Ryan Wadle
@rdwadle.bsky.social
Pronounced wad-lee
US naval history, OEF, and things that amuse me
Author of Selling Sea Power: Public Relations and the U.S. Navy, 1917-1941 from University of Oklahoma Press
US naval history, OEF, and things that amuse me
Author of Selling Sea Power: Public Relations and the U.S. Navy, 1917-1941 from University of Oklahoma Press
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The Wild Bunch is incredibly romantic. The final walk of the doomed gunslingers is one of the most powerfully romantic images in modern cinema.
November 28, 2025 at 5:45 AM
The Wild Bunch is incredibly romantic. The final walk of the doomed gunslingers is one of the most powerfully romantic images in modern cinema.
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It’s 2046. The navy struggles to keep the last SLOC open to the allied Free State of Hawaii. There are still no frigates, so it’s up to the overstretched fleet Arleigh Burke Flight IX destroyers to provide convoy escort.
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
It’s 2046. The navy struggles to keep the last SLOC open to the allied Free State of Hawaii. There are still no frigates, so it’s up to the overstretched fleet Arleigh Burke Flight IX destroyers to provide convoy escort.
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A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
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That moment when the book is actually real! @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social and I really enjoyed working on our chapter on the future of the Total Force.
Super excited that a new edited volume, Bend But Do Not Break, is coming out, edited by Jaron Wharton, @klkuzminski.bsky.social @jkdemp.bsky.social @mzmargulies.bsky.social Keith Carter, and @carriealee.bsky.social
And it’s apparently doing well on the amazons
And it’s apparently doing well on the amazons
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
That moment when the book is actually real! @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social and I really enjoyed working on our chapter on the future of the Total Force.
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you know you're getting old when you start getting excited for a book "1942: CRUX OF WAR" a year ahead of publication
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November 25, 2025 at 12:51 AM
you know you're getting old when you start getting excited for a book "1942: CRUX OF WAR" a year ahead of publication
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It's that time of year
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It's that time of year
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I’m gonna be honest, Panel Discussants at Conferences:
We really don’t want to hear your comments for 20 MINUTES. Send the presenters an email and let them field questions about their work from the audience.
We really don’t want to hear your comments for 20 MINUTES. Send the presenters an email and let them field questions about their work from the audience.
a man is sitting at a desk in an office looking at a computer screen .
ALT: a man is sitting at a desk in an office looking at a computer screen .
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November 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I’m gonna be honest, Panel Discussants at Conferences:
We really don’t want to hear your comments for 20 MINUTES. Send the presenters an email and let them field questions about their work from the audience.
We really don’t want to hear your comments for 20 MINUTES. Send the presenters an email and let them field questions about their work from the audience.
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"I am a river You are my canyon. I mean to flow through you. I mean to subdue and tame you. My Love.”
November 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"I am a river You are my canyon. I mean to flow through you. I mean to subdue and tame you. My Love.”
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a movie so sharp and funny that it basically killed the musical biopic for a decade
Coming soon to 4K UHD
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) 4K UHD
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#WalkHard #walkhardthedeweycoxstory #JohnCReilly #JakeKasdan #Bluray #physicalmedia
#FilmCommunity #Bluray #4K #4KBluray #4KUltraHD
#DVD #VHS #physicalmedia #physicalmediaforever #bluraycollector #FilmSky
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) 4K UHD
MORE INFO TBA
#WalkHard #walkhardthedeweycoxstory #JohnCReilly #JakeKasdan #Bluray #physicalmedia
#FilmCommunity #Bluray #4K #4KBluray #4KUltraHD
#DVD #VHS #physicalmedia #physicalmediaforever #bluraycollector #FilmSky
November 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
a movie so sharp and funny that it basically killed the musical biopic for a decade
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It's National Play Monopoly Day! The battleship token in the classic version of Monopoly was modeled after USS Indiana (BB-1). The game piece was also used in the board games Conflict and Diplomacy. The Indiana was commissioned in 1895 and decommissioned in 1919. #monopoly
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It's National Play Monopoly Day! The battleship token in the classic version of Monopoly was modeled after USS Indiana (BB-1). The game piece was also used in the board games Conflict and Diplomacy. The Indiana was commissioned in 1895 and decommissioned in 1919. #monopoly
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Looking forward to the National World War II Museum's International Conference on World War II later this week. I'll be speaking about the development of three U.S. Navy "systems"—tactical, operational, and logistic—and their impact on the war.
More here: www.nationalww2museum.org/events-progr...
More here: www.nationalww2museum.org/events-progr...
18th International Conference on World War II
Join us for our premier adult educational event bringing together the best and brightest scholars, authors, historians, and witnesses to history from around the globe to discuss the war that changed t...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Looking forward to the National World War II Museum's International Conference on World War II later this week. I'll be speaking about the development of three U.S. Navy "systems"—tactical, operational, and logistic—and their impact on the war.
More here: www.nationalww2museum.org/events-progr...
More here: www.nationalww2museum.org/events-progr...
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The loss of Ark Royal ... an avoidable disaster, but under unavoidable conditions. #OTD #MartitimeHistory #WW2 #History
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HMS Ark Royal | 'She should not have been lost' (Part 2 of 2)
YouTube video by Armoured Archivist
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November 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The loss of Ark Royal ... an avoidable disaster, but under unavoidable conditions. #OTD #MartitimeHistory #WW2 #History
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youtu.be/ABhEP1JkcQ8
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Z is still on TCM & Max video on demand.
November 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Z is still on TCM & Max video on demand.
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Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover
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Best defensive performance by a Yamamoto since the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands.
November 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Best defensive performance by a Yamamoto since the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands.
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November 2, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight and reclaim what they’ve taken from you
November 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight and reclaim what they’ve taken from you
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NASCAR getting a “game 7 moment” that costs a generational prospect a deserved championship after an all-time season
At the same time as a literal World Series game 7
Is a pretty hilarious poetry indeed
At the same time as a literal World Series game 7
Is a pretty hilarious poetry indeed
November 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
NASCAR getting a “game 7 moment” that costs a generational prospect a deserved championship after an all-time season
At the same time as a literal World Series game 7
Is a pretty hilarious poetry indeed
At the same time as a literal World Series game 7
Is a pretty hilarious poetry indeed
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An Air Canada flight right now
November 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
An Air Canada flight right now
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They're calling him the most French man in history
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
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October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
They're calling him the most French man in history
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I’m watching the World Series. I’m taking part o the Stanford prison experiment. I’m at the combination World Series/Stanford prison experiment
October 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I’m watching the World Series. I’m taking part o the Stanford prison experiment. I’m at the combination World Series/Stanford prison experiment
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10 years ago tonight
October 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
10 years ago tonight
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NEW: Anonymous donor gives Pentagon 130 million cans of Skoal Wintergreen to pay troops www.duffelblog.com/anonymous-do...
Anonymous donor gives Pentagon 130 million cans of Skoal Wintergreen to pay troops
Donation will “tide everyone over” until someone finds seven billion more cans
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October 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
NEW: Anonymous donor gives Pentagon 130 million cans of Skoal Wintergreen to pay troops www.duffelblog.com/anonymous-do...
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CEO whose last two companies went bankrupt but still gets to be a CEO for some reason
Of note in all this, Scott Woodward’s last 2 football hires - Brian Kelly and Jimbo Fisher - have resulted in $130 million in buyout money and zero playoff berths.
October 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
CEO whose last two companies went bankrupt but still gets to be a CEO for some reason