Technology and Warfare, Strategist, Army Veteran. Opinions (and bad jokes) my own.
Washington, DC
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Me: "I think this person's behavior is evidence that cybersecurity professionals should hold their peers to account for their judgment, not just fall back on credentialism and box-checking. We have to do a better job demanding accountability and results from our senior leaders."
Randos: "Yea, but look at her LinkedIn, bro!"
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Those who automatically dismiss the ISV should note that historically troops don't like being confined to iron coffins when things like mines give them no chance of survival. FPVs are no different; if you can jump free quickly you have at least some chance of survival, not to mention engaging the threat at least some distance off. Half our casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan were still IEDs even after MRAPs were widely available.
US Army 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment troops prefer exposure to enemy fire riding on top of their M113 armored personnel carriers rather than risk injury from mines during Operation Cedar Falls Northwest of Saigon in January 1967
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Interesting they opted not to have the character wear this jacket in Band of Brothers. Maybe they didn't want to inadvertently echo Sobel's infamous bomber jacket to viewers.
On exhibit at The Gettysburg Museum Of History. Major Dick Winters WWII B-15 Jacket worn at Bastonge. Several of the 101 Officer's including Col. Sink and General McAuliffe obtained Army Air Force B-15 jackets in the late fall of 1944 they sewed a white background beneath their 101st patch to cover the silk screened Army Air Force insignia on the shoulder. Winter's B-15 also has a Leather name on the left breast "R.D. Winters". This jacket was obtained directly from Major Winters in the 1990's by Michel DeTrez and was exhibited in the Museum in La Gleize Belgium until The Gettysburg Museum Of History obtained it in 2019. Winters B-15 is currently exhibited in the U.S. for the first time.
This jacket is featured in the book "Hang Tough" order here
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For more on the collections at The Getysburg Museum Of History see:
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Since this person is trending, it's worth noting that a core issue here is we tolerate a lot of sub-par, border-line fraudsters laundering their careers and credibility in the cyber field. Cases like this get a lot of attention, but the domain is still full of people who show up, use the buzzwords, and get the big titles even when they have no idea what they're doing and have never worked a real job. We need to do a better job weeding people like this out of cyber.
The Biden campaign's cybersecurity expert Jackie Singh explains how she went from high-school dropout and military veteran to protecting the president-elect's campaign from a 'nightmare scenario' hack businessinsider.com/biden-cy…
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The math here gets pretty disturbing when you compare it to how our adversaries have approached fires. The Russians, despite their horrible operational planning, still had a ton of artillery and MLRS on hand for their invasion of Ukraine. China fields twice as many artillery platforms as we do overall, and out-guns us nearly 5:1 in both self-propelled guns and MLRS. We have neglected the basic capabilities that allowed us to overcome lopsided ratios in wars like Korea in favor of hypersonics we can only make a handful of each year.
If standoff fires now do most of the killing, why are NATO brigades still built around closing with the enemy? warontherocks.com/2026/10/ma…
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The late Cold War-90s-GWOT progression where our military bases and critical infrastructure became progressively less defended was an anomaly driven by the nuclear threat, the peace dividend, and then a CT heavy approach to security. It's good to see more and more people acknowledging that, but every time I drive by a large CONUS military installation or some other piece of critical infrastructure, it's fairly obvious we still aren't doing much about it.
A Modern Trace Italienne: Rethinking Rear-Area Defense Against Drones mwi.westpoint.edu/a-modern-t…
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Exquisite platforms don't win wars by themselves; you need depth, scale, and strategic fitment. We need more of this attitude.
"Instead of... another 500-million-dollar military platform the next zloty may be better spent on recruiting and training repair units, developing antidrone and missile-defense capabilities, and strengthening the security of transport routes." mwi.westpoint.edu/every-road…
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The Marxist revisionist Naming Commission spent $62.5 million to recommend its removal, then another $3 million rejecting the spirit of Reconciliation to have it removed. Just because it will cost money to restore it doesn't make it the wrong thing to do.
Pete Hegseth’s plan to restore Confederate memorial at Arlington expected to cost taxpayers $9 million trib.al/wUJRGhT
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Compare this to the current posture of the US Army, where most active *divisions* don't even have an IEWB, and then tell me how well we're learning all these lessons from Ukraine.
Giving every brigade an Electronic Warfare battalion shows just how much Russia values the ability to jam and spoof enemy signals from radio comms to drone control and positioning.
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We're gonna need a term for this kind of thing, it's sort of a hybrid between envelopment and infiltration. Maybe I'm wrong, but combining surprise, mass, and autonomy seems to point to a new kind of maneuver.
"During Operation Vivaldi, units of the 3rd Army Corps successfully used armored vehicles twice to conduct mechanized assaults behind Russian lines...
According to Biletskyi, armored vehicles can no longer serve as a conventional reserve rapidly deployed after an enemy breakthrough.
'Today, the use of armored vehicles is effectively a special operation. It requires extremely detailed planning and the coordination of a huge number of assets,' he explained...
The first mechanized assault helped Ukrainian forces partially encircle the settlement of Nove.
During the second assault, Ukrainian armored vehicles advanced about 4.5 km behind Russian lines and deployed infantry in the rear of Russian units. The Ukrainian troops then attacked wooded areas where Russian drone operators were stationed.
According to Biletskyi, losing these positions deprived Russian forces of some reconnaissance capabilities and FPV drones, allowing Ukrainian units to keep advancing.
The deployed Ukrainian infantry operated virtually surrounded for several days while continuing to destroy Russian drone operators’ positions. Biletskyi said he believes the raid contributed to the subsequent collapse of a significant section of Russian defenses."
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Some of the challenges outlined here are critical. If we had to scale, and I mean really scale by standing up new brigades and divisions from COMPO 2 and 3, they are going to be heavily reliant on legacy equipment, not the new fancy stuff units like 4th ID and XVIII ABN have.
Army feels ‘growing pains’ as it integrates Anduril NGC2 tech with older comms breakingdefense.com/2026/10/…
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1. So are we chronically short of missiles or do we have so many we can just provide Ukraine with an unlimited supply? Interesting how that narrative shifts depending on the audience and agenda.
2. Opposing Ukraine contributing to volatility in already shaken energy markets is not the same as "embracing" Russia.
3. This has always been the issue with embracing Ukraine to the point of placing their interests before our own. Ukraine is the victim here, but that doesn't mean we place their war aims or core interests higher than our requirements to maintain global stability and protect our own interests.
Breaking news: The Trump administration has not approved the transfer of interceptor missiles to Ukraine that are needed to protect the country from Russian attacks, officials said, a delay that comes as President Trump has embraced Russia in recent weeks. wapo.st/4yCb7T7
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What an utterly bizarre way to frame this. As if the psychological safety of current and former military leaders tied to a catastrophic strategic failure is something we should be remotely concerned about.
NEW: Current and former military leaders are bracing for the Trump administration to release its review of the Afghanistan evacuation as soon as this month, people familiar with the matter said, a move that would revive discourse of the war's closing days just before elections.
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I don't think there has ever been a time in history where we take the simple existence and functionality of infrastructure for granted as we do right now. All of this stuff is incredibly fragile and vulnerable, and yet you see almost nothing being done to protect it. Everything from substations to ports to military bases just sitting out in the open while adversarial capabilities render them increasingly at risk. A rent-a-cop in a booth out front does nothing, a chain-link fence with no over-watch does nothing. It's becoming fatiguing talking to senior leaders obsessing over their science projects without thinking about how they'll protect them from the enemy.
JUST IN: AI data centers could soon require blast-resistant concrete, anti-drone defenses, & missile protection as attacks on computing infrastructure escalate worldwide. — Financial Times
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Here's the honest test of our industrial capacity.
The 11th ACR fights the best-equipped units in the world with about 40% of the quantity, in 40-year-old M113-based surrogates that can't shoot on the move. The equivalent of a T-55.
Open-source imagery shows Russia refilling its armor storage yards. A peer won't show up in a surrogate.
Acting @SecArmy Telle said it at AUSA: "We're going to learn by doing, not by sitting around postulating at the Pentagon; we're going to find the weak links."
The OPFOR fleet is a weak link. Every rotation, Blue trains against a stand-in that can't do what the threat does. That builds false confidence, not readiness.
And Blackhorse still beats rotational units roughly 3:1 at 40% strength. Imagine Red with real kit.
My proposal: make an Agincourt OPFOR the proving ground. Pull the older M2s sitting in the depots, refurbish them, field them to Red. Fuse in new drones and autonomy under live conditions. Bring the other services in, so units train against the joint threat they'll actually face, not a service-by-service script.
Resourcing shows real priorities. Fund the enemy we train against.
Who at @DeptofWar wants to run that test? #USArmy
I have a test of our industrial capacity for @DeptofWar
The 11th ACR has a fleet of vehicles that are 40yr old surrogates that are not even able to shoot on the move, the equivalent of a type 99 or T55 tank.
The Army depots have a large quantity of older M2 Bradleys sitting, lets test our capacity, nothing fancy just rebuild them mechanically and basic fire controls that can have MILES attached for training. Then learn from this.
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Long, long overdue.
The Pentagon ordered 30 universities to review their ties with foreign institutions or risk losing their federal funding. militarytimes.com/news/penta…
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I still maintain that a mini-series or an epic-length film (a la A Bridge Too Far) about the opening campaign of WWI on the Western Front would be awesome.
Today in 1914, British, French & Belgian troops engage the German army at the First Battle of Ypres. It marks the first major clash following the stabilization of the front lines and the beginning of the trench warfare phase of the conflict. Each side loses roughly 130,000 men.
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Imagine if Don Draper had stayed in the Army after Korea...dude would have killed it with access to Cold War budgets and all those new buzzwords.
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