Sir Arthur, Duke of Point Rain
@artlaflamme.bsky.social
I spend a lot of time talking about Hondo & Hondas
When a student casually includes a comment that Galula wrote about the population being the center of gravity, and I am deciding whether to scream or cry.
(Galula wrote of the population as the battleground. It's complex - and great reading. And no mention of center of gravity, BTW)
(Galula wrote of the population as the battleground. It's complex - and great reading. And no mention of center of gravity, BTW)
October 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
When a student casually includes a comment that Galula wrote about the population being the center of gravity, and I am deciding whether to scream or cry.
(Galula wrote of the population as the battleground. It's complex - and great reading. And no mention of center of gravity, BTW)
(Galula wrote of the population as the battleground. It's complex - and great reading. And no mention of center of gravity, BTW)
One hundred percent, today is an Abbey Lincoln kind of day.
December 16, 2024 at 5:30 PM
One hundred percent, today is an Abbey Lincoln kind of day.
I used an open-source app to re-name and organize my 24 Fleetwood Mac albums that have been parked on my hard drive for the last... 10 years. It's that kind of a day.
November 17, 2024 at 7:46 PM
I used an open-source app to re-name and organize my 24 Fleetwood Mac albums that have been parked on my hard drive for the last... 10 years. It's that kind of a day.
I’m sure it’s a paycheck…
February 12, 2024 at 2:01 AM
I’m sure it’s a paycheck…
Had *that* discussion with my Dept Chair.
I’m entirely ok developing, writing & teaching new courses - like these intelligence & Star Wars mashup ones. But they are my intellectual property.
Pay me to develop & write them, and the school can have them.
I’m an instructor. I’m not even tenure-track.
I’m entirely ok developing, writing & teaching new courses - like these intelligence & Star Wars mashup ones. But they are my intellectual property.
Pay me to develop & write them, and the school can have them.
I’m an instructor. I’m not even tenure-track.
December 12, 2023 at 3:07 PM
Had *that* discussion with my Dept Chair.
I’m entirely ok developing, writing & teaching new courses - like these intelligence & Star Wars mashup ones. But they are my intellectual property.
Pay me to develop & write them, and the school can have them.
I’m an instructor. I’m not even tenure-track.
I’m entirely ok developing, writing & teaching new courses - like these intelligence & Star Wars mashup ones. But they are my intellectual property.
Pay me to develop & write them, and the school can have them.
I’m an instructor. I’m not even tenure-track.
Reading end-of-semester essays from grad students and - on a title page and in a first - a student has misspelled my family name in two different ways. Yes, two errors in one name.
December 11, 2023 at 9:23 PM
Reading end-of-semester essays from grad students and - on a title page and in a first - a student has misspelled my family name in two different ways. Yes, two errors in one name.
It’s soubhiyé right now.
December 8, 2023 at 2:40 PM
It’s soubhiyé right now.
Things that make me want to vomit.
Please stop talking about gray zone warfare. Please stop talking about hybrid warfare. Please stop saying, that’s so fetch! It’s not going to happen.
It’s… not. FFS.
Please stop talking about gray zone warfare. Please stop talking about hybrid warfare. Please stop saying, that’s so fetch! It’s not going to happen.
It’s… not. FFS.
December 2, 2023 at 5:30 PM
Things that make me want to vomit.
Please stop talking about gray zone warfare. Please stop talking about hybrid warfare. Please stop saying, that’s so fetch! It’s not going to happen.
It’s… not. FFS.
Please stop talking about gray zone warfare. Please stop talking about hybrid warfare. Please stop saying, that’s so fetch! It’s not going to happen.
It’s… not. FFS.
I honestly do not know if my students love or hate when I pull out and share Army field manuals from last century.
Rarely do I share ones from two centuries ago, but that does happen sometimes.
Yes, they wonder how old I am. That's fair.
Rarely do I share ones from two centuries ago, but that does happen sometimes.
Yes, they wonder how old I am. That's fair.
November 29, 2023 at 9:53 PM
I honestly do not know if my students love or hate when I pull out and share Army field manuals from last century.
Rarely do I share ones from two centuries ago, but that does happen sometimes.
Yes, they wonder how old I am. That's fair.
Rarely do I share ones from two centuries ago, but that does happen sometimes.
Yes, they wonder how old I am. That's fair.
On May 30, 1942, Manchester, New Hampshire held a massive parade to celebrate the completion of a $1.4 million federal government project to construct a new airfield, Grenier Field.
November 29, 2023 at 1:26 AM
On May 30, 1942, Manchester, New Hampshire held a massive parade to celebrate the completion of a $1.4 million federal government project to construct a new airfield, Grenier Field.
You know what we haven't talked about in a while?
November 28, 2023 at 6:55 PM
You know what we haven't talked about in a while?
"But that's like calling me the smartest village idiot. Which includes the part where, you know, you call me a village idiot."
November 15, 2023 at 12:01 AM
"But that's like calling me the smartest village idiot. Which includes the part where, you know, you call me a village idiot."
Just got an email from a motorcycle buddy of mine, with a link to a new article about Wagner Group members being rolled up under Rosgvardia - and acknowledging that indeed, in a conversation with them six months ago, I had said this would happen.
It happens.
It happens.
November 10, 2023 at 10:30 PM
Just got an email from a motorcycle buddy of mine, with a link to a new article about Wagner Group members being rolled up under Rosgvardia - and acknowledging that indeed, in a conversation with them six months ago, I had said this would happen.
It happens.
It happens.
Can't get my better half to come join Quiltsky or bring her fiber art here, but thrilled that her book is hitting the market and shelves today. She's a baller.
Quilt Your Story a.co/d/aKXaJCx
Quilt Your Story a.co/d/aKXaJCx
November 8, 2023 at 1:16 AM
Can't get my better half to come join Quiltsky or bring her fiber art here, but thrilled that her book is hitting the market and shelves today. She's a baller.
Quilt Your Story a.co/d/aKXaJCx
Quilt Your Story a.co/d/aKXaJCx
Also - in Star Wars, with the Jedi Council, "The Lost" - some fantasy that only 20 Jedi Masters ever renounced their allegiance to the Jedi Order, in the entire history of the Jedi Order...
... is such a load of shit.
Thousands & thousands of years of an organization, and 20?
Yeaaaaaah, right.
... is such a load of shit.
Thousands & thousands of years of an organization, and 20?
Yeaaaaaah, right.
November 5, 2023 at 12:12 AM
Also - in Star Wars, with the Jedi Council, "The Lost" - some fantasy that only 20 Jedi Masters ever renounced their allegiance to the Jedi Order, in the entire history of the Jedi Order...
... is such a load of shit.
Thousands & thousands of years of an organization, and 20?
Yeaaaaaah, right.
... is such a load of shit.
Thousands & thousands of years of an organization, and 20?
Yeaaaaaah, right.
In Star Wars: Clone Wars S06E10, Master Sifo-Dyas has a force-vision in which he foresaw "a great conflict" aka the clone wars & the needs for the Galactic Republic to raise an Army.
Force-visions, as a means of intelligence - were wildly dismissed by the Jedi order.
Force-visions, as a means of intelligence - were wildly dismissed by the Jedi order.
November 4, 2023 at 11:36 PM
In Star Wars: Clone Wars S06E10, Master Sifo-Dyas has a force-vision in which he foresaw "a great conflict" aka the clone wars & the needs for the Galactic Republic to raise an Army.
Force-visions, as a means of intelligence - were wildly dismissed by the Jedi order.
Force-visions, as a means of intelligence - were wildly dismissed by the Jedi order.
For my spring Star Wars: Clone wars course, I am writing up a big, broad description of the link between David Galula's Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice, and Rhyloth, Onderon, Concordia, Mon Cala, and other misadventures by the Galactic Republic / Jedi Generals.
Love my job.
Love my job.
November 3, 2023 at 9:29 PM
For my spring Star Wars: Clone wars course, I am writing up a big, broad description of the link between David Galula's Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice, and Rhyloth, Onderon, Concordia, Mon Cala, and other misadventures by the Galactic Republic / Jedi Generals.
Love my job.
Love my job.
Friday be all...
November 3, 2023 at 6:40 PM
Friday be all...
Ah, yes - Wednesday
November 1, 2023 at 4:05 PM
Ah, yes - Wednesday
Four years ago, the FBI released a comprehensive look at lone-offender terrorist attacks & the available data for them - backgrounds, behavioral characteristics, & circumstances surrounding 52 attacks for 1972-2019. Worth reading.
www.fbi.gov/news/stories...
www.fbi.gov/news/stories...
October 31, 2023 at 11:07 PM
Four years ago, the FBI released a comprehensive look at lone-offender terrorist attacks & the available data for them - backgrounds, behavioral characteristics, & circumstances surrounding 52 attacks for 1972-2019. Worth reading.
www.fbi.gov/news/stories...
www.fbi.gov/news/stories...
Renewed my membership w/ NCF. Good resources, good online archive, good library, good volunteers.
cryptologicfoundation.org
cryptologicfoundation.org
October 31, 2023 at 4:54 PM
Renewed my membership w/ NCF. Good resources, good online archive, good library, good volunteers.
cryptologicfoundation.org
cryptologicfoundation.org
I'm suppose to be working productively in my office right now, but possibly... the coffee has not kicked in.
October 31, 2023 at 4:49 PM
I'm suppose to be working productively in my office right now, but possibly... the coffee has not kicked in.
That's right - it's MF'ing TacoTuesday, y'all.
October 31, 2023 at 4:45 PM
That's right - it's MF'ing TacoTuesday, y'all.
Monday got me all…
October 30, 2023 at 9:55 PM
Monday got me all…
Someday there will be a call for papers on the use of perfidy by Jedi during the Clone Wars, and I tell ya', my in-box is going to be flooded with people telling me my ship has finally come in.
Polisky
Polisky
October 30, 2023 at 6:47 PM
Someday there will be a call for papers on the use of perfidy by Jedi during the Clone Wars, and I tell ya', my in-box is going to be flooded with people telling me my ship has finally come in.
Polisky
Polisky