Hoosier Homer is reading For God and Kaiser by Basset
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This also happened under Hitler's system. As early as late 1941 he was attempting to direct firefights over individual buildings in the suburbs of Russian cities.
Also, this JTF-War seems overly centralized and likely to repeat the infamous WH directly giving platoon leaders suggestions during Vietnam (attributed to the Johnson admin). It's turn the Pentagon into a BN TOC.
December 16, 2025 at 3:23 AM
This also happened under Hitler's system. As early as late 1941 he was attempting to direct firefights over individual buildings in the suburbs of Russian cities.
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Maybe the leader can give awards of money and property to those GO’s who demonstrate extreme fidelity to the regime? Monetary bribes—er, awards—can also be dispensed to those officers who may feel squeamish about certain orders given?
December 16, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Maybe the leader can give awards of money and property to those GO’s who demonstrate extreme fidelity to the regime? Monetary bribes—er, awards—can also be dispensed to those officers who may feel squeamish about certain orders given?
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This history ends in 1945 because they won all the wars and ushered in a post-history utopia right?
December 16, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This history ends in 1945 because they won all the wars and ushered in a post-history utopia right?
Next you'll be telling me they just need to be in charge of the essential war production because the primes can't handle it. And then maybe they should also be allowed to control resource allotments as a treat.
A high level staff wants to consolidate ever more power for itself even when there’s no conceivable reason for it?
a group of people are sitting at a table and one of them is saying hey i 've seen this one .
ALT: a group of people are sitting at a table and one of them is saying hey i 've seen this one .
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December 16, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Next you'll be telling me they just need to be in charge of the essential war production because the primes can't handle it. And then maybe they should also be allowed to control resource allotments as a treat.
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It’s even in black and white.
December 16, 2025 at 2:49 AM
It’s even in black and white.
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I hear the fridge open and I know that Ol' Lady Peck just realized that she's out of beer.
Luckily, she's married to the perfect man for this job.
Luckily, she's married to the perfect man for this job.
Todd Snider - Beer Run
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December 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I hear the fridge open and I know that Ol' Lady Peck just realized that she's out of beer.
Luckily, she's married to the perfect man for this job.
Luckily, she's married to the perfect man for this job.
Sorry for the heavy posting. Tanks will resume soon.
December 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Sorry for the heavy posting. Tanks will resume soon.
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The irony is that the peacetime draft following the war was extremely unpopular, and volunteers didn’t exactly beat down the door to recruiting offices once the guns opened up in Korea. I always see this as a largely marginal phenomenon, and one that makes good copy for lazy editors.
December 16, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The irony is that the peacetime draft following the war was extremely unpopular, and volunteers didn’t exactly beat down the door to recruiting offices once the guns opened up in Korea. I always see this as a largely marginal phenomenon, and one that makes good copy for lazy editors.
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
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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.