Chace A Nelson
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Amateur Polemologist | Artillerist | MA King's College London | Man Utd fan | Views my own
Utterly fascinating. Had no idea propellant is made of Chinese cotton
Shashank Joshi@shashj.bsky.social · 2w agoFor @economist.com subscribers: I spoke to Jack Watling on the latest episode of Inside Defence. We talked about Ukraine, what people misunderstand about drone warfare and the vital role played on the modern battlefield by the ancient art of digging. www.economist.com/insider/insi...
An interesting lesson here about the advance & limits of battlefield transparency. In 1991 the US failed to hit a single Iraqi Scud missile, despite huge air/ground efforts. This time it hit a lot—but still only a fraction of the total. Sensing *over large areas* remains hard. From NYT report:
Has been in the works for some time, but the change to the DPRK constitution makes it official. The same week, Kim inspected artillery pieces in range of Seoul.
Institute for the Study of War@thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 3mo agoNEW: North Korea altered its constitution to codify its “hostile two-state” policy and define its territorial borders as not including South Korean territory. (1/4) Korean Peninsula Update, May 12, 2026: isw.pub/KoreanPenins...
I think this is along the lines of what Tolstoy argued in War and Peace... But for books instead of the Great Man Theory.
MIT Press@mitpress.bsky.social · 3mo ago"But we will all benefit by recognizing what narrative history at its best and most harmless actually gives us — not knowledge or wisdom, but entertainment, escape, abiding pleasure."
"By placing more than 300 fixed, short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missiles on permanent alert at several above-ground sites close to the Demilitarised Zone, South Korean Strategic Command has significantly departed from standard practice..." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
South Korea’s Ominous Missile Deployments
By placing more than 300 fixed, short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missiles on permanent alert at several above-ground sites close to the Demilitarised Zone, South Korean Strategic Command ha...
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Really interesting Supreme Court case recently, Hencely v Flour Corp. Dissenting opinion seems to fear this gives the States power to impede or otherwise govern (via civil suit decisions) acts in war.
America committed emergency funding and authorities to munitions production during the Russo-Ukrainian War. Yet it was pre-war decisions, not crisis-era investments, that determined which systems could actually surge.
The Pentagon Needs a Playbook for Munitions Surge Production
The Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles the U.S. military fired during Operation Epic Fury take months to put on contract and years to produce. Whether driven
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