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New Nukesletter: A short dispatch from Tokyo as I get ready to head home: on some takeaways from conversations here this week on what Japan is learning from missile operations in the Third Gulf War. https://t.co/UoqNQDKNwV https://t.co/0r8PQ1agkZ
“optically-coordinated swarming drones with simple neural nets, that simply target anything warm and moving.” - are you paying attention yet?
Britain is letting the US use its bases because the war has crossed into a new phase, writes @ChrisTakushi It's not because the risks are lower It's that the cost of a long Hormuz closure now looks worse than the...
I’ll believe this when confirmed by Iran. * They announce all their waves of missiles & targets * This is meant to have happened a while ago & missiles were intercepted (ie little/no damage caused) * UK govt is under internal pressure for...
So, just to be clear. 1️⃣US & Iran sever ties 2️⃣US sanctions Iranian oil 3️⃣US attacks Iran 4️⃣Iran attacks shipping cutting off the flow of oil 5️⃣The US approves the sale of Iranian oil in the US https://t.co/USz8VfvQGc
The US spent 10 to 16 billion worth of munitions on the first four days of the conflict. https://t.co/KgFl3jqG7M
Both missed, but still. “Iran’s targeting of Diego Garcia, about 4,000 kilometers from Iran, implies its missiles have a greater range than Tehran has previously acknowledged.” https://t.co/4Ll8mz9eNN
(5) Protecting, at the highest level**, our Middle Eastern allies **imploding regional security, upending the global petroleum industry and shipping on which they rely, and—in best case scenario—ending the war in a politically unstable stalemate that’s sure to unravel again soon...
Marines can't get to Kharg Island without getting through the Strait of Hormuz, which would expose Navy ships to missile and drone attacks.
Knowing Cursor is a hack job and built on Kimi K2.5, pretty much cancelling my subscription right now. Zero innovation from them the past few months, it went from a pretty useful tool (nice having IDE), to really providing zero...
At some length, this court ruling cites public comments that Pentagon officials made to rule why they didn't follow the law.
Being a power engineer is a high-risk job in Ukraine, as Russia is intent on destroying the electrical grid. It's now about finding new solutions, working on backups, and bravery. https://spectrum.ieee.org/repair-ukraine-power-grid
Trump prepares to end the campaign in Iran, but offers to help an international coalition policing the Gulf and the strait. Very important for Europa to think long term here. If USA leaves now, the Gulf will no longer be...
trump: very close to winding down war in iran. presumedly $200 billion supplemental no longer necessary.
Can confirm that there is planning -- not yet approved -- to potentially send a few thousand soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division to Iran, per two officials. This comes after @WashingtonPost first reported earlier this month that the HQ of...
Iran warns UK government is “participating in aggression" 'Allowing US heavy bombers to fly from its Royal Air Force (RAF) base in Fairford, England, and from Diego Garcia—a UK base in the Indian Ocean—has been critical to the devastating US-Israeli bombing...
President Trump today: 3:43 PM ET: "I don't want to do a ceasefire with Iran." 5:13 PM ET: The US is "considering winding down" the war with Iran. What changed over those 90 minutes?
Here's the Friedman decision shooting down the DoD media badge policy: I sensed this would happen when I attended the hearing two weeks ago and the DOJ was pathetic in its defense: https://t.co/liSQrc7eZd
Nobody wants to see war escalate. Lives being lost is never something that should be promoted to be pursued. However, as a taxpaying American citizen, if Trump does pull back, I do think there needs to be a complete rethinking of...
NATO's High North, Indo Pacific or Middle East? How UK air power is getting pulled in different directions at once #avgeek #NATO https://t.co/yLs32QQPdj https://t.co/uPEQ5ZkJuu
Bam. Department of Defense loses in its attempt to defend its unconstitutional new press policy. https://t.co/sOuyLwzWGG
Trump called our NATO allies "Cowards." What did they do, use bonespurs as an excuse to get out of fighting?
Iran's cheap drones are rewriting the rules of modern warfare & the US and its allies are struggling to keep up. I joined @stephanie_h on @Marketplace Tech to break down the Shahed threat, why interception is difficult, and how the combat...
We don't use it? Five ships: APL Eagle, Alliance Fairfax, CS Anthem, Stena Imperative and Maersk Yorktown with 100+ American mariners are stuck in the Persian Gulf right now. No communication with the military or navy about escorts or when...
Israel launching missiles to protect the Dome of the Rock from Iranian attack was not on my bingo card. We live in truly strange times.
We may be getting a reminder just how much it matters not to have a robust commercial shipping fleet - no matter what we say, we can’t make other countries’ merchant ships go through the Strait of Hormuz if they...
Exclusive: As Trump mulls options to send U.S. troops into Iran, former @CENTCOM commander Joseph Votel offers unique insights into the challenges and dangers of such operations. https://t.co/LrZrcgIgiS
Iran's Shahed deployment and targeting are improving, thanks to tactics like launching swarms of drones with varying flight paths. These strategies are rapidly exhausting missile defenses in the Persian Gulf. #iranwar #shahed #geopolitics https://t.co/QUFZ0xOxqT
Headlines that the US is thinking about taking Kharg island are pushing up Brent (lhs) and causing stocks to tank (rhs). Taking Kharg doesn't reopen the Strait and could turn into a fiasco. Better to embargo Iranian oil and force...
🚨 UPDATE THE U.S. IS PREPARING TO DEPLOY GROUND FORCES IN IRAN. People are now expecting the war to go on for months. This is why markets are dumping. https://t.co/63v1BaTPgn
if iran retains one-third of its reported 10,000 per month production it would produce more drones per day than it is currently firing.
Five-byline alert: 🚨 “.. the Iranians have real leverage with this, and there’s not an obvious fix for it,” an intelligence official said of efforts to reopen the strait. @CNN https://t.co/F0HsBMF0Ha https://t.co/23PCXm7d3r
This is the equivalent of AK 47, but for drones. The world is not prepared for this yet, as we have seen it with the Gulf states. If you're using anti-aircraft missiles to shoot these things down, you're going to be in...
Here comes another Big One - on track to be as big as any of the Big Three SCS artificial island bases. https://t.co/3JJiM1TcAx
One of my #RSAC presentation is a sponsored session ... and yes, this is the one that sold out :-) Because it is about the deep secrets of how we use agents for D&R. We should probably make a...
The "LCS doesn't have to work in the minefield" argument never held water. For one, you don't know where the minefield begins. The enemy doesn't send you a map. Look at USS Tripoli and USS Princeton. Neither believed it to be...
"Ukraine’s air defense is not just high-end systems. It is machine-guns, pickup trucks, acoustic and other sensors, and shared data. Distributed defense is the lesson." https://t.co/6z5VwFDMMl
Trump’s way of war promises “war without entanglement.” But it means strikes, re-strikes—and potentially boots on the ground. The Iran war is exposing the limits, risking the very forever wars Trump ran against. My latest essay for @business (gift link):...
Re-upping this because apparently there were multiple waves of more than a dozen drones over one of our bomber bases last week. 😬
I have spent a good part of my career just getting people to believe this was actually happening. Now we are here. With 15 drones, you can lose roughly 1/4 of the B-52 force as it sits idle on the...
Spoiler alert: Fighting a conventional war with China, much less under the shadow of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems, won't be anything like picking up Maduro in Caracas.
.@OHB reports double-digit percentage increases in rev, backlog, profit for 2025 and sees four aces in the coming budgets at @esa @defis_eu @bundeswehrInfo and @NATO. Not to mention US and @ArianeGroup launcher component orders, and Digital division.https://t.co/MIRKGHICwc https://t.co/Y5An8jqVWd
Assuming the USS Boxer is heading to the Middle East, and considering that she only left San Diego two days ago, she won't be near the Persian Gulf until mid-April. If the reinforcements are intended to reopen the Strait of...
Trump, last week: "the Iranian navy has been destroyed, the air force no longer exists, and their missiles, drones, and everything they own are being annihilated" Reality, today: https://t.co/mJ7X09y7eQ
The Pentagon is deploying thousands of additional U.S. Marines to the Middle East, according to a recent report from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
“Just as Ukraine was a wake-up call for the entire world...I think Iran is a second wake-up call in that we’re seeing the most well-capitalized, best organized militaries in the world run out of some things pretty quickly." https://t.co/p2ZgYVbGw8
Good discussion on OWA drones and happy to contribute some thoughts to this piece. https://t.co/9wzT67vLWy
Many people of faith have asked why the Temple Mount, al aksa, the Western Wall and Church of the Holy Sepulchre are not open. It is because the Iranian death cult is firing on these holy places. Israel is ensuring that...
Trump does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Persian Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember. https://t.co/T41LaJfTWa
Good work by the C-RAM teams, but let’s hope that Iranian Shaheds do not get upgraded Russian Gerans (and the tech goes along with them), which skim rooftops or maneuver between buildings like they do against Kyiv.
