Trent Hone
@honer.bsky.social
MCUF Chair of Strategic Studies at MCU and Management Consultant. Author of Learning War, Battle Line, & Mastering the Art of Command. Opinions my own.
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A ten-part thread on misreading Trump:
A number of thoughtful observers argued Trump would not pursue regime change in Venezuela. From the outset I argued that he would on the podcast and in private conversation.
A number of thoughtful observers argued Trump would not pursue regime change in Venezuela. From the outset I argued that he would on the podcast and in private conversation.
January 3, 2026 at 10:55 AM
A ten-part thread on misreading Trump:
A number of thoughtful observers argued Trump would not pursue regime change in Venezuela. From the outset I argued that he would on the podcast and in private conversation.
A number of thoughtful observers argued Trump would not pursue regime change in Venezuela. From the outset I argued that he would on the podcast and in private conversation.
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@honer.bsky.social nice podcast! A lot of things I did not know.
Also, the WWII Museum of the Pacific in Nimitz’s hometown of Fredericksburg, TX is exceptional.
@honer.bsky.social nice podcast! A lot of things I did not know.
Also, the WWII Museum of the Pacific in Nimitz’s hometown of Fredericksburg, TX is exceptional.
Episode 3 - Admiral Nimitz, mastermind of victory in the Pacific, with special guest Trent Hone
Podcast Episode · Generals of WWII: The Art of Command · 12/26/2025 · 39m
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January 2, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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@honer.bsky.social nice podcast! A lot of things I did not know.
Also, the WWII Museum of the Pacific in Nimitz’s hometown of Fredericksburg, TX is exceptional.
@honer.bsky.social nice podcast! A lot of things I did not know.
Also, the WWII Museum of the Pacific in Nimitz’s hometown of Fredericksburg, TX is exceptional.
The doctrine that can be spoken is not the true doctrine.
(Apologies to Laozi)
(Apologies to Laozi)
So one thing that's obvious as a Marine is that the question "what is doctrine" is answered differently by each service.
January 2, 2026 at 12:36 AM
The doctrine that can be spoken is not the true doctrine.
(Apologies to Laozi)
(Apologies to Laozi)
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Pleasure to join the "Generals of WWII" Podcast and discuss the leadership of Admiral Nimitz. #NotAGeneral
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Episode 3 - Admiral Nimitz, mastermind of victory in the Pacific, with special guest Trent Hone
Podcast Episode · Generals of WWII: The Art of Command · 12/26/2025 · 39m
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December 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Pleasure to join the "Generals of WWII" Podcast and discuss the leadership of Admiral Nimitz. #NotAGeneral
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It’s a great book.
Finally getting around to reading this in its entirety, although apropos of the Navy lighting their shipbuilding strategy on fire this week for the third time in 20 years
Full disclosure my priors are this book is 100% correct and doesn't go far enough, but I look forward to having them validated
Full disclosure my priors are this book is 100% correct and doesn't go far enough, but I look forward to having them validated
December 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It’s a great book.
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You will be visited by three spirits
December 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
You will be visited by three spirits
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Thread:
It's the latter, but at a much larger scale than you may be thinking. You don't know what questions you can ask until you've spent a lot of time with the sources. But you also don't know which sources are going to be important going in. Archives are not organized in some obvious or transparent way.
December 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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This may not be the release you were looking for today, but trust me…it’s a better read.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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December 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This may not be the release you were looking for today, but trust me…it’s a better read.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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The World War II Museum in New Orleans has posted videos from their recent conference. You can see my panel with @milhistcurator.bsky.social here.
I discuss U.S. Navy "systems" (CIC, Tenth Fleet, and Logistics) and he covers the integration of the Seabees.
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I discuss U.S. Navy "systems" (CIC, Tenth Fleet, and Logistics) and he covers the integration of the Seabees.
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US Navy’s WWII Transformations with Trent Hone, Frank Blazich
YouTube video by The National WWII Museum
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December 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The World War II Museum in New Orleans has posted videos from their recent conference. You can see my panel with @milhistcurator.bsky.social here.
I discuss U.S. Navy "systems" (CIC, Tenth Fleet, and Logistics) and he covers the integration of the Seabees.
youtu.be/sXspMCd9r1U?...
I discuss U.S. Navy "systems" (CIC, Tenth Fleet, and Logistics) and he covers the integration of the Seabees.
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Very pleased that my book Learning War has been selected for the Marine Corps Commandant's Reading List for FY2026.
The reading list is here: www.marines.mil/News/Message...
Learning War is available from @usni.org here:
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The reading list is here: www.marines.mil/News/Message...
Learning War is available from @usni.org here:
www.usni.org/press/books/...
December 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Very pleased that my book Learning War has been selected for the Marine Corps Commandant's Reading List for FY2026.
The reading list is here: www.marines.mil/News/Message...
Learning War is available from @usni.org here:
www.usni.org/press/books/...
The reading list is here: www.marines.mil/News/Message...
Learning War is available from @usni.org here:
www.usni.org/press/books/...
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Delighted to receive my copy of Framing the First World War, a great collection edited by @draefox.bsky.social @mpmfinch.bsky.social and @dmorganowen.bsky.social who have put together a broad range of original essays
December 3, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Delighted to receive my copy of Framing the First World War, a great collection edited by @draefox.bsky.social @mpmfinch.bsky.social and @dmorganowen.bsky.social who have put together a broad range of original essays
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Pleased to have been part of this effort with 3d MLR: www.dvidshub.net/news/551476/...
Naval Historian Trent Hone Leads Seminar with 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment
MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII – On October 30, 2025, 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment hosted a professional development seminar focused on translating historical lessons into actionable items for the regiment'...
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December 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Pleased to have been part of this effort with 3d MLR: www.dvidshub.net/news/551476/...
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Have you read Learning War by @honer.bsky.social ?
It’s excellent on the co-evolution of doctrine, processes, knowledge and technology.
It’s excellent on the co-evolution of doctrine, processes, knowledge and technology.
November 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Have you read Learning War by @honer.bsky.social ?
It’s excellent on the co-evolution of doctrine, processes, knowledge and technology.
It’s excellent on the co-evolution of doctrine, processes, knowledge and technology.
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Something similar happens in the software industry. A lot of engineers are being pressed by managers who generate a bunch of toy code using genAI over a couple of hours, then wonder aloud why the people who work for them are being so inefficient.
It's easy to see shoddy research as a bad actor problem. But if AI slop like this can make it through editors and peer reviewers, it means there are systemic problems at work. And I'd argue that at least part of the problem is the overwork culture in academia-- pressure to do more while caring less.
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Something similar happens in the software industry. A lot of engineers are being pressed by managers who generate a bunch of toy code using genAI over a couple of hours, then wonder aloud why the people who work for them are being so inefficient.
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Military ethicist here. I used to be Associate Chair of Leadership, Ethics, and Law at USNA. We consistently taught our midshipmen that they should refuse to obey illegal orders. The Uniform Code of Military Justice makes this obligation clear. “I was just following orders” is not an excuse, period.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Military ethicist here. I used to be Associate Chair of Leadership, Ethics, and Law at USNA. We consistently taught our midshipmen that they should refuse to obey illegal orders. The Uniform Code of Military Justice makes this obligation clear. “I was just following orders” is not an excuse, period.
Looking forward to the National World War II Museum's International Conference on World War II later this week. I'll be speaking about the development of three U.S. Navy "systems"—tactical, operational, and logistic—and their impact on the war.
More here: www.nationalww2museum.org/events-progr...
More here: www.nationalww2museum.org/events-progr...
18th International Conference on World War II
Join us for our premier adult educational event bringing together the best and brightest scholars, authors, historians, and witnesses to history from around the globe to discuss the war that changed t...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Looking forward to the National World War II Museum's International Conference on World War II later this week. I'll be speaking about the development of three U.S. Navy "systems"—tactical, operational, and logistic—and their impact on the war.
More here: www.nationalww2museum.org/events-progr...
More here: www.nationalww2museum.org/events-progr...
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flat out lies. these tech ceos take regulators and the masses for fools
![“If you want to know how a model will behave, the only way of doing it is to run it,” Mensch also suggested. “You do need to have some empirical testing, what’s happening. Knowing the input data that has been used for training is not going to tell you whether your model is going to behave well in [a healthcare use-case], for instance. You don’t really care about what’s in the training data. You do care about the empirical behaviour of the model. So you don’t need knowledge of the training data. And if you had knowledge of the training data, it wouldn’t even teach you whether the model is going to behave well or not. So this is why I’m saying it’s neither necessary nor sufficient.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:26hkfmtr7jrchexamh7hk6rz/bafkreibp7oaeovg7xt43dlk3qtmkft6irldgf44tz75sbaiqvoqdq4kpjy@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
flat out lies. these tech ceos take regulators and the masses for fools
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November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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100% this.
If you can't find joy in the act of writing, and feel euphoria after editing several drafts into exactly what your thoughts had in mind (or close to it), then I really suggest you don't become a writer.
The idea, the thoughts, are nothing without execution. The work is the thing.
If you can't find joy in the act of writing, and feel euphoria after editing several drafts into exactly what your thoughts had in mind (or close to it), then I really suggest you don't become a writer.
The idea, the thoughts, are nothing without execution. The work is the thing.
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
100% this.
If you can't find joy in the act of writing, and feel euphoria after editing several drafts into exactly what your thoughts had in mind (or close to it), then I really suggest you don't become a writer.
The idea, the thoughts, are nothing without execution. The work is the thing.
If you can't find joy in the act of writing, and feel euphoria after editing several drafts into exactly what your thoughts had in mind (or close to it), then I really suggest you don't become a writer.
The idea, the thoughts, are nothing without execution. The work is the thing.
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Ok here's the thing about the carrier debate. Both sides are right and both sides are wrong (thread).
Ya’ll are going to make write a thread on carriers on a day off in my birthday weekend huh?
a horse in a field with the words y'all gon make me lose my mind
ALT: a horse in a field with the words y'all gon make me lose my mind
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November 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Ok here's the thing about the carrier debate. Both sides are right and both sides are wrong (thread).
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We already do, they’re called books 📚
You know how the existence of cars and power tools makes it necessary to have “exercise” and “manual crafts” as a deliberately chosen part of a balanced life?
We’re probably going to need something like that cognitively, for adults.
We’re probably going to need something like that cognitively, for adults.
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
We already do, they’re called books 📚
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🚨 Delighted to share that I have signed with Bloomsbury to write my first book: a study of Australia's involvement and strategic interests in the Middle East and Mediterranean in WW2.
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
🚨 Delighted to share that I have signed with Bloomsbury to write my first book: a study of Australia's involvement and strategic interests in the Middle East and Mediterranean in WW2.
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