Small Wars Journal ✓

@smallwars · Nomadic · joined 17 Mar 2009

SWJ Community of Interest & Practice - Irregular Warfare & Related Issues, National Defense & Foreign Policy. RT/Like ≠ Endorsement.

69 114Followers

1 768Following

65 260Posts total

8.6KViews on collected posts

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Small Wars Journal ✓@smallwars7 Sep

John P. Sullivan @ZFTWARNING and Robert J. Bunker @CO_Futures_LLC, "Mexican Cartel Tactical Note #55: Car Bombing against the Comandancia (Police Headquarters) in Ojocaliente, Zacatecas." EL CENTRO| RESEARCH NOTES. 7 September 2026, https://t.co/17OPQpcpQH https://t.co/YOXvvS9WDn

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Small Wars Journal ✓@smallwars4 Sep

The U.S. government has no shortage of agencies, authorities, expertise, or information. The problem is getting them to operate from a shared understanding. In this #SWJEssay, CW5 (Ret.) Chad Machiela examines why common language is the first step toward effective 1.5K views · 11 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Small Wars Journal ✓@smallwars4 Sep

The following excerpt comes from Section 4, Part 246 of the Code of Federal Regulations. That’s the book of all the rules published by the U.S. government’s executive departments and agencies. A week or so after the Pentagons’ attempted firings of Stars and Stripes 1.6K views · 7 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Small Wars Journal ✓@smallwars3 Sep

Strategic power is tied to digital infrastructure. 🌐 Semiconductors, cloud computing, satellite networks, AI models, and the private companies that develop them underpin military capability, intelligence, logistics, and information operations. The concentration of these 2.6K views · 38 likes · 12 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Small Wars Journal ✓@smallwars3 Sep

Abstract A small number of private technology firms now build the infrastructure on which both military power and the public’s perception of reality depend. Drawing on a 2025 wargaming experiment at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and on the documented 468 views · 2 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Small Wars Journal ✓@smallwars3 Sep

#SWJQuotesoftheDay 🧠💭 🧵curated by our Editor-at-Large, Col. (Ret.) David Maxwell (@DavidMaxwell161) 9/3/26 1.5K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views1 464this account999median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.12%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.97%this account1.92%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 464	999	1.46×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.12%	3.62%	0.58×
Engagement rate	0.97%	1.92%	0.51×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

1.5K3 Sep

468

2.6K

1.6K4 Sep

1.5K

9927 Sep

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.28%3 Sep

0.85%

2.03%

0.48%4 Sep

1.08%

1.21%7 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.92%.

What the audience does

Likes56.1%69 in total

Reposts18.7%23 in total

Replies1.6%2 in total

Quotes1.6%2 in total

Bookmarks22.0%27 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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