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Alright, I'm finally going to collect all of my military history book threads into one master thread-of-threads to pin for easy access... Starting with, of course, the Franco-Prussian War. twitter.com/random_scrub/s…

@mattbramanti It means you should feel bad

what does "quasi stateless" mean?

@MartinSkold2 x.com/gbrew24/status…

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@mattparlmer Yes, no one has ever considered fewer crew. 🙄

A modern warship should have a radar, a bunch of VLS cells, some guns and lasers, a big nuclear power and propulsion system, and not much else, that cannot possibly require more than 100 ppl yet a Burke has 350

What’s worse, US Navy flagship can’t dodge missiles and they’re lying about it or US Navy flagship sailors are so incompetent that they didn’t get rid of dryer lint?

@MorlockP I feel compelled to warn you: he writes in the vernacular of the IFLS Reddit-American. The Martian and Project Hail Mary are fun in spite of that, but I’m not sure it will be to your taste.

Ok, you've convinced me, I'll read him

“You will live to see manmade horrors beyond your comprehension”

@isengrimm3 @pegobry_en Agreed, but it’s not clear that his gifts are separable from his flaws. x.com/random_scrub/s…

@pegobry_en I read the book long ago and came to the same conclusion as the reviewer - Boyd would have had far more influence if he hadn’t been such a dick.

The PSmiths never miss, here's John with a great piece about John Boyd, who indeed deserves to be remembered for more than the somewhat platitudinous OODA Loop thepsmiths.com/p/review-boyd-…

This has got to stop.

My first welding job after I finished trade school was $11/hour. I’ll never forget going to the gas station Subway on my lunch break and seeing the “Now Hiring- $14/hr.” sign to slap cold cuts on a toasted bun. Our skilled tradesmen build America. They deserve better and we will deliver better.

@LeahLibresco Hey, I’ve read that one! It’s pretty good. x.com/random_scrub/s…

"Boyd put out a challenge to all US-aligned fighter pilots, domestic or foreign: come meet him in the air... and Boyd would let them start on his tail, and within forty seconds he would have reversed their positions and 'shoot them down'" thepsmiths.com/p/review-boyd-…

The “US manufacturing renaissance” guys are too over-aligned on military production. It’s ultimately a small market. If you want to be a major manufacturing power - which, to be clear, the US is - you need to be thinking about production for the civilian sector. Military potential is a derivation of the civilian economy There’s a reason why the most important US military innovation in recent years - Starlink - came out of the civilian market, and not the other way around

After the breakup of the USSR, the Lithuanian basketball team couldn’t afford to participate in the 1992 Olympics, so the Grateful Dead funded the team’s expenses and sent a box of tie-dyed outfits in Lithuania’s national colors. They went on to win Bronze at the Olympics.

Airline pilot here: I’ve made a few posts, for posterity it seems I should combine them so here goes: I guess I should lead with the fact that I know LGA really, really well - And having 1 controller working both ground and tower; late… on a Sunday is straight up normal. Anything you’re hearing about a controller shortage is BS. Should there be 1 guy working? No - But it’s been that way as long as I can remember. Second, if you listen to the audio. You can hear the controller try to stop the truck. Which means a few things. The truck took too long to cross after the initial clearance was issued. In LGA shit happens quickly. If you can’t execute you’re immediately stopped. So looking at the truck. He took too long to cross.. which means that he was either in the wrong position when he first called, or he was going too slow. BOTH are wrong. That’s problematic. So if you listen to the guy IN the truck.. he’s nervous. Classic low confidence read back. What that says to me? He was in training. Let’s investigate that a little further? If the fire department was going to train someone… you’d do it when it’s “quiet” right? Well, LGA is never more quiet than late, on a Sunday - You starting to see it yet? Now, the controller. Was task heavy already (being by himself) working two frequencies in low weather. But again, nothing new there. Especially that guy. I recognize his voice. He’s a rockstar. He can handle it if anyone can. Now… BEFORE the incident with the truck. It’s important to understand the truck was rolling in response to an emergency. There was already a United flight that had supposedly aborted a takeoff due to a fume event on the other side of the field. Usually not something they roll CFR for, BUT if you listen to the earlier audio it’s pretty apparent the United flight crew was basically losing control of the cabin. The flight attendants were running that show. The United pilots, then respond by (incorrectly) pressing the Controller for a gate - That’s important to recognize the United crew was pressing the GROUND controller. Because it’s important to recognize that ground IS NOT in charge of gate assignments… so the United crew was pressing the wrong controller, which then put him (the controller) into a spot of trying to coordinate FOR THEM because apparently they don’t know how to do their jobs. The controller. Went from task heavy to what we call “task saturated.” Add that little fiasco into the truck moving slower than it should’ve been… poor radio discipline on the truck… We’re starting to create a scenario, yeah? Now finally the flight crew. Could they have gone around? Should they have gone around? Now we’re getting into Monday night quarterbacking. Yes to both… in hindsight. The reality is. The weather was low. So maybe they couldn’t visually verify that the truck had crossed. I will say, defacto; a go-around is always an option. Until It’s not. And it’s not once the reversers are out. So to be at 100kts ground speed… the reversers were out. To see what they saw, you’d have to be in the plane with them or re-create it in a sim. I will also say.. the truck. DEFINTELY SAW THE LIGHTS COMING DOWN THE RUNWAY. So, as usual. Multiple things played into it. …it’s never just one thing, right? But… There’s gonna be a lot of focus on the truck -

So many people try to do Yes, Prime Minister parodies, and fail. This succeeded admirably. I laughed. I could hear Nigel Hawthorne's voice.

@OPTester_Chris I’m making a PowerPoint RIGHT NOW

I have a dream... That dream involves not having people READ EVERY SINGLE WORD ON A POWERPOINT SLIDE READ TO ME!

@CoryLaflin @OVTweetmarck From your lips to God’s ears!

@random_scrub @OVTweetmarck I await the eventual collapse of the Disney Bubble.

What are we doing, man

Me if I worked customer service at one of the three terminals in Charles de Gaulle airport: “de Gaulle est omnis divisus in partes tres”

Lord, have mercy

I mean, who among us