#Civilian

Jim Field

JamesGField

“Where’s national national guard?!”” the nation exclaims“Y’all, we’re at work, same as you!” As one of the resident COMPO 2 nerds here, I like to help explain some of the

@amuse

amuse

Life Comes At You Fast Thread: Just two weeks into his presidency Biden's resolve is being tested by Russia, India, Pakistan, Iran, Isreal, China, and even Burma. 2/ Myanmar gives

Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian

riversidewings

A spontaneous #thread exploring the question: why study (why am *I* studying) the post-1853 Shogunate Army and Navy?I dunno, why study a historic example of how any military in history

Surya Kanegaonkar

suryakane

Frankly, the US should never be showing up in Delhi to deliver sermons on human rights to the world’s largest and most diverse democracy. Let’s take a look at America’s

Tomi T Ahonen of the Smile Police

tomiahonen

How Trump Could Have Won Version 1, thread 1/17We are one day from election day. There are 2 scenarios I have feared, which I believe Trump could have used (either

Defense News Nigeria

DefenseNigeria

In the hypotherical scenario of a shooting war with a powerful adversary the first target will probably to hunt and destroy the biggest gun in the Nigerian army arsenal, the

Matt Korda

mattkorda

In the middle of a pandemic, Canada is buying armed drones.By the government's own admission, these drones will be used to surveil domestic protests and bomb targets in the Middle

Michael Gendron

michaelgendron

Good to see some attention being paid to police oversight agencies, but this @CdnPressNews article has a few problems (a thread):http://ctv.news/kgRjjgV First, there are factual issues. One of the academics

Zakir Khan

ZakirSpeaks

The Feds are going nuts in downtown Portland right now. Chasing and gassing people down the street including the houseless. This started with someone drawing with chalk. Persistent calls for

Derrick Rice

DerrickAndADog

#SomervilleMA CAPM Committee thread starts here. The entire meeting is devoted to the 9 appointees to the police reserve list, proposed by the Mayor.This is a contentious issue. I'm starting

DOMara

croonaert

Seeing as tomorrow will probably (rightly) be swamped with British 1st July '16 stories, I thought I'd sneak this thread in today!Another tag I obtained at the same time as

Thames Discovery Programme

ThamesDiscovery

Hi Everyone, @josh_frost89 here for today’s ##LowTideLockdown exploring the rich and complex maritime history of #Deptford. We’ll be taking a virtual walk along the foreshore from Watergate Street up to

Dzirhan Mahadzir

DzirhanDefence

Thread on my thoughts why data derived analysis on military expenditure is problematic, bought about after reading this https://upr.lse.ac.uk/articles/abstract/10.0000/cja5553/ The starting point for most analysis on regional or country mil

Band_of_Brothers_101st

EasyCompany506t

Ok this is a long thread on the circumstances of the shooting of Easy Company's Sgt Charles Grant.By mid-May, 1945, the 506th PIR were stationed in Austria. Duties were light,

Bryce Weiner

BryceWeiner

Not many talking about the rotation of SecDef.Can’t help but wonder if someone refused to do something icky and was replaced with someone who would just follow orders.75 days left

Poppy McPherson

poppymcp

Breaking -- Another landslide at a jade mine in #Myanmar has killed at least 50 people.https://news.trust.org/item/20200702044920-bbgvv/ @Shoon_Naing, @sam_aungmoon and @Simondlewis did an in depth-story on the issue last year. There

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