#Military practice

[spicyraeman]

more lae'zel doodles. I am nothing if not predictable

[dead-generations]

Popular understanding of military technologies and capabilities is weirdly frozen in like, WWII and the cold war, even with the incredibly televisied bombing of Baghdad, the constant reports from Gaza and the unprecedented level of public and open source documentation of Ukraine.

And I know people are aware of like drone strikes but they really do not understand what the current capabilities are. The Brimstone is twenty years old. There are weaponised military lasers deployed right now. The US removed the explosives from a missile and gave it radial blades just to avoid killing people more than a metre away from an individual target. Semi-autonomous hunter killer drones are being deployed right now. Have you seen current gen military thermal cameras? People are using publicly available civilian satellite imaging services to do open source battle damage assessment. There are weapons in space and all three major space powers are testing and drilling anti space capabilities in orbit right now. Hell, they are actively attacking each others space infrastructure right now as we speak.

I think if people were aware of the levels of precision, autonomy and interconnectedness in munitions they'd be terrified. None of this is science fiction

[chachacharlieco]

[pythonmoth]

something something simon is a professional archer and you are too, but you're a leftie so when you're shooting you're face to face

so you two end up talking, and when he stops being a coward he finally asks you out

and then you date and years later you two married so you become a team

you two perform for fun sometimes (but win competitions left to right bc obviously)

but now you're not face to face, you're back to back bc that's hot

[taxinealkaloids]

two b-list sons of God and a second-rate resurrection

[clonerightsagenda]

LISTEN I understand that Miles is obsessed with joining the military because he was born into a military caste, he's constantly hearing about his parents' military exploits, and also everyone told him he couldn't, but he's incapable of following orders because as soon as someone tells him to do something he's like "what if I did something better though". He has absolutely no respect for the chain of command and is mostly loyal to the emperor because they're kind of bros. This kid does not belong in the military. Even spec ops is pushing it. Take the L before you get court martialed for real, buddy. Nepotism can only save you so many times.

[elbiotipo]

I honestly think this map is a bit fucked up no les parece

oh nothing it's just the US military casually (not so casually) admitting "we aren't a force to defend our country, we are a force to enforce our empire, and that empire is the entire planet"

[ekmsoldier]

Salmosa 🐍

[featherxquill]

Documenting the epic enemies to lovers rivals to friends journey of Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan in Military Wives (dir. Peter Cattaneo, 2019)

[holysaintscathedral]

When I say I'm really into military uniforms, what I mean is that I'm really into the vintage/historical ones because this camo garbage soldiers wear nowadays is ugly as sin.

[thefallennightstars]

Hey guys... so what the fuck were those choices for the ending of ME3? Die, die or die?

Not one ending where Shepard could live? The person who gave so much to the world, to the universe, who got ignored and scoffed at until people got too scared at the last moment. Where is her happy ending?

This is why I am a artist bc I can ignore the fucking ending and just make up my own shit bc wtf-

[kyo-mie]

Illustration.

Philippine Military Academy Raincoat thingy from twt.

op of the ref is @deju_arts, he paints dope concepts. here's his tweets: https://x.com/deju_arts give bro a follow

back on tumblr after hiatus!

also on bluesky now:

@kyomie.bsky.social

https://bsky.app/profile/kyomie.bsky.social

[lizasweetling]

So it was 1: Vespiary Squad! Seriously though, where have you been???

there's probably tactical advantage to hiding while you got the weasel population up, and you guys are pretty clearly very attached to the weasels and so didn't want to take them into battle indiscriminantly, but also. I don't think it would be an entirely bad thing if Europa developed a few score of feral colonies of these guys.

... I suppose the more information is availiable on the wasp eaters the less time they have before their enemies counter them as a technology. and it would be ecologically irresponsible. but Lucrezia and everyone that works for her would hate that very much.

[armitagehuxsleepschedule]

wait omg okay hold on i just saw your post about headcanons for like population growth, birth rates, family & marriage stuff in the first order and since last week i have been trying to compose an at least vaguely comprehensible question about stuff related to that bc i was super curious to hear your opinion on it so i guess this is my sign to just send this ask now even tho my question is not fully formed (i hope that’s okay!!)

first, please share all the headcanons please like i would LOVE to hear them like this stuff is so fascinating to me 🙏 🙏

second, my question was going to be about first order cultural ideas around family, marriage, and parenthood if you have thoughts on that! again, i apologize that these ideas are not fully developed, but i’m so curious what the cultural norms are, esp among officers. bc like, of course many of the stormtroopers are taken as children, so that’s like a different situation entirely, but what if you’re born to like a high-ranking ex-imperial? family name and legacy seem pretty important, so it feels like there would be at least some connection there, but it also doesn’t seem like the most nurturing environment. do the kids mostly get raised by nanny droids and then sent to the academy as a sort of boarding school type situation when they’re old enough?

and also on the marriage thing, do married couples share quarters? it seems like almost everyone in the first order has a military role to some extent, so i doubt there are many ‘stay-at-home spouses’ or spouses living planetside or something. is it like common knowledge when people are together? how do you even navigate that sort of relationship when there is no exterior ‘home’ space to return to, bc everyone is always participating in this military organization that extends to every aspect of people’s lives?

okay whew i’ll be done now!! truly no worries if this is like way too much or if you don’t have thoughts on this! i thought i’d go ahead and ask but absolutely no pressure to answer!! ☺️☺️

(also hello hi this is will-wonders-never-cease ☺️🧡)

(rubs hands together evilly) boy do i ever have specific thoughts on this front >:) this is gonna be long lmaoooo. and quite possibly incoherent.

so i'm gonna preface this by saying most of this is based on absolutely nothing but my own imagination, and not actually supported by canon. i be makin shit up.

in my hc the first order has a policy of mandatory sperm & egg donation for all staff (regardless of rank). they use some kind of artificial gestation machines to actually grow babies from these dna samples, though, because efficient operation of the first order requires all the staff to be in working order regardless of sex/gender, so making the female staff put up with pregnancy and childbirth is just impractical. most younger staff would find the idea of getting pregnant and having a baby the natural way laughable & outdated at best.

and of course for those silly individuals who do somehow against all odds manage to get pregnant and have a baby the natural way, there's no parental leave. it's not your commanding officer's fault you were stupid enough to do that, now get back to work!

kids who are successfully born in the first order aren't told who their biological parents are. the nuclear family is not a thing in the first order, all the kids are being cared for by either droids (in infancy) or training staff (once they're old enough to walk), so the logic is telling the kids who their parents are (and/or telling the parents who their kids are) is unnecessary and could lead to the kids getting unequal treatment.

(they also don't believe in doing nuclear families because they worry that loyalty to a family unit or to a specific relative could compromise loyalty to The Cause TM.)

families were more common in the early first order, when most staff were people who already knew their relatives when they joined or were conscripted, but it gets less common as time goes on and they get more into the baby-kidnapping business. and on the topic of baby-kidnapping, extremely low birth rate is a big part of why they do that in the first order. even with artificial fertilization and incubation, most first order citizens are mostly or completely infertile due to living in space so it's still rare for healthy babies to be born on the ships.

(brendol hux really pushed for them to use cloning instead because it would be easier, but this was shot down because clones aren't a practical way to sustain population growth in the long term. you can use clones for an army whose only purpose is to die in a few years, but you can't use clones to populate a country.)

marriage is something that does happen in the first order, and it is legally recognized, but because they don't have any civilian citizens and don't place much importance on the idea of "family," it's regarded as kind of useless. it's more like a "i mean i guess if you really want to??" situation. especially since the average first order citizen doesn't have any money nor any use for money, so there aren't any financial/political reasons for an average citizen to get married either.

the actual process of getting married is just kind of.....file the requisite paperwork during your break shift. get this paperwork approved by the officer whose job is to approve these things. boom, you're married now, congratulations, get back to work. most married couples in the first order are older staff who were not raised in the order. most younger staff regard marriage as a sort of silly thing old people do. that said, married couples can request to be housed together, and these requests are almost always granted because it's not seen as a big enough deal to be worth fighting about.

you couldn't really have a nice wedding ceremony in the first order because of austerity measures. they're not gonna give you more and/or better food rations just because you wanted to add a layer of official-ness to your silly little romance. there's a war on!

younger staff who romanticize the idea of getting married and having kids are usually basically using it as shorthand for "when the war is over and there's no longer a need for us to dedicate every waking hour to the war effort." it's not uncommon for young first order citizens to have some idea of what they'll do with their lives when the war is done, but it's typically more symbolic than something they genuinely deep-down-inside believe they will get to do someday.

the generational cultural divide is wayyyy more obvious among the officers than among the rest of the population. the overwhelming majority of stormtroopers are first-order-native child conscripts, whereas the higher up the ranks you go, the more the ratio starts to even out then eventually skew in favor of older staff who already had a life before joining. so when you do see first order citizens still adhering to the ideas of marriage and family practiced by most human states in the galaxy, it'll almost always be people who rank higher than a major or a lieutenant-commander.

and finally, just because Blorbo From My Shows must be brought up, you know the imperial boomers go full conservative grandma interrogating her queer grandchild at thanksgiving when it comes to armitage hux. he has heard the "WHY haven't you found someone yet at your age, what's wrong with you?" spiel way too many times. he's part of the "marriage is useless and outdated" generation, though, so his response is typically to roll his eyes and explain for the zillionth time that he's married to the cause.

[dailyanarchistposts]

How Do We Get There?

Unfortunately, the environmental crisis cannot wait for a revolution to destroy capitalism, nor will a post-revolutionary society be environmentally sound unless we manage to change the relationship between humans and the rest of nature. As anarchists we need to be doing everything we can to bring these issues to the forefront. We have identified a number of approaches to this.

We must make the link between capitalism and environmental degradation explicit in our politics and critique the role of the state in facilitating this. This pamphlet is a first step towards this, but we also need to work towards the dissemination of these ideas in the wider movement.

We must insert ourselves into the mass climate movements such as divestment, climate marches and third sector campaigns to use these moments of publicity to put forward our ideas. We should try to win the battle of ideas in these movements and shift the aims away from the false solutions identified here.

We must push our unions to adopt an eco-syndicalist stance which argues for a just but rapid transition for workers in extractive industries. We must also, however, be internationalist in our scope and ensure victories for workers in MEDCs does not mean just pushing environmental problems onto workers in LEDCs.

We must use our anti-capitalist analysis to link up different struggles, so that it is clear that we are not facing disconnected problems, but that capitalism is at the heart of the issues that face the global working class. Land justice campaigns have a clear link to climate change as land owners decide how land is used and how resources are exploited, counter to a sustainable commons approach. Similarly, we have identified rising nationalism and authoritarianism as the state’s response to climate refugees. We must continue the work linking anti-capitalism and environmentalism with No Borders and migrant rights groups, ensuring the fair treatment of those affected by climate change in the future.

We must develop networks of like-minded people who are willing to campaign on these issues and work together to build our capacity to organise. A good example of this has been the anti-fracking protests in the UK where actions at the drilling sites have been amplified by activists elsewhere targeting the headquarters of the fracking companies and carrying out other solidarity actions. Some of these networks already exist so we should work more closely with groups such as Earth First!, Reclaim the Power and Rising Tide to further develop an activism which is both confrontational towards capitalism and is inclusive of local and global perspectives. These networks offer opportunities to develop our ideas further and collaborate on future projects and actions.

We should ensure the actions we take, and the struggles we link up for, leave us and others who take part stronger not weaker. We must avoid any so-called victory that relies on the ‘good will’ of a politician or the ‘expertise’ of an NGO. Win or lose, each action and campaign should leave us more aware of the world around us, more confident of our collective power, and more experienced in our ability to self-organise and take the fight to the capitalists. Within the environmental movement we must develop a diversity of tactics that is not dependent on the actions of politicians or corporations developing a conscience to achieve its goals.

[idlesuperstar]

Happy Birthday Alec Guinness