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Secretary of Defense Rock
Personal blog · secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.comhistorypolitics
Secretary of Defense Rock writes History Does You, a personal blog at secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com about history and politics. Since 2025, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “In Defense of Operation Market Garden”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A Substack on US defense and military policy, linked as a related article criticising the growing role of former special operators in military planning and its effect on US military capabilities.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Mostly Musings on History but also Civil-Military Relations, Foreign Policy, and the Indo-Pacific.
Most-linked posts?
- In Defense of Operation Market Garden2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-17
What Hacker News says?
There is a US policy though, and none of the supposed China Hawks have even voiced a "kee-ahh" in response to US policy empowering and elevating Chinese power. Way back in September last year, which feels like forever ago, there was this good summary from Politico: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/05/pentagon-national-d... > Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon’s policy chief, is leading the strategy. He played a key r…
Comment linking /p/the-final-evolution-of-the-gop-china
on “Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries”Submitted The Drone and AI Delusion as a story · 14 points
HN discussionAnother article in the same vein is this one, criticizing the increasing role of former special officers people in military planning roles: https://secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/p/the-triumph-o... , seeing it as catalyzing a lot of destruction of US military capabilities.
Comment linking /p/the-triumph-of-the-operator
on “Law Enforcement's "Warrior" Problem”Submitted In Defense of Operation Market Garden as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Defense of Operation Market Garden as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Air Power Against Mobile Targets and Missiles as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted George H. Butler and the Limits of Being Right as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The "Thucydides Trap" Trap: U.S.-China Relations and the Misuse of History as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
