you may fly over a land forever; … bomb it, atomize it, pulverize it and wipe it clean of life—but if you desire to defend it, protect it and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman legions did, by putting your young men in the mud

TR Ferenbach,This Kind of War

March 12, 2026 - 00:51 UTC

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Not an invitation to put young people in the mud, in case that isn’t clear. Rather, a stark warning.

Anyone who says you can win everything and do it from 30,000 ft overhead with just the push of a couple buttons, is either selling something, or lying.
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Very true. Even efeective cyber warfare requires more than pushing buttons from a dark room.
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On fire, man. Keep it up.
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Been depressed since it started. Had no words. The opposing force - how can anyone keep standing against, when every day is so new obscene perversion of norms

I mean, how many more times can you shout from the rooftops that Caribbean drone strikes are just murder and be met with indifference?
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