John T Kuehn
trost1864.bsky.social
John T Kuehn
@trost1864.bsky.social
Christian
Retired US naval flight officer, husband,father, grandfather, military & naval historian.
AOD FTFF=For the Foreseeable Future see QOD
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
QOD "And you love a little wild one, but she brings you only sorrow. All the time you know she's smilin', you'll be on your knees tomorrow."
Do it Again, Steely Dan's paean to the human condition.
And so it begins. A quote from every Becker and Fagen songs FTFF
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
AOD MMM=modern military medicine. Founded by French during Napoleonic wars.
November 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
QOD “She dedicated her whole life to studying the past as a way to understand the future. … akin to searching shadows for shapes to interpret.”
Brandon Sanderson on Jasnah Kholin
November 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
QOD “Hamas began this war, &...considers that it is still fighting this war. That will be damaging, most of all for those Gazans who do not embrace Hamas’s genocidal ideology and ambitions...most countries will be reluctant to provide troops for...stabilization" Cliff May
www.fdd.org/analysis/202...
Hamas Rejects UN Security Council Resolution Authorizing International Stabilization Force for Gaza
Latest Developments Hamas Says No to Disarmament: Hamas emphatically rejected the UN Security Council’s adoption — by 13 votes in favor, with abstentions from Russia and China — of Resolution...
www.fdd.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
AOD MAD=mutually assured destruction Same acronym, different meaning. Nuke strategy term meaning if you destroy us we’ll guarantee that our second strike can destroy you. Nuclear powered ballistic missiles made this a reality.
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
QOD “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.” CS Lewis
November 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Trump’s already made decisions on Venezuela—he’s gone FULL DUTERTE with lethal extrajudicial ops against alleged drug smugglers
www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/p...
Trump has suggested he’s made a decision on Venezuela military operations. Here’s what we know | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump suggested he has made up his mind on a course of action in Venezuela following multiple high-level briefings this week and a mounting US show of force in the region.
www.cnn.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
QOD “Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool”
Proverbs 10:23
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
AOD MAD =Magnetic Anomaly Detection. A sensor used to detect submarines, see pic, they are boom at stern of aircraft. In this case a Japanese navy P3
November 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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...

www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...
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.
www.netflix.com
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)
networks.h-net.org/group/blog/2...
Handgrenade November 2025 The Washington Naval Conference and Today | H-Net
Handgrenade November 2025The Washington Naval Conference and Today
networks.h-net.org
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

thehill.com/homenews/adm...
thehill.com
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.

www.airandspaceforces.com/report-penta...
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.
www.airandspaceforces.com
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).
www.foxnews.com/politics/sen...
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.
www.foxnews.com
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