1/x @mgordonwsj @nancyayoussef @WSJ I understand your recent article on Force Design 2030 is already down-range, but in working with a group to craft a response, I feel compelled to say to you, on our behalf: your retired general cadre deserved far more scrutiny in their 2/x statements than you gave them. I say this because for the last 3 years, I’ve watched them—sometimes in public, sometimes behind the anonymous website they set up to further their cause—throw allegation after allegation down range that both go unchallenged by incredulous

This is a translation of an op-ed in Russian state-run RIA Novosti, translated by Nataliya Popovych & provided thx to @yuvalweber’s updates on the #Ukraine war.

#Russia is telling us who they are. They are showing us who they are. We need to take action based on who they are: “Denazification is a set of measures aimed at the nazified mass of the population, which technically cannot be subjected to direct punishment as war criminals.”

For anyone wondering about the recent hubbub on Force Design in the #USMC from retired Marines—esp. the implication that the #Marines are throwing away decades-old tried-&-true equipment & methods—read chapters 2 & 3 of my book, “A New Conception of War:”

usmcu.edu/Portals/218/AN… There is no “decades old tried-and-true” Marine Corps organization b/c the Corps has adapted its mission, organization, and equipment often throughout its history. The 20th century alone saw several changes in the Corps’ structure and mission. Pre-WWI: ship’s landing party &

@justingrayusmc @AMDuncan0 @EmanThinks @BrianKerg @BA_Friedman @ja_cummings @TJGordonIV1 @CogentRAS @timrvmi @rwpallas @teaandtactics @OIECol @tc_quinn07 @CESchwarzenberg @MAGTravF That’s why the deeper contextual understanding provided by things like @CEP_MCU’s courses are so valuable. They take you from the intellectual underpinnings of MW to how they first came together under FMFM-1... @justingrayusmc @AMDuncan0 @EmanThinks @BrianKerg @BA_Friedman @ja_cummings @TJGordonIV1 @CogentRAS @timrvmi @rwpallas @teaandtactics @OIECol @tc_quinn07 @CESchwarzenberg @MAGTravF @CEP_MCU ...and importantly WHY the Marines at the time very specifically saw the ideas as crucial to guiding all their preparations for and up to and through their actions on the battlefield. And then how to adapt and apply the filter of MW to today’s and tomorrow’s battlefields.