Raymond C. Thomas

"Only those who dare to fail greatly ever achieve greatly." – RFK

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Raymond Thomas @MajoorHokie·

Homemade ribs and collard greens for a great college football Saturday #dinner #bbq #food @ Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University https://t.co/qwA5kh9nw5

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Catching some #cfb action at #VirginiaTech. #Hokies (P.S. you know you're a PhD student when you go to a game and then head home to read an analysis of US foreign policy in the Ogaden War immediately afterwards.) @… https://t.co/QluKUsv1l6

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#goarmy

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This is where constantly fighting the "last war" is going to put the West behind the ball on weapons development. Additionally hindered by the fact the US DoD is being forced to cancel and divert funding for many different projects to build a pointless wall.

Think Defence@thinkdefence

24 Brimstone, salvo launched if needed, each with a target recognition sensor so it can seek out and hit only tanks (for example). All weather, low signature, persistent, deadly

This is how you blunt an armoured attack

We have dismounted Javelin

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B. A. Friedman @BA_Friedman·

I'd write a book about how the US is bad at strategy but it would just be this.

"The US is bad at strategy because the Department of Defense thinks strategy is not political."

That's it. That's the whole book. https://t.co/EIl7WrBJ1U

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Graduate Student. Political Science/International Relations. Focused on Deterrence/Grand Strategy/Foreign Policy.

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