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Austin Inskeep @AustinPInskeep

Freelance defense writer. U.S. Army Veteran.

Joined January 2026
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Ryan Grim
@ryangrim
Jun 7
Israeli analysts are concerned that the country’s ability to launch major strikes around the region with impunity has been undermined. The concept of costs will now have to be incorporated into what used to be merely a benefit calculus.
Nadav Pollak
@NadavPollak
Jun 7
The precedent President Trump set today is a very dangerous one. The fact he blocked Israel from retaliating against Iran weakened Israel deterrence significantly, signaled to Iran that limited attacks against Israel can occur with no price attached to it, and damaged US negotiating position. Should Israel now take into account that every significant action against one of Iran’s proxies means an Iranian retaliation, one that it can’t answer to because of Trump? The proxies themselves might also feel emboldened now to attack Israel knowing Iran is willing to get involved. And regarding the negotiations, Trump showed Iran that his desire to reach an agreement is above all else, something that feels pretty similar to the Obama years. One last point, I’m sure Iranian decision makers are also now thinking, well if we attacked Israel and Trump didn’t do anything, we can for sure keep targeting our neighbors with no worries of US actions.
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College Football Zone
@CollegeFBonX
Jun 7
Nothing in Europe comes close to any of this
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇹🇧🇷🇳🇴@imzftbi
Jun 6
These US stadiums have a horrible aesthetic
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Lance Corporate
@lance_corporate
May 20
In the military, when an important person is speaking, there are like a dozen pitbulls scanning the room searching for young guys who are nodding off, messing around on their phone, or otherwise not paying attention. You just sit there with a rigid spine until the guy with shiny stuff on his collar decides he's done. In corporate America, people will literally play Candy Crush in the front row while the COO yaps about our core values. And if you get bored you can just leave and go get a snack
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My Alma Mater division will be more than happy to receive these. Proven platform with an improved turret. For the sake of the musculoskeletal health of the dismounts, I hope they fixed the seats in the troop compartment.
1st Cavalry Division@1stCavalryDiv
Apr 30
Big news! The 1st Cavalry Division has just received the Army’s FIRST AMPV 30mm prototypes. Our troopers are leading the charge once again by integrating this next-generation capability into the formation and transforming how armored Divisions fight. #BeLegendary #PegasusCharge
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Austin Inskeep@AustinPInskeep
Apr 18
Replying to @f18husky @NavyStrang
Don’t just think about vehicles, think about munitions and drones and ships. We certainly have work to do, but it would be negligent on behalf of the pentagon to not optimize production to scale with existing infrastructure.
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Havoc 2-1
@HavocTwoOne
Apr 17
The tie downs make me remember a simpler, more retarded time in my life. You should tie down your sensitive items.
ᴅᴇᴡ@Remnantize
Apr 16
101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), 2026
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I know congressman have always been juicy targets for espionage, but they should still use this tweet as an example of what not to do for those who hold clearances.
Rep. Andy Ogles
@RepOgles
Apr 17
I have seen evidence so classified that just knowing it exists makes you a target. #thetruthisoutthere
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malmesburyman
@malmesburyman
Apr 8
Many people worldwide, including especially in Europe, dislike the US, and they engage in motivated reasoning to find flaws in everything America does as a way of manifesting the satisfaction of the feeling. Its predictability is how you know it’s an autonomic emotional response.
Christian Heiens 🏛
@ChristianHeiens
Apr 8
Watching people flip from "Trump is a war criminal for threatening to bomb Iranian infrastructure" to "Trump is a coward who always backs down" in a matter of just a few hours is a reminder that some people are just subversive counter-signalers who do things to get attention online. If Trump had "followed through," you people would be pissing your pants right now, calling him a genocidal monster, and demanding that the 25th Amendment be invoked. You can only get away with concern trolling for so long until people stop caring about what you have to say.
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Apparently these guys conducted a ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY click movement during this exercise. Patrolling, mind you, which is much more difficult than just walking from one point to another. Quite impressive.
GS-59@GS5913
Mar 5
SIG, SIG, SIG… Exercise Deep Strike dvidshub.net/image/9550389/e…
Green Berets with 2nd Battalion,10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), U.S. Special Operations Command Europe, pose for a photo before Exercise Deep Strike at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center near Hohenfels, Germany, Feb. 22, 2026. SOCEUR conducted the first iteration of special operations deep strike lanes, a pivotal training initiative designed to enhance force readiness by operating in geographically dynamic and complex scenarios, including denied environments with contested electronic warfare spaces. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Glenn Brennan)

ALT Green Berets with 2nd Battalion,10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), U.S. Special Operations Command Europe, pose for a photo before Exercise Deep Strike at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center near Hohenfels, Germany, Feb. 22, 2026. SOCEUR conducted the first iteration of special operations deep strike lanes, a pivotal training initiative designed to enhance force readiness by operating in geographically dynamic and complex scenarios, including denied environments with contested electronic warfare spaces. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Glenn Brennan)

Green Berets assigned to 2nd Battalion,10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), U.S. Special Operations Command Europe, prepare for the inaugural Exercise Deep Strike at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center near Hohenfels, Germany, Feb. 16, 2026. SOCEUR conducted the first iteration of special operations deep strike lanes, a pivotal training initiative designed to enhance force readiness by operating in geographically dynamic and complex scenarios, including denied environments with contested electronic warfare spaces. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Glenn Brennan)

ALT Green Berets assigned to 2nd Battalion,10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), U.S. Special Operations Command Europe, prepare for the inaugural Exercise Deep Strike at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center near Hohenfels, Germany, Feb. 16, 2026. SOCEUR conducted the first iteration of special operations deep strike lanes, a pivotal training initiative designed to enhance force readiness by operating in geographically dynamic and complex scenarios, including denied environments with contested electronic warfare spaces. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Glenn Brennan)

A Green Beret with 2nd Battalion,10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), U.S. Special Operations Command Europe, prepares his weapon for Exercise Deep Strike at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center near Hohenfels, Germany, Feb. 16, 2026. SOCEUR conducted the first iteration of special operations deep strike lanes, a pivotal training initiative designed to enhance force readiness by operating in geographically dynamic and complex scenarios, including denied environments with contested electronic warfare spaces. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Glenn Brennan)

ALT A Green Beret with 2nd Battalion,10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), U.S. Special Operations Command Europe, prepares his weapon for Exercise Deep Strike at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center near Hohenfels, Germany, Feb. 16, 2026. SOCEUR conducted the first iteration of special operations deep strike lanes, a pivotal training initiative designed to enhance force readiness by operating in geographically dynamic and complex scenarios, including denied environments with contested electronic warfare spaces. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Glenn Brennan)

Green Berets with 2nd Battalion,10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), U.S. Special Operations Command Europe, guide an unmanned aerial system during a live-munitions strike as part of Exercise Deep Strike in Grafenwöhr, Germany, Feb. 22, 2026. The system delivered a precise strike with an armor-piercing payload concluding Deep Strike, a nine-day training exercise that began with a 150-kilometer movement through simulated hostile environments while remaining undetected and evading opposing aerial drones and conventional forces. SOCEUR conducted the first iteration of special operations deep strike lanes, a pivotal training initiative designed to enhance force readiness by operating in geographically dynamic and complex scenarios, including denied environments with contested electronic warfare spaces. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Glenn Brennan)

ALT Green Berets with 2nd Battalion,10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), U.S. Special Operations Command Europe, guide an unmanned aerial system during a live-munitions strike as part of Exercise Deep Strike in Grafenwöhr, Germany, Feb. 22, 2026. The system delivered a precise strike with an armor-piercing payload concluding Deep Strike, a nine-day training exercise that began with a 150-kilometer movement through simulated hostile environments while remaining undetected and evading opposing aerial drones and conventional forces. SOCEUR conducted the first iteration of special operations deep strike lanes, a pivotal training initiative designed to enhance force readiness by operating in geographically dynamic and complex scenarios, including denied environments with contested electronic warfare spaces. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Glenn Brennan)
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I’m extremely pro 2A. Allowing barracks soldiers to keep loaded weapons in the barracks is a deadly mistake.
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Andrzej Kozlowski@akoz33
Apr 2
The most committed supporters of NATO in the U.S. have always been Trump-skeptical Republicans but I can see that the closing of air-space to U.S. planes at this critical time has almost achieved the impossible and made many of them doubt that the game is worth the candle.
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This tweet is obviously charged with anti American sentiment, but she is correct. To most Americans, especially on the right (of which I am) are not just comfortable with the thought of their country being at war, it’s almost as trivial as sports fandom. The perpetuity and relative low intensity of the GWOT, combined with the shameless warmongering sloganism of Fox anchors, Lindsay Graham, Ted Cruz, Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, and others who quite literally do see war as some sort of game has led us here. It’s not very real to Americans that war in itself is when we decide to physically stop humans from continuing in their endeavors by violently shredding their bodies apart. It troubles me thinking about the millions of people in the Middle East who intimately know the smell of charred flesh and sulfur, and have felt the dust and ear-splitting quake of explosive shockwaves in their chest, and have seen shrapnel shred their environments, friends, and family. I have a hard time believing that we have done much since 9/11 except for create a generation of Middle Easterners that have a deep and furious hate for Americans. This likely compounds the threat of terror long term that otherwise might not have been there had Americans not supported our government conducting decades of bombing campaigns from a place of reluctance and aversion born out of a truer, more solemn understanding of what these operations look like on the ground, and not through FLIR footage from CENTCOM’s PEO page.
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Yung Sp€ngler@Yung_Spengler
Mar 30
MiC actually produces good stuff, but Pentagon only procures expensive boondoggles Raytheon Pike: rocket fired from M320 launcher, 2km range Upgrade w/IR seeker proximity fuse: EASILY kills all drones from mini/FPV to Shahed-style. COST: $30k/unit Instead of $5M Patriots 🤦
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Gotta think the ground force buildup is earmarked for an operation to confiscate Iran’s nuclear material. Seizing Kharg or some sort of sector of Iranian coastline in an effort to gain leverage to open the straight is likely not as high of a priority to achieve before “ending” the war as thoroughly neutralizing their nuclear capability is. Opening the SoH forcibly is likely not on the menu as that would require much more than the US is willing to sacrifice, but at a minimum degrading Iran’s nuclear capability as much as possible gives POTUS an off-ramp and could give the operation some semblance of strategic success.
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War on the Rocks
@WarOnTheRocks
Mar 26
A NATO training scenario in the Baltics took an unexpected turn. The opposing force was only ten Ukrainians. ow.ly/foQm30sUAZP

10 Ukrainians Humbled Two NATO Battalions. When Will NATO Wake Up?

Last May, NATO invited 10 Ukrainians to act as an opposing force during Hedgehog 2025, one of NATO’s largest exercises in the Baltics. The Ukrainians

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LoLNothingMatters@DastDn
Mar 24
One of the weirdest discoveries I've made socializing with veterans is their disturbingly comprehensive familiarity with white girl pop music.
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Cole T. Lyle
@ctlyle1
Mar 23
I’ve seen some commentators who support the conflict in Iran now talking about VA disability and alleged fraud like they know what they’re talking about. Sorry, you don’t.
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Trent Telenko
@TrentTelenko
Mar 20
The US Army has an bias against learning from the Ukrainians because of its ingrained institutional hubris regarding drones of all stripes.
Colby Badhwar
@ColbyBadhwar
Mar 20
Replying to @ColbyBadhwar
It's absolutely hilarious that so many people think that The Times' Maxim Tucker in Kyiv has been given the full story. It's not just the Gulf States that are making rookie mistakes. The US Army is learning things the hard way because they refused to do it the easy way.
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Rosenritter@rosenritter1958
Mar 21
lol lmao, even
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おちりぷりん@Southwood_
Mar 21
dvidshub.net/image/9574382/a… M250にエルカンのスコープが載っています
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There’s realistically nothing anyone else can teach them at this point.
Roy🇨🇦
@GrandpaRoy2
Mar 21
Ukraine will stop sending soldiers abroad for training and plans to conduct all military personnel training exclusively on Ukrainian territory. This decision is attributed to the fact that instructors from Western countries lack modern combat experience.
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