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Ian TB
@iantb.bsky.social
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Retired #Marine, scribbler, #wargame analyst, podcast co-host, geek. Author of “A New Conception of War” on #USMC reading list. All views my own.
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 1d
I am off the plane. The games followed me. I take multi-domain operations, especially logistical movement, very seriously.
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 1d
#ManeuverWarfare is finally hitting the streets! If you pre-ordered from @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social, copies are going out as we speak. And now that I’ve got my own official copy, I finally get the @sebastianbae.bsky.social card back that mysteriously wandered off at Modern Day Marine!
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 2d
I just wish we’d get to a point where people could agree on a “could we just not” subject, but no, looks like we’ll just answer absurdity with absurdity and then wonder why everything’s on fire around us.
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 2d
I’ve seen more laser-related posts in the last 24 hours on this site than on, well, any other site I traffic ever, so let me offer my 2 cents:

Don’t point lasers at aircraft. Ever. Period. There is no “but.” Don’t fucking do it.
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 2d
I forgot what it was like to watch a Pats QB sling balls down the field with …skill.
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 3d
Agree with both. It’s not like the capability doesn’t exist. It’s long established outside the military. Which means the integration curve should be shallower since you’re not trying to make something entirely new while at the same time figuring out how to use it.
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 3d
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Rob Malcolm @theproudjoiner.bsky.social · 3d
YES! And augmented reality goggles have been around for years, yet we are not seeing them in widespread use at MCAGCC or the national training centers. Instead of the Coyote telling you the column is 3k out from your BP, why can’t you see it in your goggles?
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 3d
Able to do with digital recordings, previously VHS recordings, and previously actual real-life film wound on spools for longer than most of us have been alive.
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 3d
Live virtual constructive training environments at scale. I’ve spent a good two decades hearing about how great it would be to have immersive training that captures everyone’s movements for detailed AARs the way NFL teams study game film. Two decades and we’re no closer to what the NFL has been
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 6d
Where’s the lie
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 9d
We all did
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 9d
I can’t remember the last time I felt this good about the Patriots. What a statement. #NEPats
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 9d
Whatever we’re paying Marcus Jones it’s not enough. #NEPats
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 9d
Well that was a weird half. #NEPats
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 9d
Well that was a weird first quarter. #NEPats
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 10d
Request for #AfghanEvac help.

One of my interpreters is in bureaucratic limbo with his SIV to enter the US. I'm running the traps on that.

Where he needs help: Organizations that fund the execution of leaving the country - medical exams, visas to get his family to Pakistan, etc.

Any ideas?
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 10d
Been delinquent in sharing this but if you’re going to the @armchairdragoons.bsky.social Fall Assembly this weekend, I’ll see you there and will have #ManeuverWarfare with me!
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 10d
Reading about the Aleutians campaign in WWII and every other page has a fascinating anecdote. Like the time Army engineers turned a lagoon into an airfield in 24 hours by building a drainage system by hand, with spare parts, in a storm:
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 10d
That’s an awesome picture.
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 10d
Weekend #wargaming is rarer these days, but it still gets done. Rebels and Imps face off across the snow-blasted plains of Hoth: #StarWars
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 11d
My memory is admittedly hazy but I don’t recall that Marines required hands placed on them in basic training to accomplish their missions in Camp Rhino, Nasiryah, al Qaim, Ramadi, Fallujah, Marjah, Camp Bastion, Abbey Gate, and many less well known operations in between. But again, my memory is hazy
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 12d
Yeah unfortunately there was what would’ve been a short delay at the printing house, which will now be a longer one until the government reopens. But once it reopens the print copies shouldn’t be too far behind.
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 12d
Also don’t forget that the digital edition of the “definitive John Boyd” is now available from Marine Corps University Press! Print copies will be available when, well, everything opens up again but until then you still get the ‘trons for free!

www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/...
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 12d
Been a lot going on lately BUT just wanted to remind everyone that my #ManeuverWarfare #cardgame #wargame from @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social is almost at the warehouse, and you can still pre-order at the link below!

dietzfoundation.org/product/mane...
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 14d
Over at Compass Points, they’re loving it.
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