#Civilian

Bart 'Brain Animal' Sorenson

SorensonBart

Don't talk to me about strategic ops. I was a 'hamster watcher.'Do you know what that is? Somewhere very close to the Arctic Circle, the 405th Aquatic Regiment would train.

Rep. Elissa Slotkin

RepSlotkin

Today, I voted in favor of the waiver for Lloyd Austin. I was initially skeptical of putting a second recently-retired four-star general in charge of the Pentagon, which, having served

D.A. Bullock

BullyCreative

Think about this, give it serious thought. What happens when the most powerful armed force in your city has no functional accountability to you the civilian public it is supposed

Loren DeJonge Schulman

LorenRaeDeJ

Susan’s thread is spot on. Key argument: voting for waiver to allow Austin to serve as SecDef is effectively eliminating the relevance of the ban in the future. Retired GOs

Sofia Barbarani

SofiaBarbarani

Operation Desert Storm kicked off on 17 January 1991, following Saddam Hussein's refusal to withdraw from Kuwait. The massive US-led air offensive lasted 42 days and targeted military and civilian

Asfandyar Mir

asfandyarmir

Re violence in Afghanistan: I follow @nytimes's important Afghan war casualty report by @FatmaFaizi and @fahimabed. It offers weekly reports of confirmed significant security incidents with details of the incidents

Lindsey Simmons

LynzforCongress

What we have are unidentified men dressing up in military uniforms, cosplaying soldiers in the streets. They are not actual military. And that should frighten everyone.A THREADhttps://twitter.com/andrewkimmel/status/1287319466120904704 When

Airwars

airwars

Short thread: When it comes to post 9/11 US counter terrorism actions, the tone a president chooses to set can significantly impact civilian harm, new Airwars modelling for Somalia suggests.https://airwars.org/conflict/us-forces-in-somalia/

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CloisterFuck

i didn’t comment on this tweet when it first made the rounds because it’s clear that OP is having trouble distinguishing public performance from personal reality, and honestly, i can’t

Bret Devereaux

BretDevereaux

My own take for why this is a problem has to do less with the abilities of any particular SecDef or fears about the increasing politicization of the military and

Jim Golby

jimgolby

There are many reasons:1. Weakens civilian control2. Creates bias due to closeness with officers & parochialism3. Retired GOs usually lack of right policy & political skills4. Heightens risks of politicization5.

Eric Umansky

ericuman

The NYPD has been stonewalling investigations into police abuse. That’s what @mrsimon22 and I reported this week. The NYPD denies it.They say make “every effort” to cooperate with investigators. So

Kelsey D. Atherton

AthertonKD

I'd argue the most successful Secretary of Defense since the position was created in 1947 was William Perry, who had two distinct advantages: his time in office was the easiest

Frances Z. Brown

franceszbrown

THREAD/NEW PUBLICATION: We often discuss stabilization/fragile states policy as a distinct issue from geopolitical competition. US interagency discussions on those two imperatives usually occur on totally different tracks. 1/

Yemen Data Project

YemenData

Latest data on Saudi-coalition air raids in #Yemen: Bombings in first half of 2020 bucked downward trend in air raids seen since mid-2017, more than doubling the rate of previous

Jake and The Derg 🎨⚖️💛🐝

JakeReif

Senator Murphy expertly lays out in this thread why the argument against granting General Lloyd Austin a waiver is bogus and why it actually MAKES SENSE to grant a waiver

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