"Stages of Luke" sorta sounds like something you go through in the grieving process
Gonna dive into the second stage of Luke because ESB is a Christmas movie and I won't hear a word said otherwise Image
Gotta love everyone walking by Han and Leia having arguments in the hallway as if this was all just perfectly normal:

"Just gonna squeeze by here, on my way to the staff update brief, don't mind me, two senior members of this crap shoot having it out, I get it, normal"
Clearly, cold weather survival classes were not a priority for senior leaders at Echo Base. Or, Luke just slept through them all.
Oh good, a linear defense against a head-on assault with no obstacles in the way

The Rebellion absolutely sucks at ground combat
Luke is so mean to Dak, ignoring him the whole time, while Wedge is encouraging and motivating to his gunner

Yep, Wedge is a better leader
As Luke orders an attack run into the 20% radius of the enemy armor that can actually shoot. He's SO BAD AT THIS
Gotta feel for those Imperial bomber pilots

"We finally got a mission!"

"WHAT WE BOMBING?"

"Uh, about that..."

"is it rocks again? Are we bombing rocks?"

"Yea..."

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27 Dec
I'm positively delighted that out of the top ten most popular posts published in 2020 on the ASO blog, four are by guest authors!

Number 10 was where I got to talk about Scrubs, the best TV show of all time
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Number 9 was by @AderMatthew on what leaders can take from reading the great Terry Pratchett: angrystaffofficer.com/2020/07/20/put…
Number 8 was my guide for incoming company commanders (I forgot to add "leave a full-ish bottle of whiskey in your desk drawer for your replacement"):
angrystaffofficer.com/2020/03/27/ass…
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24 Dec
As appropriate for the Christmas season, it's time for Star Wars: A New Hope

Someone is not as excited as I am and is already falling asleep
Man, that white interior of the Rebel ship must've been a nightmare to keep clean

Probably had the crew spending all the time cleaning it rather than working on boarding drills

Explains why they couldn't hit anything
Altho the marksmanship thing, not their fault. Obi Wan says it almost right away - "Not as clumsy or random as a blaster"

Energy weapons are all sorta problematic, apparently
Read 7 tweets
23 Dec
Is it even the Christmas season without a full Star Wars rewatch?

Rogue One, tonight. One of the finest war movies ever made.

Just a terrific film all-around, really.
I love that you can see Chopper, the droid from Rebels, in the background on Yavin 4
I still can't believe that K2SO isn't the official mascot for SAMS

@AlanTudyk does such a great job voicing K2SO. Just as he does with everything, really.
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22 Dec
Since the Lee monument was FINALLY removed from the Capital today, I thought it would be fun to look back at the moment of national unity in 1910 that brought it there in first pla- oh, wait, no, the opposite happened.

Here's New York's GAR with a WTF and a GH Thomas namedrop
Here's Indiana, New Jersey, South Dakota, Delaware, New Mexico, Kansas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania with a double shotted "aw hell no"
Vermont with a "get lost"
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19 Dec
Lol Horatio Gates wanted to invade Canada again in the DEAD OF WINTER in 1778, putting Lafayette in charge - who finally got to Albany in Feb & found a tiny, ill-equipped invasion force. L wrote to GW about the insane plan, the first GW had heard of it. GW then wrote Gates to
Gates was such a moron when it came to field operations. Gawd. What an incompetent buffoon.
Washington, sitting in Valley Forge, freezing his ass off, trying to keep his army together, reading Gates' plans to invade Canada in the winter (again):
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18 Dec
There's a special type of rage that exists when you go to leave in the morning and find that the snow plow has made yet *another* pass and left a berm of hard-packed snow blocking the driveway

I know they don't mean to do it but

They totally do
You see, winter is a campaign. And you have to fight it as such, using combined arms operations to survive. It is a months-long combined arms breach. First you create a lane in your driveway. Then you improve the lane. Then you breach footpaths for your dismounts
You also have to create sustainment lanes - for your CL III and your CL I/VI. Your enemy, the snow, only cares about countermobility. It will sometimes work in concert with the snow plow to repair a breach if you don't provide overwatch, forcing a hasty breach IOT get to work
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