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Opening the Strait of Hormuz is not America's problem, says Marco Rubio "The countries that are most impacted by that should be willing to do something about it." "We'll help you." "We're impacted by it a little bit, but the rest of the world is impacted by it a lot more." I love the systems view.
Trump on Iran War: "It's for legal reasons I say military op, because as a military operation I don't need any approvals. As a war you're supposed to get approval from Congress, something like that. So I call it a...
New at THE OVERSHOOT: Russia's Iran War Windfall in Perspective https://t.co/YgLaalkQxU As long as financial sanctions and export controls remain in place, the aggressor's gains from higher oil and gas prices will be limited. https://t.co/MWwrDIs9pR
1/3: Japan’s security posture is intensively debated inside the country—and its security policy is, therefore, dynamic and evolving. A new series of essays from two new #CarnegieAsia nonresident scholars seeks to appreciate these dynamics from a Japanese perspective, harnessing in...
“They have a nuclear weapon, or they want to have one. They were very close. They were two weeks away. I call it the luclear dust." https://t.co/4GzxjDCgqT
Here's a small taste of NightBeaconAI (our human driven but AI-SOC augmented solution I've built) @Binary_Defense - it has attack path deconstruction - can see every part of an attack chain with details on each part of it. Doesn't matter...
Cuba is being worn down by the relentless US blockade, shown by this chart on the Economist. More featured on today's Chartbook Top Links in the comment below. https://t.co/WP5T7dRmAp
Houthis Threaten Red Sea Escalation as Iran War Risks Spreading to Second Shipping Chokepoint https://t.co/9Nypu2iQHO
U.S. President Donald Trump: "Tonight, we are closer than ever to the rise of the Middle East that is finally free from Iranian terror and aggression."
"Gulf countries are increasingly frustrated with the US over the Iran war, privately questioning American security guarantees and expressing concern about the Trump administration’s apparent lack of strategy..." https://t.co/dmcHthBwRz
Having now passed the one million flying hours mark - how the Eurofighter Typhoon remains the backbone of European air power #avgeek #defence #NATO https://t.co/byu8M2PzW4 https://t.co/ZTe2VFrnyR
US offering $10 million for info on Iranian hackers behind IOControl malware | The Record from Recorded Future News https://t.co/2wnlp84kjx
Iran is processing ships at the Imam Khomeini port, located in Khuzestan at the northernmost extreme of the Gulf, near Kharg Island. So, for ships seeking passage approval from Iran, they have to sail all the way to the northern end...
Iran US war news LIVE: Tehrans counter-proposal to US expected soon; Marco Rubio hints at next move https://t.co/UUGxfHdaMx
Deleted the Walter QT re: Houthis because I couldn't find any other supporting reports. All I could find was this report (from yesterday) that noted the Houthis were read to respond militarily "should developments in the war on Iran require such...
Hardened Underground Facilities Now Being Sought For Al Udeid Air Base Iranian attacks highlight the glaring need for hardened infrastructure and shelters to protect troops and military assets. https://t.co/z6Sqsl2jPV
Scoop: As Iranian missiles and drones rain down, CENTCOM is seeking vendors who can plan and design a hardened, underground facility at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. But it won't be built any time soon. https://t.co/8w5TtpXOLA
The reasoning given by the Trump administration for shutting down wind farms was due to concerns about interrupting military radar and sonar. But now offshore wind farms can be integrated into national defense programs, boosting sensing technologies. https://spectrum.ieee.org/offshore-wind-military-radar
China has been planning for over a decade to be cut off from global energy resources. Sustainable Energy is National Defense
"The United States has spent seven decades severing every operational link between the Navy and the Merchant Marine, and the Hormuz crisis is the bill coming due." 🎯NAILED IT 🎯 https://t.co/l9z9PP9W7P
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration is signaling to allies that it has no immediate plans for a ground invasion of Iran, even as it deploys thousands of troops to the Middle East, people familiar with the matter said. @nwadhams https://t.co/YZRj1gwl2H
Senior Iranian Official: Tehran Yet To Decide Whether To Respond To US Proposal Because Of Attacks On Industrial And Nuclear Infrastructure - US Action Of Launching Attacks While Simultaneously Calling For Talks Is 'Intolerable' - Iran's Response To Proposal Had...
Yes. Ultimately, DoD can pay x or Palantir or someone else to develop custom AI models for them, for example. The most important part of the Anthropic - DoD conflict was elevating some of the issues to the public, the...
Looks like Iran scored a direct hit on the US apron at Prince Sultan Air Base today. Smoke everywhere... At least one KC-135 Stratotanker is toast and a few others might be banged up from those ballistic missiles and drones.
"Tehran’s ‘toll booth’: How Iran picks [for now] who to let through Strait of Hormuz." Mentions the late IRGC Naval Commander. Is it just me, or does this read like a target list to deconstruct? ...submit the information to the...
#TurkeyWatch 🇹🇷: President Erdoğan fingered Netanyahu's gov't and Israel for “not only targeting Iran”, but also its “step by step implementation of plans to occupy Lebanon”, and its continuing “aggressive violations” of Syria’s sovereignty. https://t.co/M9KIHTZopA
This marks the first full week since the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran began that the Pentagon has done *zero* press conferences. Last briefing was held by Secretary Hegseth and Gen. Caine on March 19. Hegseth's public affairs team itself has not briefed...
Silly in many ways, but specifically: given that we're already 4 weeks into the Iran War, it seems as if Slok here is implying that the Trump admin will achieve durable and favourable Iranian regime change between the weekend and...
"Eurofighter Typhoon continues to play a central role. Between 2024 and 2025, around 80% of combat-aircraft missions conducted by operator countries were flown by these aircraft." https://t.co/HctQ8eSjo4 https://t.co/dkdRxPXYSU
FBI Director Kash Patel's email breached by hackers linked to Iran, sour... https://t.co/CmeuUp2yiA via @YouTube
Not even a slight bounce on this headline. *US SIGNALS TO ALLIES NO IMMEDIATE PLANS FOR IRAN INVASION
"They are out of missiles" U.S. confirms only one-third of Iran missile arsenal destroyed as war continues
Six Democrats sent a letter to the Director of National Intelligence seeking clarity on whether using a commercial VPN could strip citizens of their privacy rights by exposing them to foreign surveillance laws. https://t.co/6Uq3Y7oKvv
NEW: Secretary of State Marco Rubio tells me at the airport before leaving France that the US does NOT need to deploy ground troops to accomplish its objectives in the #IranWar. But part of the cabinet's job is to always give...
On this episode of TWZ: Special Access, Jamie Hunter visited TacAir to learn about their heavily upgraded F-5AT fighters and how they replicate enemy aircraft to keep U.S. fighter aircrews sharp. https://t.co/17p9XTnS5L
Thanks to Trump and Netanyahu's war on Iran, oil prices, jet fuel, and virtually everything under the sun, are taking a hit. US-ISRAELI WAR ON IRAN IS COSTING EVERYONE IN THE WORLD AN ARM AND A LEG. https://t.co/rjfW2er9UQ
This follows Israeli strikes that reportedly targeted steel industry facilities in Isfahan, Iran Tehran remaining very tit-for-tat in its responses A gas project for a gas project, steel plants for a steel plant—good reminder of why no one has yet taken out,...
The attack on Iran is a catastrophe for the U.S. It ends with Trump out of office, or perhaps him finding some way to concede Iranian sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.
We break w G Korte: President Donald Trump will deliver his annual budget request to Congress on April 3 as he seeks to dramatically boost defense spending while continuing to downsize domestic agencies, according to a person familiar with the...
I suppose it depends on what purpose you believe Iran's ballistic missiles must serve. It does not appear that Iran's missiles are capable of either disrupting ongoing Israeli and US air campaign nor deterring further Israeli and US attack.
Drones disrupted modern warfare. Now, a vision of a single operator with a VR helmet directing a swarm of robots ready for combat. This isn’t an episode of Black Mirror. It’s the near-future. Tech is outpacing doctrine, law, and ethics. That gap is where...
g7 foreign ministers meeting in france today. on the agenda: stop the war, end iran's nuclear program, reopen the strait of hormuz. also on the agenda, implicitly: explain to allies why the us launched this war without telling them and ask...
Viktor Orban wants Hungarians to re-elect him, even though he has turned Hungary into the most corrupt and one of the poorest countries in the EU. To do so, he is telling Hungarians to fear sabotage, thievery, or even a...
This is important especially since US and China are the only countries able to ‘police’ the strait of Hormuz
The Iran-Hormuz conflict isn't a negotiation problem, writes @gbrew24 The core issue isn't whether or not talks happen It's whether the US can break Iran's leverage before economic pressure breaks its ability to continue Iran gets this Markets don't. Not yet.
House panel advanced legislation that would require the Commerce Department to demand chipmakers do more to keep AI tech from being smuggled to China Despite incessant cheerleading from some quarters, members understand the many problems with this bill... https://t.co/kBjLLxHfN9
Respectfully, calling Hormuz an “insurance problem” confuses a secondary constraint with the primary one @anasalhajji It's a military & physical chokepoint Insurance can help flows resume at the margin That's not control or securing the Strait for decades.
Just wrapped an incredible @planet On the Road in DC! Great to see our partner countries and companies. We are committed to helping Global security. Our archive, now nine years strong, along with AI enables countries to monitor large areas...
We should get back to the topic of chronically insufficient procurement of weapons that we can produce and could have been easily contracted.
"Military experts told BBC Eye that the Israeli air force is likely using particularly large bombs across Tehran from the Mark 80 series, which are often fitted with precision guidance systems. They added that the scale and spread of the damage...
