Technology and Warfare, Strategist, Army Veteran. Opinions (and bad jokes) my own.
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This graphic is missing drone strikes on call centers.
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Many such cases.
Here's the crap that is the absolute stupidest in the DoW – software ATOs.
1) The DoW has mandated reciprocity for three administrations. @SecWar's DoW is only the latest.
2) A small business goes through all the effort and expense to obtain an Authority To Operate (ATO) with one Authorizing Official with a Joint Authority – in this case @DIU_x.
3) Air Force looks at the AO's name and organization and just says "no," never once actually looking at the body of work.
Tell me again that the DoW is friendly to small businesses.
This has been a useful skim-read on days when I have time. Even if you aren't directly engaged in autonomy, but you are working in the security or military fields, it's worth the effort to start to get comfortable with the speed and scale drones are already achieving.
AUTOWAR25 Morning Edition, Monday, Oct. 26. The top 25 autonomous-warfare stories, ranked. 🧵
Russia sent 140 attack drones at Ukraine overnight, about half of them jet-powered, while a drone attack on Russia's Voronezh killed two and likely struck a petrochemical plant and an aircraft factory. Russia is also telling its data centers to go underground and add drone defenses after Ukrainian strikes. Links in every post below.
You want to demonstrate contracting reform? Invoke some sort of emergency clause or whatever and clear out the whole DPW mess. Engage directly with industry or start training engineers to do HVAC or whatever you have to do, but stop leaving something like basic livability to a stupid blob of centralized purchasing for HVAC units that stopped being made in 1987.
We've seen this pattern in numbers. Three years of Fort Campbell ArMA data: 39,463 work orders. In October 2025, an admin account closed 4,026 of them in four overnight sweeps. Median age at closure: 543 days. Everything else closed in a median of 15. The sweeps included 261 Emergency orders, 494 HVAC, and 474 Mold.
When performance is measured by closure rates, closing a ticket and fixing a room count the same.
Service members tell us some version of the same thing: why submit a work order? Nothing happens.
Leaders want service members to use the official tools & not Hots&Cots. So do we. But a system that closes requests without fixing them teaches people to stop submitting.
Hots&Cots doesn't replace ArMA. It's where Soldiers go because the tools they’re told to use don’t work.
Odds of either Erik Prince or Nayib Bukele personally ending up with ownership of that Colt Monitor?
When you read accounts of the AEF's arrival in Europe, the tone of aggression at every echelon even down to the platoon is remarkable. The Europeans had already seen a lot of death, were generally worn out and fatigued, and were also defending their homes in a more straight forward way, so a static defensive posture just made sense to them. The newly arrived Americans on the other hand had a distinct sense of "get out of the trenches and fight like men" combined with "we want to get this over with and go home." The arrival of the Americans was a logistical and military bonus for the Allies, but the psychological impact of that aggression cannot be understated.
October 23, 1917
Despite orders specifically forbidding them from launching trench raids, patrolling no man's land, or otherwise antagonizing the Germans on the other side of the front, the men of the US 1st Infantry Division were not content to just sit there and adopt the "live and let live" attitude that had settled on the front around Bathelémont.
At 6:05 a.m. a 75mm field gun of Battery C, 6th. Field Artillery fired twenty-four rounds in the general direction of a known German artillery position. The casing from the first shell fired was retrieved and sent back home to be displayed in the White House and the gun was also shipped back to be paraded around the country during Liberty Bond rallies.
ALT https://gmic.co.uk/topic/64702-the-first-american-shots-of-wwi-french-75mm-west-point-museum/page/2/
People who think DC should be a state while also complaining about how poorly DC is run should have to explain how they think giving the Council more power would somehow make them competent. I'm thinking maybe DC voters are a root cause here.
All this is going to do is teach the degenerates a modicum of respect for time management.
Interesting: @DDOTDC has finalized rules changing the discount program for low-income residents for e-scooters and e-bikes offered by companies like Lime. Instead of unlimited rides under 30 minutes, those riders will now get 300 minutes a month.
Yea but her LinkedIn or whatever...
Jackie Singh (@HackingButLegal) has publicly called herself an “Iraq Veteran” who “spent her 20s in war zones” and has said she spent “a bunch of years” in Iraq.
The FOIA-released Army records show a different record.
She served roughly 1 year, 4 months, and 15 days as a 45K (armament/tank turret repairer) in B Co, 64th FSB, 3BCT, 4th ID.
She deployed briefly to Iraq in 2003 and was separated on or about 24 August 2004.
Final rank: E-1.
Characterization: General (Under Honorable Conditions).
Authority: AR 635-200, paragraph 14-12B (pattern of misconduct).
This occurred while 3BCT was under stop-loss and fence-gate restrictions. The brigade was retaining soldiers past normal ETS dates, yet she was kicked out while we were building the force as we were in a war in two theaters.
Public employment descriptions after that show a series of short, mostly non-repeating stints with different organizations. That pattern of brief stops without continuity is not what successful long-term contractors or cybersecurity professionals who reach principal or director levels typically show.
That is the documented record. Veterans from the same brigade who have stated the timeline and unit details have been blocked while she has attacked other veterans for questioning her record. The FOIA documents remain public.
Reportedly footage of a Haitian gang leader preparing his men for an upcoming battle with El Salvadorian paratroopers 🥃
If that's a real Colt Monitor (appears to be), rather than a modified BAR, I may invade Haiti myself just to liberate that rifle and bring it back to America 🇺🇸
Pour out a little liquor on your rifles before a gunfight accordingly... 🍹
#haiti #Bondye #colt #monitor #BAR #FBI #rare #3006colt #elsalvador #bukele #portauprince #ericprince #UN #Vodou #DirtCookies
"Virginia man" is incredibly disingenuous here.
A Virginia man was arrested after allegedly using a sledgehammer to decapitate one of the figures from the Iwo Jima statue at Quantico. militarytimes.com/veterans/m…
Invoking the failure of 1928 here says a lot:
The Army is still insistent on treating new technology like a way to augment existing assumptions around warfare rather than a way to offset in favor of emerging advantages and realities.
Not treating logistics like admin is going to be absolutely critical. The complacency of the last 25 years would be devastating on a drone and sensor saturated battlefield. Autonomy can play a huge role here in making smaller caches of supplies more mobile and unpredictable, but we have to be careful that we don't work backwards from "autonomous=automated" and instead focus on autonomy as a function of resilience and decentralization.
We won't lose the next fight at the line of contact. We'll lose it at the fuel point.
Last night I said the CP gets found. So does the fuel.
An M1 Abrams burns about 17 gallons an hour sitting at idle. Moving, 45 to 57. Multiply that across a brigade and a week of continuous operations. Then put a drone over every tanker.
That's the fight.
The Army's new How the Army Fights guidance says it plainly: "Pervasive sensing makes traditional, centralized sustainment hubs and linear distribution corridors easy to detect and strike." It calls for decentralized supply nodes and redundant delivery routes.
Right answer. Now train it.
As the OPFOR, within hours of every rotation we pinpointed the CPs. Logistics nodes have the same problem: predictable timelines, the same routes, big signatures sitting still.
So stop treating the LOGPAC as an admin move. Run it like a combat patrol. Disperse the fuel. Change the routes. Put autonomous resupply into rotations now, not after the next requirements cycle. And let the OPFOR hunt the tankers every rotation, with real consequences when they find them.
If the fuel stops, the tanks stop. If the tanks stop, the fight is over.
Endurance isn't a slide at the back of the brief. It's the fight.
Who's grading sustainment survivability at your CTC? #USArmy
army.mil/article/295971/army…
He's very lucky he was spotted by the local cops before any Marines saw him.
A 27-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after police said they found him using a sledgehammer to smash an Iwo Jima statue in Quantico, Virginia.
Officers responded to Richmond Highway and Fuller Road at about 10:13 p.m. to investigate a report of property destruction. When they arrived, they found a man, later identified as Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano, "actively damaging" the statue, according to Prince William County police.
Read more at wjla.com 🔗
Turns out all those paper-drill RMF packages don't mean a damn thing if you buy garbage code you don't bother to properly analyze or invest in proactive defense. Might want to start listening to CISOs who tell the truth and stop promoting cyber "leaders" who just like to work the conference circuit.
Me: "I think this person's behavior is evidence that cybersecurity professionals should hold their peers to account for their judgment, not just fall back on credentialism and box-checking. We have to do a better job demanding accountability and results from our senior leaders."
Randos: "Yea, but look at her LinkedIn, bro!"
Those who automatically dismiss the ISV should note that historically troops don't like being confined to iron coffins when things like mines give them no chance of survival. FPVs are no different; if you can jump free quickly you have at least some chance of survival, not to mention engaging the threat at least some distance off. Half our casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan were still IEDs even after MRAPs were widely available.
Interesting they opted not to have the character wear this jacket in Band of Brothers. Maybe they didn't want to inadvertently echo Sobel's infamous bomber jacket to viewers.
On exhibit at The Gettysburg Museum Of History. Major Dick Winters WWII B-15 Jacket worn at Bastonge. Several of the 101 Officer's including Col. Sink and General McAuliffe obtained Army Air Force B-15 jackets in the late fall of 1944 they sewed a white background beneath their 101st patch to cover the silk screened Army Air Force insignia on the shoulder. Winter's B-15 also has a Leather name on the left breast "R.D. Winters". This jacket was obtained directly from Major Winters in the 1990's by Michel DeTrez and was exhibited in the Museum in La Gleize Belgium until The Gettysburg Museum Of History obtained it in 2019. Winters B-15 is currently exhibited in the U.S. for the first time.
This jacket is featured in the book "Hang Tough" order here
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For more on the collections at The Getysburg Museum Of History see:
GettysburgMuseumOfHistory.co…
#BandOfBrothers #EasyCompany #MajorDickWintersCollection #GettysburgMuseumOfHistory #101stAirborne
