John T Kuehn
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John T Kuehn
@trost1864.bsky.social
Christian
Retired US naval flight officer, husband,father, grandfather, military & naval historian.
I cannot recommend this series enough. The cast is incredible.
And the history is sound. A great American tragedy. Note that Jim Crow was not yet fully implemented...

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Death by Lightning Strikes: Everything to Know About the Limited Series
Michael Shannon and Matthew Macfadyen star in the unbelievable true story of James Garfield’s presidency.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
QOD. “Life breaks us, and we fill the cracks with something stronger.”
Dalinar Kholin
From Brandon Sanderson, Wind & Truth
November 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
AOD MMAS=Master of Military Art and Sciences. The original "free" masters
@USACGSC
. I have two masters students in this program at CGSC, but have not been able to meet with them thanks to Chuck Schumer and the Democrats--it's against the law while the government is shut down
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
US-JAPAN_UK. No longer 5-3-5, more like 3-3-1. If you don't know the original ratio it was:
US 5
(roughly 500,000 tons of battleships/120,000 carriers)
UK 5 (ditto)
Japan 3 (roughly 300K tones battleships, 90K carriers)
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Handgrenade November 2025 The Washington Naval Conference and Today | H-Net
Handgrenade November 2025The Washington Naval Conference and Today
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November 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
“Senate Democrats rejected a proposal Thursday to reopen the government …”
This does not reflect the Schumer line that Repubs are responsible.
Oh, and I am on unpaid furlough along with the rest of the Federal government

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November 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Okay, which institution in Washington can open government the quickest ?
November 8, 2025 at 12:41 PM
AOD CSG=Carrier Strike Group, a U.S. organizational term indicating a naval force centered on a nuclear powered aircraft carrier embarking around 70 aircraft & escorted by 4-6 surface combatants. Formerly they were known as Carrier Battle Groups, which is a better name for them
November 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
QOD “Progress...depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve & no direction is set for possible improvement: & when experience is not retained...infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”G. Santayana, Life of Reason
November 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
AOD PNT= Positioning, Navigation, and Timing.

a story by insiders for insiders that never spells out the acronym. & it use the fad bureaucratic word “enterprise”, which means everything & nothing.

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Report: Pentagon Can’t Forget About PNT for Golden Dome
The Pentagon should establish a dedicated budget to support the positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) needs of Golden Dome.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
QOD “I fear Democrats are going down the same path. We’re allowing the most extreme, pugilistic elements of our party to call the shots.”
Jared Golden, D Maine
November 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I've been in a bad mood, probably because I have now been furloughed without pay for THIRTY-SIX DAYS.
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Who looks like the compromisers in this story? I’m never voting for another democrat again. (I voted for Biden in 2020).
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Senate Democrats eye exit from record-breaking shutdown as pressure intensifies
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and his caucus mulling ways out of the government shutdown from a host of offers Republicans have made throughout the 36-day ordeal.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
FOURTEEN times, that is the number of times the Republican Senators have voted to fund the government …that is also the number of times Dems have voted NOT to fund gov
November 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
AOD AGITPROP= Agitation and propaganda, what news outlets like CNN and BBC mostly do these days, to try to convince people, for example, that the shutdown is the Republicans fault. 6 democratic senators is all it will take to end the shutdown and turn on full SNAP
November 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
“Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy.” C. v. Clausewitz,
On War, Book 2, (page 178, Howard and Paret)
November 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
1/Here is the hard truth, every Republican & 3 honorable Democrat Senators have voted every time (there have been multiple votes after first failed vote) for the Continuing Resolution to keep open or open backup fed government.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
AOD. MCM=nine countermeasures
November 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
QOD Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
and do not lean on your own understanding.
psalm 3:5
November 3, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Do you believe in outdated/misleading narratives about the atomic bombs? read this

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Mini-Handgrenade Miscamble on Giangreco | H-Net
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October 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
AOD NPR-National Public Radio, but more like National Palestinian Radio, see this for evidence:
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October 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
QOD “Nuclear powers are difficult to coerce, and incredibly difficult and costly, if not impossible, to conquer and thus nuclear weapons strategically favor the defense.”
Barry Posen, Restraint, p.21
October 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Latest Blog post at H-War on Navy Birthday, first one since March, but thanks to gov shudown...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
QOD "...keeping the fleet actively in being--not merely in existence, but in active and vigorous life."
Sir Julian Corbett, from _Some Principles of Maritime Strategy_ p. 212
October 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM