Christoph Harig

'Elsevier made £1.04 billion in profit in 2025, according to its parent company’s latest annual report, up 7 per cent on 2024.' 1/2

Bluesky - You won’t believe what the UKs defence attaché to the UAE is??

Sandy Sandilands! They send him to the land of sand!

US CENTCOM tweet showing videos of operations in Iran with Hegseth quote "If you kill Americans anywhere on earth, we will hunt you down without apology and without hesitation we will kill you"

Apolitical professionals who would never obey illegal orders doing some professional posting

On the other hand, if market traders' attention span was a bit longer than a 5 second Trump video clip, the global economy would be in a much healthier state

The global economy is being held hostage by the brain farts of one particular person

Great how Europe is redeploying some of its best equipment away from Russia to deal with a crisis created by our "security guarantor."

The Royal Danish Defence College invites applications for Associate Professor in Military Operations or Assistant Professor We are looking for expertise in the study of warfare and military operations, including (but not limited to) intelligence, military theory, country- or region-s

Three open positions at the assistant/associate level at the Royal Danish Defence College. 📅 Deadline 29 March.

👉 Military Operations: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

👉 AI, new technologies and frontline leadership: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Reach out if you have questions

U.S. Southern Command @Southcom on Twitter On March 8, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Six male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar

- 158 people killed in 188 days. Guilt for a non-capital crime unknown.
- 42 separate attacks.
- 27 in the Eastern Pacific. 13 in the Caribbean. 2 unspecified.
- 17 listed as at Donald Trump's orders. 16 at Pete Hegseth's orders. The last 9 at the orders of Southcom's Gen. Francis Donovan.

Don't forget that some (pro-Russian charlatans) have been accusing Bellingcat of being a CIA-psyop.

The Wisdom of the Markets™

Thinking of the Trump-supporting restrainers at this difficult time.

Anyway, protection of critical infrastructure as described above now requires dealing with highly complex questions of civil-military cooperation (CIMIC) - and the civilians therein often are profit-driven companies, not NGOs
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When you as a government agree to contracts with tech companies who provide your battlefield management systems, do you write down they have to physically protect their data centres themselves?
Or will you be so dependent on them that you will have to divert scarce military resources to protect it?

‘It means missile defence on datacentres’: drone strikes raise doubts over Gulf as AI superpower Iran’s targeting of commercial datacentres in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare

Nice task for military planners:

You have, say, 2 air defence batteries available in your AOR that includes your country's capital and several important military bases.

Do you use one of them to protect a data centre?

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Madness - One Step Beyond

It’s already happening. Iran attacked a desalination plant in Bahrain.

This war has to end immediately. If it turns into a water war we will be dealing with a whole different level of a humanitarian catastrophe across the region.

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Trump Urges Latin America to Use Military Against Cartels President Donald Trump told a group of Latin American leaders that they need to work with the US to target drug trafficking cartels as he sought to bolster US leadership in the region.

Trump presents the brilliant solution to defeat the drug trade:

"The only way to defeat these enemies is by unleashing the power of our militaries. We have to use our military, you have to use your militaries.”

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The emerging “Claude killed the kids” frame on this story shows just how easily anti-AI counterhype can end up doing the government’s work for it. If you use a computer to choose targets—esp. but not only if you give it bad data to work with—and it chooses poorly, that‘s on you, not the computer!

Presidential systems are clearly a terrible idea anywhere, but say what you will about Latin America, at least there we know that you can remove a president.

ICYMI: Mein Interview gestern in DIE ZEIT, über die Konsequenzen des Irankriegs für Russland.

Dieser Krieg bringt für Putin Vor- und Nachteile - aber je länger er andauert, desto mehr wird Russland profitieren. Und wohl versuchen, den Krieg für Trump schmerzhafter zu machen.

When privately owned data centres constitute Mission Vital Infrastructure, they become targets and militaries will have to protect it somehow

In other words, do you use your scarce air defence for data centres, force protection, or protecting your own population?

Cult of Tactics, alternatively known as:

Donald Trump Has Lit a Global Match Trump and his aides think the United States has global leverage that his predecessors refused to use. He seems to forget that other countries have leverage, too—and they’re intent on using it to stop ...

I made a contribution to Jordan Michael Smith's sweeping article in the New Republic today. A longer read, but well worth it.

newrepublic.com/article/2072...

Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi 12 track album

Stop literally everything.

Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time.

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Das scheinen Bilder vom ungarischen Überfall auf einen ukrainischen Geldtransporter. Ein Mitgliedsstaat der NATO und der EU in Aktion.

Gringos imitando

O Trump adora o estilo greco-goiano

Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper Last year, we wrote about a Walsh Medical Media journal that refused to withdraw an author’s paper unless he paid a fee — even though he didn’t write or submit the article. For one reader, some det…

Well, this takes the biscuit.
I know of cases where people were named as authors without their permission, and where it's difficult to get anyone to do anything about it. But here we have a particularly brazen publisher who says they'll remove it if you pay $500!
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The Incel Force is strong with this one

"War is the continuation of 4chan-posting by other means"