Taiwan began major military drills to test commanders’ ability to fight on the fly while temporarily limiting internet access for the first time. 🔗Link to article in comments ⬇️
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Taught everything from economics to CQC, sold everything from yaks to yachts, used communication for shinjitsu to subversion. Natsec, policing, urban warfare, markets, learning.WW1 ME&Asia.Trad COTUS Conservative. "Seen some stuff; done some things."
Woodgrain on your arm, wind in your hair! https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1947-chrysler-town-country-17/
Learn nothing...repeat negotiations...create "settlement" no one really agrees on the terms...throw more munitions...rinse and repeat...
Institute for the Study of War@thestudyofwar.bsky.social · yesterdayIran Update Special Report, 08.04.26: US officials & Iranian negotiators present competing interpretations of the emerging arrangement on the strait. The Iranians’ inconsistent messaging is likely due to the competing Iranian regime factions’ approaches. (1/6) Read more: isw.pub/IranUpdate08...
Iran Update Special Report, 08.04.26: US officials & Iranian negotiators present competing interpretations of the emerging arrangement on the strait. The Iranians’ inconsistent messaging is likely due to the competing Iranian regime factions’ approaches. (1/6) Read more: isw.pub/IranUpdate08...
Project Evergreen can keep the Coast Guard from trading long-term readiness for short-term urgency. https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2026/august/foresight-force-design-and-how-coast-guard-can-win-long-game
Foresight, Force Design, and How the Coast Guard Can Win the Long Game
Project Evergreen can keep the Coast Guard from trading long-term readiness for short-term urgency.
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The Trump administration has revoked the visa of Brazil's ambassador to the United States. apnews.com/article/trump-braz...
Trump administration revokes visa of Brazil’s ambassador to US in spat with Lula
The Trump administration has revoked the visa of Brazil’s ambassador to the United States in retaliation for Brazil’s denial of visas last month for two American diplomats who sought to visit ahead of upcoming elections.
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I'm not sure if I'm boring when I test my training slideshow out loud 🤔 My assistant refuses to comment
Wars do not end when the guns fall silent. They continue inside institutions, societies, and the minds of the citizens who fought them. https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2026/august/when-guns-fall-silent-bleak-future-postwar-russia
When the Guns Fall Silent: The Bleak Future of Postwar Russia
Wars do not end when the guns fall silent. They continue inside institutions, societies, and the minds of the citizens who fought them.
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The U.S. Navy is extending its use of Saildrone unmanned surface vehicles for an expanded counternarcotics mission. 🔗Link to article in comments ⬇️
A region that can't see into its supply chains can't defend them. The threat North America needs to defend against— subsidized overcapacity disguised as ordinary trade—thrives on that blindness, argues Diego Marroquín Bitar. How can the USMCA review close the visibility gap?: https://bit.ly/4wGlXr9
The Visibility Gap: The Case for a North American Trusted Trade Laboratory
Supply chain visibility is the best defense against Chinese overcapacity and transshipment. The USMCA Review can act as a coordinating mechanism for North American trade to leverage AI and large-scale...
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El-Sayed's win is an ill omen for the current direction of the Democratic Party — and a terrible development for Michiganders and Americans alike. https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/08/el-sayeds-win-is-an-ill-omen/
El-Sayed’s Win Is an Ill Omen | National Review
The winner of the Michigan Senate primary does not disclaim the DSA’s radical politics and has a long list of institutions he’d like to see abolished.
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My Friend Dovie and New York’s Assisted-Suicide Cruelty | Kathryn Jean Lopez https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/my-friend-dovie-and-new-yorks-assisted-suicide-cruelty/
My Friend Dovie and New York’s Assisted-Suicide Cruelty | National Review
The law allowing assisted suicide takes effect today in the Empire State.
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ORL Texas Chair, Merrill Matthews on Trump's disastrous tariffs. "Trump won’t be on the ballot in November, but Republicans will be. And they will be the ones paying for Trump’s tariff failures." thehill.com/opinion/fina...
Trump’s tariffs are his biggest policy failure
President Trump’s tariff policies have faced criticism for failing to reduce the trade deficit, hurting U.S. businesses, and providing insufficient revenue to offset the federal deficit.
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 03,1955
NEW: Russian forces are replicating aspects of their Summer-Fall 2025 battlefield air interdiction campaign that set conditions for late 2025 advances near Pokrovsk and Hulyaipole to prepare for offensive operations against the Fortress Belt. (1/5) Read the update: isw.pub/UkrWar080326
Very interesting development
NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com · 2d agoGeorgia's Kulevi refinery has begun shifting away from Russian crude, processing Kazakh oil since July. Operator BSP expects a Libyan cargo in late August and says the refinery plans to use entirely non-Russian feedstock from August-September 2026. #Georgia
'Now, robot versus robot battles are common. However, Russia has adapted as well. It learned from drone warfare and was the first to deploy fibre-optic drones at scale across the front,' writes David Kirichenko.
The autonomous arms race in the Russia–Ukraine war | The Strategist
The war in Ukraine has become increasingly technological. Take unmanned systems: Kyiv has successfully implemented a drone strategy that combines a drone wall along the immediate front, long-range dro...
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Japan’s 2026 Defense White Paper Digest — USNI News news.usni.org/2026/08/04/j...
Japan's 2026 Defense White Paper Digest - USNI News
The following is the English translation of Japan’s 2026 Defense White Paper digest, released Aug. 4, 2026. From the Report The time has come for our annual release of our white paper, “Defense of Ja...
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Ukrainian drone and missile maker Fire Point has secured agreements from European defense companies for the Freyja missile defense project, its CEO said. 🔗Link to article in comments ⬇️
The Iran war has exacerbated the U.S.'s shortage of key munitions, but it is not the only cause. There are also longstanding strategic, operational, and institutional reasons, argue Mark Cancian and Chris Park. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4gajQpu
Six Reasons Why the United States Is Low on Munitions
The Iran war has exacerbated the Pentagon’s shortage of key munitions, but it is not the only cause. There are also longstanding strategic, operational, and institutional reasons.
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Thales Australia has turned a drawing board concept into a fully functioning, armed unmanned ground vehicle, or UGV, in just six weeks. 🔗Link to article in comments ⬇️
“He looked every inch a sailor,” wrote one midshipman of Luce. “He was their High Priest of Seamanship, who not only wrote of the art, but lived and practiced it.” https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history/2026/august/seamanship-how-stephen-b-luce-wrote-book-practical-naval
Seamanship: How Stephen B. Luce Wrote the Book on Practical Naval Education
“He looked every inch a sailor,” wrote one midshipman of Luce. “He was their High Priest of Seamanship, who not only wrote of the art, but lived and practiced it.”
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In comparing U.S. state AI bills to international approaches and voluntary industry frameworks, CSIS's Aalok Mehta with Laura Caroli reveal an emerging global consensus on responsible frontier AI development that could anchor federal legislation. Read: https://bit.ly/4h6GUqe
Toward a Federal Framework: Lessons from State and International Frontier AI Regulation
In a new analysis, Laura Caroli and Aalok Mehta compare U.S. state AI bills to international approaches and voluntary industry governance frameworks, revealing an emerging global consensus around resp...
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Read the COTUS Donny... Presidents don't get to run elections by decree...Its a state power.
SCOTUSblog@scotusblog.com · 2d agoIn a Monday filing, states challenging President Donald Trump's executive order on mail-in voting asked the justices to leave in place limits on its implementation.