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Great powers are born of territory mastered, administered, and settled. Territory surrendered is not just lost land. It is strategic options foreclosed, economic potential transferred, and national destiny rewritten. Requested article, thanks for feedback! Link in comments.

I spent over 100 hours compiling and analyzing over 5,000 videos of soldiers trying to escape UAV drones — pulling material from Telegram, Reddit, and other sources. Here is what i found out.

New Dispatch, on the challenges of executing complex, high-tempo operations and the implications for force structure: dispatch.bazaarofwar.com/p/organizing-f…

In case you were curious to see what the difference looks like between shell splashes from a 203mm shell weighing 126kg and a 460mm shell weighing 1,460kg, here you go. A Japanese cruiser and the battleship Yamato firing the light carrier USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73)

"Russia invaded Ukraine with CAAs, but soon found itself fighting brigade-sized battles. During Ukraine’s offensive the following year, battalion attacks rapidly broke down into company and platoon actions. Towards the end of 2024, Russia’s gains were...by fireteam assaults."

"This atomization of combat power is not quite the same as attrition. It is instead incrementalism. By biting off one trench, one treeline at a time, a series of small-scale attacks can eventually accomplish more than the sum of their individual effects."

Interesting article on the Japanese and South Korean sub-building industry. usni.org/magazines/proc…

Observing the enemy's movements.

Avoiding the dollar system means avoiding the sealanes (an indirect illustration of how very wrong Mackinder was).