‘Russia is close to completing a phased shipment of drones, medicine and food to Iran, according to western intelligence reports that detail Moscow’s efforts to keep its embattled partner fighting.’ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Retired Patriot Battalion Commander On The Challenges Of Defeating Iran’s Barrages www.twz.com/news-feature...

I'm happy to share what I've been working on for a while: a book on the Russian General Staff. The most important military institution in Russia has not had any English book on it since 2006. Now it's time. Sharing is caring, but pre-order is good karma (link below).

“A veteran of Iraq like Mr. Hegseth should know better. The enemy always gets a vote, and even after a victorious campaign, the effect of war on a population may have complex, unwanted and sometimes catastrophic consequences” I wrote about Iran for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...

Fighting a second-rate military power while vicariously and indirectly militarily and economically strengthening two first-order ones, which you may have to confront at a later stage, through your actions, and the sequencing problems it creates, may perhaps not be sound military strategy.

‘Russia has been expanding its intelligence sharing and military cooperation with Iran, providing satellite imagery and improved drone technology to aid Tehran’s targeting of U.S. forces in the region, people familiar with the matter said.’ www.wsj.com/world/russia...

‘Black Bird, a Finnish war-monitoring group, said Russian troops in February lost more Ukrainian territory than they captured for the first time since November 2023.’ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

As with much else, the Trump administration is not so much a break but a continuation on steroids of some issues concerning the overall US warfighting approach.

“It’s one of our main concerns about Russian activity here. We know they have been targeting Nato government and military communications with what they’ve got,” said one senior European diplomat based in Vienna. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

‘With an East Coast expeditionary unit supporting the war in Venezuela & the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit deploying to the Middle East…there will be no quick response force to aid operations in the Pacific theater… the former senior US defense official said.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/u...

‘The US-led peace process in Ukraine is fizzling out because Donald Trump is losing interest in the talks and his war against Iran is easing pressure on Russia, officials say.’ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

"It began as a mistake", Charles Bukowski, ‘Post Office’ (1971)

Precision-strike warfare is in part only as credible as your stockpiles. Waste munitions in a war of choice that in some categories take years to replace, and conventional deterrence in Europe and Asia degrades by default.

‘The Trump administration has burned through “years” of critical munitions since the start of the war with Iran, said three people familiar with the matter, fuelling concerns about the rising cost of the conflict and the US’s ability to replenish its stockpiles.‘ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

"Russia is helping Iran with advanced drone tactics from its war in Ukraine to hit US and Gulf nation targets in the Middle East, according to a Western intelligence official." edition.cnn.com/world/live-n...

‚Ukraine is in talks with the US and several Gulf states about replicating Kyiv’s acoustic detection network to counter Iranian attack drones, according to people familiar with the matter.‘ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

‚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 — in the war, according to 3 officials familiar with the intelligence.‘ www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“The Republican convention, broadcast to the nation on television, did to the Goldwater campaign what an iceberg did to the Titanic.” — There’s a lot going on in my field right now, but I refuse to let this perfect opening line from @maxboot.bsky.social‘s’ ‚Reagan’ pass without proper appreciation.

‚What emerges is…the “strike-as-strategy” paradox: the substitution of impressive tactical actions for comprehensive strategic design. Under Trump, this tendency is reinforced by a political culture that demands televised displays of military prowess. …

Im Krieg gegen #Iran droht den USA durch #Drohnen ein ähnliches Dilemma wie der Ukraine im Kampf gegen Russland. Nun bietet Kyjiw Hilfe an – unter einer Bedingung. Habe für @spiegel.de mit @cemoll.bsky.social und @hoanssolo.bsky.social gesprochen: www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

A short- to mid-term military risk isn't the US running out of interceptors or PGMs in this conflict per se. It is the opportunity costs.

Strike-as-strategy ≠ a comprehensive theory of success for favorable war termination.

Those who have argued that in Ukraine two degraded Soviet-era armies are fighting each other, and that their experience in unmanned warfare has limited relevance for our doctrine, force structure, and design…

Theoretical constructs such as Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) widen, rather than narrow, the gap between the tactical, military level of warfare and the strategic, political one.

‚Emmanuel Macron has said France has offered to temporarily move nuclear warheads to allied European countries for the first time, as he pledged to increase the size of the country’s arsenal.‘ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

It’s a race for and against time in the Middle East: Iran is pursuing an attritional approach by attempting to saturate air defenses, hoping to deplete interceptor stocks.

“Old doctrine assumes maneuver is the default way to fight. Future doctrine should treat it as a rare, deliberate act that is planned, resourced, and protected.” warontherocks.com/2026/01/why-...

„ineffectiveness of war?“ —Ethiopia reconquered Tigray. Azerbaijan erased Nagorno-Karabakh in one swift offensive.

‚Israeli intelligence has concluded that… the US has military capacity to sustain just a four- to five-day intense aerial assault, or a week of lower-intensity strikes, an Israeli intelligence official told the FT.‘ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

These Ukrainians Don’t Want to Be Traded to Russia for Peace www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/w...

Vier Jahre Ukraine-Krieg: Strategien der Erschöpfung www.kleinezeitung.at/politik/auss...

Heute Morgen zu Gast im ‘The Pioneer’ Podcast, um über die Lage an der Front in der Ukraine zu sprechen. www.thepioneer.de/originals/th...

A Worrying Military Build-up in the Western Balkans? warontherocks.com/2026/02/a-wo...

‚Iran agreed a secret €500mn arms deal with Russia to acquire thousands of advanced shoulder-fired missiles in its most significant effort to rebuild air defences shattered during last year’s war with Israel.‘ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

This looks like one of the largest buildups of U.S. air power and precision strike capabilities in the Middle East in over 2 decades.

Winter has grounded Ukraine's interceptor drones, gutting Kyiv's air defense kyivindependent.com/winter-has-g...

Ukrainian infantry fight to survive on the Pokrovsk front as Russia closes in kyivindependent.com/if-you-stop-...

Warum führen Menschen Kriege? oe1.orf.at/programm/202...

„Although Ukraine faces challenges, time is less & less on 🇷🇺 ’s side, however much Moscow portrays the situation otherwise. Moscow cannot wish away the fundamental mismatch between the military means it has available & the political aims it seeks to achieve.“ www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/ukrai...

Wir sind nach wie vor die einzige Armee in Europa, die ihre Soldaten mehrere Monate, nachdem ein Krieg ausgebrochen ist, ausbilden müsste. Man muss kein Generalstabsoffizier sein, um das Problem hier zu erkennen. Hier wird tatsächlich mit dem Leben unserer Soldaten gespielt. Meine Sonntagskolumne 👇

Danke @jpuglierin.bsky.social! Große Leseempfehlung 👇

“The shutdown didn’t only reduce Russian drone strikes. On the front lines, it also partially blinded🇷🇺 command posts and drone crews that relied on Starlink for communication, livestreams and more-precise control of assaults as commanders got real-time footage of combat…” www.wsj.com/world/starli...

In diesem Podcast spreche ich mit @ronzheimer.bsky.social über meine Rolle als russischer Militärchef in einem Planspiel– und darüber, warum Russland das Baltikum militärisch von der NATO abschneiden kann, ohne dafür Truppen nach Litauen verlegen zu müssen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VM4...

In einem Wargame hat WELT gemeinsam mit der Bundeswehr-Universität Hamburg einen russischen Angriff auf die NATO-Ostflanke simuliert. Roderich Kiesewetter und ich haben gestern in Berlin Fragen von Zuhörerinnen und Zuhörern der Podcast-Serie dazu beantwortet. www.welt.de/premium/plus...

I enjoyed this conversation. Mike, the team, and I discuss how European NATO militaries would fare in a conflict with Russia, how long it might take Europe to reach a point where it can assume greater responsibility for its own defense. www.cnas.org/publications...

‚Ukraine has begun planning presidential elections alongside a referendum on any peace deal with Russia, after the Trump administration pressed Kyiv to hold both votes by May 15 or risk losing proposed US security guarantees.‘ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

North Korean troops in Kursk are being rotated regularly under a bilateral agreement with Moscow to gain combat experience. 🇰🇵 forces are operating surveillance drones, clearing mines, & conducting artillery strikes from southern Russia, according to 🇺🇦 mi. intelligence. www.wsj.com/world/asia/n...

Geschwindigkeit, das rasche Schaffen von Fakten am Boden und eine schnelle Eskalation: Das waren die drei Leitlinien, entlang derer ich in meiner Rolle als russischer Militärchef im WELT-Wargame Pläne für einen Überfall auf Litauen im Oktober 2026 entwickelte.

‘Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the US is urging Ukraine and Russia to end their war before the start of summer, reflecting growing pressure in Washington for a negotiated settlement as midterm elections approach.’ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The @wsj.com did a story on a war game I participated in back in December 2025, in which I played the Russian chief of the general staff and developed a plan to establish a humanitarian corridor in the Baltics using four combined-arms armies and additional forces. www.wsj.com/world/europe...