Iran Prefers JD Vance over Witkoff, Kushner for Talks
The Telegraph reports Iran does not want to negotiate with Witkoff and Kushner, they prefer JD Vance. https://t.co/EM6pghSciP
Space Force Officer Reveals Emerging Threats to Space Systems
🇺🇸 Space Force officer shares intelligence on threats to space systems https://t.co/ZC1xETnG71 #SpaceEconomy #SpaceForce  https://t.co/PQPs80ePjS
Trump Pushes Iran Ceasefire to Keep Strait Open
So Trump admin is [rightly] panicking about the Strait of Hormuz so they’re going to try to get Iran to agree to a 1-month ceasefire to negotiate during which I’m sure Trump wants the Strait open Iran’s main leverage is the...
U.S. Pushes Month-Long Ceasefire for 15-Point Deal
The Times of Israel reports US administration working on a monthlong ceasefire period to negotiate a 15-point agreement. https://t.co/E2EyihE4Gt
War Was Inevitable Despite Prior Nuclear Deal Attempts
This was always going to be the case. Same with a deal over the nuclear program in many cases prior to launching the war.
Trump’s Iran Talk Claims Are Fiction, Conflict Persists
It seems Trumps attempts to make out that they are entering talks with Iran are either complete fiction or an attempt to support insider trading as the truth ebbs and flows. I know what I think and it’s not an...
Army Fast-Tracks MV-75 Tiltrotor, Trains Troops Early
Planning For Army’s New MV-75 Tiltrotor Already Part Of Officer Training, General Says With the Army putting its MV-75 tiltrotor on a blazingly fast track, troops are already getting experience on the aircraft before the first one is even delivered. https://t.co/WGPIrfTgOs
Trump Hints at Hormuz Delay Due to Rapid Interceptions
One of the charms of Trump is that he will sometimes tell you what is really happening if you read between the lines. For example, here he all but told us the real reason Hormuz isn't open yet. I would think interception...
Trump's Iran Strategy: Seize Oil Infrastructure, Risk Escalation
trump wants a win in iran. one option? take the oil infrastructure and hold it. that would be a massive escalation. @gzeromedia
Israel Demands Iran Dismantle Nukes for Ceasefire
Citing a "Western Source" Israel's Channel 12 reports the 15 conditions for a potential monthlong ceasefire with Iran: 1. Iran must dismantle its existing nuclear capabilities. 2. Iran must commit never to pursue nuclear weapons. 3. There will be no uranium enrichment on...
Trump Repeats Military Charade; Iran Sees Through It
Trump did this exact charade while sending hundreds of military assets to the Middle East while the initial strikes were already approved. He is now running the same playbook while sending additional assets, troops and restockings. Iran is not stupid.
Trump's Iran Gambit Backfires, Distracts From Epstein
"In Over His Head" - Trump’s Iran War Strategy Backfires Amid Chaos Prof Jeff Sonnenfeld, @Yale, wrote the book on Trump...literally. In his opinion, Trump is distracting from the Epstein files AND he's bitten off more than he can chew in Iran. https://youtu.be/juG5Xwa7U0A
Iran Lets Civilian Ships Pass to Target US‑Israel
Makes sense why... Iran is allowing ‘non-hostile vessels’ through Strait of Hormuz. So they can mine them against US-Israel. The rest are... sitting ducks & collateral damage? untenable
US Navy P-8 Poseidon Suffers $2.5M Collision Damage
A US Navy P-8 Poseidon got bonked by a foreign aircraft taxiing into it at an undisclosed location on March 20. Damage was enough to classify it as a Class A (>$2.5m) https://t.co/k13bI4dv4P
Iran Holds Leverage; Trump Appears Forced Into Ceasefire
Seems highly irrational for Iran to open the Strait during a ceasefire and forego all negotiating leverage. In that case, Trump would just aim for an indefinite ceasefire. And for that to even get off the ground Iran would need...
Trump Offers 15 Conditions to Iran to End War
ToI reporting: "...Trump’s administration has conveyed 15 conditions to Iran as its terms for ending the current war, Israel’s Channel 12 reports,...[t]he conditions appear to cover all of the [US+Israel] war goals,...Trump...to push quickly for “a framework agreement, an [AIP]”
Mossad Urges Iranians to Report Regime Forces, Targeting Visible Repression
Mossad tells Iranians to keep reporting on regime forces. Israel is eliminating any leader, checkpoint, tool of repression dumb enough to be visible.
Drone Strikes Threaten Russian Oil, Global Market Stability
With the Persian Gulf effectively offline, losing Russian oil would be devastating to the global markets. Drone warfare continues to evolve and reshape the way these conflicts unfold, especially when targeting energy infrastructure. #crude #russiaukrainewar #geopolitics https://t.co/L5OoXtN7DJ
One-Month Ceasefire Planned via Witkoff‑Kushner Mechanism
Israeli Channel 12: A ceasefire for a period of one month will be announced according to a mechanism that Witkoff and Kushner are working on
US‑Ukraine Fund Begins Defense Tech Investments Amid Rising Conflict
"Just over a year after a dramatic Oval Office clash derailed the now-infamous "minerals deal," the fund it spawned is making its first move, backing Ukraine's defense tech sector as global conflicts intensify. The first of three investments planned this year...
US Should Leverage Abu Musa, Tunbs
FTR, I suggested the US look at Abu Musa and the Tunbs as avenues to securing the Straight of Hormuz back on March 5… https://t.co/UU4UsAph4d
Supply-Chain Attacks Demand Isolated, AI-Driven Code
🚨 Supply chain attacks are the scariest threat in modern software. The LiteLLM compromise was an absolute nightmare scenario. The reality check: → A compromised update hit a package with 97M downloads a month → Grabbed SSH keys, database passwords, and API keys → Spread...
Pentagon's $200B Iran Request Could Push 2026 Deficit to $2 Trillion
"The Pentagon has already asked Congress for $200 billion in extra funding for the Iran conflict. If not offset by new revenue or spending cuts, that would take the 2026 deficit near $2 trillion compared with the $1.78 trillion for...
Awaiting Iran's “Tape Bomb”—Deal Hinges on Surprise Announcement
So, we are waiting for a "tape bomb" at any moment saying either Iranians agreed to talk (positive) or not agreeing to talk (effectively ending the possibility of deal).
USS Gerald R. Ford Leaves Middle East After Laundry Fire
We break: The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier arrived at a port in Crete on Monday after it had to leave the Middle East — and the war against Iran — when a fire broke out in its laundry...
GOP Pushes SAVE America Act via Reconciliation Amid DHS Shutdown
NEW: Republican senators reportedly sold the White House on a plan Monday night to pass the SAVE America Act through a reconciliation package after enacting a funding bill for most of the DHS, which has been shut down for over...
Demand Counter‑UAS Testing Before Deploying Troops
I’m choosing my words carefully here—I have concerns putting our troops into this sort of environment, without prior c-uas testing in a high density combat environment or more direct learning from the AFU. Please factor c-UAS into these deliberations....
Threat Handoffs Now Occur in Seconds, Not Hours
"In 2022, the median time between an initial access event and the hand-off to a secondary threat group was more than 8 hours. In 2025, that window collapsed to just 22 seconds." https://t.co/gjePO94A0N < important security data in this new...
Iran Conflict Could Shut Strait, Disrupt Global Supply Chains
Planning for two-three weeks more of Iran war. What does Iran do? Are we teaching a tipping point of how long the Strait will be closed or have few ships transiting? Then what? Maritime? Supply chains. Global economy?
Iran Demands Guarantees, Rejects Missile Limits in Talks
Reuters on Tehran's tougher negotiating stance: - Iran would seek guarantees against future attacks - Refuse limits on missile programme - Trump says talks have already taken place, Iran denies - Control over Hormuz would be a key issue - Israel believe US-Iran agreement unlikely
Iran's Strait of Hormuz Leverage Ensures Persistent Economic Power
“Iran holds a lot of cards with the Strait Of Hormuz.” That’s the quote to remember. Geography can be economic power, and “that vulnerability remains pretty much forever.” https://t.co/OoCOYi8LMc
Google Adds Dark‑web Intel for Faster Threat Detection
"To get teams the critical data they need to make quick, accurate decisions about rising threats, we’re introducing a new dark web intelligence capability in Google Threat Intelligence." https://t.co/qGKDWJjI36 < identify risks faster and get ahead of adversaries
Speed and Security Don't Justify Government Equity Stakes
"Rare Earths, Vulcan, and Government Equity Stakes" https://t.co/O8xyNepv2V via @CatoInstitute @DeHavenTad "The case for speed is not a case for ownership—and the case for national security is not a case for normalizing a model in which politically favored firms receive...
F-15EX Becomes Sensor King with Triple‑Pod Suite
Pod party on this F-15EX: Sniper targeting pod, AAQ-13 Nav pod w/terrain following radar, and Legion IRST pod. F-15EX is the bolt on sensor king of fighters.
Marine Corps F‑35Cs Deploy to Middle East Bases
Land-Based Marine Corps F-35Cs Are Now Moving Towards The Middle East The F-35Cs, operating from land bases, look set to join a Marine combat capability that is about to balloon in size in the Middle East. Lots of movements underway, updating live:...
Trump Abandons Neutrality, Aligns with Russia After Anchorage
"In effect... the United States ceased to be not just an ally, but even a neutral mediator for Ukraine. A mediator does not take a position pre-aligned with one of the parties, nor does it use leverage against the other...
Leonidas Autonomous Vehicle Demonstrates Dual-Use Physical AI
I’m proud to share @KodiakRobotics, @epirus and @GD_LandSystems are leading the way in showcasing what Physical AI looks like on the front lines. We unveiled the Leonidas autonomous ground vehicle this morning at AUSA’s Global Force. This is a defining moment...
Synthetic Data Keeps Customer Info Safe From Frontier AI
Most of these AI solutions right now for the cybersecurity industry are utilizing frontier models. That should scare a lot of folks - customer data going into extremely new technology platforms that they literally state their new models, features/functionality are...
JCPOA Viable,
Asked Claude for this (heavily guided the framework myself and used Claude for format). Seems about right. Basically something like JCPOA is possible and the new issues are impossible to bridge the gap. https://t.co/YnSNjDjGMw
800+ Russian Drones Unleashed in Historic Attack
It appears that today saw one of the largest drone attacks in history, more than 800 Russian drones launched, not including the massive missile strikes carried out overnight.
Iran Sets Four Non‑Negotiable Demands for US Talks
JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran outlines key demands for any US negotiations: • Guarantees against future military action. • Compensation for war-related losses. • Formal control over the Strait of Hormuz. • No restrictions on its ballistic missile program….
NightBeacon AI Detects Phishing in Seconds, Automates Response
NightBeacon AI today identified an insanely cool phishing email attack that showed up on GTI/other sources as benign/non malicious. How it worked: NightBeacon determined the tonality was creating urgency (key indication of social engineering), it looks for any URLs, it went...
Ceasefire Talk Likely Theater, Not Real Resolution
Carlyle's Stavridis sees a US-Iran ceasefire "within weeks" A pause with BS talks? Maybe. Trump needs an outcome he can sell as strength Iran has no reason to give him that unless it gets something real in return. The most likely outcome is theater. #Iran...
Ford Carrier Looks Like a Star Destroyer
Major Star Destroyer vibes from this incredible shot of the Ford posted by CENTCOM: https://t.co/sGdnHeFYiI
Cheap DIY Drones Undermine US Defense, AI Threat Looms
Cheap drones, using mobile phone components, commercial off-the-shelf electronics, guidance sensors and a cheap 550cc two-stroke petrol engine, have literally defeated the entire might of US defence spending. When cheap cameras, and more autonomous scalable AI capabilities emerge, we're in real...
Polymarket Predicts 55% Chance of US Invading Iran
According to @Polymarket, there is a 55% chance US forces enter Iran by the end of April. Forget Trump’s talk of the art of the deal. He takes his orders from Jerusalem. https://t.co/GgrtwQc8kz
US Launches $1T Pax Silica Fund to Secure Supply Chains
The New "Pax Silica" Fund The Trump Administration is establishing a Supply Chain Fund. The "Pax Silica" fund will support energy, semiconductor, and critical materials. The US will commit $250M, and partners will include Singapore, the UAE, Qatar, and Sweden. The...
Revoking
YES And this is what happens when you pull their pentagon passes and security clearances…. https://t.co/oQFBy98VJw
War on Iran Paradoxically Boosts Its $500M Revenue
This is confounding. We are fighting a WAR against Iran but letting them increase their revenue by over $500 million...
Japan Downgrades China Ties; Beijing Calls It Red‑line Breach
As Japan moves to downgrade status of China ties, Beijing moves to blame Tokyo On Tuesday, China’s foreign ministry said comments by Japanese leader Sanae Takaichi had sparked anger in China and breached a “red line”. https://t.co/hPal9FNVTW