Judging from the prose, the Pentagon appears to be using AI to announce the death of soldiers. If it’s not AI, it’s a person who simply does not care.
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Judging from the prose, the Pentagon appears to be using AI to announce the death of soldiers. If it’s not AI, it’s a person who simply does not care.
Again, only one Arrow-3 launch over the night of March 5, this time from Tel Aviv.
Brings the total Arrow-3s recorded since the war started to 16. That is still below the number used during the first night of the 12-Day War alone
The White House released President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America HT @ddimolfetta.bsky.social
"Cyberspace was born in America"
"President Trump will continue showing those who harm our interests and attack our values in cyberspace place themselves at risk"
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
I'm not sure how you judge that because the assessment isn't 'do I have enough munitions & all that goes into them for X targets', it's - in part- whether you can sustain a protracted war for longer than the other side. So possible that threshold already crossed?
Fascinating on the critical minerals consumed in US weapons in the past week and the time it will take to replenish those. Gallium is a particular concern.
foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05/i...
Without the radar that battery is temporarily out of the fight and that means the Patriot batteries deployed to the base will have higher burden placed on them. THAAD and PATRIOT are meant to work together, with THAAD acting as upper layer and PATRIOT as lower layer.
Probably first major US loss of the conflict when it comes to ballistic missile defense. One of TPY-2 radars belonging to the THAAD battery deployed to Muwaffaq Salti Airbase in Jordan seems to have been struck. The full radar set goes over $200M.
"...war in Iran is very unpopular. Not merely negative-number ... but worst-ever-support-for-war-when-it-started unpopular. With just 38% of Americans in favor, support for bombing Iran is lower than retrospective support for the war in Iraq was in 2014." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-us-i...
You can see why Russia sees an opportunity to settle scores. "Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
The battle between the Pentagon and Anthropic couldn't have come at a worse time. AI safety is no longer a hypothetical problem; it's a real concern for the world we live in today. And the US Government's demand? Move faster and break more things. My cover story: www.economist.com/briefing/202...
Surprise twist: Trump gets appointed to Assembly of Experts and Expediency Council.
A special military operation, if you will.
I find it hard to imagine, in fact implausible, that the US remains in the war until two months before the midterms.
I'll be on BBC Question Time this evening, 9pm on iPlayer and 10.40pm on BBC One. Come for my hot takes on the spring forecast & asylum reforms, stay for my views on the Iran war.
Bonkers. "One western official said that the proposal to send the ship [HMS Dragon] did not cross the desk of the chief of defence staff until 9.30am on Tuesday — four days after the war started and nearly two days after RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus was hit" www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...
Remarkable to hear Colby say to Congress that regime change isn't a war aim because killing Khamenei was an Israeli decision. In his Feb 28 statement Trump himself made clear that it was essentially a joint action. Meanwhile the administration appears to be actively arming a Kurdish ground force.
"Thousands of Kurdish fighters have begun ground activity inside Iran from areas near the Iraqi border, according to senior American and Israeli officials."
www.jpost.com/middle-east/...
Readers can look back on this exchange for themselves and judge whether my claim amounts to a "heroic assertion" and whether your response is professional or petulant.
Straightforward lie. "If we didn't hit within two weeks, they would've had a nuclear weapon'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
Sounds like Israeli SOF may be operating inside Iraq (presumably setting up FARPs and the like for aircraft that en route to/from Iran or ground launched munitions)—and some of them may have gotten into a shootout with Iraqi forces
Sorry, supreme allied commander transformation (SACT), of course.
F15s losses trivial in larger context but munition expenditure is not..big opportunity cost.
I'm good at my job, and will keep doing it well. This is the same tiresome, lazy knee jerk response we saw after the Maduro raid. We've published thousands of words on the political dimensions of this war. The fact that you haven't bothered to read them is on you, not me.
War is political, and yet its military components are also worthy of some proper analysis. This fact seems to offend or anger a lot of people who assume that the people doing this analysis somehow imagine the politics unimportant.
My colleague Anshel Pfeffer & I write today in @economist.com on the operational success of the US-Israeli war on Iran so far, the falling rate of Iranian missile launches & the targets that are likely to be attacked in the next phase of the air campaign. www.economist.com/middle-east-...
For @economist.com subscribers, my Inside Defence episode with Admiral Pierre Vandier, NATO's supreme allied commander Europe, is now out: www.economist.com/insider/insi...
It's not about solidarity with the US, it's about supporting Turkey.
"Just 27% of Americans thought the country should attack Iran, according to an Economist/YouGov poll conducted a week before the first strikes. A new survey conducted from February 27th...showed little sign of a rally-round-the-flag effect" www.economist.com/united-state...
