thereisnotri · @thereisnotri
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Mapped your run? Found the nearest Starbucks? Thank the British Empire and the Cold War.

GPS is a great example of how our day-to-day lives are changed by military spending for national security. It’s a tale of high seas adventure, precision time-keeping, lemming-like driving, and traveling on Mars … read the whole story here

sticksandstones.substack.com/p

#warstudies #militaryhistory #militarytechnology #NationalDefense #militaryindustrialcomplex #militaryBudget #navigation #longitudeproblem #gps

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aegilops :github::microsoft: · @aegilops
118 followers · 416 posts · Server fosstodon.org

@daum3ns I'm not trying to say that you *should* end a war with weapons.

There is a subset of War Studies, War Termination, that looks at how wars end, which I discovered after reading your post.

Wars often end through demonstrations of force in battle that lead to negotiations or outright surrender - and that can come through more weapons.

Increasingly there are attempts to reach a negotiated peace without that - but they require both sides to have good faith.

#warstudies #wartermination

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RA'in Diercks · @RAinDiercks
784 followers · 551 posts · Server social.tchncs.de

Ihr kennt sicher alle @CarloMasala1@twitter.com @claudmajor@twitter.com und @Ce_Moll@twitter.com. Vielleicht kennt ihr aber noch nicht @gloefflmann@twitter.com und @frankstengel@twitter.com? Wenn nicht, dann folgen. Viele kluge Gedanken, knackige Threads und... *Trommelwirbel... GIFs! Also, los.

#ir #warstudies #stratstudies #sipo

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Jannis Grimm · @Jannisgrimm
133 followers · 21 posts · Server sciences.social

RT @ATRWibben
We are hiring in at the Swedish Defence University!!!
Check out these junior positions (equivalent to Asst. Prof/ tenure track in the US) & help us spread the word, please. Feel free to reach out with questions. fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobI

#warstudies

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Military Strategy Magazine · @milstrategy
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An excellent article for beginners, veterans, or anyone even remotely interested in .
@Doctrine_Man @WWATMD @NPS_Monterey @USArmy @idfonline @KingsStrategy @KingsCDS @warstudies @WarStudiesHull
militarystrategymagazine.com/a

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#strategy #theory #militarystrategy #warstudies #rt

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Military Strategy Magazine · @milstrategy
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Excellent post by @WarintheFuture Thanks for the heads up on this book. Looking fwd to reading it.

@Doctrine_Man @trclausewitz @kbenson355

twitter.com/WarintheFuture/sta

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#warstudies #war #strategy #society #pme #BookoftheWeek #rt

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