a procedure (nothing serious) at UNC hospital. Wore my Duke Poli Sci shirt… which prompted the resident jabbing needles in my arm to tell me his EARLIEST memory was 9-11. The EKG went flat because I died of old age right then and there.

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It’s finally happened. Please report this imposter account.

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Can we call it the Global War Against the Cartels (GWAC)

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This is how it feels whenever @sebastianbae.bsky.social reposts my wargaming skeets

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Reminder: you don't prove anything through wargaming Wargaming is a great tool to develop understanding, explore risk, generate insights... a bunch of REALLY useful things But anyone telling you they've proven anything or can predict the future through a single run wargame is just... 🤦

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Paul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Americans will do anything to avoid using the metric system

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