Damn the Torpedos

historian, writer, and wage slave. We're on a ride that never ends!

[uss-edsall]

guess what’s back

back again

the destroyermen series with the first new book in six years

back again

[argumate]

The mythology of "fighting for real" is based on the idea that there's some hidden, powerful resource that, if tapped, will immediately begin to win.

This resource exists, and it's organisational and personnel, not some other kind. But even there, it takes six months to a year for the changes to take effect. Considering the current war is being waged to keep everything as is, it won't be used.

tweets on the subject of Russia's reaction to Ukrainian attacks, but that's a really good point: so many attempts to win break down when winning requires change and people are fighting to avoid change.

[collapsedsquid]

Then the United States and Israel attacked Iran. The entire operation, but especially the behavior of Pete Hegseth, revealed a bizarre misunderstanding of global affairs. The United States Secretary of War started shouting that we were going to commit atrocities and crimes against humanity, and that is why we were going to win. This alarmed even the most ardent supporters of U.S. empire. The parallels with Bolsonaro are obvious. These guys thought there was a giant red button marked VIOLENCE being guarded by a couple of queer studies professors, and all you have to do is smash it to subjugate countries at will. As if no one had tried that before. As if the Islamic Republic had never contemplated an attack from Washington.

Many people are saying this(x)

[uss-edsall]

The March to Glory, by Robert Leckie

[tsarina-anadyomene]

it really is quite bad for your military to have an image of itself as a warrior class. what you really want is for your soldiers to think of themselves as boring professionals who will fill out a report form if someone gets a little too warrior ethos out there

[gsot]

[shrugsinchinese]

Let’s pray

[airborneinfantry]

BAND OF BROTHERS (2001) ↳ Part Six: Bastogne is full of comedians

[captain-price-returns]

The missile, in fact, does not know where it is, in a lot of homing methods

[sexhaver]

i think about this a lot

[orcboxer]

damn this bus stop is perfect. now if we could just find somebody to stand upwind of everybody and smoke a decrepit cigarette they found in a tomb

[zelfa]

Trying out a medieval art style.

[best-bird-tournament]

FINAL POLL: class Aves

Which is the best bird?

Little spotted kiwi

Common raven

Voting ended onApr 16

Thanks to all who participated in this tournament! Here it is: the final question. May the best bird win.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[despazito]

[dreamsy990]

[oneheadtoanother]

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Metahuman with super healing powers whose entire job is that once a week they go to a nearby hospital and are put into a medically induced coma for 24 hours while all their organs and blood are harvested, and kept there until they've healed up again.

They get paid a small stipend by the Heroes Council for this, and they live off that.

No crime fighting, no obvious heroics, and they only took a Super Identity because it's technically hero's council policy. Nobody's ever seen them in a cape.

Every so often the Heroes council will release an official report to the public, and there'll be another bunch of news articles wondering how some unknown super calling themselves 'Meat Factory' somehow consistently holds the record for most lives saved across the city.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

It is essential to my vision that they are not at all sanctimonious about this.

Like, they regularly act like they're getting away with something. They joke about how they get to earn money in their sleep. They show up to their hospital visits in deliberately ridiculous disguises, on the excuse that they need to 'protect their identity'.

Part of their employment contract is that they get served the same post-operation vanilla ice cream that they normally hand out on the childrens' ward. Also a sticker. Their overnight bag is covered in stickers.

[shinyhappygoth]

Okay, Meat Factory is awesome and hilarious, but if they're being harvested for and regenerating absolutely everything, may I suggest an alternative super name: Theseus.

[goo-goo-babies]

nothing to fear anti ship missile.. . exocet very Inaccurate and Low Yield ship smooth safely sail ship in strait of hormuz no anti-ship batteries Ever in iran strait of Hormuz. exocet safe not dangerous missile. Sail Ship In Strait Of Hormuz.