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Wonderful. Can we expel US intelligence from Waihopai and the FBI from Wellington now, please?
Navy Juggles Its Aircraft Carrier Plans To Stay Afloat One carrier was already tired before it had a fire, another saw its service life extended for the second time, while the delivery of a third is delayed. https://t.co/0wcOTKMdzP
Security at MacDill AFB, home of @CENTCOM, @USSOCOM, two USAF refueling wings and dozens of other mission partners as been raised to FPCON Charlie, the second highest level possible, the base announced on its FB page. https://t.co/1n7BRrZUmC
Dear Speaker of Islamic Republic, you do know we have 9 more aircraft carriers and an entire Marine Corps…. right? Not saying anyone here wants to deploy them along the strait but, ultimately, it’s not really your choice.
The CIA is an amazing place staffed with very talented people, but “don’t over think a single poor-quality video” is like OSINT 101. Hard lessons.
The generative AI models used in classified environments can answer questions, but don't currently learn from the data they see. That could soon change.
Size comparison of Vietnam and Iran. We only had troops in half of Vietnam and peak strength was 580K. https://t.co/t6mzoeG4GY
Navy E-2D Hawkeye Radar Planes Appear To Be Rushing To The Middle East The E-2D is America's most capable platform for spotting drones and other low-flying Iranian threats that are wreaking havoc on Gulf Arab States. https://t.co/0X8hOJvdao
IRAN is JUST GETTING STARTED /Alastair Crooke & Lt Col Daniel Davis https://t.co/XXmrRSM32D via @YouTube
One blurry jet over Shiraz is exploding online.... some say it looks like a Mirage 2000 or Typhoon and must be a covert Gulf country aircraft. That theory doesn’t hold up at all. UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar... none of them...
So it grows: The US military official leading the effort to build the Golden Dome missile-defense shield put a $185 billion price tag on the first stage of the project, a $10 billion increase https://t.co/nEZojGGV8x
Really enjoyed Mobilize by @ssankar. Deadly serious topic told with a great mix of historical context and real world experience in solving hard problems in national security. Not just admiring the problem like many other books do, provides a blueprint...
Iranian state media has now confirmed the death of Ali Larijani, the secretary of the country’s Supreme National Security Council and a key pillar of the Islamic Republic wartime leadership.
The US Navy awarded @geckorobotics a $71M contract to deploy wall-climbing robots across 18 Pacific Fleet ships — inspecting hulls, decks, and welds 50x faster than traditional methods, with the aim of keeping 80% of the fleet ready for deployment. https://t.co/EQS8rjiyGt
Dude, they weren't the ones who fucked around, why should they have to be the ones to find out https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/nato-countries-dont-want-get-involved-iran-operation-trump-says-2026-03-17/
Russia has been expanding its intelligence sharing and military cooperation with Iran, providing satellite imagery and improved drone technology to aid Tehran’s targeting of U.S. forces in the region Gift 🎁 link -> https://t.co/qyc94zak5C
The U.S. removed key minesweepers just b4 the attack on Iran, weakening its ability to counter naval mines: "You know who still has robust minesweeping capabilities? Our European allies. The same ones we’ve been insulting and threatening for the last fourteen months" ...
Actually, this is Russia realizing that they're losing. Russia didn't invade Ukraine for the land -- it has enough of that. It invaded Ukraine for the people. The goal was to force Ukrainians to be Russian. Going for a land grab...
.@Telesat: Lightspeed constellation to have 500 MHz of mil-Ka-band, about 25% of total capacity, to meet surging defense interest. 1st 2 sats launch in Dec, with 96 in orbit by end 2027, commercial service starts spring 2028. @MDA_space @SatixFy_satcom @NationalDefence....
The #GoldenDome cost figure Gen. Guetlein revealed today ($185B) is roughly in line with Architecture 1 in the paper I published last September. https://t.co/nIwiczXe7s
Here is what I think will happen if USA can't keep strait of Hormuz open - I do think that USA will have a very low threshold for pain in the Gulf because Trump is elected on avoiding 'forever wars'....
If the U.S. wants NATO support it needs to ask for it. Have we submitted a formal request for support? Have we filed an Article IV or V request? NATO isn't a government, they can't act on their own. It...
There can be boots on the ground without ships but a large scale land invasion would absolutely require the US Merchant Marine ready reserve fleet These ships are too big to hide. @mercoglianos is watching them closely. Follow him & hit...
With this argument, @PeteSessions extends the usual D.C. argument about what counts as putting boots on the ground (Do special operators count?) to include a conventional Marine Corps unit that would be on foreign soil. That's pretty much the definition of...
Remember that USMC artillery shell that everyone very loudly insisted didn't explode over the 5 Freeway and was just a conspiracy? Well the Marines just released a 600 page report on what caused a shell to explode over the 5 Freeway....
Keep Hormuz closed long enough and it is a mathematical and logistical certainty. The only debate is "How long is 'long enough' to make that happen?"
Updated maps from the past five days showing Russian advances near Novopavlikva, Kupyansk, Huliaipole, and east of Kramatorsk. https://t.co/Hs3S3iuZCr https://t.co/1qFKiFAd0p
An uncrewed airship is now patrolling NATO's borders - is lighter than air back in fashion? #avgeek #aerospace #airships https://t.co/RYT6aotR7P https://t.co/F0PhTCX93d
The $ONDS Sentrycs Counter-Drone Cyber System detects drone communications signals and intercepts or jams them. Simply put, this system is designed to hack hostile drones and take full control. $ONDS acquired this company for just $225M. The Iran War is a free...
I don't think people appreciate just how little of the country the IRAF and IRGCASF were capable of defending. Very few countries attempt to defend all of their air space, they have to pick and choose. Iran's defenses were heavily...
My list of accounts to follow for quality information about the Iran war and Strait of Hormuz holds up two weeks later… 👇👇
FWIW, I personally think Europe should participate in keeping the Strait safe, but the lack of willingness to do so is obviously another sign of the impact of nonstop rhetorical aggression against allies since Trump took office
Oh, so now it turns out Biden “gave” us $400 billion of “equipment in cash”!
"China Is Learning the Lessons of Hard Power" @ForeignPolicy Great analysis. I agree. https://t.co/lY4cNmw8Do China Is Learning the Lessons of Hard Power Economic strength alone is insufficient If the United States can dismantle that pillar in a region closely tied to China’s energy...
Would note that commentary like this follows @PeteHegseth firing @dandcaldwell and others last year at the Pentagon and alleging they leaked classified information. No evidence emerged supporting that, and Caldwell just got a new job at ODNI, as @GregJaffe and @julianbarnes...
Decapitation of Basij leadership, headquarters/infrastructure strikes, checkpoint hunting. IMO Israel is doing the work to set the conditions for the population to take back their government when the time comes.
Guys, the PROPER way to attack Iran would have been to go over the risks of not attacking with Bill Kristol and ask him for his advice. Then, laud him in public for it, keeping him in the loop about the...
Great analysis, I agree with @stavridisj “This is a big deal, if killing Khamenei was a 10, this is a 8 1/2…this is a big deal taking these two out…drilling down below the 4 star, 3 star, 2 star [Iran political...
Britain’s national security adviser Jonathan Powell: “We regarded Witkoff and Kushner as Israeli assets that dragged a president into a war he wants to get out of.”
If you aspire to primacy, then "WE DO NOT NEED THE HELP OF ANYONE" are words that may very well come back to bite the United States in the ass.
"The cable, circulated by the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem on Friday, relayed an Israeli assessment that Iran’s regime is 'not cracking' and is willing to 'fight to the end' despite the Feb. 28 killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and...
The United States has encouraged Syria to consider sending forces into eastern Lebanon to help disarm Hezbollah - Sources briefed on the matter.
How it started: Kyiv in 3 days How it's going, 4 years later: Shoigu says "...the pace of development of [Ukrainian] unmanned drone systems and the sophistication of the methods used to deploy them are such that no region of Russia...
Russia says it supports Cuba after Trump says he will 'take' the Communist republic https://t.co/VoBuULLvdn
Do you think the U.S. varsity media will put it this way? “Trump’s Director of National Intelligence quits, saying, without evidence, Iran posed “no imminent threat to our nation.” https://t.co/rEKN3Kyskx
I don’t do polymarket, but that is not going to happen during this U.S. administration or Israeli government watch. Iran’s entire nuclear program has been attacked (from top scientists, centrifuges, centrifuge manufacturing, weaponization, research centers, and every component of the...
“I don’t want to be the person they call and say, can we hit the enter button on this command. But I also don’t have a God complex.” @davidu of @a16z on the Anthropic-DoD rift, why VC has a right to...
PHOTO(S) OF THE DAY: China is still getting (some of) its oil — and Iran its getting (some of) its money. Three weeks into the war, Iran continues loading oil supertankers from Kharg Island. (No damage visible at this resolution) Photo @CopernicusEU...
Trump's Director of National Counterterrorism Kent resigns: "I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel...
Spent my whole life hoping nuclear weapons would diminish and disappear, only to find a bunch of old men want to sacrifice everything economically and morally to build more and more, until the world is bristling with the damn things....
