Tom Richardson
@teric.bsky.social
Lecturer in military history and strategy at UNSW Canberra.
Kath Pettingill, the matriarch of the Walsh Street police killers, dies
Kath Pettingill, the mother of the Walsh Street police killers, dies
Kath Pettingill was the matriarch of the Melbourne crime family that was fictionalised in the 2010 movie Animal Kingdom.
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“There's an old saying in Clausewitz—I know it's in Jomini, probably in Clausewitz—that strategy is the use of battles for... for... battles get you the thing you want.”
James@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2d agoIt's like what that German guy always used to say. Sustained kinetic strikes in lieu of a cessation in hostilities are negotiations by other means
It’s great that whenever you search you get helpful things like this
imagine if the bennet sisters had experienced garlic bread
Do wonder if there will be a critical reassessment of McNamara et al in light of recent events. Probably not because airpower can never fail, only be failed etc
Nick Kodama@nickkodama.bsky.social · 5d agocan't even rolling thunder correctly. smh.
The planner in CENTCOM that had been forgetting to add the word “decisive” to the CONOP slides this whole time.
Drake & Lil Yachty Looking at Laptop
ALT: Drake & Lil Yachty Looking at Laptop
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Man, sometimes Pape can still drop bombs. (I’d probably quibble with the air superiority part).
Moyn is a great example of the wing of academia that considers Bold Critique the highest possible good, and the more provocative the target that you are Boldly Critiquing the better
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · last wk.Striking how Samuel Moyn has to have a nonsense argument with positions liberals don't actually hold, parring with some sort of imagined liberal-imperialist wing because the alternative is being the sort of square who, like, opposes fascists, as opposed to the edgy dude that opposes liberals.
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"What am I reading lately" hmm uhh. Wikipedia entry list of Mesopotamian deities. Wikipedia entry list of fire deities. Wikipedia entry list of wind deities. Wikipedia entry Cambrian explosion. Wikipedia entry Greek primordial deities. That's the main stuff right now. And lots of their hyperlinks
Water coolers dispense water very slowly. But if you push the water cooler over you can make lots of water come out all at once. Follow me for more workplace tips that will get you sent to HR for the third time this week
Remembering Silas Soule, born OTD in 1838. American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, military officer, and hero for disobeying orders to participate in Sand Creek Massacre and then giving evidence against his commander. Murdered 1865. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_S...
Winning: It's Not An Option Success: Not Even Once Victory: What's That
All the reasons you wouldn’t want Iran to have nukes are reasons that apply to Saudi Arabia. open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
New clear agreement?
Preventing rogue Islamic states from getting nuclear technology sounds like a good idea.
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Let me stop you right there, pal. I couldn’t give less of a shit what the Camptown ladies are singing
Me and old Jack Daniels have become the best of friends, we’ve got all those baptists to die for our sins
Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 2w ago
Excited to plumb new depths of cultural irrelevance today - made a Roy and HG reference, got a bunch of blank stares, asked the inevitable follow up, and discovered that not a single one of the twenty students in the room had ever heard of them
Public attitudes towards the ADF - Strong public trust in the institution - Limited support for additonal funding - Mixed public opinion on conscription - Increased opposition to working with allies The latest piece from myself and @townsend-nic.bsky.social theconversation.com/australians-...
Australians are more concerned about terrorism and cyberattacks than war: new research
A new survey reveals Australians’ growing sense of insecurity in the wake of the Bondi terror attack and global threats.
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A former PM, current President of the Liberal Party and recent author of a history of our democracy is inventing an electorate name that doesn't exist and the national broadsheet is printing it. Seriously, what?
An American soldier admiring a Morril painting in a residence believed to be Uday Hussein's in Baghdad, 2003
ToddRockford@toddrockford.bsky.social · last mo.When I was young the school library got in the book "The Fantastic Art of Rowena" paintings by Rowena Morrill. The librarian probably ordered it because she knew my friend and I were obsessed with Sci-fi and Fantasy art and books and had seen us copying some of her cover art during library time.
I know it’s wrong. I know. But watching Bobby V run over blokes awakens something primal in me
Daughter is roasting me because I used the word ‘norms’, which she assumes is a lame attempt at slang by an old person. My defence, that it is a legitimate word used in serious places like the United Nations, has only made things worse
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It's hard to argue against the removal of Nicky Winmar from the Australian Football Hall of Fame, says Rohan Connolly on FOOTYOLOGY. But by making membership conditional on conduct, the AFL has opened itself to questions about consistency.
Winmar ruling is right, but raises more questions | Footyology
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Next, on TLC's Lunchbox Wanters
RON: Back off, Jim. That box is mine.
[CUT TO INTERVIEW]
RON: No way was I letting Jim get that lunchbox.
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