March 14, 2026 – Data Republican: “Hello [doxxers] Brad Duplessis” (and Ryan Evans)

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Brad Duplessis (Credit: Bluesky)

Hello Brad Duplessis,

You pre-emptively blocked me here on đť•Ź, so I am forced to make this “Hello” a standalone post.

You are a retired Army infantry officer. You served in Iraq and Afghanistan. You graduated from the National War College in 2018. You are now an Assistant Professor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Thank you for your service.

But reputations are not defined by resumes. They are defined by choices.

Today, you chose to doxx @CynicalPublius.

Today, you published your debut article on War on the Rocks. You published his legal name. His profession. His pseudonym. All in one sentence. Indexed, archived, permanently searchable.

You have changed the course of his life forever, and revealed him to the leftist ghouls who will demand his blood for forever. It doesn’t matter if he was planning to reveal his identity eventually. You still made that choice. And I will make sure you are remembered for this.

So, what was CP’s sin such that you saw it fit to throw him to the wolves?

Last month, he dared to write an article for American Greatness, centered around nine recommendations for War College reform. The recommendations included firing most civilian faculty and ending permanent military faculty positions.

You hold a permanent civilian faculty position at a War College. You did not mention this in your article.

In short, you named him, exposed his life to danger, because you really are arguing for your job and self-preservation.

Know what is the most disgusting, hypocritical part of this is?

In the Fall 2017 issue of eARMOR (the U.S. Army Armor Branch professional journal) you published an article. You titled it “Our Readiness Problem: Brigade Combat Team Lethality.” You opened with General Milley: “Our fundamental task is like no other — it is to win in the unforgiving crucible of ground combat.” Your thesis: “If we are to get after GEN Milley’s No. 1 priority, we must first address brigade combat team (BCT) lethality.” The word “lethality” appears in your article about fifty times. You meant it as a compliment.

Now contrast to today’s piece. You wrote this: “In staking out this Huntingtonian position, the cult of lethality does a disservice to service members and the American people.”

The same word. Nine years apart. You were a field commander then, and lethality was the mission. You are a faculty member now, and lethality is what your critics embarrassingly worship.

Frankly – and you will never realize this – but you yourself are the living, walking example of the thesis which @PeteHegseth is proving.

Also, you named a section of today’s article after Colin Powell. You called him your model of what War College education produces. Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama in 2008, endorsed Joe Biden in 2020, and publicly called Donald Trump “dangerous for our democracy.” Powell, who infamously tipped the scales at the UN to start the Iraq war even after privately doubting the WMD intelligence, is your hero in an article about who gets to reform the military in 2026.

In addition to being a doxxer, you look a lot less like someone who’s defending institutions, and a lot more like someone who exemplifies institutional capture in the name of self-preservation. And you disclosed none of it.

Let me reiterate.

@CynicalPublius wrote under a pseudonym and identified himself as a retired Army colonel with Afghanistan and Iraq experience. He argued about curriculum policy. You responded by putting his name on the internet.

Your career depends on the institutions you are defending. Your article defending those institutions is the same article that ended his anonymity.

You taught your students about the instruments of national power, Professor Duplessis. You are now a living, breathing demonstration one of them. And why reform must happen.

Ryan Evans, CEO of War on the Rocks

We published the real name of the person writing under the Cynical Publius pseudonym, which he used to bully, insult, and direct widespread harassment. That person’s name was already widely known. Aside from mentioning that he is a veteran, something Thomas himself discusses, the article didn’t discuss any other personal information. Further, Thomas himself has said on X that he is revealing his name on Tuesday so this is all a bullshit, elaborate PR exercise in which you, Data Republican, and of course Thomas are treating your followers like they are dumbasses.

UPDATE 3/15/26:

Hello Mr. Evans,

Today, War on the Rocks published a “rebuttal” which disclosed the real-life identity of
@CynicalPublius. What the article did not mention: you had already posted his name on Bluesky before the WOTR piece published. The WOTR article cited his being “already known” as justification for printing his name. The person who made him “already known” was you. You manufactured the predicate for your own publication’s decision.

You then blocked me. And then called me out. Repeatedly. You engaged me, mentioned me, tagged me — even said publicly that you were looking forward to what I had written about War on the Rocks.

Blocking someone on a platform and then continuing to publicly engage them is not what a person who wants to be left alone does. It is what a person who wants the attention without the accountability does.

You’re framing your own just desserts as a “mass witch hunt” initiated by a Hello post I addressed to Brad Duplessis, your contributor, who named Cynical Publius in his debut WOTR piece without disclosing that Anderson’s recommendations for War College reform included eliminating the kind of permanent civilian faculty position Duplessis holds.

You are being dunked on because of what you did to Cynical Publius, not because of anything I wrote. Blaming the letter for the blowback is like blaming the smoke alarm for the fire.

Cynical Publius wrote that military institutions had drifted from their original professional mission toward ideological conformity and required reform. You responded by publishing his name. The question your letter to me does not answer — and the question a lot of people are now asking — is why an outlet that once existed to challenge that kind of institutional behavior became the one enforcing it.

You yourself provide answers to that question.

You launched War on the Rocks because you understood something true: the United States had spent two decades losing wars it shouldn’t have lost.

Twelve years later, when a pseudonymous retired Army officer argues that the War Colleges have drifted from warfighting competence toward ideological conformity, the platform you built publishes his name in the opening sentence.

That is not an accident of character. It is how institutions stop being able to learn. Armies that cannot receive criticism cannot conduct honest after-action review. Institutions that cannot correct what they’re getting wrong keep losing — and keep being surprised that they’re losing, because the people tasked with explaining the failures are the same people defending the institutions that produced them.

In short: Mr. Evans, you have been captured by the foreign policy expert class has presided over Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. And you don’t even realize it.

Wake up.

And be on the lookout for a Substack article where I explain your history more thoroughly.

Unfortunately Brad is a clear example of institutional capture. It’s hard to wrap my head around a retired Army officer teaching at a PME school, doxxing another retired Army officer that he disagrees with bc of his politics. It’s the equivalent of an ALO lighting up a “friendly” to eliminate the competition back home bc he felt threatened by a team mate.

He personifies the institutional rot and evil nature of ppl in a system that will sacrifice everything and everyone for “the system”. Mentioning Powell as an icon is brain numbingly retarded. I’ve met Powell a few times. Everyone I met at the Pentagon (Army of otherwise) had zero respect for him except the politicians. He was a useful tool. He, like Brad, sold his soul. Powell was referred to as a Beltway bandit. Even when he wasn’t assigned in DC he was a frequent visitor. He was a paper general and not a leader, so it’s no surprise Brad would put him on a pedestal while throwing .@CynicalPublius in front of the approaching enemy forces.

The positive: Brad exposes the danger @PeteHegseth identified as hazardous to the future of our military. Instead of intellectually engaging a peer, he picked up a proverbial weapon and stabbed him in the back. He personifies the PME cadre that are spineless, vile, intellectually weak personnel teaches our war fighters while clinging to the losers of yesteryear that spent 3 decades attriting our military in body bags.

Brad blocked me a long time ago because he is a weak man with zero balls. Fuck you Brad, may you rot in hell with the rest of your idols.

Cynical, Brad Duplessis and Ryan Evans’ actions were reprehensible—pure and simple.

Duplessis, still drawing a paycheck as an assistant professor at the Army Command and General Staff College, used his War on the Rocks debut (a platform he couldn’t wait to exploit) to doxx you—without any disclosure of his glaring conflict of interest. His own past writings gushed over “lethality” (dozens of mentions), yet now he hypocritically attacks the very reforms you advocate that threaten bloated civilian roles like his. Ryan Evans, as WOTR’s founder and CEO, approved and published this hit piece, greenlighting the exposure that invited mob harassment and death threats against a fellow veteran who simply called out institutional failures.

This wasn’t scholarship or debate; it was cowardly, self-serving gatekeeping by insiders desperate to shield their sinecures, tenure tracks, grants, and power from real accountability.

They proved your point about war colleges being captured by the wrong priorities—ideology over warfighting, conformity over lethality, bureaucracy over readiness.

Duplessis should be stripped of his taxpayer-funded position training officers at a military institution meant to build warriors, not protect academic bloat. The powers that be should ensure he slides any pension he may receiver. Boot Evans from any role influencing national security discourse.

Then sue them into eternity for the doxxing, the resulting threats, the breach of trust, and the damage done—especially since they knew (or should have known) the risks to a vet speaking truth.

This rot runs deep in these places, turning forge-of-warriors into echo chambers that helped deliver Afghanistan-level disasters.

Your raw, unfiltered X insights teach more genuine strategy, critical thinking, and reform urgency than these frauds ever will from their safe lecterns.

Props again to DR for shining the light on the hypocrisy, hidden conflicts, and defense of a broken system.

You’re not backing down, and neither should we.

America’s military deserves warriors educated by truth-tellers, not these entrenched phonies.
Keep hammering, friend.

No, Ryan.

What you did to Cynical Publius wasn’t journalism, wasn’t courage, and sure as hell wasn’t “countering bullying.”

It was a gutless, calculated doxxing of a combat veteran whose only crime was wielding a pseudonym to gut the sacred cows of your precious military-education cartel with more precision than your entire editorial staff could muster in a lifetime.

You dragged his real name into the light like some cheap tabloid hitman, not because he posed a physical threat, but because his ideas…raw, unfiltered, and surgically lethal…threatened the cozy sinecures, the civilian faculty fiefdoms, and the intellectual rot you’ve spent years polishing into tenure-track respectability.

This wasn’t about “accountability.” This was projection on steroids.

You saw a man who refused to play your polite institutional game…a man who chose anonymity not out of cowardice but out of tactical necessity, the same way special operators don’t sign their real names on every after-action report…and you couldn’t stomach it.

So you weaponized your platform to strip him bare, all while hiding behind the fig leaf of “he was going public anyway.”

Bullshit.

That’s the excuse of a bully who just got caught with his fist raised.

You didn’t expose a threat; you exposed your own fragility.

The second a pseudonymous voice started dismantling the war-college echo chamber with veteran credibility you’ll never match, your instinct wasn’t debate…it was destruction.

Classic authoritarian reflex dressed up as professionalism.

You don’t get to doxx veterans, Ryan.

Not for political disagreement, not for “harassment” you conveniently redefine as anyone who makes your faculty friends squirm, and especially not when that veteran has bled for the same institutions you now gatekeep like a fucking hall monitor with a PhD.

Cynical’s anonymity was his armor; you ripped it off not to protect anyone, but to punish dissent and send a message to every other independent mind:

toe the line or we’ll burn your cover.

That’s not defense of the realm.

That’s the behavior of a man who’s internalized the very bureaucratic cancer he claims to oppose…petty, vindictive, and terrified of real scrutiny.

You are the bully here, Ryan Evans.

Full stop.

The venom you injected into that article wasn’t righteous; it was the desperate hiss of a cornered insider watching his narrative monopoly crack.

And the rest of us…veterans, reformers, anyone who still believes ideas should be fought with ideas, not personal destruction…see it for exactly what it is:

a moral failure wrapped in editorial sanctimony.

Next time you want to play tough guy, try it with your own name on the line instead of someone else’s blood-earned service record.

Until then, spare us the lectures.

Your mask just slipped, and the face underneath is pure, unadulterated institutional cowardice.