Brian Kerg
Writer | Atlantic Council Fellow | Irregular Warfare Initiative Fellow | Naval Institute Editorial Board | Krulak Center Alumnus | Pacific Forum Alumnus | School of Advanced Warfighting Alumnus | Amateur Historian | I Do War Stuff | Views My Own |
- Vietnam: "Count our inflated body count, we are winning!" GWOT: "Count our patrols, we are winning!" Red Sea: "Count our bombs dropped, we are winning!" Performance =/= effectiveness. We teach this at PME but refuse to accept it.
- This new Times piece on the last month of American bombing of Yemen has some insane details. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
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- #BOOM! #RedLightning! Yesterday, your favorite comm squadron, MWCS-38, 'Red Lightning', completed its inaugural 'Blood Strike' exercise, a combination of the #Norwegian Foot March (NFM) and comms integration.
- I took the long road to get here, but today I was officially selected for the #MarineCorp's PhD #Strategist program. Next step - apply to a number of programs, and see who is willing to entertain me as a #doctoral student. #WriteFightWin
- How much can a nation support #FreeSpeech when it is used to attack #sovereignty that is already under constant threat? In this excellent #GTI report, Huang Kai-Shen discusses the tensions that arise when #Chinese nationals in Taiwan use its freedoms to call for armed unification.
- Reposted by Brian KergI wrote something, submitted it, and it was included in the May issue of the Marine Corps Gazette. "The Marines Have Landed, at Nantucket, and the Situation is Well in Hand..." It's a little bit of amphibious doctrine, a little history, and I hope I can post a link soon.
- #BOOM! #RedLightning! Another spin on #ThinkAndFight drills, behold #CombatChess, courtesy of your favorite communications squadron, #MWCS38, aka Victor 38, aka the Fightin' Lightnin'.
- My latest for the Atlantic Council: "The United States needs a #Victory plan for the #IndoPacific."
- I'm luring #Marines into some pretty cool training - and making them learn #chess to boot - by dressing it up as a sweet #PT event. #ThinkFightWin
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- I had a blast hosting @catielila.bsky.social and @mhar4.bsky.social on the #SeaControl podcast at @cimsec.bsky.social to discuss their book, "Revolutionary #Taiwan." Give it a listen! #ReadFightWin open.spotify.com/episode/2LV1...
- This is a #DuffelBlog article and you'll not convince me otherwise: maritime-executive.com/article/u-s-...
- A limiting factor in any contingency will be #strategic #lift. If it took 73 sorties to move a single Patriot BN. There are 223 C-17's in the US inventory... www.twz.com/air/it-took-...
- This is a compelling and important report. Yes, the first contact of #nK forces fighting against #Ukraine on behalf of #Russia used #tactics from a bygone era - but they learned quickly and have since #adapted. www.wsj.com/world/north-...
- " #Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says at least 155 #Chinese citizens are fighting for #Russia in the war... He added that Russia was #recruiting Chinese citizens on social media, and that 'official Beijing knows about this'." www.bbc.com/news/article...
