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25 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Supposedly when a journalist asked Wellington in retirement whether there was anything he would have done differently in his life he answered that he wished he would have praised his subordinates more during his military career.*
Like with many Wellington anecdotes/quotes who knows whether that's actually true. *
IMHO best film depiction of Wellington's influence on British culture/politics and the military remains "Charge of the Light Brigade" (1968) imdb.com/title/tt006279…
Case in point, correspondence between General Sir George Brown and Lord Raglan during the Crimean War. 👇

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12 May
New by @julianborger: "British and Canadian troops were more than twice as likely to get killed in 🇦🇫 as their US counterparts, according to a study that looks at the scale of the sacrifice made by Nato allies over the course of the 20-year war."

theguardian.com/world/2021/may…
"The US losses were 2.3% of its vast military presence. The UK lost 455 lives, which was 4.7% of its peak deployment level, while the 158 Canadians killed represented 5.4% of their total."
[T]he reason for the proportionally high British death toll was being based in the heart of the hotly contested Helmand province and the absence of caveats limiting soldiers’ involvement in combat."
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11 May
This is incredible Saturation attacks increase the penetration probability of missiles fired. To paraphrase Stanley Baldwin: the missile(s) will always get through—at least some. h/t @nktpnd
„Over 630 rockets were fired at Israel from Monday evening through Tuesday afternoon, 200 of which were intercepted by Iron Dome missile defense batteries while 150 others fell short of their targets and landed inside the Strip, according to the army.“
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17 Jan
What are the best/worst presidential inaugural addresses?

Best: Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural ("with malice toward none") and FDR's 1st ("nothing to fear but fear itself")

Worst: James Buchanan ("slavery" is not the issue) and Donald Trump ("carnage")

#InaugurationDay #thread
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865): ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=…

James Buchanan inaugural (1857): millercenter.org/the-presidency…

Franklin D. Roosevelt 1st inaugural (1933): avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/f…

Donald J. Trump's inaugural (2017):
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Most beautiful passage of any inaugural address (and very apropos).

Lincoln's closing paragraph in his 1st inaugural (1861):
"The mystic chords of memory...will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
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14 Dec 20
A First Look at the Military Lessons of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict | @KofmanMichael russiamatters.org/analysis/first…
The conflict "helped settle the q. on whether legacy air defenses...could be suitable or adapted to dealing with contemporary drones. The answer is decidedly negative, especially when combinations of drones are used for target identification and strikes, or via swarming tactics."
"The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict reiterated that individual air defense systems do not aggregate into a layered or integrated air defense, which requires short, medium and operational range systems working with a common picture and with sufficient density."
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6 Oct 20
+1 “A critical challenge to be worked out is how to transition from a dispersed approach to a concentrated attack, since at the forming-up point there will be a significant vulnerability to artillery, anti-tank guided weapons and other threats.” rusi.org/publication/ru…
Very good analysis above by @Jack_Watling.
A few quick thoughts.

1. (AI-enabled?) battlespace management systems will likely be needed for coordinated dispersed maneuver warfare in the future.
1a. Upgraded low probability of detection/low probability of intercept (LPD/LPI) communications integrated in a military internet of things architecture for C2/ISTAR could be of interest here. But tech capabilities alone will not be the answer.
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4 Oct 20
There is a chance that the impact of armed UAVs on future wars will be exxagetated as a result of the ongoing #Armenia-#Azerbajian conflict, similar to how the “game changing “nature of tactical air strikes/dive bombers was misinterpreted by the Luftwaffe after Spanish Civil War.
Imperfect analogy I know, but in both cases smaller actors fought against one another lacking integrated air defense capabilities and well-trained troops fielding cutting edge mil. equipment on a large scale.TB2 is also an evolutionary platform similar to what US fielded in past.
Apropos, for Mexican artist J.C. Orozco, the dive bomber and the tank where the symbols of modern warfare in this 1940 painting. #MOMA #NYC Image
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