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Bassam Hassan, a top advisor to Assad who has been accused of facilitating chemical weapons attacks and is the subject of an international arrest warrant, is speaking with the FBI and CIA. He claimed that Austin Tice had been executed. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...

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Saw the Oracle and Palantir sponsorship screens before this but this is next level

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Big misunderstanding of what the Green Berets are about and why soldiers join them to expect they’d be any good at drill

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“I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn”

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Intrigued by the sculpture Vali Nasr has behind him on Newshour right now. Little bird on a big egg in a barbed-wire nest?

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Both the most detailed and the most broad reported description of the Omega team program in Afghanistan

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It is already clear that this is not a limited attack on core nuclear sites. The target set is broad and includes top military leadership in a way that Iran will see as regime threatening. The IRGC chief is dead. That is likely to drive more expansive Iranian retaliation.

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There is a US soldier currently in space—Army Col. Anne McClain, a Kiowa pilot turned astronaut—but she’s on the ISS, a lot closer to here than to the moon

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Extensive destruction between April 29 and June 10 in southern Gaza's Tal as-Sultan and Saudi Housing Project visible in imagery from @planet.com. At this rate, there won't be anything left of either neighborhood in the next month or two and it's not clear where the displaced will be able to live..

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Extensive destruction visible both north and south of Khan Yunis in recent June 10 SkySat imagery from @planet.com. The villages of Al-Qarara (north of Khan Yunis) and Qizan al-Najjar (south of Khan Yunis) have essentially been wiped out.

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For nearly 20 yrs, the US military sent JSOC operators out accompanying Title 50 CIA operations in Afg on the legal premise that the military personnel (“Omega teams”)—in the same trucks on the same raids as the CIA operatives and their Afghan troops—were there under Title 10 authorities.

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Deterrence creep: you've heard about "restoring deterrence" against Iran. Now we've got the AFRICOM commander talking about "reinstituting deterrence in a significant way" against the Somali franchise of ISIS with a recent spate of air strikes in the Golis Mountains. This seems...dubious.

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American contractor with Gaza Humanitarian Foundation describes IDF dropping off aid at night, when curfew orders make unarmed Gazans targets under IDF rules; alerting GHF that a Gazan crowd was approaching; then firing artillery at area where they’d reported the crowd. zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

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That’s XVIII Airborne Corps commander Lt. Gen. Greg Anderson on the left

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“The soldiers who cheered partisan applause lines at Fort Bragg, and their leaders, erred in a spectacular way.” www.defenseone.com/ideas/2025/0...

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Extremely cool photo of Green Berets in the 1950s when it was not yet the official Army Special Forces headwear

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This is not what DOD usually refers to as “security assistance”

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Army units have been ordered to provide soldiers for this weekend’s parade who will wear replica uniforms from all periods of the Army’s history. There’s one period in particular where I’m *really* curious to see what uniforms are featured.

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The commander of XVIII Airborne Corps—the organization all those soldiers in maroon airborne berets come from—is Lt. Gen. Greg Anderson, who’s led such prestigious organizations as 2/75 Rangers and the 173rd Airborne during his career.

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New: The US ordered all embassies in striking distance of Iran (across Mid East and parts of E Europe / N Africa) to convene emergency action committees & send cables back to DC about what measures they are taking to mitigate risks. That led to today's departures for Iraq

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The period of lowest nighttime illumination this month will be in two weeks: June 23-26

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“If you recognize a Palestinian state unilaterally, we’ll leave nothing to recognize.” That’s an Israeli cabinet minister—who has broad authority over West Bank policy—responding to the prospect of France or Britain recognizing Palestinian statehood.

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One-third of the 3,600 western soldiers who died in Afghanistan were from non-US ISAF contingents. Some countries whose militaries bore especially heavy burdens relative to their size and fought in difficult provinces include the UK, Canada, Australia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Georgia, and Romania

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(Reuters) - The US embassy in Iraq is preparing for an ordered evacuation due to heightened security risks in the region.

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