Iran Built a Military to Survive the American Way of War: Should We Be Surprised?
Four weeks into the U.S.-Israel campaign against Iran, more than 8,000 Iranian targets have been struck, yet Iran’s missile and drone attacks have only fallen 90% and 95% respectively, and senior leaders remain operational. Tehran’s military has survived by decades of building a decentralized, redundant force designed to absorb the kind of shock‑and‑awe tactics the United States routinely employs. The conflict reveals that Iran’s resilience is not accidental but the result of a deliberate “mosaic” strategy to outlive initial decapitation strikes. This challenges the long‑held belief that overwhelming first‑strike firepower guarantees rapid strategic victory.
TMTB Morning Wrap
ARM announced a new AGI‑focused server CPU and a shift toward a fabless semiconductor model, prompting multiple analyst upgrades. Raymond James lifted its price target to $166, Evercore ISI to $227, and BofA to $155, citing projected revenue growth and...
Data Centers Are Warfighting Infrastructure
Data centers are increasingly viewed as warfighting infrastructure after a 2025 DNS outage at AWS exposed critical vulnerabilities. The incident showed that a single cloud service failure can disrupt military logistics, intelligence, and real‑time decision making. Defense agencies now treat...
Early Edition: March 25, 2026
The United States has delivered a 15‑point cease‑fire proposal to Iran through Pakistani intermediaries, while simultaneously preparing to deploy roughly 2,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division and an additional 5,000 Marines to the Middle East. Iran has dismissed the...
The Rest of the World Report | Wednesday, March 25, 2026 — Morning Edition
The United States delivered a 15‑point peace proposal to Iran through Pakistan, demanding full nuclear dismantlement, proxy abandonment and missile limits while offering sanctions relief and civilian nuclear assistance. Iran’s military dismissed the plan outright, yet Iranian diplomats are quietly...
Lessons From UKR-RU Peace Talks for US-Iran
Ragip Soylu argues that President Trump’s fifteen‑point Iran peace proposal mirrors the hard‑ball tactics used in Russia‑Ukraine negotiations, where maximalist demands were set to control the narrative rather than secure a deal. Unlike Moscow, Trump appears desperate for a settlement,...
Possible Leader of Harakat Ashab Al-Yamin Al-Islamia, Laura Loomer, Warns of Incoming Terror Attacks
The post claims that Laura Loomer, presented as a leader of a fictitious group, warned of terror attacks ten times larger than 9/11, attributing them to Iran and linking them to Israel. It mixes unverified conspiracy theories, antisemitic language, and...
Defending Global Order Against China’s Maritime Insurgency – Part 1
The interview with former Navy maritime strategist Hunter Stires outlines how China’s “maritime insurgency” targets civilian vessels in the South China Sea, seeking to replace the centuries‑old freedom‑of‑the‑sea principle with its own “blue national soil” doctrine. Stires explains the U.S....
US Congressmen Bacon, Meeks Demand Treasury Sec. Bessent & Sec. Of State Rubio Explain Easing of Russian Oil Sanctions
Representatives Don Bacon and Gregory Meeks sent a bipartisan letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of State Marco Rubio demanding an explanation for the Trump administration’s recent easing of Russian oil sanctions through General Licenses 133 and 134....
Lightning Landing; The Function of the “82nd Airborne Division,” America’s Elite Force in the Middle East
The 82nd Airborne Division, known as the “All‑American,” is the U.S. Army’s elite rapid‑reaction force capable of deploying worldwide within 18‑24 hours. Based at Fort Liberty, it specializes in parachute assaults, bridgehead creation, and humanitarian missions, drawing on a century...
What I Learned From Being a Planner in an Advisory Command: Reflections From the Security Assistance Group – Ukraine
The Security Assistance Group‑Ukraine (SAG‑U) spent six months coordinating training and equipment for Kyiv, confronting the unique demands of advisory planning. Planners had to juggle three major actors—U.S., Ukrainian, and Russian forces—while lacking direct command over Ukrainian units. To cope,...
Greenland and Strategic North American Defense in the 21st Century
Since President Trump took office in 2025, the United States has elevated nuclear modernization and missile‑defense priorities, casting Greenland into the spotlight. Pituffik Space Base now operates an Upgraded Early Warning Radar capable of detecting launches over 3,000 miles away,...
Fire Detection as a Proxy for Combat: The Economist
The Economist used NASA’s FIRMS satellite fire detection system combined with a 100‑model machine‑learning filter to identify war‑related heat signatures in Ukraine. By requiring 95 of 100 models to flag an anomaly, the approach isolates artillery, drone and missile strikes...
Trump’s 15 Point Plan to Catastrophe
A report claims former President Donald Trump sent Iran a 15‑point peace proposal, though the full text remains undisclosed. The outlined items call for decommissioning key nuclear facilities, regulating enriched uranium stockpiles, ending Iran’s ballistic missile program, and halting support...
What Is Xi Jinping Learning From the Iran War?
China is closely watching the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran to extract strategic lessons for its own Taiwan ambitions. Beijing notes that the United States is stretched across multiple crises, that Trump’s impulsive style creates unpredictable deterrence, and that the conflict...
Former MI6 Chief Alex Younger Says Iran Has the Advantage Now
Former MI6 chief Alex Younger told The Economist that Iran now holds the upper hand in its confrontation with the United States and Israel. He argues Iran’s strategy of dispersing its military, delegating weapons authority, and targeting energy infrastructure—including threats...
An Imperial Redux
An Imperial Redux draws a parallel between the 1956 Suez Crisis and a 2026 US‑Israel military strike on Iran. The blog argues that, like Britain and France, the United States and Israel pursued an independent foreign policy without NATO support,...
Iran: Relearning the Importance of Waging a War, Not Just Fighting One
Lt. Gen. James Michael Dubik argues that the United States excels at tactical fighting but repeatedly fails to translate battlefield victories into strategic success, a flaw now evident in the emerging Iran conflict. He identifies three war‑waging skills—strategic coherence, organizational...
Canadian Navy Reveals Latest Modifications to River-Class Destroyer
The Royal Canadian Navy unveiled an updated River‑class Destroyer model, aligning the design more closely with NATO standards. The Italian‑made 127 mm gun has been swapped for the lighter BAE Mk 45, and the missile layout now features 24 Mk 41 cells with...
Israel, Interrupted
The blog “Israel, Interrupted” describes how relentless air‑raid sirens, missile strikes and successive wars have turned daily life in Israel into a series of forced pauses. It traces the origins of these disruptions from COVID‑19 through the 2022 judicial reform...
UK Warns Iran Has Launched 3,500 Missiles and Drones
The United Kingdom has markedly expanded its military footprint in the Middle East as Iran’s missile and drone campaign escalates, with over 3,500 attacks recorded across 12 countries. Defence Secretary John Healey outlined a defensive, coordinated, and legally grounded approach,...
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Defense & Aerospace Daily Podcast [Mar 24, 2026] Echodyne’s Eben Frankenberg on Affordable Electronically Scanned Radars
Echodyne CEO Eben Frankenberg explained how the company leveraged breakthrough meta‑material technology to create small, affordable electronically scanned radars for both military and commercial use. Founded in 2014 within Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures, the firm secured $135 million in 2022 funding...
Canadian Senator's Advocacy Group Classified as Chinese Communist Party United Front-Linked
A Jamestown Foundation study identified Senator Yuen Pau Woo’s newly formed advocacy group as the 576th Canadian organization linked to the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department. Woo publicly attacked the study, labeling it disinformation and accusing Canadian officials of enabling...
When Did Lying Stop Mattering?
President Donald Trump used Truth Social to declare an end to the Iran war, prompting stock futures to rebound and oil prices to tumble before Iran’s foreign ministry denied any cease‑fire. Simultaneously, the administration sent ICE agents to thirteen airports,...
Rigetti Computing Develops Qubit-Efficient Algorithm for Combinatorial Optimization
Rigetti Computing secured a DARPA contract to advance quantum algorithms for optimization and unveiled a qubit‑efficient method that maps candidate solutions onto entangled wave functions, dramatically reducing the qubit count needed. The technique extends the quantum approximate optimization ansatz and...
Terrorist Innovation Model and Drone Adoption Explained | GNET Insights
The Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) released a study outlining a Terrorist Innovation Model that explains how groups like ISIS and Al‑Qaeda adopt emerging technologies, especially drones, through adaptation rather than invention. The model separates intrinsic factors—strategic goals,...
British Warship ‘Fights Off’ Attack Drones in Serials
Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer HMS Duncan successfully tracked and neutralised multiple unmanned threats during Exercise Sharpshooter off the Welsh coast. The four‑day QinetiQ‑led drill blended live Banshee Whirlwind drones and Hammerhead surface vessels with synthetic cruise missiles, anti‑ship ballistic missiles and hostile aircraft....
The War’s Not Over
The article warns that the conflict with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is far from resolved, highlighting the corps’ recent pay‑cycle failures and deteriorating morale. It notes that the United States is leveraging naval mine‑countermeasure assets, including newly‑tested unmanned...
A Sober Royal Navy Update
Mark Felton’s latest 13‑minute video offers a stark assessment of the Royal Navy’s current condition, arguing that the service may no longer be able to fulfill its traditional role of safeguarding high‑seas access for the West. The post highlights budgetary...
Redefining Espionage: The Unseen War for Technological Dominance
The article argues that the resurgence of great‑power competition and the rapid diffusion of artificial intelligence have transformed espionage, forcing U.S. counterintelligence to expand beyond traditional military secrets to protect intellectual property, critical infrastructure, and the information domain. State and...
The Rest of the World Report | Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Day 25 of the Iran‑Israel conflict shows a stark gap between President Trump’s announced five‑day diplomatic pause and the battlefield reality: Israel continues extensive strikes on Iranian targets while Iran fires seven missile waves into Tel Aviv. The ceasefire in...
Trump 5 Day Pause; Trump Claims Talks, Iran Denies; Iran Still Attacks & Hormuz Shut | Rapid Read 24 Mar...
President Trump instructed the Pentagon to suspend planned strikes on Iranian power and energy facilities for five days, citing ongoing diplomatic contacts. Iran publicly rejected the notion of negotiations and warned it would continue mining operations in the Gulf of...
Ronald Stein: Security Experts Concerned on Potential Harm of EV Batteries
Cybersecurity and national‑security experts are warning that electric‑vehicle lithium‑ion batteries could be weaponized in terrorist attacks or insider sabotage. The concern stems from the inherent fire and explosion risks of battery chemistry, amplified by the recent Moss Landing plant fire...
Lebanon on the Brink of Civil War
Hezbollah’s secretary‑general Naim Qassem declared the group will continue armed resistance until Israeli‑occupied territories in Lebanon are reclaimed. This stance comes despite mounting pressure from the Lebanese government, which, under the 2024 ceasefire agreement, is demanding Hezbollah lay down its...
US Navy Returns Historic VH-3A “Marine One” To the Skies for Egyptian Air Force
The U.S. Navy’s PMA‑226 program has completed a full modernization of the VH‑3A Sea King helicopter, originally Marine One, and returned it to the Egyptian Air Force. The upgrade adds a glass‑panel avionics suite, new electrical systems, and a custom...
If Donald Trump Offers Help, It Just Might Get You Killed
President Donald Trump pledged "help" to Iranians amid January protests, then ordered a joint U.S.-Israeli air campaign that devastated civilian sites, including an elementary school in Minab that killed over 165 people. The strikes also targeted hospitals and historic locations,...
Naval Deployment as of March 23
The U.S. Navy’s March 23 deployment map shows five carrier strike groups and two amphibious ready groups positioned across the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Indo‑Pacific theaters. Key assets include the USS George H.W. Bush and USS Nimitz operating near Europe and the Indo‑Pacific, the...
In 7 Months, 90% of Americans Will Vote on Easily Hackable Machines That Leave No Evidence of Tampering
In January 2024, Princeton researcher J. Alex Halderman demonstrated in federal court that a Dominion voting machine could be hijacked using a ballpoint pen, a $20 card reader and a $30 homemade smart card, exposing a vulnerability that leaves no...
Starmer Insists No Delays to Type 83 Destroyer
Prime Minister Keir Starmer told MPs he will not allow any delays to the UK’s future Type 83 destroyer programme, stressing the need for steady naval procurement. He linked the project to Scotland’s shipbuilding sector, citing a newly secured Norwegian frigate...
Review: Shadow Cell by Andrew Bustamante and Jihi Bustamante
The review of "Shadow Cell" examines how CIA operatives Andrew and Jihi Bustamante introduced two major reforms: cell networks and people networks. By borrowing Al‑Qaeda’s decentralized cell structure, the agency aimed to cut red tape and limit mole damage. The...
Rules Are Right
Lord Hermer KC, the UK attorney general, used a Manchester lecture to argue that Britain’s national interest is best served by upholding international law amid escalating US and Israeli military actions against Iran. He warned that a "might is right"...
March to the Sound of the Guns: Organizational Integration for Strategic Competition
The U.S. Army recognizes a doctrinal gap in integrating information operations into strategic competition and proposes a new organizational model that mirrors close‑air‑support (CAS) structures. By embedding information‑warfare professionals within State Department regional bureaus and key embassies, the Army aims...
Thanks For The Memory
President Donald Trump postponed a threatened strike on Iran, prompting a brief market rally, but analysts quickly shifted focus to the memory‑chip sector. AI‑driven demand for high‑bandwidth memory (HBM) and advanced DRAM has turned the traditionally cyclical memory market into...
Less Than 1% of Public Bomb Shelters in Israel Are in Palestinian Communities
A recent analysis reveals that fewer than 1% of Israel’s public bomb shelters are situated in Palestinian‑majority neighborhoods, underscoring a stark safety gap. A survey by the Israel Democracy Institute shows 92.5% of Jewish Israelis support the recent strike on...
Trump Claim of Productive Talks with Iran Greeted with Skepticism
President Trump announced a five‑day postponement of planned strikes on Iranian power infrastructure, saying recent talks with Tehran were “very good and productive.” Iran’s parliament speaker rejected the claim, stating no negotiations had taken place and accusing the United States...
Supporting U.S. Troops Vs. Supporting The U.S. Military
The post draws a sharp line between backing individual service members and endorsing the U.S. military as an institution. It condemns a history of wars—Iraq, Afghanistan—launched on deceptive premises and driven by a profit‑focused defense industry. The author highlights how...
When Intelligence Stops Judging, It Stops Mattering
Brian O’Neill’s post dissects the 2025 and 2026 Annual Threat Assessments and the recent Capitol Hill hearings, highlighting how Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe behaved. Gabbard shifted the definition of an imminent threat to...
3/23/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
On March 23, 2026 Small Wars Journal published a comprehensive roundup of national‑security and Korean‑related commentary. The collection highlights escalating U.S. concerns over Iran—including regime‑change debates, hybrid warfare analysis, and President Trump’s shifting stance on Iranian energy strikes—while also flagging...
Epic Fury Is Now in the Fourth Week, with More U.S. Assets Deploying
Operation Epic Fury entered its fourth week as the United States expanded its force posture in the Middle East. New deployments include up to 24 F‑16C Block 50 fighters from Misawa and Shaw bases, additional EA‑18G Growlers and E‑2D Hawkeyes, and...
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Defense & Aerospace Daily Podcast [Mar 23, 2026] Look Ahead W/ Byron Callan
President Trump postponed his five‑day ultimatum to strike Iran’s power grid after positive diplomatic talks, extending the window for the Strait of Hormuz to return to normal traffic. The delay comes as the administration prepares a $200 billion war supplemental and...