I recorded this podcast today for the MAZL podcast, which Elissa Wald runs. I know that at least one subscriber wanted me to offer a message of hope, but this sure as shootin’ ain’t it. Binyamin…
I’ve used an open source map from the Institute for the Study of War Map Room with attribution on screen. I’ve also asked Gemini to gin up a WW3.0 briefing graphic. I keep talking about that framing,…
This is being called Javier Milei’s sabre-rattling, and it’s an appropriate descriptor. A sabre is an effective weapon in skilled hands, but it’s absolutely useless at a range of 300 nautical miles.…
I didn’t mention Russian nuclear attack this week because I think it’s likely. I was talking about other means of Russian attack against countries supporting Ukraine, and the UK as singled out by…
A meeting with video and in-person attendees was a ’hybrid’ meeting until we got used to it, and now it’s just a meeting. Thing is, combining high-intensity operations with lower-intensity operations…
Britannia ruled the waves by taking pains to control choke points: The Pas-de-Calais, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Suez Canal, the Bab-al-Mandeb (‘Grief’s Gate’ in Arabic), the Strait of Hormuz and…
There is a newly opened tender for constructing three neighbourhoods connecting part of Jerusalem Municipality which is over the Green Line to Maale Adumim, which is a Jerusalem suburb over the Green…
The United States has tried to fight in only one theatre of World War 3.0, focusing on achieving a quick, decisive defeat of Iran without engaging Russia and North Korea as adversaries. This is…
The salami slicing metaphor for Russian attack against the West … remember that idea?*Buckshee from the Hindi बख्शी, bakhshi, the Indian Army term for the pay officer. It generally refers to something…
ERRATA: In this podcast I confused Tulsi Gabbard, lately US Director of National Intelligence, and Kristi Noem, lately US Homeland Security Secretary. It was Tulsi Gabbard rather than Kristi Noem who…
