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Strive to be informative, professional, gracious, and encouraging in your communications with other members here. Imagine writing to a superior in the Armed Forces, or a colleague in a think tank or major investigative journal.
This is a subreddit dedicated to collating articles, opinion pieces by distinguished authors, historical research, and the research of warfare relating to national security issues.
The purpose of this subreddit is to learn for ourselves, and to bring better public understanding of related topics.
This is not at all intended to be US centric; posts relating to other countries are highly encouraged.

Comments

This is a forum dedicated to civil and informed discussion of military and defense issues.
Be polite and informative to others here, and remember that we should be able to disagree without being disagreeable.
Do not accuse or personally challenge others, rather ask them for sources and why they have their opinions.
Do not ask others their background as it is rude and not encouraging of others to have an open discussion.
Please do no not make irrelevant jokes, offtopic pun threads, use sarcasm, respond to a title of a piece without reading it, or in general make comments that adds nothing to the discussion. Please refrain from top-level jokes. Humor is appreciated, but it should be safe for a professional environment and infrequent.
Please do not blindly advocate for a side in a conflict, or a country in general. Surely there are many patriots here, but this is not the arena to fight those battles.

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Every submission should have a submission statement by the submitter/OP. A short paragraph or two from the submission itself can suffice, as long as they provide a good summary. This helps to start a conversation, force one to think about why it is interesting and why it is relevant to us.

Submissions

Please use the original title of the work (or a descriptive title; de-editorializing/de-clickbaiting is acceptable), and possibly a sub headline.
Submit articles that you will be glad that you read months or years from now.
Refrain from submissions that are quick updates in title form, troop movements, ship deployments, terrorist attacks, announcements, or the crisis du jour.
We are primarily a reading forum, so please no image macros, gifs, or memes.
Asking questions is a great way to start a conversation and learn, questions to the subreddit are encouraged.

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Please do not submit or otherwise link to classified material. And please take discussions of classified material to a more secure location.
In general avoid any information that will endanger anyone.

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