Dubik is always worth reading. His latest takes on Huntington’s objective control rightly places continued adherence to that particular civ-mil model as detrimental to translating military action into strategic success. www.ausa.org/articles/tim...
Time to Reexamine ‘Gospel’ For Civil-Military Relations
In The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations, Samuel Huntington presents his “objective control” mod
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I think this absolutely isn’t a crank theory and is just objectively correct.
The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · last wk.One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.
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Pentagon weighs eliminating civilian tenure at military academies and reviewing all curriculum, draft memo says
The Pentagon is considering a sweeping remake of military higher education, including an end to civilian tenure and a "line-by-line" review of courses, according to a draft memo obtained by CBS News.
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My latest in @warontherocks.bsky.social. "The First Waves of Amphibious Assault Will Be Unmanned." warontherocks.com/the-first-wa...
The First Waves of Amphibious Assault Will Be Unmanned
In the Pacific War, the U.S. Navy’s underwater demolition teams prepared the way for U.S. and allied amphibious landings on enemy-held islands. Through
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Just scrolled across a LinkedIn pic from a GOFO transition course. Blending in the back of the group were Pat Work and CD. My old boss and current Acting CG of T2COM was there too.
“Sovereign deep strike has granted Ukraine a level of recognition and agency it did not have before.” Great essay by @frhoffmann.bsky.social missilematters.substack.com/p/the-state-...
The State Makes the Missile, and the Missile Makes the State
The power to hurt: Ukraine's deep-strike campaign and the transformation of the Ukrainian state
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Went out to live for a bit. 10/10. Highly recommend.
The report contends the academies are educating new officers to be 'philosophers and bureaucrats' but by the math the biggest change would be a radical reduction in the number of engineering and science grads in favor of military history and "leadership".
