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Yikes!

Context matters!

Good read looking at Chinese disinformation efforts - highlights need to be a skeptical/educated consumer. via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/…

Thought provoking article arguing for focus on pragmatic problem solving based on decentralization and incrementalism in place of Grand Strategy. Worth reading. The End of Grand Strategy foreignaffairs.com/articles/world… via Foreign Affairs

A good idea. An even better idea if this could be done at, say, the national level. Crazy, I know.

There's little doubt now: the world is headed for a Depression, ian bremmer confirms. This will be very different from the Great Recession, but it will also be very different from the Great Depression of the 1930s. #QuickTake gzeromedia.com/yes-we-are-in-…

To the families of the fallen women and men who have died for this land we love: we thank you and honor your loss by continuing the fight for liberty, justice, and freedom each and every day.

If you see tweets, posts, text messages, or screenshots like this — they are a psychological operation. They are targeting communities all over. I’ve seen versions for half a dozen places. This information is not real. Same sh*t as “martial law” texts before covid.

You will recognize the messaging in this from the early covid “martial law” text messages that spread from military/defense channels. Everyone is always sure it came from two-steps removed — but actually it didn’t.

This photo!

Worth listening to Lt. Gen. Honore.

Great piece highlighting the importance, and challenge, of social trust if America is to be great again.

I have some unsolicited advice for all Americans: don’t watch cable news. Not Fox News. Not CNN. Not MSNBC. Or anybody else. Read a book or a magazine or a decent newspaper or go for a walk instead. You’ll be happier and just as well informed.

The politics of ‘Blood and Iron’ return to Europe ft.com/content/72596c… The author contends that #Putin's war of aggression means #Europe and NATO have been thrown into a new Bismarckian era and "should expect a new #ColdWar for at least a generation on #NATO’s eastern flank"

The clever people at NASA have created this deceptively simple yet highly effective data visualisation showing monthly global temperatures between 1880-2021. Watch until the end... Learn more here - svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4975 #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #climate

One of the best ways to beat an adversary is to target their strategy. To do that, we must understand it. Here is my latest article that explores Russia’s #strategy, and its various components, for its #Ukraine invasion campaign in 2023. mickryan.substack.com/p/thinking-abo…

"The capacity to detect and strike targets at ever-greater distances and with ever-growing precision increases the vulnerability of dense troop concentrations, and therefore limits the ability to conduct large-scale sequenced and concentrated operations." mwi.usma.edu/the-russian-wa…

I wanted to talk a little more about this great thread from Samuel Bendett One of the interesting aspects of this thread is how it recognises the cycle of adaptation in military affairs. 1/8 🧵 🇺🇦

A long thread on the war and the current situation. Although the worst-case scenarios didn’t materialize in 2024, it was the most difficult period since spring 2022. There were positive developments, and bright spots, but the current trajectory is negative. 1/