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Dec 7, 2022 13 tweets 5 min read Read on X
🧵 There's been a lot of criticism that #gptchat provides inaccurate information. Thought I'd test this with a series of military-themed questions. I'll let experts judge the accuracy of the results.
Explaining military formations.
Explaining combined-arms warfare.
Explaining the evolution of weaponry.
Explaining Jomini vs Clausewitz
Explaining the history of drones (cc @David_Hambling, @RikeFranke)
Explaining military force ratios (cc @dupuyinstitute)
Explaining the evolution of special forces (cc @JJSchroden)
Explaining military command (cc @LawDavF)
Explaining the relationship of cyber operations and electronic warfare.
Explaining logistics (this is obviously wrong)
Explaining manuever vs attrition (cc @HoansSolo)
Explaining Javelin (cc @JakOSpades)

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Mar 26
I wrote a piece on China’s evolution into a bigger, more sophisticated and more threatening cyber power over the past decade, and particularly in the last few years. I also look at the pivotal role played by China’s private sector ecosystem in that shift. economist.com/china/2025/03/…
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Mar 23
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Mar 22
America’s main negotiator with Russia appears to be completely captured by Russian propaganda. Witkoff: “there have been referendums where the overwhelming majority of the people have indicated that they want to be under Russian rule.” pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/…Image
The Russians must be dumbstruck they their opponents have managed to find perhaps the most gullible man on the planet. Putin “told me a story, Tucker, about how when the president was shot, he went to his local church and met with his priest and prayed.” pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/…Image
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Mar 3
“The multinational task force envisioned does not need to be everywhere in Ukraine. It needs to have a presence on three directions, and with sufficient mobility to redeploy as necessary along the front.” But is UK/Fr intention really a force that wd deploy to front in a crisis?
Kofman/Watling: “the initial force deployed could be as few as three combat brigades, … force may need to grow over time as Russia reconstitutes. This would amount to perhaps 15,000 to 20,000 personnel in country, with another 30,000 to 40,000 required for sustained rotation”
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Feb 23
🧵 This UN resolution vote on Ukraine is worth paying attention to. A brief thread on the Trump administration's bullying under way in the background.
reuters.com/world/europe/u…
Every year the US has backed a UN General Assembly vote noting the principles of the UN Charter & Russia's violation of those in Ukraine. Now the US is threatening to vote against that & is pushing a new resolution in the Security Council.
The new US resolution, which enjoys Russian support, is three sentences. it does not identify Russia as the aggressor nor does it note the UN Charter's prohibtion on acquiring territory by force. "It looks like something the Russians drafted," one diplomat told me. It gets worse.
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