Recent content by Brad Sallows

Conservative yellers are bullies.

"OK, so some of the people coming into the country are having difficulty adjusting to our social norms. As long as we can keep a lid on our own indigenous peoples, we can tolerate a little crime and disorder from the newcomers." "Oh, fuck..."

Is that "NYT provides corroboration of Iranian claims from non-anonymous sources", or "NYT repeats claims of others repeating claims of others repeating Iranian claims"?

There aren't that many serious crimes resulting from cultural baggage. What's likely to corrode the country is the sum of all the small illiberal cultural quiffs.

Or, they're still funding the extreme left, which remains determined in its decades-long quest to destabilize the centre, now by importing not particularly well-adjusted people, some of whom are just mentally unstable, but many of whom originate in cultures that aren't in a hurry to adopt...

Impossible to believe or disbelieve a proposition unless it is well-enough defined. What was it that could never happen again? A free and fair election in which voters repudiate long-established factions? Political protests in which protestors occupy government buildings and interfere with...

That's just one of the rhetorical devices of people opposed to something. "It'll take a long time and by then we won't need it or it will be obsolete." If a day ever arrives when it is needed, they switch to a variant: "It'll take too long and the need will likely be over before we finish."...

"tactical actions against enemy forces, typically out of direct contact with friendly forces, intended to shape future close operations and protect rear operations. At the operational level, deep operations isolate current battles and influence the timing, location, and enemy forces involved in...

Fire support is handled somewhat differently than almost every other kind of support. Supported units don't get guns; they get fire control teams that plug into unit and sub-unit command elements, and they often keep (or have) that support for long periods. That has been core doctrine for...

If "you" are a unit CO, you don't need everything on hand to cover every possible contingency for the next month or even three days*. "You" receive atts (and may be required to provide dets) in accordance with whatever your formation commander has decided you need to do for the next few hours...

I don't grant the premise ("curry favor"), but that aside, you raise the question of what the professional qualifications are. I doubt there are any, and I doubt that it matters. This is a moral and political battle. People know full well which institutions and agencies and influence and...

He can, and broadly speaking, is. What he has primarily been for the last while is a news reader. First, I doubt he's writing much of the material, let alone everything. Second, I'm sure he has done more than read scripts in his career. But right now the fight he chose to frame is that the...

Key there being "the team". Talking heads are backed by a lot of people who do the journalist legwork and the production legwork. What if he isn't even writing the stuff he reads on TV?

Good grief. "Journalist" covers the whole shooting match - investigative reporters, beat reporters, op-ed writers, sports writers, arts & entertainment, etc. Sure, opinions vary.

1, 1.5. Who cares? You have your own car when you get there.