Adam Smith
Defence / History / Oceania / Wargaming
Former 8541, messenger and bikewrench
Massey CDSS alum
(Certified bicycle mechanic with decades of experience in shops, feel free to DM or post with questions)
- Reposted by Adam Smith'A rāhui remains in place and covers anything the water touches/can touch with the high or low tides. While it is in effect, no public activities should be undertaken on or around the beaches on the southern coastline.'
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- Reposted by Adam SmithWellington Water totally trashes its treatment plant. How do these people still have jobs?
- Reposted by Adam SmithCoalition Government impact on Māori unemployment undermining a generation of rangatahi Māori. Luxon's solution - put a marmite sandwich and apple in the lunch box of young Māori and everything will be okay.
- Reposted by Adam SmithThis is extraordinarily direct. And extraordinarily good writing. Investing in prevention and resilience? Nah...we'd rather have shiny things and tax & rates cuts please. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
- Reposted by Adam SmithSo a Minister of Resources from a junior coalition partner wields a veto over the Climate Change Minister, in a portfolio that isn’t his, with a simple “no” that sees everyone else roll over and do his bidding? What a weak sauce government we have. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
- Reposted by Adam Smith"There is one message that we should take away from the current round of talks to end the war in Ukraine: Putin does not want the war to end right now." My latest update on war and strategic competition. mickryan.substack.com/p/putin-cann...
- Reposted by Adam SmithIt sucks in the moment and it feels Godawful, but this is how civil resistance movements win.
- Reposted by Adam SmithOk here it is, with enough of the weekend left for people to read it. Kill the Corps V: The Battle of the Potomac. bafriedman.substack.com/p/kill-the-c...
- Reposted by Adam SmithThis is an important, credible, and damning article about the IDF in Gaza by Andy Milburn, a retired US Marine Raider colonel with combat experience from Fallujah and Mosul who maintained close contact with IDF officers during the war (while keeping a low public profile). Read the whole thing.
- Reposted by Adam Smith"Wikipedia is free to use, is extremely participatory and aims for a high degree of transparency in its content." I donate monthly to Wikipedia and I encourage others to do so. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Reposted by Adam SmithStephen Colbert understands the gravity of the situation. youtu.be/ky5B7xrontY?...
- Reposted by Adam SmithI continue to believe that the fastest way to get Stephen Miller fired is to convince Trump that Miller's ICE operations are what cost him the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Reposted by Adam SmithAmanda Gorman.
- Reposted by Adam SmithUlstein unveils designs for new standardised vessels for Royal Norwegian Navy 🇳🇴 By @corporalfrisk.com www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
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- Reposted by Adam SmithA first-person account from the Copper Hen's restaurant and ad-hoc field hospital, where volunteer medics helped tear gassed protesters as staffers ran around with cinnamon buns and coffee orders.
- Reposted by Adam SmithI am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...
- Reposted by Adam SmithThis would be the same Federated Farmers who have actively resisted climate change mitigation strategies and put pressure on the govt to reduce climate change action 🧐🤔
- Reposted by Adam SmithSince it’s an election year I hope we can talk about how this government is responsible for deliberate withholding of healthcare to make some numbers on a piece of paper look good for their donors
- Reposted by Adam SmithJust shooting my shot. Any of y'all local NZ followers on here working in nonfiction TV production? The team needs a production consultant for our TVNZ application for round 2 in April. Any referrals would be greatly appreciated. We need some advisory on the contracting side of production.
- Reposted by Adam SmithMuch like the Geneva Convention, nonviolence is often mistaken as a product of naive idealism when it is in fact very very much the product of clear-eyed pragmatism.
- Reposted by Adam SmithNRA is and has been a foreign asset for over a decade- www.npr.org/2019/09/27/7...
- Reposted by Adam SmithYou don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer. In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.
- Reposted by Adam SmithI wasn't sure what to expect from a group of Democratic state AGs, but I definitely was not expecting a long monologue about Ruby Ridge and the Boston Massacre www.theverge.com/policy/86588...
- Reposted by Adam Smithlife ending and infrastructure destroying floods are now an annual occurrence in new zealand. there is no political recognition of this new reality, and thus there is no resourcing for its prevention. we are not ready
- Reposted by Adam SmithThis is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained
- If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.
- Reposted by Adam SmithPost a moment you love from Kathleen Kennedy’s stewardship of Lucasfilm.
- Reposted by Adam SmithNational security: R+9
- Reposted by Adam SmithU.S. troops stationed on Greenland sitting next to Danish troops stationed on Greenland sent to deter America from invading Greenland
- Reposted by Adam SmithThe Norwegian government is staying fairly quiet for now, but as a sign of the shifting vibe here the former head of Norway’s armed forces has come out and called the US a “neo-fascist banana republic” and a “hostile great power without norms”. www.dn.no/politikk/tid...
- Reposted by Adam Smith@vienna_official today we welcome his imperial highness archduke franz ferdinand to sarajevo. unity, stability, progress. @pan_slav_posting wild that austria thinks this is a good idea but ok
- Reposted by Adam SmithI will say for anyone feeling nervous about it, Trump is not going to pull the trigger on Greenland anytime "soon". There are no forces in position to do so.
- Reposted by Adam SmithI keep thinking about them saying "haven't you learned [from Renee Good's murder]" and... they don't understand why people are still coming out after they've shown they can and will kill us, because they're cowards, and they don't understand what it's like not to be a coward
- Reposted by Adam SmithBrief operational term of art 🧵 to help better define what we're experiencing. What we're experiencing is state terror. I've seen a lot of terms thrown around for what the Trump admin is doing w/ICE, CBP, & other federal law enforcement (LE). The now largely out of use term is state terror. 1/
- Reposted by Adam SmithI am proud to announce that my first ever independent blog is now live. Inconvenient War Studies has a post and an about page. Please visit, read, and leave a comment for me! My first post is an overview of the US led coalition in Vietnam. inconvenientwarstudies.net
- Reposted by Adam Smithnew zealand’s unspoken foreign and defence policy of relying on the australian landmass isn’t going to cut it much longer. unfortunately for the “independent foreign policy” guys, and the “abolish the military” ones too, probably exactly the opposite is needed
- Reposted by Adam SmithHow Indigenous People shared their knowledge of New Zealand plants with Captain Cook's crew: #archives #library 📚 www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl...
- Reposted by Adam SmithNEW — ICE violence has spread well beyond Minneapolis, with agents landing in small cities like St. Cloud. I spoke with Alice Valentine, a local queer trans woman, who protested ICE on Monday and was pepper sprayed, beaten and jailed as a result, along with her girlfriend. This is Alice's story:
- Reposted by Adam SmithA 290-mile wall of ships. Watch as 1,700+ vessels move in the East China Sea (23–28 Dec). @nytimes.com reports this as a "quietly mobilized" barrier. Starboard Maritime Intelligence provided the data verification behind this analysis. 🧵
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- Reposted by Adam SmithAnyone got a good source on ROC covert action in SEA 1960's?
- Reposted by Adam Smith"You know, really, by rights, New Zealand should be a rich country, because there's not a lot of people there, there's a phenomenal amount of natural wealth per person, it can sustain a good quality of life for every single person in the country."
- Reposted by Adam Smiththat’s how you thread the affordability + ICE needle
- New arrivals/ currently reading. Reading On Operations by @bafriedman.bsky.social an excellent book, fighting for staff officers everywhere. Pathway of the Birds is an excellent accessible history of the voyaging triumphs of the Polynesians. The other two are new so I’m reserving comment.
- Reposted by Adam Smith'... the home affairs minister will be given the power to list organisations as 'prohibited hate groups'. People will be barred from joining, supporting, recruiting, fundraising for and receiving funds from the prescribed groups.' ruh-roh www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
- Reposted by Adam SmithVideo message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell. Wow.
- Reposted by Adam SmithIt's just after the first of the year so that means time to check on the car and personal first aid just to make sure everything is in stock and nothing is expired!
- Reposted by Adam Smith"NATO wouldn't help us anyways"
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