For fans of Le Bureau and the American remake The Agency, I had not realized that the two leads literally faced off in Soderbergh's 2011 spy flick Haywire

A couple days late posting but, new(ish) from me: breakingdefense.com/2025/04/join...

New from me: State Department administrative officials have previously said they were not empowered to ban the use of Signal, so instead its use is generally "permitted but discouraged." breakingdefense.com/2025/03/befo...

Will the FY25 budget pass in March? Breaking Defense Editors @aaronmehta.bsky.social and @leeferran.bsky.social discuss this and more in The Weekly Break Out. Check out the full video here: vimeo.com/1048396359 #FY2025Budget #TheWeeklyBreakOut #DefenseNews

This week on The Weekly Break Out Aaron and Lee talk budget, exit interviews from Pentagon officials, and a letter from @l3harristech.bsky.social to DOGE. *Video coverage is underwritten by #LeonardoDRS #BidenAdmin #DOGE #L3Harris #Pentagon #TheWeeklyBreakOut #BreakingDefense #Defense #DefenseNews

Check out the first episode of The Weekly Breakout! This week editors @aaronmehta.bsky.social and @leeferran.bsky.social talk DOGE and preview Surface Navy Symposium, the first defense show of the year. #TheWeeklyBreakOut #BreakingDefense #defense *Video coverage is underwritten by #LeonardoDRS

WE BREAK: The Air Force is reworking the T7 trainer program, pushing back a key production date by a year and offering Boeing more cash if they add new capabilities. Details here: breakingdefense.com/2025/01/t7a-...

If #Russia is found to have shot down the passenger plane in Kazakstan, it'll add to Moscow's woes in Central Asia in the last few years. I got into it a little bit here from the defense industry angle: breakingdefense.com/2024/11/afte...

ChatGPT was really, really impressed with Operation Prosperity Guardian in the Red Sea for some reason...

Hey look we made a show: Coming in 2025, it's The Break Out. Every week, we'll bring you a short (5 minutes or so), entertaining roundup of things you need to know in the world of defense. I updog'd @leeferran.bsky.social in our first test show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WeD...

Well thats one way to put it: breakingdefense.com/2024/12/hous...

Very interesting from @jonasolsson.bsky.social - Sweden today announced it would fund Ukrainian domestic production of long range missiles and drones. Ukraine builds it, Sweden pays for it. “Ukraine is Sweden's number one security priority." breakingdefense.com/2024/11/swed...

Went down a rabbit hole on Central Asia and how #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine has pushed them to "turn away" from Moscow for weapons, including to the US -> breakingdefense.com/2024/11/afte...

“And so the team went through and built a ‘will to fight’ all-source tradecraft methodology [to ask] ‘What does that look like? How do we assess what that looks like?'” DIA chief Jeffrey Kruse said. breakingdefense.com/2024/11/afte...

Ukraine’s valiant defense of its land, and Russia’s largely inept attempt to take it, were certainly welcome surprises in Washington — but they were surprises nonetheless, which means it was also something of an intelligence failure... breakingdefense.com/2024/11/afte...

NEW: A previously unreported doc, obtained by @breakingdefense.bsky.social , along with new interviews with officials, analysts & industry figures, reveals how the DoD determined which programs got over $1B in inflation relief —> breakingdefense.com/2024/11/excl...

The UK RAF must press forward with the multinational Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) to deliver a next-generation fighter jet if it wants to take a stand against the “proliferation” of Russian and Chinese stealth aircraft, according to the head of the service. breakingdefense.com/2024/11/uk-n...

I watched the Paramount show “Special Ops: Lioness” and I came away with some thoughts. Mostly, the setting was completely, comically wrong. popsecurity.substack.com/p/lioness-do...

"Well, when you say 'working,' are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes," Biden told reporters. breakingdefense.com/2024/01/bide...

With a first flight planned for this year, manufacturers BAE Systems and Leonardo said the advanced radar will be “able to locate and deny use of an adversary’s radar with a powerful electronic jamming attack, whilst staying beyond the reach of threats.” breakingdefense.com/2024/01/uk-b...

Head of US Army special ops says 17,000 Russian soldiers have deserted, which he credits in part to excellent Ukrainian information operations:

"Hezbollah so far is trying to show solidarity with the Palestinians without provoking a major conflict of its own," one analyst said. breakingdefense.com/2023/10/pent...

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