# ![@ELuttwak Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1239676915386068993.png) @ELuttwak Edward N Luttwak

Edward N Luttwak posts on X about ukraine, war, in the, russia the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

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[countries](/list/countries)  45.07% [finance](/list/finance)  12.68% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  3.52% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  1.41% [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands)  0.7% [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands)  0.7% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  0.7%

**Social topic influence**
[ukraine](/topic/ukraine) 11.97%, [war](/topic/war) 11.27%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 10.56%, [russia](/topic/russia) 9.86%, [china](/topic/china) 7.75%, [israel](/topic/israel) 7.04%, [iran](/topic/iran) 3.52%, [italy](/topic/italy) 3.52%, [command](/topic/command) 2.82%, [talk](/topic/talk) 2.82%

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"The perfectionist cult of the Naval systems command has just killed the "Constellation" frigate a mass producible Franco-Italian warship v useful for light escort duties & "presence". First they asked for many small changes. Then a 50% () increase in hull width CNO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022744850794451444)  2026-02-14T18:48Z 74.2K followers, 18.4K engagements


"the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia has many virtues but his elevation of a personal quarrel with his UAE counterpart into an inter-state confrontation is reckless. They are all vulnerable to Iran's machinations and must fear ther own military officers & disloyal bodyguards"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/2022557487111520691)  2026-02-14T06:24Z 74.2K followers, 26.2K engagements


"American shipbuiling was sacrificed on the altar of Free Trade a religion for many Americans (hence Trump's tariffs are sacrilegious.) But w/o it Navy ships must be built by hand at impossible cost. W the mass-producible Fr/It frigate killed by Nav-C perfectionism: [--] ships"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022795135466008639)  2026-02-14T22:08Z 74.2K followers, 19.5K engagements


"His tempo forced the Navy's : missile-launcher nuclear sub IRBM and reduced diameter warhead (by Teller) all in [--] years. Today's NAV-C would have made it [--] years if not [--] .But CNO "31-knot"Burke would have locked them up if they had delayed Polaris allowing the USAF to win @ELuttwak General Schriever is a good example (Minuteman ICBM project). @ELuttwak General Schriever is a good example (Minuteman ICBM project)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022797432405324268)  2026-02-14T22:17Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"It was my great good luck that I joined CSIS when it was still very small with Burke Dave Abshire and maybe [--] more. "31-knot Burke" could be persuaded to talk very privately on contemporary naval matters. At the time Russia was mass-producing & Burke favored numbers too @ELuttwak Still insane to me that DESRON [--] was barely a blip on his lifes achievements @ELuttwak Still insane to me that DESRON [--] was barely a blip on his lifes achievements"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022804026023088424)  2026-02-14T22:43Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Ogni Italiano per bene era dalla parte di Merkel negli scontri con Berlusconi. Lei scienziata lui ignorante+volgare. Solo adesso si sa che Merkel ha sbagliato proprio tutto: economia demografia energia (bruciano lignite ) mentre Berlusconi e Tremonti erano molto meglio"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1698088884347765194)  2023-09-02T21:41Z 74.2K followers, 100.2K engagements


"14 out of [--] generals made by Xi since the Oct22 Party Congress are under arrest [--] have simply disappeared. Now the Vice Chair of the Central Military Commission (the very top) Zhang Youxia & an aide are arrested. Corruption is improbable. So why Any Sinological theory"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/2015066489414369353)  2026-01-24T14:17Z 74.3K followers, 563.9K engagements


"In US educational circles professionals no longer read the Iliad or the Odyssey & strive to suppress them citing the violence of I and the enterprising immorality of O. But both texts sell well in China where they are recognized as the source codes of Western civilization"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/2017737264470659169)  2026-01-31T23:10Z 74.2K followers, 32.7K engagements


"The NYT editors are very conscientious in their war against Israel: not a day passes without an anti-Israel piece. Most are v simple: eg "on the day of the Rafah opening Israel kills 7". It also buys photos: 90% show children in distress none (not 1) any local with a gun "  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/2018010630049902895)  2026-02-01T17:16Z 74.2K followers, 18.5K engagements


"Tucker Carlson first discovered anti-semitism as an exciting new explanatory tool : eg who killed Kennedy The Jews exciting new Why Because . Next he discovered that Vance will still invite him to the WH to bottom feed on the AS vote. His latest: Jews murder children"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/2018836958366372080)  2026-02-04T00:00Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The NYTimes is in the same pickle as the Washington Post: it pays an almost living wage to its writers that add much repetitive anti-Trump agit prop to news no different than agency reports & much more to its aged columnists who add v little to its sport foody & gadget news"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/2019552700183302628)  2026-02-05T23:24Z 74.3K followers, 18.9K engagements


"Read TABLET Latest : Liel Leibovitz "Waiting for Bilal Robert Krafts revolting Super Bowl ad is the latest confession of American Jewish organizations preference for pity over pride. More real leadership with brains & balls in my native Arad in WW2 https://www.tabletmag.com/ https://www.tabletmag.com/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/2019784215571620052)  2026-02-06T14:44Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Read Liel Leibovitz in Tablet : Robert Krafts "Quivering Jew The Jewish people as a portable sanctuary and Megillat Hitler. Missing in Acton : Jewish leadership"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/2019812050684596637)  2026-02-06T16:34Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements


"It is painful to see this video. It was my very good fortune to have known Abe Shinzo from the time of his first premiership and to actually work for him during his second. The bonhomie you see is 100% authentic: he added warm humanity & a touch of humor to every encounter. 🚨🤣🔥 https://t.co/CEmS2a5Mub 🚨🤣🔥 https://t.co/CEmS2a5Mub"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1981492048583598353)  2025-10-23T22:44Z 74.3K followers, 148.7K engagements


"Trump is right about a great many things even if he cannot seem to understand that allowing h is near & dear to personally benefit (on a huge scale.but even $1 is too much) from their proximity is bound to end in scandal. Diego Garcia is his right call No. [--] or perhaps 40"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/2019813192332124324)  2026-02-06T16:39Z 74.3K followers, 12.8K engagements


"It is now evident that Epstein did not compromise or blackmail anyone nor did he work for the Vatican or for Israel's Intelligence organization. He provided luxuries and sex to the rich & powerful who then paid him to set up business deals with other rich and powerful people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/2022541822187225531)  2026-02-14T05:22Z 74.2K followers, 41.7K engagements


"Wrong: it was the WWII war-winning method: build what you can ASAP & send it to the troops while developing the improved Type II. Build it while you develop Type III.Now the perfectionists delay delivry for [--] years. By then components even subught systems are oudated @ELuttwak Seems like 50s and 60s aerospace acquisition bought a huge number of flawed products with the understanding that they were keeping the companies alive to build something better within years or months. @ELuttwak Seems like 50s and 60s aerospace acquisition bought a huge number of flawed products with the understanding"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022779794211905716)  2026-02-14T21:07Z 74.2K followers, 22.9K engagements


"Postulate but what Many more IDF troops were killed by Israel's young pilots (no [--] year academy hence combat flying by age 20) than US sailors on the Liberty. Not just in [----] but already in [----] (Read Moshe Dayan (CoS) Diary of the Sinai campaign. @ELuttwak It isn't antisemitic to postulate. Don't be so stereotypical. @ELuttwak It isn't antisemitic to postulate. Don't be so stereotypical"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022799854343241991)  2026-02-14T22:27Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Long ago the US Army tried to acquire its first UAV MQM Aquila. The prototype outperformed the best-in class Israeli Scout. But was then cancelled by the Army's perfectionists: it failed to achieve [--] of.149 () performance specs.USN bought Scout. Army had to do without any"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022751042396434929)  2026-02-14T19:13Z 74.2K followers, 12.5K engagements


"anti-semites have revived the USS Liberty AGTR-5 story. It was attacked by Israeli aircraft & torpedo boats on June [--] [----] during the Six-Day War. w [--] KIAs and [---] WIAs. Israel aircrew fly in combat by age [--] (there is no air academy). Friendly-fire incidents were common"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022782308214870321)  2026-02-14T21:17Z 74.2K followers, 11.2K engagements


"Bulk carriers have the lowest cost/ton and should not be subsidized. But higher value/ton LNG ships could be indirectly subsidized by giving an export-tax rebate to US-built LNG tankers (after setting a low export tax) This is the biggest strategic problem for the West; others don't even come close. The problem is that building a bulk carrier in China is about 1/4-5 of the cost; even if you can get it done in the US/EU/UK/AU etc. Realistically Western Govs going to have to radically subsidise This is the biggest strategic problem for the West; others don't even come close. The problem is that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022807593974964425)  2026-02-14T22:58Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Mio padre arr in Italia Nov [----] ha presto creato una nuova industria (termoplastica). Il piano Marshall rilanciava l'economia e la DC al potere costruiva strade e case. Con la lira svalutabile l'Italia cresceva x 150% della media EU. Ma e' vero con l'Euro puo' addebitarsi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1290064253702070273)  2020-08-02T23:17Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"I find it extraordinary that otherwise serious people explain the deterioration of US-China relations by citing this or that US President or policy. China's relations with Australia India and Japan have followed exactly the same trajectory from optimism to confrontation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1294294063387234309)  2020-08-14T15:25Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Erdogan must know that Turkey will never be able to extract any gas from Greek waters. But he gambles that others are more afraid of war than he is & thus provokes incidents for political gain. But he will die in jail if there is a clash because Turkey's navy is not combat-ready"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1295442607980580866)  2020-08-17T19:29Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"My grandson is White able-bodied and likes girls. That makes him an undesirable for the admission officials of the top US universities mostly themselves "diverse". Now they have dropped SAT objective testing scores to deny him a chance to outscore. No foreign enemy is worse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1295714915286646790)  2020-08-18T13:31Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Today's Washington Post has anti-Trump articles on every page in lieu of news accompanied by an anti-Trump editorial. I am beginning to think that they are not fully objective about the coming election"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1303320256031662082)  2020-09-08T13:12Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Armenia's inaccurate Soviet-era missiles can only be aimed at towns where civilians are killed. Azerbaidjian has drones and Spikes that can and do attack military targets. Azerbaidjian is regaining territory internationally recognized as its own so its gains will stick"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1321430476972806151)  2020-10-28T12:35Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements


"As the author of the standard work on the subject (Coup d'Etat Harvard U Press+ [--] other editions in [--] languages) I can certify that Trump's actions however irritating are not a Coup d'Etat. Of [---] Coups studied none included lawyers & all required serving soldiers. Hysteria"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1329549042880221193)  2020-11-19T22:16Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements


"At a gathering in the Hague the chief of Afghan Intel sitting to my right on the speakers' podium pleaded for more money and fraternal solidarity in the struggle against fanaticism. Fraternally I grasped his left wrist offering to exchange my $20 Timex for his gold Rolex"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1330184027991642114)  2020-11-21T16:19Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Let it be recorded that Trump was right on Afghanistan while the Intel chiefs the fashionable generals Petraeus & Mattis & their media supporters (anti-war but more anti-T) were wrong. All efforts were futile from day [--]. See why: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=dwU8eavPInw https://www.youtube.com/watchv=dwU8eavPInw"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1330281555814723585)  2020-11-21T22:46Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Am frankly surprised that the Silicon valley magnates with hordes of political consultants on retainer so foolishly exposed their "exorbitant power without responsibility" by decreeing LIFETIME bans against Trump. Even his worst enemies will now want drastic anti-trust action"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1347742267751198720)  2021-01-09T03:09Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"When Gramsci discovered the secret of "progressive" political dominance via intellectual dominance he specified that it was not obtainable with better arguments but only by controlling "the means of (intellectual) production": publishing houses editorial boards. Now Social media"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1348782313161846791)  2021-01-12T00:02Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Alan Friedman noto esperto di questioni femminili (Vd. suo: Sorani Gynaeciorum cum additis graeci textus Heidelberg 1979) definisce la moglie di un politico USA appena dimesso e madre di suo figlio una meretrix. Fortunati i programmi TV che illumina con il suo saggio buon gusto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1352014664557875201)  2021-01-20T22:06Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The frenetic anti-Trumpism of Dem leaders is not motivated by hatred. It is motivated by fear & guilt. Fear because even with "his" splendid economy ruined by the virus & [--] years of false "Russia" accusations Trump came close to winning. Guilt because of said accusations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1357940575216037888)  2021-02-06T06:33Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Much of my work is more "military" than strategic and thus requires tactical and operational analysis before one can consider the theater level & finally grand strategy. But the technical level also counts for which I must rely on experts: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=zKFgFq0isww https://www.youtube.com/watchv=zKFgFq0isww"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1358195990340206592)  2021-02-06T23:28Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"I am outraged that the CIA failed to investigate & punish those responsible for the leak of its investigation of the Khashoggi killing. So the CIA fails to generate useful intelligence on Beijing or Moscow but it can spy on a US ally & leak the results to benefit both + Iran"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1365741938020868101)  2021-02-27T19:13Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"An uncouth member of Congress slept on a sidewalk and the President extended the Federal ban on evictions which amounts to an indefinite suspension of property rights. As a landlord I would like to know if there is also an indefinite suspension of property and income taxes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1423867762414346243)  2021-08-07T04:45Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The Taliban are capturing big stocks of US weapons abandoned by Afghan Gov soldiers who should have used them to fight. But they joined for the wages not to fight. The sons of the Kabul elite enriched by foreign aid are absent from their ranks. Not cowards just too busy in Dubai"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1424952340998672396)  2021-08-10T04:34Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements


"A list of military equipment left behind includes combat aircraft infantry weapons and ammo armored vehicles all in great numbers. It is a formidable inventory that is more likely to be trafficked than sold to responsible countries. Very destabilizing. Precision bombing urgent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1431381123830095872)  2021-08-27T22:20Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"By the 1970s the elite consensus was that "the hunt for atomic spies" had been a grotesque over-reaction to minor leaks that cost the lives of the Rosenbergs & ruined many innocents. Only when the USSR fell was it discovered that they & other spies had given away ALL the secrets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1474121585510563845)  2021-12-23T20:55Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The European Union failed to shield Greece from Turkey's attempt to claim its EEZ to drill for gas-it was the French who acted with warships & aircraft. Now the EU is failing to shield Lithuania from Chinese coercion re its upholding of EU values. Unless this changes finis EU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1474661261245923331)  2021-12-25T08:40Z 74.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Putin is bluffing over the Ukraine. To invade Europe's largest country with less than [------] troops would not end the crisis victoriously for Russia. Instead it would start a war that Russia cannot afford to fight No European country will send troops but they will send weapons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1482586397445869574)  2022-01-16T05:31Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Will Poland close the road and rail connections between Germany and Russia If so that would be the most powerful of all sanctions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1496985654256934914)  2022-02-24T23:09Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"It seems that Putin neglected political preparation at home: nobody believes his claim that he had to stop "the genocide of Russians in eastern Ukraine" or that NATO nuclear missiles were on their way to Ukraine. End-the war now petitions signed by [------] in less than [--] hours"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1497066055088361478)  2022-02-25T04:28Z 74.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Reports from the Ukraine are filled with wishful thinking and conscious disinformation but it seems certain that Russian forces have suffered losses and that the speed of their advance is unimpressive. Now is the time for aid to be sent into Western Ukraine via Poland & Slovakia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1497337750168776706)  2022-02-25T22:28Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Prudent poker player Putin who four times rose from the table with imperial gains (Abkhazia S Ossetia Crimea & this month Belarus) is suddenly gambling recklessly at the roulette table by invading Europe's largest country with an army much too small for the task. Finis Putin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1497340385378643974)  2022-02-25T22:39Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Not too late to send large numbers of small arms and point & shoot anti-tank weapons to Ukraine via Poland or Slovakia. There are warehouses full of both (+ their ammo) across NATO because of the drastic reduction in force-levels. Ukrainians are resisting bravely and deserve help"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1497428894403682305)  2022-02-26T04:30Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Putin should not survive his Ukraine adventure: all its premises have been invalidated: Zelensky did not flee the Gov did not collapse the armed forces did not dissolve Russian forces did not seize every city and Kiev's population is not obediently awaiting Russian rule"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1497765444001878017)  2022-02-27T02:48Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Putin's agreement to talks with Zelensky's reps is an abject surrender: by now the Russians should have been in control in Kiev and across the Ukraine with Zelensky dead or exiled. Frantic to divert attention Putin has placed Russias nuclear forces on high alert. Meaning: zero"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1498079889160904706)  2022-02-27T23:37Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"If all the governments that have now acted to punish Russia would have warned Putin of what they would if Ukraine were invaded Putin would not have invaded --but each government wanted to stay in the Kremlin's good graces leaving warnings to others. Needed a NATO that works"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1498434078114295808)  2022-02-28T23:04Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The Ukraine crisis & the very fast very easy exclusion of the Russian Federation from the global economy (discovery: it is still a G-7 not a G-20 world) has shocked Xi Jinping. One reaction: talk of extending Hong Kong's (shrunken) "autonomy" beyond [----]. No Taiwan adventures"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1502666375202054144)  2022-03-12T15:22Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Cannot fathom the military illiteracy that depicts the possible arrival of [-----] Syrian troops in Ukraine as significant. They only ever fought Arab civilians with few or no weapons (& did v poorly viz Kurds). If they do arrive they will quickly run off to Germany as refugees"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1502796631309438977)  2022-03-13T00:00Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The silly tale of Russian recruitment of [-----] "experienced Syrian street fighters" for the Ukraine war is now officially dead while the Chechens that Kadyrov really sent are actually dead. Alas no such happy remedy for Russian artillery & missile attacks against civilians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1505434858813898752)  2022-03-20T06:43Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The greatest lesson of the Ukraine war came right at the start: if Americans and the EU so agree they can cut off any country from the world economy. In spite of all the talk about the "diffusion of power" it is still a G-7 Euro-American world not a G-20 world incl China"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1505746200527622146)  2022-03-21T03:20Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements


"2nd Lesson of the war. Nations are forged in war --if they prevail against the odds as the Americans did against the Brits the Greeks against Xerxes at Salamis in [---] the Jews against Arab states in [----] & the Ukraine is now doing they are empowered to achieve great things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1506839418916810753)  2022-03-24T03:44Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Was on an Italian TV program. Of [--] others interviewed one declared that Italy should not sent weapons to UKR because they will only cause more deaths. Another faithfully repeated Putin's accusation (US plot) and a third talked of Azov batt Nazis. Only one clear Ukrainian voice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1512138546903138307)  2022-04-07T18:41Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Ukraine's forces have increased numerically (recruits +volunteers vastly outnumber casualties) Therefore their need for weapons is very urgent. With their forces much reduced since 1991NATO countries have depots full weapons but are v slow to send them. Public pressure needed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1512488824999403526)  2022-04-08T17:53Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Every war must end and the Ukraine war can only end with the agreement of the elected President of the Russian Federation. To call the present holder of that post a "war criminal" to accuse him of genocide are emotional luxuries disallowed by the exingencies of the situaton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1514082720615477255)  2022-04-13T03:27Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"In Italy the population is prevalently centrist & pro-Western but ex-Prime Ministers function as Beijing & Moscow agents few read the balanced newspapers and depend on TV news programs run by covertly anti-American leftists. Scandal: no US ambassador; only a charge' d' affaires"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1520264988367245313)  2022-04-30T04:53Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


""Se Biden vorrebbe potrebbe fermare la guerra subito" dicono questo e nessuno chiede: "Come " Vorrei proprio sentire come"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1522333435276275714)  2022-05-05T21:52Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Nell'ultima elezione in Ucraina l'estrema destra vinse il 3% dei voti. Cioe' l'estrema destra neo-Nazisti compresi e' molto piu piccola in Ucraina che in qualsiasi altro paese Europeo. Ma nella TV Italiana si sono visti filmati di neo-Nazisti Ucraini ad nauseam. Perche"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1524506362104975366)  2022-05-11T21:46Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Ascoltando i pro-Russi imparo che sanno pochissimo della Russia o del grande popolo Russo la cui reputazione Putin infanga. No loro non sono pro-Russi. Sono solo anti-Americani pretesi "sessanta-ottini" duri PC post-mortem. Da bambino li vidi in piazza per il carnefice Stalin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1530720093654728704)  2022-05-29T01:18Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"China is the world's #1 food importing nation by far + the #1 animal feed-importing nation mostly from US AUS Canada EU. G-7 sanctions damage Russia but cannot stop it because it has its own food & energy. Same sanctions would starve China. PRC war scenarios are all fantasy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1549397706350759942)  2022-07-19T14:16Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The most sinister trend: US is falling behind in higher education as money and power shifts from academics to administratorsoften-politicized "deans". Tom Riley's data re Pomona 1990-2016: students up 12%; faculty up 3%; administrators up 384%. Tuition up 253%. Trustees"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1557978426715291649)  2022-08-12T06:32Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Every day Ukrainians die because they lack equipment & supplies that sit idle in the depots of the French German Italian and Spanish armed forces. The US UK and ex-Warsaw Pact countries have done much more than their share because Europe's most populous countries will not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1561121345139884033)  2022-08-20T22:41Z 74.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Who is promoting self-discipline in contemporary American society Who is telling people to avoid narcotics get up in the morning to look for work if unemployed prepare children to go to school receive them afterwords to save money instead of frivolously spending it.Silence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1566034892865126406)  2022-09-03T12:06Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Russia's ruler can do many things with impunity. He can spend hugely to satisfy his whims to enrich friends to build extravagantly and more. The one thing he cannot do is to lose wars as Putin has been doing since Feb [--] Now it is either mobilization or resignation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1569455990910734341)  2022-09-12T22:40Z 74.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Today's Washington Post attack against the next Italian Prime Minister accuses of opposing unlimited immigration such as the one experienced by the US. The writer evidently does not know that Italy is a NATION state not a contractual union like the US & values its identity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1575269558444855296)  2022-09-28T23:41Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Non e' vero che l'Italia non ha avuto una politica energetica. Ne ha avuto molte: No Triv ( se c'e' gas naturale non si estrae). No nucleare per carita' fanno paura. Nuove dighe Neanche per idea. Terminal per regasificare il gas liquido A no Non qui Ne li' Ne la'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1576037240970809345)  2022-10-01T02:32Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Today's Washington Post attack against Georgia Meloni (1 per day) is a vicious cartoon depicting Mussolini shouting "I am back ". Why the furious anger Her planned immigration policy is less restrictive than Denmark's.The reason: she does not actively favor gender confusion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1576284566481879040)  2022-10-01T18:55Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"In China the Scholz visit to Beijing is depicted as: outer barbarian arrives to prostrate himself before the new emperor. Scholz has said that he will press Xi on Uyghur slave labor. I believe him Siemens & Volkswagen are coming w him & they are experts in using slave workers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1588008668884344841)  2022-11-03T03:22Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Will the fall of the SVBank begin to restore professionalism in our financial institutions The "Head of Financial Risk Management at SVB-UK" describes herself as a queer person of color and first generation immigrant from a working class background" Who cares Skills None"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1635123696720564224)  2023-03-13T03:40Z 74.2K followers, 78.7K engagements


"Europeans replicate late-Roman attitudes: they refuse to use force to keep out the new barbarian invaders. Unwillingness to defend the frontiers is misrepresented as a moral stance . 4/5th Cent Christians turned other cheeks. [----] years later toilets w running water returned"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1702900094830252459)  2023-09-16T04:19Z 74.2K followers, 213.5K engagements


"The pro-Hamas follies at US universities combine four phenomena: resentment of Jewish students by the untalented Third Worldism on auto-pilot Muslim solidarity based on the only thing all can share: anti-Zionism and the now institutionalized cowardice of administrators"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1713879167840706646)  2023-10-16T11:26Z 74.3K followers, 78.4K engagements


"Why are so many US students willing to shout for Palestine yet do not protest the oppression of the Muslim Uyghurs (that has included forced abortions) and more recent persecution of the Chinese Hui Muslims Ignorance of course but also Jewish students are a target in themselves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1718139966415679689)  2023-10-28T05:37Z 74.2K followers, 74.3K engagements


"The Israeli operation has unfolded at a deliberate pace with successive small commando actions to destroy Hqs kill leaders and wreck rocket production to avoid rushing young soldiers into booby-trapped tunnels. Any "pause" now would ensure a much longer war. Biden knows it too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1719885081873989898)  2023-11-02T01:12Z 74.2K followers, 69.6K engagements


"Was in South Africa under Apartheid. No black nurses. in Israel Arabs account for 30% of hospital doctors. No African judges. In Israel an ex President was sentenced to prison by an Arab judge. Arab entrepreneurs Many . Academics who cite Apartheid viz Israel reveal ignorance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1727611603649024033)  2023-11-23T08:54Z 74.2K followers, 1.4M engagements


"I know why Israel's war in Gaza is so shocking: the IDF is fighting to win a victory in the old-fashioned way by counter-attacking the enemy that attacked on October [--] until it is incapacitated to the point that no surrender is even necessary. Recent wars not for victory failed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1754956455080329269)  2024-02-06T19:53Z 74.2K followers, 63.2K engagements


"Israel's emerging victory in Gaza is two-sided: the physical destruction of the enemy and a v low number of casualties. It turns out that Hamas is better at killing the unarmed than to fight highly trained soldiers & and that Israeli-made equipment really works. Morale V high"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1755048280528912691)  2024-02-07T01:58Z 74.2K followers, 269.7K engagements


"My account of the war in Gaza: why so few IDF casualties why such high Hamas losses. Unbelievably Hamas leaders thought that Israel would not dare to invade Gaza. This war is reviving the idea of Victory as a war aim. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/israel-winning-gaza https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/israel-winning-gaza"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1756111679241195704)  2024-02-10T00:23Z 74.3K followers, 150.2K engagements


"Sinwar & co planned the October [--] attack without planning for an Israeli response because they were convinced that the IDF would never dare to enter Gaza's complex of tunnels high-rise sniper nests pre-mined roadways. They also confused their killers for fighters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1758977068543443447)  2024-02-17T22:09Z 74.3K followers, 55.7K engagements


"Ukraine needs soldiers. Today's young Europeans indulge in all manner of dangerous pursuits & duly die on mountains in fast cars on motorcycles and by overdose. But v few volunteer to fight in Ukraine's independence war as their 19th century predecessors did in Greece & Italy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1761198100863955323)  2024-02-24T01:15Z 74.3K followers, 1.2M engagements


"I read that President Biden wants Israel to stop fighting because of the "holy" month of Ramadan. I am sure that White House Muslim staffers must have explained the complexities of Ramadan. One is that on October [--] [----] Egypt and Syria launched their surprise war on Ramadan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1762511775646302686)  2024-02-27T16:15Z 74.3K followers, 67.8K engagements


"In Ukraine the age of conscription is [--] that is when people have started to work & have children. Naturally not many show up. Now they are discussing lowering the age to [--] still absurd. [--] is the right age with bodies of growing strength. The Ukraine army is much too small"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1768996355106545826)  2024-03-16T13:42Z 74.3K followers, 347.4K engagements


"Obama's Law that Iran can attack any country but no country may attack Iran will be revoked because Israeli taxpayers including the Beduin parents of the girl injured near Arad will not tolerate a government that fails to strike back hard. That the Revolutionary Guards are incompetent aggressors grants them no immunity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1780047736194130034)  2024-04-16T01:37Z 74.2K followers, 120.3K engagements


"Americans who deplore the right-turn in French politics have not visited France (outside central Paris St Tropez etc) in years. Too many in too many French localities are after-dark prisoners in their flats. Why immigration without integration. Why Lack of effort. No. Islam"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1807914806373957802)  2024-07-01T23:10Z 74.2K followers, 58.2K engagements


"Trump's conduct immediately after he was wounded cannot be interpreted by people who have never been wounded-one does not react to the wound (whose significance remains unknown) but to the shock of the sudden impact of metal against flesh even an earlobe. Trump is no coward"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1812556247167885568)  2024-07-14T18:34Z 74.3K followers, 40.3K engagements


"Trump's conduct under fire --he was struggling to stand up to reassure the crowd while the Secret Service agents were trying to push him down out of the line of fire --shows that his television tough guy persona corresponds to his actual personality. Authenticity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1812558753889239082)  2024-07-14T18:44Z 74.2K followers, 101.1K engagements


"Till yesterday Trump was a TV tough guy -v few of whom are even moderately tough. Now we know that he is the real thing. Any and all may still oppose any or all of his policies but none can deny his manly courage. Pushed down for his safety. He stood up to reassure the crowd"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1812597040603627998)  2024-07-14T21:16Z 74.2K followers, 51.4K engagements


"Ismail Haniyeh: We need the blood of the children women and elderly. CNN: a "moderating force" NYT "relatively pragmatic" Wash Post "one of the moderate figures" The Guardian: pragmatic BBC: moderate and pragmatic Quousque tandem abutere patientia nostra"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1819864530270163319)  2024-08-03T22:34Z 74.2K followers, 159.4K engagements


""Walz traveled approx. [--] times to China while as an NCO for the Minnesota National Guard". That is weird unless of course he is a secret Sinologist who publishes under a pseudonym or a Yunnan butterfly collector. or the subject of a long-term recruitment effort"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1822831072595329522)  2024-08-12T03:02Z 74.2K followers, 256.6K engagements


"John Mearsheimer opines on the Middle East. He is not an orientalist and knows no Persian nor even Arabic. He has published nothing scholarly on the subject. So why does he opine on the Middle East Because he has opinions about Jews which are retrievable. Look at them first"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1831041466736763215)  2024-09-03T18:47Z 74.3K followers, 82.1K engagements


"Israel should not send an army to Beirut to destroy Hezbollah Hq & depots. It should send aircraft to destroy Iran's Kharg oil terminal to stop the funding of all [--] Shia militias. That violation of Obama's law (Iran attacks all but none may attack Iran) is better than IDF dead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1837244033518985705)  2024-09-20T21:34Z 74.2K followers, 132.5K engagements


"Iran's rigorously unshaven Rev Guards spent many billions to acquire ballistic missiles & have boasted for years about their formidable power. Today a billion dollars of ballistic missiles killed [--] person in Jericho an Arab from Gaza. Iran is impoverished by the IRG buffoons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1841207500160319684)  2024-10-01T20:04Z 74.2K followers, 55.1K engagements


"Nations must coexist. But Hamas and Hezbollah are not nations. They are Islamist conquest cults which totally reject coexistence. Israel's existence therefore requires their destruction. Only those who want Israel's destruction can oppose its war to destroy Hamas and Hezbollah"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1845588071934541925)  2024-10-13T22:11Z 74.2K followers, 100.3K engagements


"Today's New York Times frontpage includes no mention at all of yesterday's sensational recovery of the Space X giant Starship's huge booster by two mechanical arms as it hovered. WHY because immigrant Elon Mask supports Trump"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1845817194212389057)  2024-10-14T13:21Z 74.2K followers, 47.3K engagements


"The New York Times editor tells us that voting for Harris is "the only patriotic choice". He published & frantically promoted the illiterate & radically anti-American "1619 project" (the US only became a republic to preserve slavery) but now he is a patriot. Beneath contempt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1850568847017050306)  2024-10-27T16:02Z 74.2K followers, 50.4K engagements


"One thing the Trump Administration really can do on Day [--] is to order all Federal employees to report for duty wherever they are supposed to work. Many Washington Gov offices have been more than half empty --and the work is not NOT done at home. E.g US residency certification"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1855114965595660699)  2024-11-09T05:07Z 74.2K followers, 45.7K engagements


"The crumbling of Assad's regime results from Israel's demolition of Iran's overall strength incl Hezbollah its Shia/Arab army and v costly v crude ballistic missiles. Obama's law (Iran may attack all none may attack Iran) is finally revoked exposing years of idle boasting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1865424791886307740)  2024-12-07T15:55Z 74.3K followers, 95.5K engagements


"I read in the NYT that Xi Jinping is influenced by an "obscure Russian novel" . The name thereof is "What is to be done" (by Nikolai Chernyshevsky) . If employees of the NYT deem that ultra-famous novel "obscure" it must mean that these days DEI even embraces rank illiteracy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1868240982636167551)  2024-12-15T10:25Z 74.3K followers, 91.1K engagements


"Hakan Fidan now Erdogan's FM was his spy chief when he sent truckloads of weapons to ISIS then in its filmed killing phase. Now he is foreign minister. He has just said that "Turkey" will destroy the Kurds in NE Syria who were the only US allies against ISIS. Cannot be allowed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1876455574323499427)  2025-01-07T02:27Z 74.3K followers, 107.6K engagements


"Trump's hostility to Zelensky reflects his priority: to detach Russia from China .That he never insulted Putin is helpful but what really matters is mounting alarm in Siberia at Chinese intrusions eg logging viz just buying timber & now talk of a China port below Vladivostok "  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1895594459771126252)  2025-02-28T21:58Z 74.2K followers, 385.8K engagements


"The White House boxing match had a logic. Having decided that Xi is bent on war Trump wants to detach Russia from China: feasible because of intense alarm at Chinese encroachments in depopulated Siberia & Pacific coast incl pressure for a Pacific port for C's land-locked NE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1895867476426297420)  2025-03-01T16:03Z 74.2K followers, 200.4K engagements


"Re-industrialization + reduced immigration require many more "shop" classes in schools and lots of new industrial colleges in lieu of the present mass-production of "social science" graduates for whom ever-more municipal county state and federal desk jobs must be provided"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1908382843513766299)  2025-04-05T04:55Z 74.2K followers, 140.7K engagements


"If what Pakistan started becomes a war it would be the fifth since [----] all squarely won by India. Idem with Muslim wars against Israel since [----]. Tiny Israel invites attack but India is huge so why Because of Islam's promise of victory. They cannot accept reality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1921288453330768036)  2025-05-10T19:37Z 74.3K followers, 60.5K engagements


"They refuse to hire young Americans interested in foreign parts who have picked up a language or two & know how to elicit cooperation ( & sexual partners) across cultural barriers as "too hard to clear". Instead they try to train monolingual innocents with no languages. @ELuttwak Cia sucks. Always has. Missed: fall of ussr; [----] wtc attack 9/11 khobar Indians &Pakistan's nukes china [----] nuke and so on. @ELuttwak Cia sucks. Always has. Missed: fall of ussr; [----] wtc attack 9/11 khobar Indians &Pakistan's nukes china [----] nuke and so on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1934436891346022685)  2025-06-16T02:24Z 74.2K followers, 151.9K engagements


"Israelis touring Europe should not be surprised by the hostility they encounter. First they are richer than most Europeans. Secondly they have the courage to fight in war as Europeans used to do. Third all now knows that Israel is more advanced than most European countries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1941704444703350901)  2025-07-06T03:43Z 74.2K followers, 294.1K engagements


"Israelis touring Europe should not be surprised by the ressentiment they encounter. First they are richer than most Europeans. Second they still have the courage to fight in war which most Europeans no longer have. Third they are educationally and linguistically superior"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1943865267236573368)  2025-07-12T02:49Z 74.3K followers, 91.4K engagements


"Uno stato Palestinese sarbbe la [--] esima dittatura Araba. Per me [--] sono sufficienti"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1975558524160909704)  2025-10-07T13:47Z 74.2K followers, 29K engagements


"Much of my work is more "military" than strategic and thus requires tactical and operational analysis before one can consider the theater level & finally grand strategy. But the technical level also counts for which I must rely on experts: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=zKFgFq0isww https://www.youtube.com/watchv=zKFgFq0isww"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1358195990340206592)  2021-02-06T23:28Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"fantasy malevolent + ignorant. One of several friendly fire incidents--the other victims were IDF troops @Nomad_95Bin248 @B0mbadiI @RuyDiazB1976 @ELuttwak .and Joint Chiefs of Staff hushed the whole incident up not because they'd gotten caught with their hand in the cookie jar but because they were all controlled by the Jewish lobby (tm) is sad. @Nomad_95Bin248 @B0mbadiI @RuyDiazB1976 @ELuttwak .and Joint Chiefs of Staff hushed the whole incident up not because they'd gotten caught with their hand in the cookie jar but because they were all controlled by the Jewish lobby (tm) is sad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022971837874135354)  2026-02-15T09:50Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@Nomad_95Bin248 @B0mbadiI @RuyDiazB1976 @ELuttwak .and Joint Chiefs of Staff hushed the whole incident up not because they'd gotten caught with their hand in the cookie jar but because they were all controlled by the Jewish lobby (tm) is sad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022958017969365094)  2026-02-15T08:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"only true were it a ground invasion --probability zero. @ELuttwak The war would be worse for the US than Iraq + Afghanistan combined. @ELuttwak The war would be worse for the US than Iraq + Afghanistan combined"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022970659974897869)  2026-02-15T09:46Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@ELuttwak The war would be worse for the US than Iraq + Afghanistan combined"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022558582726938913)  2026-02-14T06:28Z [---] followers, 11K engagements


"The increasingly costly Welfare/Medicare complex long ago overtook the MI complex as its GDP share kept falling. By global standards US doctors are cynical predators who view patients as walking ATM machines. Doctors should be salaried as in Italy & Israel & elsewhere @GaryHaubold @ELuttwak If only Eisenhower had warned about the welfare regulatory state industrial complex that has slowed economic growth while showering riches upon dysfunction. That metastasizing cancer is why Europe struggles to fund Ukraine at 1/10 the % of GDP of US Lend Lease for Russia. @GaryHaubold @ELuttwak If only"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022809650215673929)  2026-02-14T23:06Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@GaryHaubold @ELuttwak If only Eisenhower had warned about the welfare regulatory state industrial complex that has slowed economic growth while showering riches upon dysfunction. That metastasizing cancer is why Europe struggles to fund Ukraine at 1/10 the % of GDP of US Lend Lease for Russia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022807619761557657)  2026-02-14T22:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Bulk carriers have the lowest cost/ton and should not be subsidized. But higher value/ton LNG ships could be indirectly subsidized by giving an export-tax rebate to US-built LNG tankers (after setting a low export tax) This is the biggest strategic problem for the West; others don't even come close. The problem is that building a bulk carrier in China is about 1/4-5 of the cost; even if you can get it done in the US/EU/UK/AU etc. Realistically Western Govs going to have to radically subsidise This is the biggest strategic problem for the West; others don't even come close. The problem is that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022807593974964425)  2026-02-14T22:58Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"This is the biggest strategic problem for the West; others don't even come close. The problem is that building a bulk carrier in China is about 1/4-5 of the cost; even if you can get it done in the US/EU/UK/AU etc. Realistically Western Govs going to have to radically subsidise American shipbuiling was sacrificed on the altar of Free Trade a religion for many Americans (hence Trump's tariffs are sacrilegious.) But w/o it Navy ships must be built by hand at impossible cost. W the mass-producible Fr/It frigate killed by Nav-C perfectionism: [--] ships American shipbuiling was sacrificed on the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022805795038204333)  2026-02-14T22:50Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"Given the colossal waste of today's "System Command's perfectionism" which drives up unit costs w/o limit the USN and USAF are shrinking fast. The FR/Italian frigate was no battleship but perfectly adequate to show the flag in Pacific states repress piracy & do a bit of ASW. @ELuttwak Eisenhower's speech warning about the dangers of the military-industrial complex was a good warning even with the defense budget of only 3% . & also what to make of Trump talking about raising DOD spending from $1.0 trillion to $1.5 trillion @ELuttwak Eisenhower's speech warning about the dangers of the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022806064270327987)  2026-02-14T22:52Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@ELuttwak Eisenhower's speech warning about the dangers of the military-industrial complex was a good warning even with the defense budget of only 3% . & also what to make of Trump talking about raising DOD spending from $1.0 trillion to $1.5 trillion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022803715783098727)  2026-02-14T22:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"It was my great good luck that I joined CSIS when it was still very small with Burke Dave Abshire and maybe [--] more. "31-knot Burke" could be persuaded to talk very privately on contemporary naval matters. At the time Russia was mass-producing & Burke favored numbers too @ELuttwak Still insane to me that DESRON [--] was barely a blip on his lifes achievements @ELuttwak Still insane to me that DESRON [--] was barely a blip on his lifes achievements"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022804026023088424)  2026-02-14T22:43Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@ELuttwak Still insane to me that DESRON [--] was barely a blip on his lifes achievements"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022800642712928465)  2026-02-14T22:30Z 27.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Perfectly true -a much higher percentage of the GDP with much of the money wasted on SAGE computer-directed anti-bomber air defense radars & manned & unmanned interceptors (the Soviet bomber armada was never built). But a wonderful tech investment Budgets were bigger then. Eisenhower's hovered around 10% vs 3% today. Hence his military industrial complex speech in which he worried about an ever-increasing defense budget. Triple today's budgets made for a smorgasbord of military equipment. His speech accomplished a 2/3 cut Budgets were bigger then. Eisenhower's hovered around 10% vs 3% today."  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022801684800454926)  2026-02-14T22:34Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Budgets were bigger then. Eisenhower's hovered around 10% vs 3% today. Hence his military industrial complex speech in which he worried about an ever-increasing defense budget. Triple today's budgets made for a smorgasbord of military equipment. His speech accomplished a 2/3 cut"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022796768321183988)  2026-02-14T22:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Saudis were at war with Egyot over Yemen. Saudis had zero SIGINT capabily ie. Could not & would not @ELuttwak I buy the theory that the Liberty was doing tactical SIGINT on Israelis in the Sinai and the data was going to Egypt via the Saudis. @ELuttwak I buy the theory that the Liberty was doing tactical SIGINT on Israelis in the Sinai and the data was going to Egypt via the Saudis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022800158753186003)  2026-02-14T22:28Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@ELuttwak I buy the theory that the Liberty was doing tactical SIGINT on Israelis in the Sinai and the data was going to Egypt via the Saudis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022783532662165768)  2026-02-14T21:22Z [----] followers, 10.2K engagements


"Postulate but what Many more IDF troops were killed by Israel's young pilots (no [--] year academy hence combat flying by age 20) than US sailors on the Liberty. Not just in [----] but already in [----] (Read Moshe Dayan (CoS) Diary of the Sinai campaign. @ELuttwak It isn't antisemitic to postulate. Don't be so stereotypical. @ELuttwak It isn't antisemitic to postulate. Don't be so stereotypical"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022799854343241991)  2026-02-14T22:27Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@ELuttwak It isn't antisemitic to postulate. Don't be so stereotypical"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022782913188618349)  2026-02-14T21:20Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Fantasy. Saudis had no Sigint processing abilities & were fighting the Egyptians in Yemen not feeding them Intel. Friendly fire killed more IDF troops than Liberty crewmen . @ELuttwak I buy the theory that the Liberty was doing tactical SIGINT on Israelis in the Sinai and the data was going to Egypt via the Saudis. @ELuttwak I buy the theory that the Liberty was doing tactical SIGINT on Israelis in the Sinai and the data was going to Egypt via the Saudis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022798218111672825)  2026-02-14T22:20Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"His tempo forced the Navy's : missile-launcher nuclear sub IRBM and reduced diameter warhead (by Teller) all in [--] years. Today's NAV-C would have made it [--] years if not [--] .But CNO "31-knot"Burke would have locked them up if they had delayed Polaris allowing the USAF to win @ELuttwak General Schriever is a good example (Minuteman ICBM project). @ELuttwak General Schriever is a good example (Minuteman ICBM project)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022797432405324268)  2026-02-14T22:17Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@ELuttwak General Schriever is a good example (Minuteman ICBM project)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022787743034613803)  2026-02-14T21:39Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"American shipbuiling was sacrificed on the altar of Free Trade a religion for many Americans (hence Trump's tariffs are sacrilegious.) But w/o it Navy ships must be built by hand at impossible cost. W the mass-producible Fr/It frigate killed by Nav-C perfectionism: [--] ships"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022795135466008639)  2026-02-14T22:08Z 74.2K followers, 19.5K engagements


"That implies a land offensive billions of dollars just for logistics and Petraeus-type generals who focus on "political strategy rather than Operational Methods (in Afg he spurned ethnic regiments for "Afghan" forces w zero ethnic solidarity. @ELuttwak The war would be worse for the US than Iraq + Afghanistan combined. @ELuttwak The war would be worse for the US than Iraq + Afghanistan combined"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022785994148462877)  2026-02-14T21:32Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"nn li sottovaluto. Io ho proposto un UAV nel [----] per fotografare batterie di missili anti-aerei oltre il Canale di Suez . Hanno scelto una seconda proposta Tadiran Mastiff @Musso___ @ELuttwak Non sottovaluti i droni non solo perch sono il prossimo futuro sopratutto perch la Navy come tutto l'occidente ha problemi enormi di personale. L'automazione l'unica salvezza @Musso___ @ELuttwak Non sottovaluti i droni non solo perch sono il prossimo futuro sopratutto perch la Navy come tutto l'occidente ha problemi enormi di personale. L'automazione l'unica salvezza"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022783122476003839)  2026-02-14T21:20Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@Musso___ @ELuttwak Non sottovaluti i droni non solo perch sono il prossimo futuro sopratutto perch la Navy come tutto l'occidente ha problemi enormi di personale. L'automazione l'unica salvezza"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022781121159643609)  2026-02-14T21:12Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"anti-semites have revived the USS Liberty AGTR-5 story. It was attacked by Israeli aircraft & torpedo boats on June [--] [----] during the Six-Day War. w [--] KIAs and [---] WIAs. Israel aircrew fly in combat by age [--] (there is no air academy). Friendly-fire incidents were common"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022782308214870321)  2026-02-14T21:17Z 74.2K followers, 11.2K engagements


"Wrong: it was the WWII war-winning method: build what you can ASAP & send it to the troops while developing the improved Type II. Build it while you develop Type III.Now the perfectionists delay delivry for [--] years. By then components even subught systems are oudated @ELuttwak Seems like 50s and 60s aerospace acquisition bought a huge number of flawed products with the understanding that they were keeping the companies alive to build something better within years or months. @ELuttwak Seems like 50s and 60s aerospace acquisition bought a huge number of flawed products with the understanding"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022779794211905716)  2026-02-14T21:07Z 74.2K followers, 22.9K engagements


"@ELuttwak Seems like 50s and 60s aerospace acquisition bought a huge number of flawed products with the understanding that they were keeping the companies alive to build something better within years or months"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022761066774540296)  2026-02-14T19:53Z [---] followers, 23.9K engagements


"Today's Systems Command perfectionism would have made the 5-year Polaris R&D (new hullnew missile new warhead) impossible. ADMs Burke & Raborn stuck to tight development date targets saving $$$ as well as time. Ditto Israel's Iron Dome: it intercepted rockets after [--] R&D years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022755469584924789)  2026-02-14T19:30Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Long ago the US Army tried to acquire its first UAV MQM Aquila. The prototype outperformed the best-in class Israeli Scout. But was then cancelled by the Army's perfectionists: it failed to achieve [--] of.149 () performance specs.USN bought Scout. Army had to do without any"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022751042396434929)  2026-02-14T19:13Z 74.2K followers, 12.5K engagements


"The perfectionist cult of the Naval systems command has just killed the "Constellation" frigate a mass producible Franco-Italian warship v useful for light escort duties & "presence". First they asked for many small changes. Then a 50% () increase in hull width CNO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022744850794451444)  2026-02-14T18:48Z 74.2K followers, 18.4K engagements


"Re the challenge for Cadenazzi industry ASD at the War D: System Command perfectionism. Eg the USMC wanted small "cheap" landing vessels to allow pre-positioning. At first Nav-C responded w a suitable $100M vessel. But then Nav-C replaced it w a bigger ship than USMC wanted"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022741418779779146)  2026-02-14T18:35Z 74.2K followers, [----] engagements

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