Jeff Meiser
@jwmeiser.bsky.social
Former war college professor NDU now UPortland. Posts on politics, IR, strategy, hip hop. Book: Power and Restraint. My views rep only me.
Looking forward to reading this… issforum.org/roundtables/...
Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-52 on Miller, Choosing Defeat
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 17-52 Paul D. Miller, Choosing Defeat: The Twenty-Year Saga of How America Lost Afghanistan. Cambridge University Press…
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Hahaha “It’s very easy to create something you don’t need with AI,” said Vincent Gusdorf, head of AI analytics at Moody’s Ratings and author of a new report that recommends a more disciplined approach apnews.com/article/ai-t...
Workplaces look for cheaper AI as ‘tokenmaxxing’ fades as a corporate fad
A corporate fad of “tokenmaxxing” on artificial intelligence technology is hitting its limits as workplaces throwing AI at everything are seeing the costs rise without a similar spike in productivity.
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This guy sounds dumb “Adm. Brad Cooper, who leads Central Command, believes the U.S. can cope with the limited stocks of Patriot and other air defense interceptors because stepped-up U.S. strikes…would blunt Iran’s ability to launch large numbers of missiles.” www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Trump Pauses Iran Strikes as Officials Weigh Dwindling Air Defense Stocks
The U.S. held off on a major military campaign that could have lasted two weeks, officials said.
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This is insane Inside Israel’s Secret Operation to Cultivate Ahmadinejad www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/u...
Inside Israel’s Secret Operation to Cultivate Ahmadinejad
The yearslong effort to groom the former Iranian president as an intelligence asset culminated in a dramatic effort to take him to an Israeli safe house in the early days of the war. But the plan fell...
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“history suggests that the U.S. has used military force to great effect, just not the effects it hoped to have. Meanwhile, the U.S. military budget gets larger and larger, but the effects it produces continue to be paltry.” @jwmeiser.bsky.social nails it. smallwarsjournal.com/2026/05/25/c...
Coming to Terms With Our Strategic Inadequacies
U.S. military power repeatedly fails politically because American strategy ignores causation, negotiation, and realism.
smallwarsjournal.com
It’s with some reluctance that I reach the conclusion that VAR must be discontinued.
The real forever war No End in Sight for U.S. Military Mission Along Border With Mexico www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/u...
No End in Sight for U.S. Military Mission Along Border With Mexico
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“U.S. bases and equipment across the Middle East came under attack…and repairs could cost billions of dollars.” www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/i...
Iran caused more extensive damage to U.S. military bases than publicly known
U.S. bases and equipment across the Middle East came under attack — including from an Iranian F-5, despite American air defenses — and repairs could cost billions of dollars.
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🤔 “the U.S. Defense Department announced that Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM)—the Hawaii-based headquarters for all U.S. armed forces in the Pacific and eastern Indian oceans—would revert to its original name, Pacific Command, or PACOM” foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/17/i...
Why Trump’s Pentagon Abandoned ‘Indo-Pacific’
A military name change signals a broader strategic and diplomatic shift.
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Important reminder “Historians Allan Millett and Williamson Murray, pondering the evidence compiled in their three-volume study of military effectiveness from 1914 to 1945, concluded that devising appropriate strategy was the most important aspect of warfare” www.hoover.org/research/why...
Why Can’t America Win Its Wars?
America’s military is like Germany’s in the twentieth century—a tactically and operationally brilliant force that cannot think strategically.
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I have an article in Small Wars Journal. “The root cause of the problem is the unwillingness to confront a central challenge of strategy: how to use military force to cause desired political effects.” smallwarsjournal.com/2026/05/25/c...
Coming to Terms With Our Strategic Inadequacies
U.S. military power repeatedly fails politically because American strategy ignores causation, negotiation, and realism.
smallwarsjournal.com
It is impossible to be a principled libertarian and support this administration ‘We Know You Live Right Here’: No Secrets in America’s New Surveillance Dragnet www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
‘We Know You Live Right Here’: No Secrets in America’s New Surveillance Dragnet
Technical wizardry used to combat illegal immigration also funnels the personal data and whereabouts of U.S. citizens to federal agents.
wsj.com
Well it’s been a good run folks but I think it’s time to cut the hard line before the infection gets worse. Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...
Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media
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Oh well! “The U.S.-Israeli attack fast-tracked the ascent of hard-liners and apocalyptic religious followers, raising doubts about a lasting peace” www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Iran’s Regime has Changed—for the Worse
The U.S.-Israeli attack fast-tracked the ascent of hard-liners and apocalyptic religious followers, raising doubts about a lasting peace.
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If you read to the end of the story you find out we lost two more planes during the rescue www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...
A Harrowing Race Against Time to Find a Downed U.S. Airman in Iran
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It’s unamerican that the March madness final game is not on network tv
It’s good to remember what happened last time Israel occupied Lebanon www.foreignaffairs.com/lebanon/leba...
Lebanon and its Inheritors
In the Shia vision of history, born of centuries of oppression and marginality, a time comes when the mighty are humbled; the lowly who kept the faith rise up and inherit the earth free from oppressor...
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John Spencer now using the term “neurological warfare” to describe (and celebrate) US/Israel ability to kill an entire layer of leadership all at the same time. He suggests the effects so significant that it is in itself a military strategy. There are some problems he does not acknowledge
They'll fight to the last American soldier. Stunning, and also brave.
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 4mo agoUAE is pushing hard for Trump to order a US ground invasion of Iran. Kuwait and Bahrain are also backing the idea, according to a Gulf diplomat. Gulf countries are privately urging Trump to continue the war until Iran is "decisively defeated", according to U.S., Gulf and Israeli officials. -AP
Open access article “The drone revolution: Towards a synthesis in the drone debate” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The drone revolution: Towards a synthesis in the drone debate | European Journal of International Security | Cambridge Core
The drone revolution: Towards a synthesis in the drone debate - Volume 11 Issue 2
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