Ian TB
@iantb.bsky.social
Retired #Marine, scribbler, #wargame analyst, podcast co-host, geek. Author of “A New Conception of War” on #USMC reading list. All views my own.
Sad Josh Allen is my favorite Josh Allen.
November 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Sad Josh Allen is my favorite Josh Allen.
Yeah let’s get this day started with a little hot death from above:
November 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Yeah let’s get this day started with a little hot death from above:
Weekend #wargaming—more “Battle of Hoth,” trying to break through Rebel lines to get off the board.
November 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Weekend #wargaming—more “Battle of Hoth,” trying to break through Rebel lines to get off the board.
Need a maneuver warfare “starter pack?” Do the reading w/ “A New Conception of War” & “Snowmobiles & Grand Ideals” from MCUP (mcu_press@usmcu.edu).
Then play the concepts w/#ManeuverWarfare from the @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social:
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Then play the concepts w/#ManeuverWarfare from the @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social:
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November 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Need a maneuver warfare “starter pack?” Do the reading w/ “A New Conception of War” & “Snowmobiles & Grand Ideals” from MCUP (mcu_press@usmcu.edu).
Then play the concepts w/#ManeuverWarfare from the @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social:
dietzfoundation-org.square.site/product/mane...
Then play the concepts w/#ManeuverWarfare from the @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social:
dietzfoundation-org.square.site/product/mane...
Hard copies of “Snowmobiles and Grand Ideals” are in! This is THE definitive John Boyd text—almost 700 pages of Boyd in his own words on conflict and competition. Email Marine Corps University Press at mcu_press@usmcu.edu for your free copy today!
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Hard copies of “Snowmobiles and Grand Ideals” are in! This is THE definitive John Boyd text—almost 700 pages of Boyd in his own words on conflict and competition. Email Marine Corps University Press at mcu_press@usmcu.edu for your free copy today!
We really don’t deserve this goodness after all that other goodness. But we’ll take it. #NEPats
Patriots vs. Jets recap: Pats do enough to win 27-14 on Thursday Night Football.
Patriots vs. Jets recap: Pats do enough to win 27-14 on Thursday Night Football
New England improves to 9-2 on the season on Thursday Night Football.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:18 AM
We really don’t deserve this goodness after all that other goodness. But we’ll take it. #NEPats
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Patriots vs. Jets recap: Pats do enough to win 27-14 on Thursday Night Football.
Patriots vs. Jets recap: Pats do enough to win 27-14 on Thursday Night Football
New England improves to 9-2 on the season on Thursday Night Football.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Patriots vs. Jets recap: Pats do enough to win 27-14 on Thursday Night Football.
For me it’s never quite real until I hold it in my hand…& today’s that day! Print copies of “Snowmobiles and Grand Ideals” w/ Frans Osinga are in; email MCUP at mcu_press@usmcu.edu to request your copy!
& yes, it’s a chonky little fella; doubles as a SAPI plate if needed.
& yes, it’s a chonky little fella; doubles as a SAPI plate if needed.
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
For me it’s never quite real until I hold it in my hand…& today’s that day! Print copies of “Snowmobiles and Grand Ideals” w/ Frans Osinga are in; email MCUP at mcu_press@usmcu.edu to request your copy!
& yes, it’s a chonky little fella; doubles as a SAPI plate if needed.
& yes, it’s a chonky little fella; doubles as a SAPI plate if needed.
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"School curricula and training programs of instruction all have fixed amounts of time available for students. So if you plug in wargaming, something else needs to come out."
- Ian T. Brown @iantb.bsky.social (Wargame Analyst at Group W, an SPA Company), writes for @armchairdragoons.bsky.social
- Ian T. Brown @iantb.bsky.social (Wargame Analyst at Group W, an SPA Company), writes for @armchairdragoons.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"School curricula and training programs of instruction all have fixed amounts of time available for students. So if you plug in wargaming, something else needs to come out."
- Ian T. Brown @iantb.bsky.social (Wargame Analyst at Group W, an SPA Company), writes for @armchairdragoons.bsky.social
- Ian T. Brown @iantb.bsky.social (Wargame Analyst at Group W, an SPA Company), writes for @armchairdragoons.bsky.social
Since we’re living in unprecedented times anyway, it would amuse me to no end for Pope Leo to remind Vance (& Rubio, & others in the admin) that excommunication & interdict were tools used by previous popes to humble kings who forgot that power resides in many places, not just a temporal throne.
Looks like JD Vance is going to need to change religions again.
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Since we’re living in unprecedented times anyway, it would amuse me to no end for Pope Leo to remind Vance (& Rubio, & others in the admin) that excommunication & interdict were tools used by previous popes to humble kings who forgot that power resides in many places, not just a temporal throne.
To the brave keyboard hero whose response to this was that I was a “delusional militarist” who should kill himself—thanks for the input & upon reflection, if I did things over, I’d write the same thing but use smaller words so you could follow along better:
armchairdragoons.com/serious-peop...
armchairdragoons.com/serious-peop...
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
To the brave keyboard hero whose response to this was that I was a “delusional militarist” who should kill himself—thanks for the input & upon reflection, if I did things over, I’d write the same thing but use smaller words so you could follow along better:
armchairdragoons.com/serious-peop...
armchairdragoons.com/serious-peop...
There’s a saying: the dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.
November 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
There’s a saying: the dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.
No matter the clime or place, the danger or boredom, 2 years or 20—if you’re a veteran, you did something few undertake. And you didn’t ask for gold or glory, just the chance to be with your other brothers and sisters on the wall and tell evil: “not on my watch.”
#VeteransDay
#VeteransDay
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
No matter the clime or place, the danger or boredom, 2 years or 20—if you’re a veteran, you did something few undertake. And you didn’t ask for gold or glory, just the chance to be with your other brothers and sisters on the wall and tell evil: “not on my watch.”
#VeteransDay
#VeteransDay
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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.
Get your #wargaming week going with my AAR of the “Wargaming as an Analytical and Training Tool in Military and Civilian Environment” conference at AWL a few weeks back. It was a deeply illuminating experience:
people…
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people…
armchairdragoons.com/serious-peop...
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Get your #wargaming week going with my AAR of the “Wargaming as an Analytical and Training Tool in Military and Civilian Environment” conference at AWL a few weeks back. It was a deeply illuminating experience:
people…
armchairdragoons.com/serious-peop...
people…
armchairdragoons.com/serious-peop...
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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
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November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Happy Birthday Devil Dogs!
250!!!
250!!!
These New England Patriots are for real.
November 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
These New England Patriots are for real.
Saw Iliza Shlesinger’s DC show tonight and she asked 4 people in the audience what they did and they all gave the most DC answers possible:
“Technical salesman”
“CPA”
“Program Manager”
“Navy”
“Technical salesman”
“CPA”
“Program Manager”
“Navy”
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Saw Iliza Shlesinger’s DC show tonight and she asked 4 people in the audience what they did and they all gave the most DC answers possible:
“Technical salesman”
“CPA”
“Program Manager”
“Navy”
“Technical salesman”
“CPA”
“Program Manager”
“Navy”
LOAC is about two things: creating space for a lasting peace when the fight’s over, and more importantly, ensuring that when your own troops come home they don’t spend the rest of their lives looking in the mirror and seeing a monster look back at them.
The laws of war are not mere niceties. They are lessons from centuries of blood agreed upon to keep the world more stable.
Violating them isn’t hero cop who cuts through red tape to get things done, it’s psycho cop who crosses lines in ways even the rule benders find appalling and must be stopped.
Violating them isn’t hero cop who cuts through red tape to get things done, it’s psycho cop who crosses lines in ways even the rule benders find appalling and must be stopped.
November 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
LOAC is about two things: creating space for a lasting peace when the fight’s over, and more importantly, ensuring that when your own troops come home they don’t spend the rest of their lives looking in the mirror and seeing a monster look back at them.
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Top 10 things SECDEF is spending money on while you’re not getting paid
It's nice to know he's having the time of his life.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
NEW: Top 10 things SECDEF is spending money on while you’re not getting paid www.duffelblog.com/top-10-thing...
#Wargaming ICYMI #3–my #ManeuverWarfare #cardgame has a page on @boardgamegeek.com; check it out for the rules PDF, and by all means, if you have questions about how something works in the game, PLEASE ask them!
@thedietzfoundation.bsky.social
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@thedietzfoundation.bsky.social
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/45...
November 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
#Wargaming ICYMI #3–my #ManeuverWarfare #cardgame has a page on @boardgamegeek.com; check it out for the rules PDF, and by all means, if you have questions about how something works in the game, PLEASE ask them!
@thedietzfoundation.bsky.social
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/45...
@thedietzfoundation.bsky.social
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/45...
#Wargaming ICYMI #2–my write-up on the recent #wargaming conference at AWL:
www.spa.com/focus-global...
www.spa.com/focus-global...
Global Reflections: Insights from Wargaming Conference
On October 14-15, 2025, I attended the inaugural conference on “Wargaming as an Analytical and Training Tool in Military and Civilian Environment…”
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November 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
#Wargaming ICYMI #2–my write-up on the recent #wargaming conference at AWL:
www.spa.com/focus-global...
www.spa.com/focus-global...