Travis
@someforeignfield.bsky.social
Former USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, former International Rescue Committee.
Humanitarian professional, missile and tank weirdo, posts stuff about missiles, the Middle East, and why it matters at https://substack.com/@someforeignfield
Humanitarian professional, missile and tank weirdo, posts stuff about missiles, the Middle East, and why it matters at https://substack.com/@someforeignfield
The "humanitarian pier" visible on Google Earth - not functioning for its intended purpose of delivering aid in the least efficient way possible, but in fact languishing in Ashdod port on June 17, 2024 after being towed there on June 14.
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The "humanitarian pier" visible on Google Earth - not functioning for its intended purpose of delivering aid in the least efficient way possible, but in fact languishing in Ashdod port on June 17, 2024 after being towed there on June 14.
Arleigh Burke still leading the Navy surface warfare fleet in the year 2100
November 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Arleigh Burke still leading the Navy surface warfare fleet in the year 2100
How in the hell did these guns, sold by a bespoke hunting rifle dealer in Canada, end up in Sudan, wielded by the genocidal Rapid Support Forces? Of course, the answer is the UAE - and the world's lack of care about arms proliferation.
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
How in the hell did these guns, sold by a bespoke hunting rifle dealer in Canada, end up in Sudan, wielded by the genocidal Rapid Support Forces? Of course, the answer is the UAE - and the world's lack of care about arms proliferation.
Israelis love lying about their military achievements. Apparently the US is not capable of 1200 sorties (the 1st Gulf War air campaign was 100,000 sorties)
And also these numbers of destroyed targets are at least 2-5x what's been verified, and also most of those refuelings were by the USAF.
And also these numbers of destroyed targets are at least 2-5x what's been verified, and also most of those refuelings were by the USAF.
November 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Israelis love lying about their military achievements. Apparently the US is not capable of 1200 sorties (the 1st Gulf War air campaign was 100,000 sorties)
And also these numbers of destroyed targets are at least 2-5x what's been verified, and also most of those refuelings were by the USAF.
And also these numbers of destroyed targets are at least 2-5x what's been verified, and also most of those refuelings were by the USAF.
For all the pro-Israel people who enjoy pointing to the genocide the UAE-supported RSF is carrying out in Sudan as an attempt to highlight the imagined hypocrisy of Pro-Palestine people...
That be your mans, tho. Yeah, the country you be hangin with! You don't feel bad or nothin? Like, no guilt?
That be your mans, tho. Yeah, the country you be hangin with! You don't feel bad or nothin? Like, no guilt?
October 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
For all the pro-Israel people who enjoy pointing to the genocide the UAE-supported RSF is carrying out in Sudan as an attempt to highlight the imagined hypocrisy of Pro-Palestine people...
That be your mans, tho. Yeah, the country you be hangin with! You don't feel bad or nothin? Like, no guilt?
That be your mans, tho. Yeah, the country you be hangin with! You don't feel bad or nothin? Like, no guilt?
I wish we were a country with municipal governments who actually gave a shit about providing services and improving the lives of their residents
October 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I wish we were a country with municipal governments who actually gave a shit about providing services and improving the lives of their residents
*look stupid and embarrassing
When u notice a typo
When u notice a typo
October 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
*look stupid and embarrassing
When u notice a typo
When u notice a typo
For reference here are a few weapons captured by Turkish Jandarma forces - an M16, M4, and AKS-74U, a Wz.88 Tantal, a PKM, SVD magazines, and an RPG tube, plus Ghillie suits. Thermal optics are usually included as well.
October 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
For reference here are a few weapons captured by Turkish Jandarma forces - an M16, M4, and AKS-74U, a Wz.88 Tantal, a PKM, SVD magazines, and an RPG tube, plus Ghillie suits. Thermal optics are usually included as well.
All the cartels watching the F-35s bombing the random farmer down the street while they drive the truck with 50000kg of coke through the border gate with the bribed CBP officers
October 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
All the cartels watching the F-35s bombing the random farmer down the street while they drive the truck with 50000kg of coke through the border gate with the bribed CBP officers
Daily reminder that USAID recorded zero (0) incidents of Hamas looting humanitarian aid.
Meanwhile, the Israel-backed former ISIS drug smuggling gang of Yasser Abu Shabab was allowed to camp out just beyond the gates of the Karem abu Salem crossing and loot trucks in sight of IDF troops.
Meanwhile, the Israel-backed former ISIS drug smuggling gang of Yasser Abu Shabab was allowed to camp out just beyond the gates of the Karem abu Salem crossing and loot trucks in sight of IDF troops.
October 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Daily reminder that USAID recorded zero (0) incidents of Hamas looting humanitarian aid.
Meanwhile, the Israel-backed former ISIS drug smuggling gang of Yasser Abu Shabab was allowed to camp out just beyond the gates of the Karem abu Salem crossing and loot trucks in sight of IDF troops.
Meanwhile, the Israel-backed former ISIS drug smuggling gang of Yasser Abu Shabab was allowed to camp out just beyond the gates of the Karem abu Salem crossing and loot trucks in sight of IDF troops.
Left: Area in the "Mawasi Humanitarian zone," May 2021
Right: Same area, June 2024.
The entirety of the coastal area between Mawasi and the Netzarim corridor has every spare inch taken up by tents and makeshift shelters. You can see the displacement from space.
Right: Same area, June 2024.
The entirety of the coastal area between Mawasi and the Netzarim corridor has every spare inch taken up by tents and makeshift shelters. You can see the displacement from space.
October 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Left: Area in the "Mawasi Humanitarian zone," May 2021
Right: Same area, June 2024.
The entirety of the coastal area between Mawasi and the Netzarim corridor has every spare inch taken up by tents and makeshift shelters. You can see the displacement from space.
Right: Same area, June 2024.
The entirety of the coastal area between Mawasi and the Netzarim corridor has every spare inch taken up by tents and makeshift shelters. You can see the displacement from space.
Do not let anyone attempt to memoryhole or whitewash what has happened to the people of Gaza. Do not let it be flattened into "just another war." Anyone with a computer can go look at Gaza right now.
Left: "Netzarim Corridor" area in April of 2021.
Right: Same area, December 2024.
Left: "Netzarim Corridor" area in April of 2021.
Right: Same area, December 2024.
October 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Do not let anyone attempt to memoryhole or whitewash what has happened to the people of Gaza. Do not let it be flattened into "just another war." Anyone with a computer can go look at Gaza right now.
Left: "Netzarim Corridor" area in April of 2021.
Right: Same area, December 2024.
Left: "Netzarim Corridor" area in April of 2021.
Right: Same area, December 2024.
What it feels like to post the truth about Joe Biden's desire to commit genocide against Palestinians on Bluesky dot com
October 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM
What it feels like to post the truth about Joe Biden's desire to commit genocide against Palestinians on Bluesky dot com
Former USAID personnel watching every other agency rehire all their staff
October 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Former USAID personnel watching every other agency rehire all their staff
Morphing back into a World War 2 dad reading this shit. Don't start talking about the M4A3E8, don't mention Panther transmissions, don't bring up proximity fuses...
October 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Morphing back into a World War 2 dad reading this shit. Don't start talking about the M4A3E8, don't mention Panther transmissions, don't bring up proximity fuses...
Brazil similarly began fielding the IMBEL IA2 rifle a few years back to replace its ancient FAL rifles.
October 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Brazil similarly began fielding the IMBEL IA2 rifle a few years back to replace its ancient FAL rifles.
They wouldn't be the first Latin American country to design and build their own infantry rifle - Mexico famously started fielding the FX-05 Xiuhcoatl a decade ago, but how many soldiers are actually equipped with them is an open question.
October 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
They wouldn't be the first Latin American country to design and build their own infantry rifle - Mexico famously started fielding the FX-05 Xiuhcoatl a decade ago, but how many soldiers are actually equipped with them is an open question.
Colombia has announced its intention to produce 400,000 of the new rifles, which is rather ambitious, but it's not impossible. The process of developing the rifle began in 2022, and is only being announced now, likely for political reasons.
October 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Colombia has announced its intention to produce 400,000 of the new rifles, which is rather ambitious, but it's not impossible. The process of developing the rifle began in 2022, and is only being announced now, likely for political reasons.
Colombia also just announced its plans to replace the standard infantry rifle of its armed forces, which is currently the Israeli Galil rifle and variants, with a domestically designed and produced rifle. They currently produce the Galil under license with key Israeli-made components.
October 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Colombia also just announced its plans to replace the standard infantry rifle of its armed forces, which is currently the Israeli Galil rifle and variants, with a domestically designed and produced rifle. They currently produce the Galil under license with key Israeli-made components.