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Transatlantic Doctoral Student covering the Cold War to the present. Logo adapted from that of the Soviet Army Studies Office

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I wish we spent the money on useful things though

Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'd read it

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For context: Palantir isn't named that because he's a Tolkien fan. It's because he's a fan of the uber-reddit Russian fanfic "The Last Ringbearer" which recast Sauron as a progressive industrializing force.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 09/10/2026

someone needs to put skarsgard and pattinson together into the weirdest fucking buddy cop movie you’ve ever seen

Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A balk os when they walk you after throwing balls, duh

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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is true of the constitution as well! :)

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Here’s LL Cool J trying to explain Clausewitz’s “remarkable trinity” to an uncomprehending Joe Rogan

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

US: Wait, CENTCOM is a maritime theater? Royal Navy:

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Always Has Been Among Us Meme

ALT: Always Has Been Among Us Meme

Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

NUWC Newport is trying!

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

as always have to align to the operational problem XVIII has jack and shit to do with any WestPac contingency lol the good news is neither do the carriers 🙃

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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...

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

Alexander Hill reflects on the war in "Understanding Russia’s ‘Special Military Operation’ through a longer-term historical-cultural lens of the history of the Soviet Union and Imperial Russia – some developing thoughts” doi.org/10.1080/1351...

Understanding Russia’s ‘Special Military Operation’ through a longer-term historical-cultural lens of the history of the Soviet Union and Imperial Russia – some developing thoughts1

This article looks at Russia’s ‘Special Military Operation’ in Ukraine through what the author would describe as a ‘historical-cultural’ lens - one that not only considers elements that would typic...

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!

Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bring back? We have enough birds!

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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

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

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

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

Not calling you a trad cath, just it's all exhausting obscure politics which I déteste about institutions I am not a fan of and ideolgies I wish not to have to care about.

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

This is like when thr trad caths I know talk about vatican intrigues.

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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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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you want more, there’s this four part documentary hosted by a quasi-game show host from about a decade ago. www.pbs.org/tpt/constitu...

Watch CONSTITUTION USA with Peter Sagal | PBS

Hit the road with Peter Sagal in CONSTITUTION USA as he travels cross country to find out where the Constitution lives, how it works, and how it unites us.

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

*is currently converting/has converted

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

See the Q-42/44

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

Well X-47 was in the X sequence. The next Q sequence is in thr 40s AFAIK.

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

Q series and F series are different numbering schemes!

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

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

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

Also the USAF could make good use of it. But you'd have to to through the navy and parochialism blows.

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

Option A 24 "MQ-47C" 24 F/A-XX 24 F-35C 6 MQ-25 11 H-60/V-75 3 CMV-22 5 E-2D Option B 12 "MQ-47C" 24 F/A-XX 24 F-35C 6 MQ-25 7 EF-18G/EF-35/VAQ!F/A-XX 11 H-60/V-75 3 CMV-22 5 E-2D

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

I want to put a VAU on every CVN in addition to 48-55 strike fighters, and X-47B is roughly sized to do that.

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

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

Someone should cover these woth a real band so I feel less like a scumbag listening to them

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

Once again begging for X-47B warmed over.

Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Put it another way, killing ± 6.5 billion people (the world population in the mid 2000s) only knocks the population back to the global population in the mid-1920s

Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

On top of that, nuclear winter and similar medium term post attack effects studies done back in the day were based on some questionable assumptions about fuel loading and firestorms. Those scenarios seem less likely as building codes have modernized and we have gotten better at climate science.

Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Using the 12k number, you've got just under 3 nuclear weapons for every city and town on earth over 100,000 inhabitants. But that only accounts for 2 billion people or so, and the numbers are a bit outdated (there are more cities over 100k now, the data is from 2022).

Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I would struggle to see how you could weaponeer your way to enough to end humanity with even 15,000 weapons (current stockpiles are like... 12k, and ±2500 of those are launchable), and the limits of deliveru systems. There is a big margin between killing half or 2/3 or 75% of people and everyone!

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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.”

Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Even a general nuclear exchange wouldn't end humanity, though it would be very unpleasant. Nuclear weapons are destructive, but they're not magic.

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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.