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1. Interesting debate going on now in France over Barkhane. Predictably I find myself somewhere in the middle.https://www.publicsenat.fr/emission/allons-plus-loin/operation-barkhane-l-heure-du-bilan-au-senat-186583 2. On one side, folks say
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"More than 40 percent of Barkhane’s air strikes are now conducted by drones." @RikeFranke . https://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2021C05_OperationBarkhane.pdf "The post-Pau year has not fundamenta
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1. Now watching this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1rlY7eEMJQ&feature=youtu.be. Inspired by Mystery Science Theater 3000, I shall provide commentary. 2. GEN Townsend's talking: "I've got a couple of slides..." I be
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1. My apologies to folks who follow me for defense and/or Africa stuff. This week--not to speak of the past 4 years--has been all about watching the political pathologies I've
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1. Now reading Wass de Czege's explosive response to the TRADOC pamphlet on Multi-Domain Operations I wrote about in a monster thread on Dec. 28. Wass de Czege was one
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I've decided I need to get smart on "multi-domain operations" and plunge deep into TRADOC publications. Maybe I should live tweet the adventure. I'm not sure I can get past
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1. I've been slowly chipping away at German/#Bundeswehr history/strategy/doctrine. A scholar whose deep expertise I respect offered an interesting observation I hope to validate or debunk: The contemporary Bundeswehr's been
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1. France has been marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Charles de Gaulle. Here for example is a good video by @jdomerchet on de Gaulle's foreign policies, which
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