If you own a bunch of Baofeng radios you probably should be taking a moment to pause and reflect right now.

It's worth noting that even a relatively isolated nation like the DPRK can get around most sanctions. They barely slow down Russia and we have no way to implement them against China. It's time to stop substituting sanctions for strategy.

I understand the logic of the counter-move, but Russia's logistics are awful (not to mention they need most of their forces in Europe), so I'm all for them over-extending themselves deploying troops to places they'll never be able to actually contest.

I remember watching "A Bridge Too Far" for the first time as a kid and being utterly perplexed by the fact the British just stopped advancing when the plan was so clear that they were supposed to just go hell-for-leather to Arnhem. Only later did I get a better appreciation for

I think the explosion of rapid (and highly questionable) "OSINT" in the past few years has set intelligence back quite a bit.

Happy Birthday to the Army Air Corps' second, lesser iteration!

Deterrence is probably only possible in the cyber domain by making it abundantly clear it is not an isolated domain. A combination of a willingness to impose cost outside of cyber, as well as more resilient, and therefore less attractive targets within the domain, is necessary.

Our neglect of tactical air defense for 40 years means we're having to reinvent all sorts of capabilities for the drone threat. There is a lot of innovation occurring, and still to be seen, in this space.

Any discussion or proposal on Taiwan that starts off with this assumption we'll have 30-60-90 days to move things around and prepare is a non-starter. We either have a deterrent now or we don't. All planning should start from there.

Periodic reminder that the disinformation/info ops space isn't limited to Russia, and for some orgs activity from China or Iran is a more likely and more dangerous threat.

Anduril starting to do a ton of interesting stuff.

Every time I see one of those things fly by I cringe a bit.

C2, especially from an analysis and coordination perspective, makes perfect sense as a cloud application. Any security concerns have logical engineering solutions, and it buys you a ton of speed, scale, and resilience.