This is news from June 14, 2025.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detachment_201

https://www.army.mil/article/286317/army_launches_detachment...

The tech industry is falling in line just as expected. Disgraceful. Don't take orders from a LtCol with zero military experience.

Maybe they can also get FIFA Peace prizes next?

For context. This is how it was done during the Manhattan Project. https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Peopl...

It looks like I am sharing all of my data with US Army!

(June 2025)

Did this mean less Russian propaganda bots or more American propaganda bots?

Complete with costumes! My ...

Does this mean the execs are now also under the UCMJ?

SMHing my head at my country right now. What have we become.

The comments here are hilarious. Every competent military in the world has DCO programs... Otherwise they'd never be able to attract talent for specialised fields.

(2025)

Discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44268547

Why does the army tuck their pants into their boots like that? Do they like wicking and trapping moisture into their shoes?

I'm normally very reluctant to cheer most comparisons us the US political situation to nazi germany, or to fascism in general.

But events like this (and the Intel stake) seem like an exact implementation of what has come to be called The Third Position[0], which, if I understand correctly, was the etymology of the world 'fascism' itself.

Mussolini's 1913 Fasci d'Azione Rivoluzionaria was apparently named after 'fasci', or corporate syndicates, his vision of which is basically exactly what we're seeing here: the state owning stakes in the means of technocratic production, and corporate leaders in positions of military command.

And although "The Third Position" is usually called a _neo_-fascist movement, I believe that Mussolini articulated it, more or less in its entirety, some time in the early 1920s?

I'm more of a political scientist than a historian, so it's possible I have this wrong.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Position

I thought CCCP deploying PLA soldiers at Chinese tech companies was a problem. I guess the US is trying the fascist approach to things now :).

Old (2025), but TOTALLY not fascism at all.

For more context: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/03/1255164460/1a-army-07-03-2025

So, we have a sitting US Senator/astronaut/Navy Vet who is being harassed by the "Secretary" of Defense for making a video telling troop that they can (and must) refuse unconstitutional orders. This tells us a bit about how the administration and DoD view the constitution versus chain-of-command.

Thusly, I can only assume that these "Lieutenant Colonels" are there to be ordered to do things which they cannot refuse if constitutional, and will still be expected to do if unconstitutional.

Totes not fascism.

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Old news but worth revisiting. There has been and continues to be open corruption in the Trump administration. If you donate to them and support their political positions blindingly, you get contracts or regulatory help or maybe a lack of regulatory trouble.

A good example is Jensen Huang donating to the ballroom project and Nvidia’s Groq acquisition not being blocked for antitrust. But you see this with many other leaders too. The All In podcast is basically a MAGA podcast now. Many VCs are silent about current events as they hope their portfolio companies get defense contracts.