Angry Staff Officer

So many thoughts on “unconditional surrender” comments but am choosing to go to the bar rather than air them

Sure rile up the people who have *checks notes* a long and noteworthy track record of flipping their shit when they determine their rights are being trodden on

Yes, in New England, Dunks is a right.

“We didn’t know the people who we were bombing because of the danger they posed with mass drone attacks would have this many mass drones to attack us with” is really gonna go down as one of the greatest hits in what is already a gold mine of strategic case studies

Lastly, they are for the soul of your nation and your cause. Limits on war preserve humanity. Mercy transcends violence. After the fighting, there has to be something more. Rules of engagement and the laws of armed conflict protect you; abandoning them is dire.

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes:

Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.

I wasn’t old enough to know what the first Iran Contra scandal was about so I’m excited to see the sequel.

Reserve and National Guard troops have proportionally born far more of the brunt of combat losses over the past few years, from the USAR casualties in Jordan in 2024, the IAARNG soldiers killed in Syria in December, and now this

Bruh

I loved those galleries when I saw them during the centennial and was moved to tears. Exceedingly well done

I need it

Never really loved the “Kuwait is not a real deployment” jokes but I think we can finally put those to be as classless and untrue.

One of the group chats was just discussing this - how that idea thru GWOT led to something like this

Golden girl cat eyeballs jellyfish on a screen wondering why she can’t use her powers to get inside it and put her teefs in them

Everything is grim but here’s Rosie not wanting everyone to think that she is exempt from the lure of the fruit of the sea

As do I, she’s perfect

Big if on future JPME existing but yes

No warning, no siren: six US service members killed in Iranian strike that hit makeshift operations center in Kuwait | CNN Politics The first US service members to die in the conflict between the US and Iran were killed by a direct Iranian strike on a makeshift operations center at a civilian port in Kuwait on Sunday morning local...

To say that this is infuriating is to say too little

Coming as army leadership preaches transitioning to a new type of war where ranges mean nothing and there is no safe “rear area” and then to ignore that in this operation is sheer irresponsibility. Those poor families

www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/p...

Tortoiseshell cat with a look of affront and defiance in her green eyes, whiskers quivering at the thought of more seafood in her belly

Portrait of an unrepentant shrimp-tail thief and aspiring sushi snatcher

Unrelated, but we once accidentally left a plate of shrimp tails out after a party and it was the greatest day of her tiny life

Walked downstairs to see her absolutely ensconced in delight, just sprawled in the remnants of

If you have ever tried to eat sushi with a VERY interested tortie around, no you haven’t, because it can’t be done unless you yield 100% of the sushi to them

In other news, one of my cats isn’t speaking to me because I locked her out from fish

Oh it’s a bloody shambles

Time to go buy more Raytheon stock I guess

Smedley Butler is laughing his ass off

I’m so tired, man

So fucking tired

It’s like all the greatest hits of the GWOT + gaslighting

Doing lots of deep breathing as all my coworkers who were previously experts on Venezuela are now all experts on Iran.

US Army majors have some of the most confidently uninformed opinions in the world

No

“A squirter”

Are you fucking kidding me

We are so far away from “from these honored dead we take increased devotion” etc etc

All I feel is derision from the top US defense official

If anyone needs me I’ll be at the bar*

*at my desk, churning out PowerPoints for the PowerPoint god

Guys, I don’t think we’re ready for peer to peer conflict

I scream this internally anytime someone says “department of war”

100% of this. We've been on the (downhill) glide path toward unsustainable exquisite platforms carrying (not enough) exquisite munitions for a long time. The Ukraine War has been punching that notion in the gut, and we *may* be started to turn the corner. But we have 🤡 in charge right now, so 🤷‍♂️