Good question. SS8 is of course very rare but "Wave-piercing" bow shapes are A Thing and will reduce pitch accelerations due to waves. One downside is that there is not much volume or deck area forward so they are incompatible with volume & configuration requirements. 1/5

Breaking: Hamas is not an insurgency! All the counterinsurgency experts of academia and others are biting to apply counterinsurgency theory. An insurgency is generally an armed movement seeking to overthrow an existing government from the shadows. Hamas is the government in

Who are Northwest Nigeria’s bandits and what are we to make of them? James Barnett & myself travelled to the epicenter of the banditry crisis to find answers. In this thread, we explore who these bandits are, what drives them, and why are they so hard to defeat. (1/n)

Unbelievable. This would be a resigning or sackable offence in any other administration.

If you look at the images in this article, they confirm that inverted bows are in vogue among warship designers. Anyone know why? What advantages do they offer? I have no idea. (Please let the answer be rams). ukdefencejournal.org.uk/a-look-at-the-…

Translation: Bye Bye, UNIFIL. Sorry for your loss, Hezbollah.

Ah, an explanation.

So if inverted bows are all that and a bag of chips, and given that it's hardy a new tech and was common for warships of the 19th century, why did naval designers stop using them?

Israel may have just beepered the Houthis. Looks like their entire leadership gathered in a number of secret locations to watch their leader’s speech. Israel struck them all simultaneously during the speech. Stay tuned for assessment. This may be big. ynet.co.il/news/article/r…

Your French vocabulary word for the day is "étrave inversée." I did not know the word "étrave."

My latest, "Gaza and the Imperative of Counter-External Maneuver Maneuvers." Lots of Beaufre and Castex content, by Michael Shurkin open.substack.com/pub/shurkin/p/…

Niemcy rozpoczynają publiczną dyskusję nad ew. udziałem Bundeswehry w misji pokojowej na Ukrainie. Wiedzą, że to nie nastąpi szybko, ale jeśli do tego dojdzie w przyszłości - kanclerz Merz wydaje się chcieć przygotować grunt pod takie decyzje. Za musi zagłosować większość w

Any key Swiss defense policy papers I should be reading if I wanted to do a video about the Swiss military? Es kann en Français oder auf Deutsch sein.

I hope the Europeans are aware where China is getting its crude from :)

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Der UN-Sicherheitsrat hat beschlossen, die Mission UNIFIL im Libanon Ende 2026 zu beenden. Die 180 Soldaten des #Bundesheer werden das Camp als Letzte verlassen, da unsere Soldaten für die Logistik und die Camp-Feuerwehr zuständig sind. Die Planungen für den Abzug erfolgen ohne

"Only we are allowed to kill civilians."

Hello Tokyo from the UK Carrier Strike Group 👋 A visit building on the unprecedented military cooperation between Britain and Japan 🇬🇧🤝🇯🇵

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