Frederick Zimmerman

Founder,

[Frederick Zimmerman @xtuffai]

Arc spotlight: The Intelligence War. Naval Aviation: Expensive and Vulnerable is one of 2 volumes revealing how CIA understood Soviet naval power.

#ColdWarIntel #SovietNavy #DeclassifiedCIA #NuclearSubmarines

[Michael R. Strain @MichaelRStrain]

💯. Douthat’s excellent interview is also a way for university faculty to understand why the near absence of viewpoint diversity is holding back their research and teaching missions.

[Frederick Zimmerman @xtuffai]

@andrewmichta Six years after 1974, we elected Ronald Reagan.

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@kasthomas LLMs are also much bigger than conversational chatbots.

[Frederick Zimmerman @xtuffai]

@RealDonnieBBall @ModeledBehavior And yet the interview seems to have worked.

[Mollie @MZHemingway]

@ModeledBehavior @JackBristow9802 Not to be rude but it’s also why intelligence should be a much bigger factor. Few people in corporate media are well read or able to synthesize information like that.

[Adam Ozimek @ModeledBehavior]

Douthat being able to get those answers out of Trump is a testimony to why true intellectual diversity is needed in mainstream media. He was able to ask the religion question in a way that was sincere and open, while extremely cunning, only because he is a believer and conservative

[Frederick Zimmerman @xtuffai]

@Trinhnomics Why is this worse? It seems pretty much what I would have expected.

[Frederick Zimmerman @xtuffai]

@ChuckO64474 @VisitTheSault "Irrelevant and forgotten" to heartless idiots, perhaps.

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@pashmerepat WTF. Why isn’t this more visible.

[Frederick Zimmerman @xtuffai]

@ChrisCillizza Nice to see the generosity from one media veteran to another when you could easily have had a polarized snark.

[Chris Cillizza @ChrisCillizza]

To all the people who questioned CBS hiring Ross Douthat because he wasn’t a “tv reporter,” I would suggest you go watch his interview with President Trump on “60 Minutes.”

A master class.

[Frederick Zimmerman @xtuffai]

I’d rather see more focus on meeting demand where it exists. For example, in our field of military history, the demand for popularly accessible military history far exceeds demand for scholarly teaching of this military history. it would make sense to rethink the dissertation path to generate far more consumer-friendly outputs. The same is true in many disciplines where incumbent norms produce new scholars with artificially narrowed interests. To make this happen in reality, existing professoriates would have to be replaced by a new cohort chosen by forces outside the existing academic system. In reality, university boards, and directors.

[Frederick Zimmerman @xtuffai]

Veterans Day. The Nimitz Graybook preserves the operational record of the Pacific War — the decisions, the battles, and the service of millions who fought under Nimitz's command. #VeteransDay #NimitzGraybook #WWII #PacificWar

#VeteransDay #NimitzGraybook #WWII #PacificWar

[Frederick Zimmerman @xtuffai]

What surprised CIA analysts most about the Soviet Navy? Naval Aviation: Expensive and Vulnerable reveals the classified answer. 198 pages. $44.99.

#ColdWarIntel #SovietNavy #DeclassifiedCIA #Gorshkov

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This sentence from Carl Jung never fails to hit hard:

“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.”

[Frederick Zimmerman @xtuffai]

@kasthomas Some of the bill of rights are pretty weak sauce. Do we really need a third amendment?

[Frederick Zimmerman @xtuffai]

Naval history privileges warships over merchant vessels. But merchant sailors outnumbered naval crews many times over. Whose maritime experience was more typical? #NavalClassics

#NavalClassics #NavalHistory

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: Delaware is drafting a proposal for a new form of corporate entity called an Artificial Intelligence Company (AIC). An AI managing an AIC would be able to provide services, sign contracts, hold property, and even file or defend lawsuits in the company’s name.