James Bond is the Dread Pirate Roberts of spies.

I love GDT and I'll forever be a fan of his after watching Pan's Labyrinth while on morphine for an hour before I realized I didn't have subtitles on, but he's not exactly subtle as a storyteller.

"Aim for the bubbles" is one of those all time "good advice, hope I'm not trying to remember it while I'm also not trying to vomit or pick teeth out of anything."

Kids, let's talk about understanding facial trauma to determine whether to put them in the recovery position, administer a nasal-pharyngeal airway, or whether you need to perform a surgical cricothyrotomy to keep them breathing. But first! Establish fire dominance!

Banks and people who inherited $400 million from their dads.

Surely there are no downsides to an infinite rolling debt under which the entire nation lives where they have no idea how capacity to actually increase in wealth.

I remember our battalion HQ was a palace guest house outside Baghdad, and to go from the antechamber to the main room you walked through the legs of a marble falcon that took up the whole wall, and the idea of that kind of tacky ornamentation felt so foreign back then...22 years ago.

I'm as confident in this as I am in anything else he says is two weeks away.

There are a lot of ways to look less short, and he's doing none of them. Don't sit all the way in the back of a chair. Sit up straight. Unbutton your jacket while sitting. This is not rocket surgery.

Hell yeah brother.

As the guy who writes requirements documents, I will say that the mileage varies and the upside of doing it for the cyber force is a very small customer base allows for a lot of opportunities to ensure they get what they need.

Sort of like Greek philosophers sitting around discussing whether we're all just arguing about shadows on a wall while steppe tribes are mastering horse archery and writing haikus because saying a lot with 17 syllables is just cooler.

I love that one of the rare things we can trust about this administration is they will do things in ways that are self-destructively cheap and mediocre.

Within the Army's Intel/Cyber space in the past 12 years or so, the concept that weird nerds like Musk & Thiel *must* be making superior products because they're weird, rich nerds is pervasive in a way that now stands in the way of troops actually getting the most from the equipment they have. 2/2

I'm not even necessarily disagreeing about whether DCGS is the best or even a superior platform for ISR operations. But it's been the POR for 10+ years and guys who used Palantir for 6 months 12 years ago still won't accept that they need to make the best of what the Army's given them. 1/?

You're right, but also unfortunately all those guys who used it as S2s attached to SOF who rode that 6 month deployment to the stars are all-in on Silicon Valley as a model for military capability development. Half of USAICOE still ends remarks with "furthermore, DCGS-A must be destroyed."