Your strongest held beliefs are shaped by operations like this and you allow it to happen uncritically.

Vivid account of 2025 war

Did a fair amount of #phd reading & writing over the weekend, and focused a lot on Kendrick Kuo paper on military restoration. Really great points on the danger of overemphasing novelty in military innovation. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The U.S. does about 60% of all the NATO spending. But the reason why is that it's a huge and rich country. Per capita, America's contribution is actually not pack-leading. Proportionally, it's definitely not leading the way.

FT comments never miss

Lessons from the air wars. "Russia managed to strike more than 75% of Ukrainian air defense sites in the first few days of the invasion, although the destructive effects were limited. Russia does not appear to have sufficiently updated its target lists..." csis.org/analysis/air-s…

Proliferation is here and your next opponents are likely to have access to all sorts of drones

Instead of a thousand words. Rescuers taking kids to safety after a Russian attack on a daycare in Kharkiv. During the attack, the children were brought to a shelter in the basement of the daycare.

Russia is targeting toddlers because they can't win on the battlefield. And because they're war criminals.

"SBU Brig. Gen. Ivan Lukashevych said the new vessels also feature AI-assisted friend-or-foe targeting systems" apnews.com/article/russia…

Interception of the Russian Shahed kamikaze drone.

Another hellish night in Ukraine. The air force said Russia launched 28 ballistic and cruise missiles and 405 drones predominantly aimed at critical infrastructure. But at least seven people were killed by strikes on residential building. on.ft.com/4hlpVP7

The Russians are using a new tactic to locate Ukrainian FPV crews. When a Ukrainian FPV launches the video transmitter is set to low power, since its detection could reveal the launch location. A Russian FPV flies around the frontline and hovers over suspected crew positions. 1/

Tell me again how U.S. supplied Tomahawks aimed solely at military targets in Russia would represent a dangerous escalation?

"Russia is protecting its nuclear submarine fleet in the Arctic with an undersea surveillance system built using high-tech equipment acquired from U.S. and European companies through a secret procurement network" washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/…

"Russian soldiers ... infiltrate in groups of two to five Russian personnel, using thermal sheeting or tents that they hold away from their bodies with handles. The soldiers hang a radio around their necks & a torch between their legs to see their feet" rusi.org/explore-our-re…

Absolutely essential reading from Jack Watling on how the land battle is being fought in Ukraine

a friendly reminder that russians are the ones who exterminate Przhevalsky's horses and other rare species of animals that live in Ukraine war affects not only people, but also animals

"Am I going to die?" the child asks quietly. "No, no, everything will be fine," the police officer reassures him. A Russian drone directly hit a daycare in Kharkiv yesterday. The kids were in the shelter, thankfully, and evacuated quickly. Many had acute stress reactions. I

When you start putting wings and cheap engines on bombs, all you need is the flight controller and camera and its another drone. Convergent evolution