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thitch.bsky.social
Currently Senior Space Reporter at Breaking Defense. Space geek; former peace & security think-tanker; voracious reader of fiction esp. sci-fi/fantasy/alt-history; interested in cooking, archaeology/anthropology, poetry and scientific discovery.
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Let the beheadings begin. (Someone needs to create a guillotine emoji). breakingdefense.com/2025/02/trum...

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Well that escalated quickly. @space.bsky.social @breakingdefense.com breakingdefense.com/2025/02/salt...

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Bureaucratic shenanigans at DoD: OSD acquisition shop has guns out for the Space Development Agency and its semi-independent status within the Space Force. @space.bsky.social breakingdefense.com/2025/02/excl...

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Hegseth has drafted a plan to craft a plan for Trump's "Iron Dome" missile shield. breakingdefense.com/2025/02/excl...

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@space.bsky.social It took us a while, but we got there in the end. A little analysis piece on Iron Dome for America plan. breakingdefense.com/2025/02/how-...

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Wow. breakingdefense.com/2025/01/what...

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@space.bsky.social Catching up on RAND study commissioned by Lt. Gen. Bratton on space deterrence wRussia finding it's getting harder and harder, creating a truly nasty security dilemma that may make conflict avoidance and de-escalation reaaaaaallllly hard. breakingdefense.com/2025/01/fear...

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My colleague Michael Marrow and I got the scoop on the Air Force decision to place Space Development Agency Director Derek Tournear on administrative leave. @space.bsky.social See: breakingdefense.com/2025/01/excl...

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A catch-up on Trump's border executive order, and NORTHCOM. @space.bsky.social See: breakingdefense.com/2025/01/trum...

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"Industry lies:" Frank Calvelli on DoD cost-plus contracts. My exclusive, long-form exit interview with the Air Force's first-even space acquisition exec: breakingdefense.com/2025/01/excl...

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I spoke to outgoing Air Force space acquisition czar Frank Calvelli yesterday, and here is the first story from that exclusive exit interview. More to come! @space.bsky.social breakingdefense.com/2025/01/calv...

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Saying the quiet part out loud: Outgoing AFSec Frank Kendall at CSIS today used a chart showing the future Space Force will be equipped with "orbital weapons" -- which may be the first official use of that term, rather than "orbital capabilities" or "counterspace capabilities" or "space fires."

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My day was eaten by the MTCR. breakingdefense.com/2025/01/new-...

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I continue to be deeply moved by this statement to the heavens by President Carter.

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Year end round up of stories in 2024 I thought provided some perhaps unexpected insights. breakingdefense.com/2024/12/peek...

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Catching up on latest Trump DoD appointments. breakingdefense.com/2024/12/trum...

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From colleague Michael Marrow: Kendall pushes back on Musk re F-35 and manned fighters. breakingdefense.com/2024/12/not-...

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Catching up on the new WH S&T strategy for cislunar space. breakingdefense.com/2024/12/whit...

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I wrote this a while back, before joining up here. So sharing the love. breakingdefense.com/2024/10/spac...

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Spent most of the week in Orlando at the Space Force Association conference. This is probably the most interesting of the stories to come out of it, with the implication that the service in future will build mobile sats to hunt and kill enemy birds. breakingdefense.com/2024/12/new-...

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I've been down and out with COVID this week, but got a bit of news out today for @breakingdefense.bsky.social breakingdefense.com/2024/11/andu...

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Hi Friends. I'm not yet used to this forum, but hope to find y'all here.

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