Marcel Plichta
@marcelplichta
Former DoD analyst. Write on drones and Wagner. Words in FP, Telegraph, & others. I teach intel at:
I only really listen to classic rock the new stuff doesn't really grab me
"it's going to be really hard for Eggers to walk the line between historical accuracy and audience intelligibility because the film is set BEFORE the great vowel shif-"
I dont mean this as a rebuke, but Q is receiving a lot of hate from the tabloids, social media, and some sitting MPs to the point of needing security recently. So, they need our support right now not to be used as a cudgel in this manner.
It's been a stressful time let me unwind by trying some funny light comedies with zany premises
Any remake of Assassin's Creed 4 should retain the modern day sections
what other video game I played as a teenager will come true next
The Google Gemini marketing team trying to think of cool stuff to do with ai
A nice new years gift, my article "Precise Mass in Action: Assessing Ukraine’s One-Way Attack Drone Campaign" passed 5,000 views! thanks to everyone who gave it a look
if it's not being poured to me on demand out of one of these I don't want it
Kinda like when they were sticking Radium in everything in the early 1900s
very pleased that this has gotten nearly 800 views already! By academic standards this is doing pretty good 😀
In it, I look at Ukraine's use of One-Way Attack drones from mid-2022 to March of this year. While there is a dismissive attitude towards OWA drones, I find that their campaign has indeed imposed substantial costs on Russia and even played a role in Ukraine-Russia diplomacy, as we saw recently:
This is not the last chopper out of Saigon, it's Pizza Hut becoming a domino's
Over the past few months The River has really grown on me as an album. Beyond the title track and Fade Away I think Ties that Bind is a great opener and I really like Two Hearts. I keep discovering things I like about songs that I wrote off initially.