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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Some say reading is dead… but perhaps not quite yet…

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Finally, Lester Grau and Charles Bartles author The Russian Way of War: History, Force Structure, and Tactics of the Russian Airborne Troops out from General Tadeusz Kościuszko Military University of Land Forces, with Roger N. McDermott reviewing doi.org/10.1080/1351...

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Grau and Bartles, The Russian Way of War: History, Force Structure, and Tactics of the Russian Airborne Troops

Published in The Journal of Slavic Military Studies (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2026)

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oooh. I can think of an interesting counterpoint about his nuclear signaling

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Volume 39 Issue 3 for 2027 is out… so check it out all these articles here www.tandfonline.com/toc/fslv20/3... If they aren’t open access… reach out to authors and ask for a pre-print copy. I’m sure they’d oblige.

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The Journal of Slavic Military Studies

Volume 39, Issue 3 of The Journal of Slavic Military Studies

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Between the killing of DTIC and now CASI, DOD really trying to kill any and all scholarship on war, I’m sure that’ll work out smartly!

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David Alman @davidalman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Literal decades of damage to United States national security. There are kids now who would have gone to do ROTC or joined the IC. They won't be there in thirty years as senior officers or analysts. Think about what leadership looks like then if only populated by those who joined now...

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is awful. CASI does excellent work and put on the best PLA course in DC.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nice to see this getting some attention. It's completely true, and I dearly wish more journalists understood where these common narratives about AI actually come from.

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

HALLUCINATED COMMUNITIES, by benedict ainderson

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What is the ganging gadgetbahn then? In contrast to running a train.

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The Slides @theslides.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"US Navy 35mm presentation slides," slide 11 of 20 [gallery]

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Please NAVAR and Pentagon. Bring back the ≈73-78 plane alpha strike.

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is kinda why ACE (and predecessor dispersal concepts) existed tbh. It would be kind of sick if we could have a USAF cheap terminal interceptor for defending dispersed sites, like Ameri-SA-27 on a truck.

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 16/09/2026

there i fixed it

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Once again begging for X-47B warmed over.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The core theme of our moment could be boiled down to “obvious lunatics unexpectedly being taken seriously.”

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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Resources for historians of slavery and the slave trade.

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SMH Historians @smh-historians.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The Board of Trustees of the Society for Military History has approved the following statement of protest regarding the recent closure of public access to the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC).

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/09/2026

as someone who has read far too much military history i think this is as wrong as can be. america did not send warriors to win world war two. we sent shopkeepers, and farmers, and accountants, and millions of ordinary people who did not dream of glory and death. and we won.

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Stephen England @stephenengland.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You could argue that the majority of America's wars have been won by very boring people applying civilian skills to the mass logistics of armed conflict.

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Giled Pallaeon @giledpallaeon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Peer warfare is the art of creating logistics supply lines to where you want to be, and blowing up whatever would impede that. (This is a riff on someone else, @sodrock.bsky.social I think)

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Giled Pallaeon @giledpallaeon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

U.S. policy had non-proliferation as somewhere between a top policy priority and The Top policy priority since World War II for a goddamn reason, and the end of the Cold War only *elevated* its relative importance.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Well, it is finally done: A video going over ballistic missile defenses in a simple language: youtu.be/w3-DAxr1C0U about a year's worth of time/effort spent on it and even longer in terms of research!

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Ballistic Missile Defense: An Overview

YouTube video by Vermillion

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

in my 20s I became familiar with the 'Agartha' tradition of late 19th century occultism and later neo-Nazisim, and boy, I was not expecting that one to resurface on Tiktok in the 2020s

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

reading various accounts of AI psychosis and a) the people behind chatgpt 4 should be sued into oblivion, especially for reintroducing it, and b) even for less vulnerable people and non-sycophantic AI there is an enormous danger in AI presenting itself as a frictionless friend.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

if you can speak intelligently about conventional peer warfighting and have a high enough nuclear IQ that you can explain effects accurately at a high level and know your Schelling, congrats you're in like the top 10% of the field

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's the natural progression of EUCOM analysis. Russia is the main bastard.

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

genuinely how it feels to see the news freaking out about a potential Russian incursion in a NATO state, after three decades of ignored alarms from policymakers, GWOT distractions, ancient arsenals and general heads-in-sandness from politicians Don't you get it? Am I the only one that gets it?

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Like 60% of the unmade Milius projects. Lots of WW2 stuff. Just an issue of scale and resources.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

another way to put it is that the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act are no longer permitted to enforce the 14th Amendment. they are banned by the "14th Amendment." the Civil Rights Era is dead, its accomplishments annihilated.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 30/08/2026

great essay. in particular struck by this concluding point, which i think gets at both how effective communication and trust from elites to the masses has broken down, and not least because elite consensus has itself broken down

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

HOI4 is basically just a visual novel but for spreadsheet nerds and political extremists and the people who are aware of this mostly know about the weird nazi shit but the other side of that coin is the delusional utopian portrayals of the USSR

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thigrlsrk.bsky.social @thigrlsrk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I have no idea what u just said but: I delivered USAID corn and beans ( thousands of tonnes) in Mozambique in the 80's and the good that did is unmeasurable. Every bag was stenciled " A gift from the people of the USA". As the ONLY American pilot of 20 pilots - I was proud of that.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Russian armor losses can be usefully measured in Bundeswehrs" is both a statement as to how much armor Russia has lost, but also a statement as to just how absurdly deep their vehicle park was going in.

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The Slides @theslides.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"SOVIET MILITARY CAPABILITIES S-100-18-85 BOX 2 OF 2," slide 21 of 29 [gallery]

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 22/08/2026

People will complain about how 50% of America is dumb then post “Fix the national debt by cutting the DoD budget” like they ate

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Nom de Plume Brett @maverickbrett.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I love RAND's dedication to not using any sort of cross document strucutre. Just let everyone make it up on the spot. Sections? Chapters? Methods in the appendix, summary or chapter 1 or 2? Who cares all are good!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 20/08/2026

I will also never get over realizing how many professionals who build products never, not once contemplate “perhaps I should get feedback from the people who are supposed to use this product on what they want, and then follow up with them later”

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Going to push back hard that kit and tactics are utterly meaningless. All the subfields of military art are interrelated, mutually interdependent, and critical to success. Operational or strategic acumen cannot redeem tactical failure, nor can tactical success redeem strategic incoherence.

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'm going to push back — it did meaningfully exist, in the minds of the (Western) allies.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 21/08/2026

i don’t need to know how to turn the wrench, i need to know when and why the guy who turns it does

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Nihil Dev 🇩🇰🇬🇱🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @nihildev.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I love this. It's basically "We've lost the art of learning." There is an art to it. A process to it. And we're losing that. I've run into kids (late teens/early twenties) who don't even know how to compose a text message or do basic research. With dropping literacy rates, it ain't lookin good!

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's more common than you think, at lest in Ukraine, but LLOD is pretty difficult. Basically every effector sucks and the sensor issue (i.e. a person) is not fun.

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