This is repugnant policy, devoid of strategy, driven by foolishness.
07.03.2026 02:37
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This is repugnant policy, devoid of strategy, driven by foolishness.
I am a weak soul. I struggle with substantive long-form content on screens.
Will have to contact MCUP.
A”Drunk Skeet” thread on unconditional would be money. But it would also be hazardous to your health.
Go, Henry!
This can get all the way, properly and Constitutionally, fucked.
Gawd. Happens all the time. But…even when we fail, if we’ve built trust with students who want to learn, great things happen.
I know that sounds unusually optimistic coming from me…but killing myself over months for a course about to end has me optimistic.
The kids are alright.
It feels very strange to be an old Colonel—literally the senior line officer in my career field. I was young once, I hope.
Indeed.
We’re suckers and losers, I guess.
I’m absolutely fascinated by this idea as a way to shift incentives. A best answer might be to create journals devoted to “negative” results, but this is a lovely communal alternative with lots of positive externalities.
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When you start hearing “you’uns,” you’ll know things have gone completely sideways.
I aim to please!
I think I’ll change the titles on this little shelf each month.
A few titles picked not-so-randomly from the shelves at work, all excellent.
*ways (not *eats). Beaten by clumsy thumbs!
There is a bizarre misunderstanding of how complex social systems work in play.
I lay a lot of blame at John Warden’s feet. “The Enemy as a System” INVENTS eats to be problematic.
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It appears to be Women’s History Month, and I’m allowed to observe it in any private capacity I like, regardless of my employer’s view.
I’ll share this short piece Jill Sargent Russell was kind enough to publish once upon a time. More to follow.
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I’m finding more and more of late that the thing I’m most convinced of by social media is the evidence for the fundamental flaws of democracy as a system (premised on the notion that 0+0>0) and of the Founders’ failure in not going far enough to curb them.
This MAY have been one of the very first things I read on @thestrategybridge.bsky.social, back before I even knew it was a thing. This was part of how I got drawn in.
This is one of the things I push into every course I teach in PME.
I love to watch folks flip out when I say, “There is no operational level of war, no matter what doctrine says. If doctrine said the streets were paved with gold, that wouldn’t make it true.”
Then they get to wrestle with the difference between “operational level” and “operational art.”
Any discussion of this match must wrestle with a question: “Is Jon Freemon incompetent, stupid, or suffering from a hard blow to the head?”
Congratulations @proreferees.bsky.social and @mls.bsky.social on continuing to suck at important things.
I didn’t intend a week ago to have posted something so timely. Alas.
We appear to be 100% on OPSEC.
Funnily, I was just having a related conversation about curriculum.
“Why not just assign this paragraph instead of the whole article?”
“Let me count the reasons while you wallow in being wrong,” was my only thought. It misunderstands everything about education.
As the DoD moves to eliminate educational opportunities at various schools for transparent reasons amidst larger efforts at erasure, I’m reminded of W.E.B. Du Bois and “The Propaganda of History.”
I’m also reminded of Jean-Luc Picard: “There are four lights!”
I think there is a lot to this. The author is talking about literature and teaches undergrads at a civilian university…but every bit of this resonates with me, history, strategic studies, international relations, math, etc.
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