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Iranian-aligned militia in Iraq is seeking the release of several detained militia members in exchange for freeing journalist Shelly Kittleson https://t.co/dlzG0ucgox
European Red Sea Task Force Ready For Attacks Amid Fears Houthis Could Close Bab el-Mandeb Strait Concerns grow that the Iranian-backed rebels could close the waterway, drastically exacerbating the global oil crisis and opening a new front. https://t.co/aVVe6CgGk5
So why nobody (well, maybe <1%) care about the coming AI-powered vulnerability apocalypse? (ref @unpromptedconf vs #RSAC discussions, cc @gadievron ) #question
It is insane how every so called "expert," academic getting 5 minutes of fame, podcaster, or media personality starts their critique or prediction of the war in Iran with regime change. Too bad it is a house of cards built...
"They'll push a dependency to Axios so that anyone who used these packages or worked on projects that had these packages in them are compromised. Then they get one person on a call and make them run that... It's silent...
According to a new Ipsos poll, 66% of Americans say the US should end its involvement in the Iran conflict quickly. THE US PUBLIC IS TURNING ON TRUMP, THE WAR PRESIDENT. https://t.co/tRVyc22FJC
Operation Aspides, the European Red Sea naval task force, tells me its prepared to respond in their defensive mandate should the Houthis launch a new wave of attacks on vessels. https://t.co/g4UvidO52w
Would this be a good time to once again raise the issue of operating small, slow, and poorly armed @USNavy LSMs for the @USMC in a non-permissive environment right now? I mean the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf...
.@Deepstate_UA assesses that Russia occupied 160 square kilometers in March, 27% more than in February. https://t.co/VUiCGoqDaQ https://t.co/DkINMRkzFO
Former British Diplomat Alastair Crooke on Iran's position in the war: "Iran is seeing these events... as an opportunity to change the whole geopolitics of West Asia. To invert it completely, to remove the US... and its whole infrastructure of finance...
The FT reported earlier this month that the Trump administration is considering forcing Tencent to divest certain gaming assets over security concerns. The notion that gaming assets, particularly mobile gaming assets, could be useful in user-level profiling is not implausible; recall...
Trump’s threat to exit #NATO as retaliation for the bloc’s failure to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz faces a MAJOR obstacle — one that comes from his very own Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. From @KateSullivanDC and me https://t.co/A3wZZ1pmDM
Donald Trump threatened to stop supplying weapons for Ukraine in order to pressure European allies to join a “coalition of the willing” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, @lauramdubois @HenryJFoy @ak_mack and @GeorgeWParker report https://t.co/pto4HaBALr
None of this is true. The IAEA and the US intelligence community both assessed that Iran was complying with the JCPIOA when Trump walked away from the agreement.
The 2023 NDAA adding that the Navy prepare “for the peacetime promotion of the national security interests and prosperity of the United States,” Nobody took that seriously so why should anyone take the 2024 NDAA seriously? Trump can defund NATO obligations just...
Ukrainian drone strike ability is surging. In March they launched nearly 10x the number of drone strikes as a year ago. Give them the funding they need and these numbers will surge further. Ukraine will win.
Selling, selling weapons for European money, as he allegedly always wanted. Also, trying to once again to derail things for Ukraine for the sake of blackmail as your own war goes very wrong because of your own arrogance and incompetence...
Remember that epic raid by Ukrainian military helicopters striking the Russian oil depot in Belgorod on April 1st, 2022 -- exactly four years ago today? That was literally the first such high-profile strike by Ukraine and it made an absolutely thunderous...
Left: "Much of Beijing's current strategy toward the US was laid down in 2002, when the CCP concluded China faced an unprecedented 20-year 'period of strategic opportunity' [due to] the GWOT distracting US leaders." Right: Cover of this week's The Economist...
Narrator: In fact, it was always a binary choice between the JCPOA and war. The people who opposed it were, in fact, warmongers who believed the sooner that war came, the better. https://t.co/Rbzw2uHkm7
The chart below is one of the most striking I came across researching my new report on "Defense Innovation" (https://t.co/rRtYxEUTE9). It illustrates the deep dependence of current US air-launched armament supply chains on China. In a world increasingly defined by...
…the U.S. and Israel are doing what they set out to do, what they told us...the conditions are set, I think, for a fundamental change in the nature of the Iranian regime...the regime is fragmented @LTGHRMcMaster @FoxNews I 100%...
In a letter to the UN Security Council, UAE is invoking Chapter 7 of the UN charter (commonly referred as 'use of force') seeking “immediate action” in order to “ensure the safe and secure navigation and navigational rights and freedoms...
Best part of these getting used in the middle east is the name “P1-Sun” is a joke about the shape of the interceptor... https://t.co/i5AGrieF4b
I agree there is to some extent an easy adoption fallacy. Getting FPVs to a basic level of proficiency may not be hard, but it takes dedicated force structure, experience in employment, org capacity, C2 adaptations, to scale and get...
Turns out Silicon Valley and the private sector are shitty at making weapons. Who is good at it? The U.S. government. Yup, comrades, it's true. https://t.co/ucwVpK2XDK https://t.co/jQMRytQPjE
Trump Threatens NATO Departure, Claims Iran Wants A Ceasefire Ahead Of National Address Iran has pushed back on Trump’s ceasefire claim as key allies distance themselves further from Epic Fury. https://t.co/agebGjMZ7X
They won’t end the war until Hormuz opens. But Hormuz won’t open until the war ends.🤔 https://t.co/z3QG3m2ZIs
I'm proud to launch Sage Road's sixth report, which focuses on "Defense Innovation" (read the Executive Summary here: https://t.co/rRtYxEUTE9). Accelerating global defense spending is poised to run headlong into accelerating innovation with market participants underestimating the breadth of implications to...
✅ Possible wknd invasion/raid when the markets are closed. ✅ Both of Israel's attacks on Iran (June 13) & (February 28)—occurred on Saturdays (markets closed). ✅ Easter Monday means a 3-day weekend window instead of the usual 2. Easter...
The way out of this mess, according to our geopolitics guy: The TACO was trailed by yesterday's talk about leaving others to free up the strait. Trump's latest burp today hardens this somewhat when, in answer to his own claim that...
What if I told you that for decades, this was largely a U.S. policy -- that Europe largerly disarmed, weakened its defense industries, and handed its security over to the United States, making itself dependent? What if I told you that...
I have advocated for a better understanding and policy of when the U.S. military can or cannot use tear gas (riot control agent), especially in high intensity urban warfare scenarios where even recent use such as in the Battle of...
Why I am using agents on locked down sandboxes on EC2 instances and still have more to do. I don’t give agents credentials for the most part. The data needs to somehow be exfiltrated and sent back to the attacker....
AMERICAN DRONE DOMINANCE I just visited with Anduril for demonstrations of their drone & counter-drone technologies. Today, the FCC is launching a proceeding to support our domestic drone industry. President Trump has been clear that America’s innovators will lead the way. 🇺🇸 https://t.co/IETZQ5S08H
I talked to @DavidCharter @thetimes about the latest US ground force deployments to the Middle East. Regardless of what Trump may say, once these deployments are in motion they are hard to stop -- as is Trump's willingness to use...
"Mission accomplished" We're out of here soon. Iran begged us to stop because it's to weak to move Rest of the world should fix Hormuz Then, a big military hit on Iran like the fireworks finale on the 4th of July Your list...
AI-driven cyberattacks are scaling rapidly — and $CRWD is positioning itself as a core security layer for the AI era AI is not only increasing attack volume, but also redefining how attacks are executed. Security is shifting from reactive to autonomous. $CRWD...
“The Biden and Trump administrations didn’t act on recommendations to upgrade a network of Saudi bases near the Red Sea, focusing instead on strengthening the American military position in the Pacific to counter China…” Yeah, so about that… https://t.co/lWaC9qdDQK
Why is Lindsey Graham (arguably the warmonger-in-chief of the Iran war) now advocating for “winding down” the Iran war, given that by all accounts, it is an elaborate 4-D chess play by Trump that is going according to plan or...
Iranian Republic Media: The Strait of Hormuz will not open based on Trump's absurd claims: Bloomberg
Russia's Ministry of Digital Development has ordered mobile operators to disable Apple ID payments in a bid to make accessing VPNs harder. https://t.co/oKO2qFNeHk
Starting to slip into a more familiar and comfortable position in which half my replies accuse me of being an alarmist permabull and the other half think I'm woefully sanguine about the US military assets heading for the Gulf. https://t.co/4lySW5Xl92
My rough Iran War scenario probabilities over the next month are: 🌮 40% unilateral TACO, Iran maintains some hybrid control of Strait 🪖 30% boots on the ground, strait stays blocked, spiked risk of more upstream attacks, global economy withers 🤷🏻♂️...
Trump Says U.S. May Exit Iran War Soon and Threatens to Quit NATO, as Oil Crisis Escalates. A global economic mess ahead? Is Putin smiling if US leaves NATO? https://t.co/wbm30dgf7R
The Islamic Regime in Iran, not only a terrorist. regime, but the greatest state sponsor and exporter of terrorism in the world can never have a nuclear weapon. If the last 47 years is any predictor of their continued behavior,...
Quantum computers need vastly fewer resources than thought to break vital encryption - Ars Technica https://t.co/pLuvHMFLOP
🎙️ NEW PODCAST 🎧 On the latest episode of Oil Ground Up, I spoke with @gbrew24 about Trump killing the Carter Doctrine and how to think about the political contours of the Iran War on *all* sides of the conflict and...
Legitimate questions: 🚨An oil facility that cannot export anyway due to the ongoing crisis at the Strait of Hormuz. Given the limited number of missiles and drones available to Iran, why use one to strike such a facility? 🚨An oil tanker that...
Want Combat Ready Units? Then you have to be deliberate about building unit cohesion in our world of ubiquitous online connections, social media, smart phones, distractions. My latest article @WestPoint_USMA @WarInstitute https://t.co/yfviYCzXws
