Hoosier Homer is reading For God and Kaiser by Basset
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This is my religion
This behavior can be seen throughout human history. It always leads to further depravity. It's the race to the bottom in a pit with no bottom.
You will see ears getting cut off or scalps being taken, and think this is it. It gets no worse. But it always gets worse.
You will see ears getting cut off or scalps being taken, and think this is it. It gets no worse. But it always gets worse.
Fundamentally, no atrocity justifies another atrocity. That path leads directly to the sort of wanton violence and disregard for human life we are witnessing.
December 16, 2025 at 12:24 AM
This behavior can be seen throughout human history. It always leads to further depravity. It's the race to the bottom in a pit with no bottom.
You will see ears getting cut off or scalps being taken, and think this is it. It gets no worse. But it always gets worse.
You will see ears getting cut off or scalps being taken, and think this is it. It gets no worse. But it always gets worse.
Speaking of Task Force Smith and all that entails, especially in the current atmosphere:
www.thenmusa.org/task-force-s...
www.thenmusa.org/task-force-s...
December 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Speaking of Task Force Smith and all that entails, especially in the current atmosphere:
www.thenmusa.org/task-force-s...
www.thenmusa.org/task-force-s...
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Boomers say stuff like, "Back Then movies didn't have all that sex" and meanwhile I'm watching a 1946 movie where the adult protagonist is talking to his mom who all but explicitly tells him that it's one thing to pick up a hooker in Chinatown, but don't sleep with a married woman.
Every now and then you watch a Hays Code-era movie and wonder if the censors were just completely asleep at the switch. Watched Humoresque (1946) last night, and a huge plot point is that the protagonist is fucking a married woman. Like, as long as he didn't say,"I am committing adultery" it was ok?
December 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Boomers say stuff like, "Back Then movies didn't have all that sex" and meanwhile I'm watching a 1946 movie where the adult protagonist is talking to his mom who all but explicitly tells him that it's one thing to pick up a hooker in Chinatown, but don't sleep with a married woman.
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Invading Venezuela over non-existent WMDs will let the current president crush the dreams of the “no more pointless foreign wars” crowd in the funniest way imaginable
December 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Invading Venezuela over non-existent WMDs will let the current president crush the dreams of the “no more pointless foreign wars” crowd in the funniest way imaginable
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That should really draw some hard questions from Congress, if that was working.
December 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
That should really draw some hard questions from Congress, if that was working.
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And that we’ve had several generations of men who’ve had their masculinity defined by those works of media and their own personal service during war or lack there of, to the point people who’ve served honorably are measuring their accomplishments against movie characters.
December 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
And that we’ve had several generations of men who’ve had their masculinity defined by those works of media and their own personal service during war or lack there of, to the point people who’ve served honorably are measuring their accomplishments against movie characters.
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Yep, The jump from a 1940s Hollywood propaganda film to Rambo III is a lot shorter when you remember stuff like any of the John Wayne movies, the Guns of Navarrone/Force 10 from Navarrone, and Kelly’s Hero’s all precede it, with each one taking a slight step down the path to hyper violent absurdity.
December 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Yep, The jump from a 1940s Hollywood propaganda film to Rambo III is a lot shorter when you remember stuff like any of the John Wayne movies, the Guns of Navarrone/Force 10 from Navarrone, and Kelly’s Hero’s all precede it, with each one taking a slight step down the path to hyper violent absurdity.
December 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Would any of these 🤡 look at the Bondi Beach hero (prior to his actions) as masculine or tough? Divorcing masculinity from physical strength IMO challenges the narrative and makes those w/inch deep character uncomfortable.
December 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Would any of these 🤡 look at the Bondi Beach hero (prior to his actions) as masculine or tough? Divorcing masculinity from physical strength IMO challenges the narrative and makes those w/inch deep character uncomfortable.
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As an aside to today’s conversation I gotta reiterate once again that I fucking love the enlisted soldier, Marine, and coastie, most sailors and some airmen.
December 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
As an aside to today’s conversation I gotta reiterate once again that I fucking love the enlisted soldier, Marine, and coastie, most sailors and some airmen.
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This Iowa National Guard squadron (1-113 Cavalry, 34th ID) first deployed soldiers to Iraq more than 20 years ago, in 2005. This tour it’s been at al-Tanf Garrison in Syria. The youngest soldiers in the squadron probably hadn’t been born yet during C Troop’s 2005-6 Iraq deployment.
U.S. Soldiers Killed in Syria Identified as Iowa National Guard Sergeants
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This Iowa National Guard squadron (1-113 Cavalry, 34th ID) first deployed soldiers to Iraq more than 20 years ago, in 2005. This tour it’s been at al-Tanf Garrison in Syria. The youngest soldiers in the squadron probably hadn’t been born yet during C Troop’s 2005-6 Iraq deployment.
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There is a line in the Return of the King that crushes me every time, because it comes with all the weight of lived experience by a WWI veteran. “They were too late. Too late was worse than never.”
December 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
There is a line in the Return of the King that crushes me every time, because it comes with all the weight of lived experience by a WWI veteran. “They were too late. Too late was worse than never.”
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Some bits that stood out for me
-GMLRS now have 8% success hit rates
-takes 10 ATACMS to destroy a radar
-6-10% of ZSU drone salvos in an attack-get through
-50% VRSF intercept rate of ALCM
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-GMLRS now have 8% success hit rates
-takes 10 ATACMS to destroy a radar
-6-10% of ZSU drone salvos in an attack-get through
-50% VRSF intercept rate of ALCM
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this morning's reading
www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
Disrupting Russian Air Defence Production: Reclaiming the Sky
This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of the manufacturing process of Russian air defence systems, demonstrating significant vulnerabilities in their production that could be exploited to disrupt...
www.rusi.org
December 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Some bits that stood out for me
-GMLRS now have 8% success hit rates
-takes 10 ATACMS to destroy a radar
-6-10% of ZSU drone salvos in an attack-get through
-50% VRSF intercept rate of ALCM
-
-GMLRS now have 8% success hit rates
-takes 10 ATACMS to destroy a radar
-6-10% of ZSU drone salvos in an attack-get through
-50% VRSF intercept rate of ALCM
-
I watched one of my mentors die in a muddy field, while I sat on an OP a thousand yards way. I watched everything happen, listened to it on the radio as the contact report came in, then the platoon trying to pull back. Then the casevac. Too far. I watched helplessly. Unable to do anything at all.
Which, IMHO, is a key reality of having experienced combat. There exists in the aftermath a sense of insufficiency, of not having done enough, of failing to do everything perfectly.
The influencers don't do this, and therefore feed the machine of perfection-driving cultural crisis
The influencers don't do this, and therefore feed the machine of perfection-driving cultural crisis
December 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I watched one of my mentors die in a muddy field, while I sat on an OP a thousand yards way. I watched everything happen, listened to it on the radio as the contact report came in, then the platoon trying to pull back. Then the casevac. Too far. I watched helplessly. Unable to do anything at all.
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Hoosiers onto something important here.
Dunno what the solution is either, except for those of us who had a vastly different type of war have to be willing to tell our stories.
Dunno what the solution is either, except for those of us who had a vastly different type of war have to be willing to tell our stories.
You wanna talk about a crisis of masculinity? I have been adamant that one does not exisit, at least within the framing of the current moment.
But thinking about it some more has led me to believe we do have a crisis of masculinity. Except it goes back decades-to WW2.
But thinking about it some more has led me to believe we do have a crisis of masculinity. Except it goes back decades-to WW2.
December 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Hoosiers onto something important here.
Dunno what the solution is either, except for those of us who had a vastly different type of war have to be willing to tell our stories.
Dunno what the solution is either, except for those of us who had a vastly different type of war have to be willing to tell our stories.
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Remember seeing Regis Filbin get defensive of his work as a quartermaster in the pacific when he was teased by Kathy for not actually being in danger. And this was 50 years after the war.
December 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Remember seeing Regis Filbin get defensive of his work as a quartermaster in the pacific when he was teased by Kathy for not actually being in danger. And this was 50 years after the war.
You wanna talk about a crisis of masculinity? I have been adamant that one does not exisit, at least within the framing of the current moment.
But thinking about it some more has led me to believe we do have a crisis of masculinity. Except it goes back decades-to WW2.
But thinking about it some more has led me to believe we do have a crisis of masculinity. Except it goes back decades-to WW2.
December 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
You wanna talk about a crisis of masculinity? I have been adamant that one does not exisit, at least within the framing of the current moment.
But thinking about it some more has led me to believe we do have a crisis of masculinity. Except it goes back decades-to WW2.
But thinking about it some more has led me to believe we do have a crisis of masculinity. Except it goes back decades-to WW2.
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The defence sector goes through cycles of enthusiasm for the next big thing. Network Centric Warfare, Cyber, Drones and now AI.
None of which were RMAs, no matter how many War College theses argued they were.
None of which were RMAs, no matter how many War College theses argued they were.
December 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The defence sector goes through cycles of enthusiasm for the next big thing. Network Centric Warfare, Cyber, Drones and now AI.
None of which were RMAs, no matter how many War College theses argued they were.
None of which were RMAs, no matter how many War College theses argued they were.
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I actually think a more interesting piece that I will write is how the media infrastructure and influencers fueling drone mania mirrors that of the bomber mafia of the 1930’s secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/subscribe?si...
December 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I actually think a more interesting piece that I will write is how the media infrastructure and influencers fueling drone mania mirrors that of the bomber mafia of the 1930’s secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/subscribe?si...
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I need to write about what it was like growing up in an AGR family.
I lived through all the same separations and anxieties as a regular Army brat. Field time, training rotations, even a fucking combat deployment, but I did it all living in a civilian neighborhood with no other service members…
I lived through all the same separations and anxieties as a regular Army brat. Field time, training rotations, even a fucking combat deployment, but I did it all living in a civilian neighborhood with no other service members…
My buddies in the guard often fought a longer harder war than my buddies in active duty and they took shit for it from everyone the whole time. Regular Army and Civilians alike treating them like less than when some had seen more combat than paratroopers in the 82nd Airborne.
Bad month for the Guard. 2 casualties in DC and 2+ casualties in Syria.
A reminder that the Guard is on the frontlines. They may serve part-time, but our enemies view them the same as active duty.
The only difference is they get screwed over on healthcare / GI-Bill etc relative to active duty.
A reminder that the Guard is on the frontlines. They may serve part-time, but our enemies view them the same as active duty.
The only difference is they get screwed over on healthcare / GI-Bill etc relative to active duty.
December 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I need to write about what it was like growing up in an AGR family.
I lived through all the same separations and anxieties as a regular Army brat. Field time, training rotations, even a fucking combat deployment, but I did it all living in a civilian neighborhood with no other service members…
I lived through all the same separations and anxieties as a regular Army brat. Field time, training rotations, even a fucking combat deployment, but I did it all living in a civilian neighborhood with no other service members…
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There's a Yost-Guard story about this when we (very briefly) had Harpoons.
December 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
There's a Yost-Guard story about this when we (very briefly) had Harpoons.
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They don’t call it “mid” Atlantic for no reason
December 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
They don’t call it “mid” Atlantic for no reason
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I will not be insulted on this platform.
the strong merge as they will, the weak swerve as they must
the strong merge as they will, the weak swerve as they must
December 15, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I will not be insulted on this platform.
the strong merge as they will, the weak swerve as they must
the strong merge as they will, the weak swerve as they must
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To provide an example:
If you join the Guard after high school, serve part-time for 5 years, and deploy to Syria for a year, you probably get about 600 days total of Title 10 orders which gets you 70% of the GI Bill.
If you go active duty and do nothing stateside for 3 years, you get 100%.
If you join the Guard after high school, serve part-time for 5 years, and deploy to Syria for a year, you probably get about 600 days total of Title 10 orders which gets you 70% of the GI Bill.
If you go active duty and do nothing stateside for 3 years, you get 100%.
Bad month for the Guard. 2 casualties in DC and 2+ casualties in Syria.
A reminder that the Guard is on the frontlines. They may serve part-time, but our enemies view them the same as active duty.
The only difference is they get screwed over on healthcare / GI-Bill etc relative to active duty.
A reminder that the Guard is on the frontlines. They may serve part-time, but our enemies view them the same as active duty.
The only difference is they get screwed over on healthcare / GI-Bill etc relative to active duty.
December 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
To provide an example:
If you join the Guard after high school, serve part-time for 5 years, and deploy to Syria for a year, you probably get about 600 days total of Title 10 orders which gets you 70% of the GI Bill.
If you go active duty and do nothing stateside for 3 years, you get 100%.
If you join the Guard after high school, serve part-time for 5 years, and deploy to Syria for a year, you probably get about 600 days total of Title 10 orders which gets you 70% of the GI Bill.
If you go active duty and do nothing stateside for 3 years, you get 100%.