#Commanders

The Crusader Project

crusaderproject

#OTD in 1941 the #Tobruk garrison received 16 25-pdr guns to replace obsolete/captured guns and to reinforce its artillery prior to the breakout operation. Thanks to @lukas_visek for the additional

Larry Smith 🔕

ljsmith3663

Reading "I've got a Monster" really dragged up a lot of bad memories for me. Things I did. Things I saw. Cops I investigated. But what really bothers me still

Kay Smith

Kaywillsmith

@chicagosmayor:1/As a southsider who has come to respect your decisions on many difficult things, I am increasingly concerned by the zero-sum game that you have forced many of your Black

Kelly B11

KellyKGB11

Six years ago I was deployed to a special operations advisory group in Afghanistan, advising an Afghan special forces aviation unit intelligence personnel. I had been awake for about 36

Daniel Moritz-Rabson

DMoritzRabson

"We have to do something better," de Blasio says, as if he didn't have the power to act differently during the protests. A thread on the protests and the mayor's

Dr Kiran Kumar Karlapu

scarysouthpaw

India has been made and unmade by the battles that have taken place all along its long and checkered history. While some like Kurukshetra/Panipat/Plassey/Tarain/Haldighati have been etched in our collective

Traitors Of Kashmir

KashmirTraitors

Thread on #JKLF(1/n)The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), altogether with its twin centers in Pakistan administered #JK and UK, initiated armed insurgency in the #Kashmir Valley in the mid-1980s with

Jason Hughes

JasonLHughes

Alright, so last time we left off the Allied army under Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy were facing off with a Franco-Bavarian army under Marshal Tallard, Elector Maximilian, and Marsin.

Christopher Ankersen

ProfAnkersen

It's that time of year again: booklist-o-rama-lama-ding-dong time.Let's take a look at them, through a lens adapted from George Box: "All reading lists are wrong, but some are useful".A thread.

Ibraheem Thurial B.

Afghan_Policy

After General Raziq’s death at the hands of a Taliban infiltrator, his brother, Gen. Tadeen Khan, was made a general overnight and took over as police chief but his lack

Chris Holland

ChrisCardsFan

Holding onto population centers in the last months of WWII was built not only around their importance to Germany’s crumbling transportation infrastructure, but also their role as communications hubs; in

Francesca Tacchi ★ Italian history & shitposting

jackdaw_writes

It's saturday! Which means it's time for my #ItalianThread. Today, I want to talk about a... very curious geopolitical anomaly to be found in Sicily. I'm talking about the PIANA

Dan Chorley

DanChorley

76 years ago today, @IXBSqn and 617 Squadron launched from @RAFLossiemouth, @Kinloss_Bks & Miltown airfields for Operation Catechism. This daring mission would mark the demise of the German battleship Tirpitz,

Defense News Nigeria

DefenseNigeria

I keep getting messages with this question. If Nigeria is as powerful as you claim then why cant they defeat Boko Haram? Others ask why cant Nigeria beat an army

Arlen Parsa

arlenparsa

There's a lot going on in the world right now. The virus. The racism. All of it.But today I want to share a little story about two boats.Just two boats.

John Allspaw

allspaw

An excellent overview of @LauraMDMaguire's dissertation ("Controlling the Costs of Coordination in Large-scale Distributed Software Systems") is on the Resilience Engineering Association's site. Will give the url after som

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