Brian Kerg
@briankerg.bsky.social
Writer | Atlantic Council Fellow | Military Writers Guild Board Member | Irregular Warfare Initiative alumnus| Naval Institute Editorial Board alumnus | Krulak Center alumnus | Pacific Forum alumnus | School of Advanced Warfighting alumnus | Views My Own
"Presence is Deterrence." Check out this excellent article by Miles Yu, which unpacks the importance of the recent joint U.S. and Taiwan coast guard patrol. 🇹🇼🇺🇸 www.hudson.org/foreign-poli...
Presence Is Deterrence: Restore America’s Maritime Patrol in the Taiwan Strait
The most important security development in East Asia this year did not involve an aircraft carrier, a missile test or another Chinese military exercise around Taiwan. It involved two white-hulled coas...
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“In this way, by using the logic of narcissists and abusers, [PRC/CCP] turn their own aggression into the pursuit of peace, while those who wish to preserve the status quo are recast as malicious actors.” 🔥👇🔥
Brian Kerg@briankerg.bsky.social · 5d agoMy latest in Small Wars Journal. "Resistance is (Not) Futile: Winning the War for the #Narrative Against #China about #Taiwan". 🇹🇼 smallwarsjournal.com/2026/07/31/w...
My latest in Small Wars Journal. "Resistance is (Not) Futile: Winning the War for the #Narrative Against #China about #Taiwan". 🇹🇼 smallwarsjournal.com/2026/07/31/w...
Resistance is (Not) Futile: Winning the War for the Narrative Against China about Taiwan
China is engaged in one of the most massive and aggressive narrative warfare campaigns the world has seen in decades.
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What if the first wave of an amphibious assault had no people in it? 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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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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Good news oft comes unlooked for…apparently “A New Conception of War” has made it onto the Brazilian Marine Corps’ professional reading list. Thank you for the honor! #MCUP H/T @walkerdm.bsky.social www.marinha.mil.br/ctddcfn/estr...
Estratégia e Tática | CTDDCFN
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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
warontherocks.com
The #Philippines Defense Secretary makes it clear. For #China to seize #Taiwan, it will be operationally essential for #China to use military force against #PHL territory. This will compel #PHL involvement in the conflict. www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6408688
Philippine defense chief says neutrality in Taiwan Strait conflict not an option | Taiwan News | Jul. 27, 2026 14:39
Gilbert Teodoro Jr. cites Filipinos in Taiwan, proximity to northern Philippines | Jul. 27, 2026 14:39
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Route map of the #Pacific scatter system, a multilink microwave troposcatter #communication system built by the US to transmit telephone calls between the far east and the Hawaiian Islands in the 1960's. 📻📡 Yes I'm lost in the CINCPAC command chronology again.
You can never get enough content on #Sicily - check out this take in @warontherocks.bsky.social, courtesy of historian, staff rider leader, and retired Army colonel Steven T. Barry: warontherocks.com/the-importan...
The Importance of the Invasion of Sicily
On July 10, 1943, the Allied invasion of Sicily — codenamed Operation Husky — put more assault troops ashore on its first day than the Normandy landings
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Today in @cimsec.bsky.social: "The Curious Rise of Military Bullshit,"by Colonel Benjamin Gray of the Australian Army. This is a phenomenal piece that lays bare the perverse trend within military culture to hide lazy thinking with complicated language. Read it here: cimsec.org/the-curious-...
#Ethics for #Marines by Col Dennis Katolin, #USMC. Because there is no ethos without ethics. Check it out here: www.mca-marines.org/wp-content/u...
Glad to see @usni.org re-up my piece on the Sicily campaign! For modern applications to amphibious warfare, it's worth noting the need to tightly coordinate ops in the air, on land, and sea - as well as the need for massive superiority in each domain to pull off an amphibious landing.
U.S. Naval Institute@usni.org · 4w agoThe Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943 exceeded expectations—but more than 100,000 Axis troops managed to slip away to fight another day. https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history/2024/august/glorious-retreat-evacuation-sicily
Hey, I know that guy! I'm officially rolling into @notredame.bsky.social as a PhD student in political science as part of the Marine Corps PhD Strategist Program. Stand by for more broadsides on coalition warfighting and alliance dynamics. #WriteFightWin politicalscience.nd.edu/people/gradu...
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It is the year 10,191 AG. House Atreides begins assuming spice production on the desert planet Arrakis. The Islamic Republic of Japan shoots 11 missiles at the prison world of Salusa Secundus.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoTrump: "We had 11 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan"
Make Russia compete under the flag of 'Ukrainian Moscow.' (Yes this is a deep cut joke about the IOC's ridiculous rule for #Taiwan and 'Chinese Taipei'). 🇹🇼
Yes, this is a subtweet of the NCAA's favoritism for the SEC and its endless war against the University of Michigan. 🏈
Brian Kerg@briankerg.bsky.social · last mo.Welcome to America, fútbol fans! ⚽🇺🇸
Apropos of nothing... this banger from 2021 still has legs: www.usni.org/magazines/pr...
How Active-Duty Officers Should Criticize Policy and Practice
For active-duty personnel, there are right and wrong ways to publicly criticize policy and the chain of command.
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The Army is the lynchpin of the reflecting pool
James@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2mo agoI NEED QRF TO BE REDCON RIGHT FUCKING NOW THEY’RE SWARMING THE REFLECTING POOL
Hi 🙋🏻♀️ I’m still here! And I’d like to thank my friend Jonathan for taking time (over a year ago!) to record this episode with me on US Army Engineers in the Second World War — an important part of the story that the series hasn’t covered yet. Links in comments below or search for “Why We Fight”
All wargamers! Official graduate courses are starting this Fall at the Virginia Tech School of Public and International Affairs. This is designed as one year of graduate courses geared toward professionals. Hybrid structure with on-line format to start. I may know some of the instructors. Also<
The comments originated from this post, which takes apart General Zinni's recent attack on the modern Marine Corps: centristlibertarianpatriot.substack.com/p/cdr-salama...
CDR Salamander Launches New 'We Love the 70s' Nostalgia Series:
“First to fight, first to fall, count on us, one and all” are fine words for a recruiting poster, but useless as a force-planning framework.
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Brian Kerg@briankerg.bsky.social · 2mo agoChowder II takes a shot at CLP and gets laid out: Noting that Paul Van Riper once told his students that GOs grow stale and should stop commenting 5 to 7 years after retirement: "You retired 29 years ago. The average age of a Marine in service today is 24 years-old. Take your own advice." 💀
Chowder II takes a shot at CLP and gets laid out: Noting that Paul Van Riper once told his students that GOs grow stale and should stop commenting 5 to 7 years after retirement: "You retired 29 years ago. The average age of a Marine in service today is 24 years-old. Take your own advice." 💀
New from Kevin Billings in @usniproceedings.bsky.social, "The Fragility Fallacy," which discusses the recent ban on #military officers attending programs at certain elite universities: www.usni.org/magazines/pr...
The Fragility Fallacy
The U.S. military has never succeeded because its leaders were shielded from ideas. It has succeeded because they were exposed to them.
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Until we're calling the PACOM commander CINCPAC again, our restoration of Pacific greatness will be incomplete.
James@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2mo ago
