Delusionally Optimistic Officer
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The army once paid me to write some papers, now I think people care about my thoughts...
Definitely a line to try out at the bar next time: "hey babe, are you the structure of the port of Algiers? Call me Kent, the way I feel when I see you..."
November 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Definitely a line to try out at the bar next time: "hey babe, are you the structure of the port of Algiers? Call me Kent, the way I feel when I see you..."
me instantly trying to make out author/title of each of the books
November 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
me instantly trying to make out author/title of each of the books
No No No! Turn that shit up. Americans and Brits shouldn't be allowed to fancy Prussian military intellectualism, but not endure contemporary German shitposting. It's part of the deal!
October 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
No No No! Turn that shit up. Americans and Brits shouldn't be allowed to fancy Prussian military intellectualism, but not endure contemporary German shitposting. It's part of the deal!
Especially this post in particular. I need this tattooed into the eyeball of every "warfighter-lethality-dudebro" junior officer out there!
bsky.app/profile/carr...
Always ask yourself "what would be my point of breaking up?"/"what would be an order I couldn't act upon?"
bsky.app/profile/carr...
Always ask yourself "what would be my point of breaking up?"/"what would be an order I couldn't act upon?"
The underlying assumption here, in case you missed it, is that continued service is most important rather than the purpose of that service. As though staying in the Army is the most important thing rather than the values that Army was defending. That’s… let’s just say flawed. 15/
October 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Especially this post in particular. I need this tattooed into the eyeball of every "warfighter-lethality-dudebro" junior officer out there!
bsky.app/profile/carr...
Always ask yourself "what would be my point of breaking up?"/"what would be an order I couldn't act upon?"
bsky.app/profile/carr...
Always ask yourself "what would be my point of breaking up?"/"what would be an order I couldn't act upon?"
Given how unpopular JD is, they're really going to take their shot at monarchy, aren't they? And SCOTUS is probably going to call it some shit like "hereditary unified presidentialism"...
October 31, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Given how unpopular JD is, they're really going to take their shot at monarchy, aren't they? And SCOTUS is probably going to call it some shit like "hereditary unified presidentialism"...
(they mostly weren't), but they reflected heavily on all the issues how to behave in light of a highly illiberal and illegitimate political system, for example with regard to their oath. Long story short: people (esp military professionals) should read more stuff outside of their national borders
October 31, 2025 at 5:52 AM
(they mostly weren't), but they reflected heavily on all the issues how to behave in light of a highly illiberal and illegitimate political system, for example with regard to their oath. Long story short: people (esp military professionals) should read more stuff outside of their national borders
"how do we keep the military from turning rogue?" but in other countries there are schools of thought about the primary question "how should the military behave, if the state goes rogue?", which might be more applicable currently.
This is not to say that Stauffenberg et al were liberal
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This is not to say that Stauffenberg et al were liberal
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October 31, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"how do we keep the military from turning rogue?" but in other countries there are schools of thought about the primary question "how should the military behave, if the state goes rogue?", which might be more applicable currently.
This is not to say that Stauffenberg et al were liberal
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This is not to say that Stauffenberg et al were liberal
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I'm once again begging military intellectuals to study CivMilRelations outside the US, for example the military resistance of the Wehrmacht and the subsequent development of "Innere Führung" by Gen Baudissin in the Bundeswehr. I get that the primary question in the US has always been
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October 31, 2025 at 5:52 AM
I'm once again begging military intellectuals to study CivMilRelations outside the US, for example the military resistance of the Wehrmacht and the subsequent development of "Innere Führung" by Gen Baudissin in the Bundeswehr. I get that the primary question in the US has always been
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It might look like; and can you see how shiny some of it looks?; aren't we so smart for being intellectually open minded?"
October 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It might look like; and can you see how shiny some of it looks?; aren't we so smart for being intellectually open minded?"
Ironically, the whole article could have been written as a cautionary tale without changing its analytic core (his five models), but this is just as if the authors of "don't build the torment nexus" would've instead published "we don't know whether the torment nexus will come about, so here it what
October 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Ironically, the whole article could have been written as a cautionary tale without changing its analytic core (his five models), but this is just as if the authors of "don't build the torment nexus" would've instead published "we don't know whether the torment nexus will come about, so here it what
Reposted by Delusionally Optimistic Officer
The question of liberalism is not merely that of the rights of the weak. But that of the dignity of the strong.
October 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The question of liberalism is not merely that of the rights of the weak. But that of the dignity of the strong.
Pretty easy actually; you just gotta join on the side of the drugs
August 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Pretty easy actually; you just gotta join on the side of the drugs
Its not a bug, its a feature: Krümpersystem 2.0
August 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Its not a bug, its a feature: Krümpersystem 2.0