The Chesterfield Colonel
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The Chesterfield Colonel
@ChesterfieldO5
Have whiskey. Will write. Defender of the Oxford comma. Baffled staff officer. Likes strategy, history, and infantry. Not necessarily in that order. Can gif.
Australia Katılım Mart 2009
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The Cove’s latest production: Long Tan.
Check it out. 🪖🇦🇺
The Cove@covetweet
On this day in 1966, D Coy, 6RAR faced overwhelming odds in what would become one of Australia’s most iconic battles. 59 years on, The Cove proudly brings you their story in the latest instalment of Battle Honours Series: Australia's Battle of Long Tan. cove.army.gov.au/article/austra…
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@VanceMunsen I never said anything about Thucydides in the second part. Pay attention.
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@ChesterfieldO5 Nice quote
Can you point me to where Thucydides says that second part ?
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Crisis exposes the soul of the state.
Thucydides noted ‘The strong do what they will, the weak suffer what they must.’ But also: ‘Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most’ ⚖️
Real strength is the wisdom to hold back.
History remembers unmeasured might. 🕊️
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@ChesterfieldO5 See the second entry in the Misattributed section of the Thucydides Wikiquote page, which has references and a link to the original.
en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thucydides
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@Thucydiocy Do you have a source? I’d love to use it in future to cite this properly.
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@ChesterfieldO5 I’m afraid that second quote is not genuine; it is actually 19th-century scholar F.B. Jevons, writing about prose style.
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News just in: Female surveillance crew find heaps of stuff in the Pacific because previous male crews were having a 'boy look'.
defence.gov.au/news-events/ne…
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Anzac Day in the tropics. Nothing quite like it.
Lest we forget.
🇦🇺🇳🇿
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What can I say… money is tight these days. 🤷
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Old Faithful’s pipes and drums played at the Townsville Hospital today in support of the Brighter Lives Hospital Foundation.
Absolute legends.
3 RAR doing great things for our community.
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Happy International Women’s Day you magnificent ladies of the world. 🌏💃
#IWD2025
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…says the guy with $412.9 billion.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
The real economy is not money, it is goods & services. Money is simply an abstract representation of real things.
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My thoughts on leadership.
It’s not really something you can ever get right, you just get it wrong over and over again until you get it less wrong. Then you die.
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