Olivia Garard
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Olivia Garard
@teaandtactics.bsky.social
· Oct 23
If various philosophers were active on social media or the internet, where would they be posting?
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On “modern so-called incomprehensible poetry”:
“it's like it's something you have to understand with something other than intelligence, or your mind,”
“it's like it's something you have to understand with something other than intelligence, or your mind,”
November 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
On “modern so-called incomprehensible poetry”:
“it's like it's something you have to understand with something other than intelligence, or your mind,”
“it's like it's something you have to understand with something other than intelligence, or your mind,”
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This is a hell of an article about war studies that pulls no punches. CC: @teaandtactics.bsky.social @sodrock.bsky.social
www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/stra...
www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/stra...
Strategy and the Last Manager: The Case for Dissenting War Studies - Military Strategy Magazine
Applying James Burnham’s theory of the ‘managerial revolution’ to the evolution of war studies, this article argues that the field has been captured and reshaped by a managerial class more concerned w...
www.militarystrategymagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Such “heart“ would have helped in Clausewitz translations!
I met my translator. He didn't know a single word of Czech. "How did you translate it?" I asked. "With my heart," he said.
—Kundera’s adventures in translation
—Kundera’s adventures in translation
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Such “heart“ would have helped in Clausewitz translations!
What’s better than a great read?
A great read that also counts as dissertation work.
A great read that also counts as dissertation work.
November 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
What’s better than a great read?
A great read that also counts as dissertation work.
A great read that also counts as dissertation work.
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If you want to make it to Veterans Day
you first have to survive the Marine Corps Birthday.
you first have to survive the Marine Corps Birthday.
November 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
If you want to make it to Veterans Day
you first have to survive the Marine Corps Birthday.
you first have to survive the Marine Corps Birthday.
Happy Birthday Devil Dogs!
250!!!
250!!!
a man with glasses is screaming in front of another man
ALT: a man with glasses is screaming in front of another man
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Happy Birthday Devil Dogs!
250!!!
250!!!
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REVEILLE REVEILLE REVEILLE
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
REVEILLE REVEILLE REVEILLE
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BRO JUST ONE MORE AIRSTRIKE BRO PLEASE TRUST ME DUDE COME ON BRO THIS TIME AN AIR CAMPAIGN WILL COERCE A POLITICAL OUTCOME COME ON DUDE
October 31, 2025 at 12:42 PM
BRO JUST ONE MORE AIRSTRIKE BRO PLEASE TRUST ME DUDE COME ON BRO THIS TIME AN AIR CAMPAIGN WILL COERCE A POLITICAL OUTCOME COME ON DUDE
This is excellent.
In the decades since the end of World War II, “what has emerged is a military-narrational complex, in which war presents too good a story not to tell, over and over again,” writes Elizabeth Samet.
The Military-Narrational Complex
What stories do in an age of conflict.
www.foreignaffairs.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This is excellent.
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A phenomenal reflection that will resonate with many veterans.
Many of my Marines were repeatedly fired upon but did not return fire due to loss of PID, and the ensuing risk of hitting noncombatants.
They did the right thing, but will never rate a combat action ribbon, and that became a burden.
Many of my Marines were repeatedly fired upon but did not return fire due to loss of PID, and the ensuing risk of hitting noncombatants.
They did the right thing, but will never rate a combat action ribbon, and that became a burden.
October 27, 2025 at 4:27 AM
A phenomenal reflection that will resonate with many veterans.
Many of my Marines were repeatedly fired upon but did not return fire due to loss of PID, and the ensuing risk of hitting noncombatants.
They did the right thing, but will never rate a combat action ribbon, and that became a burden.
Many of my Marines were repeatedly fired upon but did not return fire due to loss of PID, and the ensuing risk of hitting noncombatants.
They did the right thing, but will never rate a combat action ribbon, and that became a burden.
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NEW: Anonymous donor gives Pentagon 130 million cans of Skoal Wintergreen to pay troops www.duffelblog.com/anonymous-do...
Anonymous donor gives Pentagon 130 million cans of Skoal Wintergreen to pay troops
Donation will “tide everyone over” until someone finds seven billion more cans
www.duffelblog.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
NEW: Anonymous donor gives Pentagon 130 million cans of Skoal Wintergreen to pay troops www.duffelblog.com/anonymous-do...
Life imitating art stealing art.
(From the Economist)
(From the Economist)
October 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Life imitating art stealing art.
(From the Economist)
(From the Economist)
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Clausewitz looking at you being surprised that domestic politics affects the military.
a man in a suit and tie stands in front of tie racks
ALT: a man in a suit and tie stands in front of tie racks
media.tenor.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Clausewitz looking at you being surprised that domestic politics affects the military.
Who walked in first?
strategist and ethicist walk into a bar.
September 12, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Who walked in first?
A challenging book in every sense of the term, but also one of the best readings of Clausewitz’s ‘On War’, who is, and I agree, decidedly not Hegelian.
September 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A challenging book in every sense of the term, but also one of the best readings of Clausewitz’s ‘On War’, who is, and I agree, decidedly not Hegelian.
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History is supposedly written by the victors. Sima Qian, author of China's original historical classic, showed it could also be written by the condemned.
Read Jeremiah Jenne's essay on the urtext for Chinese history, the Shiji or Records of the Grand Historian: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/09/s...
Read Jeremiah Jenne's essay on the urtext for Chinese history, the Shiji or Records of the Grand Historian: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/09/s...
chinabooksreview.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
History is supposedly written by the victors. Sima Qian, author of China's original historical classic, showed it could also be written by the condemned.
Read Jeremiah Jenne's essay on the urtext for Chinese history, the Shiji or Records of the Grand Historian: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/09/s...
Read Jeremiah Jenne's essay on the urtext for Chinese history, the Shiji or Records of the Grand Historian: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/09/s...
Not only was this a delightful and insightful read, but it convinced me that I need to read (and reread) more Melville for my dissertation.
Thanks to @queenofthinair.bsky.social for the footnote!
Thanks to @queenofthinair.bsky.social for the footnote!
September 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Not only was this a delightful and insightful read, but it convinced me that I need to read (and reread) more Melville for my dissertation.
Thanks to @queenofthinair.bsky.social for the footnote!
Thanks to @queenofthinair.bsky.social for the footnote!
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The wait’s over folks—Boyd book #2 is now available digitally from Marine Corps University Press! Want to know what Boyd ACTUALLY said about X, Y, or Z? Now you can get him in his own words—full transcripts and slides of all his briefings:
www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/...
www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/...
September 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The wait’s over folks—Boyd book #2 is now available digitally from Marine Corps University Press! Want to know what Boyd ACTUALLY said about X, Y, or Z? Now you can get him in his own words—full transcripts and slides of all his briefings:
www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/...
www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/...
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concentric circles seized the lone boat itself, and all its crew, and each floating oar, and every lance-pole
September 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
concentric circles seized the lone boat itself, and all its crew, and each floating oar, and every lance-pole
For purchase today!
I have two poems coming out in this collection of poems on the end of the so-called Forever Wars.
It is available for preorder today, purchase tomorrow.
Be on the look out for:
- “Salty”
- “Five-Star Google Reviews of the Green Beans Cafe at Kandahar Airfield”
www.amazon.com/So-Long-Anth...
It is available for preorder today, purchase tomorrow.
Be on the look out for:
- “Salty”
- “Five-Star Google Reviews of the Green Beans Cafe at Kandahar Airfield”
www.amazon.com/So-Long-Anth...
So Long: The Anthology of Poet Warriors: Volume III
So Long: The Anthology of Poet Warriors: Volume III [Jenkins, Leo, Dow, Keith] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. So Long: The Anthology of Poet Warriors: Volume III
www.amazon.com
August 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
For purchase today!
F. W. J. Schelling.
We should rename it the Department of Deterrence and then force everyone to read Schelling
August 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
F. W. J. Schelling.
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La reproduction interdite, by René Magritte, 1937, 📸 via @BleacherReport
August 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
La reproduction interdite, by René Magritte, 1937, 📸 via @BleacherReport
I have two poems coming out in this collection of poems on the end of the so-called Forever Wars.
It is available for preorder today, purchase tomorrow.
Be on the look out for:
- “Salty”
- “Five-Star Google Reviews of the Green Beans Cafe at Kandahar Airfield”
www.amazon.com/So-Long-Anth...
It is available for preorder today, purchase tomorrow.
Be on the look out for:
- “Salty”
- “Five-Star Google Reviews of the Green Beans Cafe at Kandahar Airfield”
www.amazon.com/So-Long-Anth...
So Long: The Anthology of Poet Warriors: Volume III
So Long: The Anthology of Poet Warriors: Volume III [Jenkins, Leo, Dow, Keith] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. So Long: The Anthology of Poet Warriors: Volume III
www.amazon.com
August 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I have two poems coming out in this collection of poems on the end of the so-called Forever Wars.
It is available for preorder today, purchase tomorrow.
Be on the look out for:
- “Salty”
- “Five-Star Google Reviews of the Green Beans Cafe at Kandahar Airfield”
www.amazon.com/So-Long-Anth...
It is available for preorder today, purchase tomorrow.
Be on the look out for:
- “Salty”
- “Five-Star Google Reviews of the Green Beans Cafe at Kandahar Airfield”
www.amazon.com/So-Long-Anth...