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How the United States Can Support Allied and Partner Efforts to Counter China in the Gray Zone: Affirmative Engagement | RAND rand.org/pubs/research_…

💡Recommendation #5: The 🇺🇸U.S. #intelligence community should identify opportunities to release and publicize information on malign 🇨🇳Chinese actions that can support U.S. transparency operations. rand.org/pubs/research_… RAND Todd Helmus 👇👇👇

Superb new report out from Todd Helmus and his team at RAND on “Understanding and Countering China’s Maritime Gray Zone Operations.” Includes in-depth discussion of Maritime Counterinsurgency pp 44-54. Read the whole thing. rand.org/pubs/research_…

Fascinating story about the attacker’s spiral to isolation and puritanical Islam But still no evidence he consumed extremist propaganda or connected with recruiters. So the big question still remains. Why ISIS? Tracing the New Orleans Attacker’s Secret Radicalization by NYT

For almost 80 years the concept of a stable predictable US global order led US allies to integrate the most fundamental aspects of their security, and finances into a US-dominated system. They felt this was relatively risk free. Until now. 🧵

This is the best summary of the current geopolitical situation I have seen. Sir Alex Younger was head of MI6 between 2014 and 2020. Really worth watching.

🕯Today, people on the Maidan paid their last respects to Ethan Hertweck. A 🇺🇸United States citizen and a veteran of the US Marine Legion who fought and died for 🇺🇦Ukraine, near Avdiivka.

We've been through a lot, America.. And there’s more ahead. But no matter what—we still love ya!

According to Adm Stavridis, we, at our own peril, are walking away from a $400 Billion dollar defense partner that is Europe.

Watching spineless politicians squirm while compromising their principles really makes one wonder. We have such a short time here on 🌍, if you don't have integrity, what do you have? How can you look in the mirror? Power, fame, 💰 mean nothing without dignity/self-respect.

I am writing up talking points for a int’l symposium event on what the west must do to deter adversaries from using disinformation in conflict. Realizing tho that the notion of a unified “west” is an increasingly an antiquated and out of date notion. And it blows my mind.

🥳New: In "The Silent Struggle: Countering 🇨🇳#China’s #GrayZone Operations in the #SouthChinaSea", #SeaLight analyst Ariana L. provides a review of two recent RAND reports. Todd Helmus sealight.live/posts/the-sile…

The Trump administration has effected a revolution in foreign policy. Every country will consider how to wean itself off dependence on the United States. The Post-American World is now in plain sight. My take:

Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was tortured to death in Russian captivity, The Guardian Her body was returned without eyes, brain, or larynx. Burn marks on her feet. Stab wounds. Broken rib. Signs of strangulation. 1/

For the first time ever, a Ukraine maritime drone shot down a military fighter jet. Ukraine's Defence Intelligence destroyed a Russian Su-30 air superiority fighter using a Magura maritime drone equipped with anti-aircraft missiles. 1/

Interested in China's gray zone warfare? Listen to: - China’s Gray Zone Campaign in the Pacific Islands Cleo Paskal - China’s Gray Zone Warfare Todd Helmus - China’s Silent Invasion of America's Homeland Mike Studeman - Drone Warfare in the Indo-Pacific Mick Ryan, AM - China

I joined Al Jazeera English to discuss the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.

The one figure that really strikes me is that over 17,000 children have died in this Israeli campaign. It is mind-boggling. nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opi…

“Gaza will become a place where no human can exist…” “The emphasis is on maximum damage…” “Erase Gaza…” Remember the words of Israeli officials in October 2023? They made their plan clear, and the world let them carry it out. Look at Gaza now. Apocalyptic.

Foreign Aid is not charity. We must make sure it is well spent, but it is less than 1% of budget & critical to our national security.