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Massive own goal.

What happens when criminal innovation outpaces government adaptation?

New post from Sam explores the legal and political implications of a Reform government trying to implement its deportation plans (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...

As history matters, a short thread on Horst Wessel - a Nazi paramilitary member whose murder in 1930 was turned into propaganda by Goebbels and Hitler.

Nomad is an AI communications intelligence tool that, according to the company, will allow frontline forces to process and act on information in real time. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/babcock-unve...

A pie in the sky article which has no basis on ground realities.

Sometimes I think the real "peace dividend" since the end of the cold war was that a whole generation of analysts grew up underestimating the power of ideology, memory and emotion, and now they cannot recognize a huge cultural shift when it is staring them in the face. The "soft stuff"matters.

One always learns something new from this account.

At first when teaching about 9/11, Amy Zegart struggled to bring logical analysis and historical perspective to her lessons. Now she struggles to put the emotion back in for a generation of students with no memory of the day, Zegart wrote in 2021.

Brilliant article encapsulating our time.

Giorgia Meloni’s balancing act | @billemmott.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/essays/giorg...

Inside Japan’s avant-garde | @drchrisharding.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/insi...

There is a global information war, and America is unilaterally disarming: The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to help autocratic governments manipulate and suppress information. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“Winning the war within our own minds is the prerequisite for winning the wars of the future” argues J. William DeMarco.

A memory for #VJDay80 of two brothers whose fates were bound up with the Burma war. They were born into an Indian Army family: their father Leslie retired as Col of the 2nd Btn XIX Hyderabad Regiment in 1937. The boys, Desmond and Maurice, were formatted for the same career. 1/11

Demand for spicy food has been rising in the U.S.—as both an extreme sport and an everyday thrill. @elcush.bsky.social on what’s fueling the widespread desire to set American mouths on fire.

An Italian newspaper hired ChatGPT as a new colleague—and it didn’t melt down. @matteowong.bsky.social talks with "Il Foglio" editor Claudio Cerasa about his AI experiment:

"Ukrainian forces continue to hold the Russians off, and their resilience points to Kyiv’s growing autonomy from the United States," Nataliya Gumenyuk writes after embedding with three front-line brigades. What's keeping Ukraine in the fight is technology:

Look away Rockies fans 😬 Colorado made the worst kind of MLB history after losing 4-3 to the Chicago Cubs tonight.

Some people deny reality because they’re confused. Some deny it because they’re scared. Some because they’re angry. But then there’s something deeper, something more organised. Something I call disordered denial.

Conservatism is alive in our culture but is vanishing from our politics - which now contains a dying technocratic centrism and as flourishing authoritarian populism. A major task for democracy is to rebuild space for principled conservatism in public life.

Current promotion and assignment policies undermine the development of expert cyber teams. warontherocks.com/20...

What happens when America turns it backs on its allies? This week, @kschake.bsky.social explains to us why the US needs strong allies if it's going to thrive. Listen in full 👉 tr.ee/ksicr-3Wty

Chilling warning from Fiona Hill - let's not forget, Putin's biographer before she went to work for Trump in his first term. She knows the signs of growing authoritarianism, and she sees them in the US now.

Why and how did the Templars acquire such enormous power and prominence during the Middle Ages? In a single word: marketing. The Knights Templars and the pursuit of Christendom | @nicmorton.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-k...

A pro-Russian MP asks the PM of Estonia why when he uses Google, he is shown ads for "same-sex sex toys" and "swingers clubs." PM Kristen Michal then explains how the Internet works. Algorithms track your prior activity and customize ads to display your interests.

EU to exclude US, UK and Turkey from €150bn rearmament fund Victory for France-backed ‘Buy European’ approach to defence spending (archive.ph/6T8u0)

The tragic decline of Christian rituals | @bijanomrani.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...

🧵 Yesterday I shared my views on how disordered discourse has captured the US state and the risk of that happening elsewhere, but I don’t want to leave you hanging without proposing a solution.

Donald Trump seeks to emulate John F. Kennedy’s power over American art. But bending culture to his will might not be as easy as he thinks, writes @galbeckerman.bsky.social. theatln.tc/0YHGNPAd

powerful condemnation from @hofrench.bsky.social

The 18th century way of war | Adam L. Storring engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...

Good read.

This is tremendously entertaining.

Part 1 of Military Innovators Being Weirdos - J. F. C. Fuller. A British Army officer and key theorist of armoured warfare, but also an occultist and a fascist conspirator - a fanboy of Napoleon, a fanboy of Aleister Crowley until that was too gay, then a fanboy of Adolf Hitler.

😜😆😁It feels like we are slowly on our way to our own doom.

Each of these films has a powerful message about how past wars shape our current views of the world. Here's our list of movies that teach us about war – and the societies that wage it ▶️: goodauthority.org/news/movies-...

wonderful analogy.

Fantastic.

excellent analysis

Many friends, Eliot A. Cohen has found, are despondent over Trump's victory. "I respect their points of view but have decided to look elsewhere for advice, and so have turned to a different set of friends—those sitting on my bookshelves."

very concerning.

Manchester City

The ideological progressives on the far left and their many shenanigans would ruin everything.Yes, Kamala. rightly haven't fallen for the most extreme, but even being associated with or cosying up to the progressives left would have consequences.If a centrist minded politician want to gain power

Hey, folks, it is possible to criticize Israel without being antisemitic. This isn’t how to do it. And if you’re a supposed herald of a more diverse, equitable, critical, and just medieval studies and you’re sharing sh!t like this, you’ll forgive me for doubting your sincerity.

what's up in south korea?