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“how about we send the kurds to de-mine the strait” - the greatest thread in the history of CENTCOM, locked by C/NAVCENT after 12,239 pages of heated debate

Oh what’s that? You need hardened stand off weapons and forces capable of close combat?

Huh. Wonder who has those…

Sorry Navy either you control the SLOCs or Army is the lynchpin of the Pacific.

Tho I will say from a policy standpoint it would set a bad precedent for a future a Taiwan crisis if the expectation is that the USN will escort shipping bc they will be too busy trying to escort themselves.

“We exist to control SLOCs”

“Not like that”

USCENTCOM’s entire reason for existence for the last forty years has been to prevent exactly THIS ONE THING from happening

and yet

I'm gonna say unilateral ceasefire attempt by Wednesday.

Should we rebrand Second Breakfast to WarTalk?

Anthropic sues to block the DOD from designating it a supply chain risk, says the designation is unlawful and violates its free speech and due process rights (Jack Queen/Reuters)

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The Pentagon can likely get away with using OpenAI’s technology for mass surveillance of Americans under the terms of their contract, legal experts told @matteowong.bsky.social.

I'm reposting this before even watching because Frank Kendall is always on my watch list and any decent administration next will have him front of the line to be SECDEF.

That & the China Talk/2d Breakfast team always kills it.

Second Breakfast: Iran and the DIB with Fmr SECAF Frank Kendall Spotify video

I sadly missed the recording this week but former SECAF Frank Kendall joined Second Breakfast this week!

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TBI: totally based Instagram

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

You can see why Russia sees an opportunity to settle scores. "Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This actually isn’t surprising in the slightest from an American POV. The only people trying to actually learn from this war are like Mike kofman, Rob Lee, 4 rando freelancers, and 7 people on here

Back when divisions had SHORAD Battalions, most AR/CAV Battalion Commanders would make the mistake of looking at his ADA platoon and seeing 5 Bradleys instead of 5 MANPAD defense platforms during a CTC rotation, with terrible yet foreseeable results. Defenses need defending, too.

“What Guam Defense System doing?”

Actually iirc we talked about this specific problem on the CUAS episode last fall too.

I said yesterday that torpedo strike would keep Beijing up and this should keep INDOPACOM wide awake (it already does, now just more evidence)

If only there was a war that highlighted this for the last few years

Almost like you need defenses for the exquisite systems themselves.

Probably first major US loss of the conflict when it comes to ballistic missile defense. One of TPY-2 radars belonging to the THAAD battery deployed to Muwaffaq Salti Airbase in Jordan seems to have been struck. The full radar set goes over $200M.

lol

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

…do I want to air bnb or is it big haunted

My entire career is Mad Libs. There’s no part of my life that doesn’t sound fake.

Once again, you are the Forrest Gump of GWOT

We are doing THE PITT commentary this week and our guest is going to suffer it.

The US every time someone comes up with a new tactic that doesn’t match their idea of combat:

The problem with Americans and doctrine isn’t that we don’t read it. It’s that we’ve become so self assured we’re convinced nobody else can think of and employ a good idea.