Thread by @Aristos_Revenge

Hey everyone, lets talk about NAFO jannie @AdamDalson, also known as Lieutenant Colonel Adam Dalson, who worked in J8 at the Pentagon for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Currently he's studying at @AirWarCollege, which is basically like grad school while being on welfare. 🧵

Dalson has an obsessive compulsion with mass reporting anyone who contradicts the Ukraine narrative. I don't talk about the war much, but apparently my observation that Americans have no business volunteering to go there and if they get schwacked deserve it, sparked his ire.

He reported me, and gloated about it when my account was locked over it. Then Twitter realized their mistake and unlocked me within 24 hours.

Dalson has turned this into something of a game, because apparently being a Lt Colonel attending Air War College as well as having a wife and kids, somehow leaves him a lot of time for this. Particularly during the duty day on taxpayer dollars.

It's an open question why we have so many field grade officers being volunteer moderators on social media for the Ukrainian regime. Dalson is essentially a dollar tree version of Adam Kinzinger, apparently they make flamboyant KC-135 pilots named Adam who post cringe in a factory

He even engages in pioneering 5th generation warfare research like... 1 starring restaurants in Moscow and leaving pro Ukraine statements in the review?

Some of my followers have worked with him IRL in the Air Force and said he was, quote, "a real twat"

He's also skirting pretty close to the line, if not violating the line, in AFI 1-1, the Air Force regulation on personal conduct and social media use.

I joined the AF not long after Dalson did, LTC's didn't do dumb shit like this when we came up.
@RepThomasMassie @laurenboebert

Not to mention the open question of how much of his partisan Twitter activities for the Ukrainian regime are done during the duty day. It certainly should raise some eyebrows that so many Air Force officers/enlisted put so much time into supporting their NAFO habit.

Sounds rather... -checks AFI- contemptuous?

What a credit to the US Air Force, right?

And if my report was bogus, I can't help but wonder how many of his other reports were bogus too. NAFO seems to love weaponizing the moderation system of twitter, completely out of context with their actual problems with the posters they don't like.

Also, this brings to mind how unbroken the ground of contemporary warfare really is. At what point in information warfare are uniformed service members contributing enough to be considered participants or combatants?

Do we really need active officers making statements like this?

And moreover, how should @elonmusk and @TwitterSupport handle nation states using the blurred line of their uniformed military members acting as digital partisans in real conflicts on their platform?

Under the Parag regime this sort of thing was rather one sided.

Moreover, will the DoD be able to get a handle on some standard of military bearing and professionalism in its officer corps? Not with millennials that are field grade officers and don't know how to shut the fuck up or use an ounce of discretion. How can anyone respect the rank?

And how much confidence does it breed in the DoD that the dudes in places like J8, which compiles assessments and strategies for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are no longer staffed by sober men of maturity, but by this kind of cringe redditor? I guess he's just fitting in.

But we also have to wonder what type of company guys like Kinzinger and Dalson are keeping when they participate in these "digital militias", which I should note is also addressed in AFI 1-1:

I'm aware that to some degree this is NAFO leaning into the joke, but take it from me, when you're letting everyone from the fringe come hang out, don't be surprised when people who actually belong on the fringe show up because you let them associate with you.

That's all for now, but I will be emailing this thread to the military emails of the senior leadership cadre at the Air War College, in the hopes that a bit of attitude adjustment can take place.

Brigadier General William Freeman
Colonel Robert Rowell
Colonel Christopher Berg

invisibleally.substack.com/p/weekly-happe… this was also linked to me with an interesting expose on NAFO and how the core group of "fellas" look like some dollar tree S2 psy op that was cooked up well in advance of the hash tag and was staged. Worth a read.

And for the record, I don't talk much about the Ukraine war to begin with. I'm not coming at Dalson because I'm some putinist, or a vatnik, etc. I do not have much emotional investment in the war. But this is a pathetic way for a Lt Colonel to act, and he mass reported me.

I also am not declaring some blood feud with the NAFO people, they can play their little ARG for as long as it lasts. I don't care, as I mentioned, I am not emotionally invested in the war the way they are.

I just want to be left alone, Dalson asked for it.