Finished a brief at the end of a week's long OPT & went out to dinner to get a bite. College sophomore behind the bar & I chat about his job prospects. We talk military & he says 'I got turned off from it when my high school coach told me a story about being ordered to...>

Truman was absolutely right to fire MacArthur.

'I fired him because he wouldn't respect the authority of the president. I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals.' - Harry S. Truman

Confirmed. Best book on Boyd and you can read it for free.

Any woman holding a 'Strategy' coffee cup is going to be accosted by a M'Lady who wants to talk about the collapse of Army Group Center in the summer of 1944 and are you doing anything tonight because I know of a great place for fondue.

The HBO series ROME (2005-07) was great, but it would have been better if Ciarán Hinds as Julius Caesar had turned to the camera and cited the exact cause of the fall of the empire that I share.

Post a Military picture that goes hard.

For guys that started off with crude pipe guns & eventually 3D printed 9mm subguns to have moved on to capturing entire battalion arsenals is wild.

Not replicable everywhere, but when there's cracks in a regime, hard fighting people can accomplish a lot.

As the son of an enlisted Marine who's Mom made many of my clothes in the '80s to make ends meat and then leading Marines who's wage was below minimum when it was all said and done, I endorse this.

“In the poorest 1% of zip codes that have lottery retailers, the average American adult spends around $600 a year, or nearly 5% of their income, on tickets. That compares with just $150, or 0.15%, for those in the richest 1% of zip codes.”
economist.com/graphic-detail…

Congressional panel recommends 15% pay increase for enlisted troops trib.al/rciqP3R

New paper (w/ Bryan R. Early) in Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) Journal reveals the unintended effects of arms embargoes: while intended to curb conflict, they can drive target governments to increase indiscriminate violence/repression.
academic.oup.com/fpa/article/20…

The unique vitriol that some vets have for student debt relief can be baffling at times, given how much else we subsidize. But it’s helpful to think about it as a combo of timeless disdain for the younger gen, institutional anti-intellectualism, and toxic mil exceptionalism.

🇫🇷 Who will remember me?
My name is Maurice Dampierre and 80 years ago today I was tied to a stake in a damp clearing in the fortress of Mont Valérien overlooking Paris, and shot as I sang out the words of the Marseillaise. I was arrested by French police when a list of FTP…