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Researching CBRN use and attempted use by Violent Non-State Actors. Along with some state-level efforts on the side.

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@20committee I'd have thought the value of collaborative research that allows the USA to draw on the capabilities of researchers at global institutions in service of its own objectives rather than simply limiting itself to an autarkic approach would be rather easily appreciated.

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@BretDevereaux Call me cynical but I suspect Rhee is not the example Sacks should be using.

It probably should be President Thieu.

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@DRM_Sinclair @Femi_Sorry Its not necessarily a pleasant thing, but terrorism training and technical manuals are also very useful to non-ideological individuals who just want to obtain or employ tools of violence for their own criminal or idiosyncratic reasons.

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@CSI_Starbase Hmm, have they lost the ship?

Weird shutdowns

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@henryspil @DanKaszeta Wait, didn't they do that to him in the Casino Royale movie where he's zipping around the Bahama's in a little Ford econo-box?

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@R_P_one Is it unreasonable to posit that the US Navy, in functional terms has zero meaningful post-WW2 naval combat experience. As opposed to power projection exp.

ISTM that the Royal Navy has much more in the way of serious relevant experience, and even that is 40 years out of date.

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@bazaarofwar @LandsknechtPike @Craig25975044 IIRC that's also what sailors are for, or at least it often was during the NZ Wars of the 1860s.

Apparently, they had a little more get-up-and-go than the land types when came time to assault entrenchments.

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@TimothyDPadget1 So, I suppose the blame-casting phase of the Biden administration wind-down has begun.

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@noclador IIRC this has been the consistent pattern since the 1950s.

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@CalumDouglas1 @szetoinsitu In this regard, I've often wondered about the impact of nickel etc. critical metal reserves being poured into the Type XXI submarine program which seems like a severe case of misallocation of resources.

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Hmm. Now it’s 30 million.

These numbers seem to have as much connection to reality, and as much consistency as US medical billing figures.

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@BretDevereaux @Patrick_Wyman Thinking a little more about Londo, he was a charming elite failure who managed to project his failure onto the universe.

That he had occasional bursts of self-awareness & doubt in the face of the results of his choices made him worse, not better.

He was unambiguously a monster

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@BretDevereaux @Patrick_Wyman Best popular media representation of the attractions, perils, and path of that nostalgia that springs to mind in B5's Londo Mollari.

"I want it all back, the way that it was!"

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@Lazarus_Navy This reminds me of LARGE chunks of D.K. Brown's "Rebuilding the Royal Navy".

Vast amounts of resources & effort directed (wasted) adding a single deployment for tired out ships or refurbs to add a decade of life rather than building new for a little more (or even, less) money.

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So is the USA sitting on approval of transfer of Swedish AEW aircraft to Ukraine?

Story is big today. But is it just more disinfo?

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@bwiedwards And the problem remains, how do you deter this kind of intelligence operation?

The tools available for terrorism response are unavailable, as are the tools that would be used against “small” countries.

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@TrentTelenko I don't see how drone delivery creates technical obsolescence of the CWC.

The use of these agents, or indeed others, in this context, is a violation of the CWC independent of the specific delivery system.

The question is whether open violation turns the CWC into a dead letter.

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@Prune602 😂 the exact “problem” i created using treats to train my cat to ONLY use the provided scratching post.

What’s that human, you’re within sight of the scratching post? Let me race over there and press a paw against it = treat time, right?

Minimum of two scratches became the deal

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@BacklogReviewer But the kids in the picture are using a tablet and two brands of wireless headphones.

Shouldn’t the amulets be preventing them from functioning? Is kid on the left just keeping his ears warm?

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Wow!! SpaceX landed Starship exactly where they intended in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

Time for going to full orbits?