Thursday NatSec Roundup

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• Val Kilmer will appear in Top Gun: Maverick later this year. Here’s what he’s been up to.
• Late capitalism has much to answer for, including Elon Musk.
• Dave Dilegge, founder of Small Wars Journal, has passed away. Dave was critical in the development of an open intellectual forum about counter-insurgency, which eventually became all things military. War on the Rocks, Strategy Bridge, and other sites owe their existence to him. I disagreed with him plenty on politics and on administration, but his role as a pioneer is undeniable.
• The white supremacy problem(s) in the US military.
• I sure hope Space Force is funny. I’m not sure folks appreciate the impact that M*A*S*H, for all of its flaws, had on a generation of American thinking about the military. My students at the USAWC last year were at the very end of the cohort that could still claim familiarity with M*A*S*H, and the difference in attitudes between them and younger officers was notable.
• Norway 1940: The first modern air-sea battle.