Two Gen Z in NE:

“He asked me what the highs and lows of working there were. I was like IDK I just started this job.”

“Yeah that’s dumb.”

“They’re all older so they remember 9/11 and were telling their 9/11 stories.”

“Omg can you imagine being old enough to remember 9/11?”

This is a very good episode and well worth your time. An interesting point that I hadn’t previously considered is the root in the rise of drones was the proliferation of IEDs in the GWOT era. Very interesting, well done ⁦Aaron MacLean⁩ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sch…

JUST RELEASED:

Research from AEI's Mackenzie Eaglen estimates that China's true military spending is $710.6 billion.

This calculation is 3x larger than Beijing's self-reported totals and several billion dollars higher than estimates from the US intelligence community.

Cool School of War episode today on... well, ray guns, essentially. Andy Lowery of Epirus joins to discuss microwave countermeasures in drone warfare.
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LIDAR - a technology key to autonomous vehicles and infrastructure mapping is rapidly becoming a CCP owned and operated affair. The US needs to both keep CCP tech out of USG systems and incentivize the procurement of 'friendly' LIDAR in US infrastructure
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Whenever Matt Pottinger speaks about America’s cold war with the Chinese Communist Party, Americans should listen.

“What we’re calling for is a policy that actually aims for victory.”

Hmm Max… hmm.

How can America win in this new cold war against #China ?

Watch Michael Sobolik unpack how America can counter the #CCP 's rise.

There is no reason to think the challenge is limited to the skies over Iraq and Israel; it could threaten the United States, and fast. That means U.S. policymakers have no time to spare in generating a better blueprint for defenses against drones.

ICYMI this joint op-ed.

Aaron MacLean AG Not to mention that a future owner would be able to air things the CCP would rather keep secret. They don't want a Tik Tok version of the Twitter Files.

Iskander Rehman joined us this week to talk about his new 📕 Iron Imperator: Roman Grand Strategy Under Tiberius - in the episode he told the tale of Teutoburg Forest. Give a listen 👇 and leave a review on Apple if you like the show!
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Enjoying a moment of renewed faith in our governing institutions. Full credit to Speaker Mike Johnson for his leadership in challenging circumstances.

The one word missing from this statement: divestment

Because the legislation doesn’t ban TikTok. And TikTok knows that.

They don’t want to talk about divestment because it leads straight to ByteDance. Straight to the Chinese Communist Party.

Biden should celebrate this momentous achievement by deleting his TikTok account.

Not sure why I took so long to start listening to School of War, but well worth it. The awesome thing is, you can pretty much jump around. No need to listen in order. Some great conversations and insights into history and current conflicts.

We have some neat coming attractions on School of War: Andy Lowery of Epirus will join us to discuss directed energy countermeasures for drone warfare, and Sergey Radchenko will talk about his new history of the Cold War, To Run the World.
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A Statement from Veterans On Duty:

Memo being sent around to Senate GOP offices this afternoon — a final push to get as many GOP votes as possible on final passage & taking aim at some of the arguments made in recent days by opponents of Ukraine aid.