"If you lose the battle in the spectrum, you're not going to win the war." via @chrispanella.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/us-war-with-...

This was really fun my9games.com

Operation Epic Fury, as well as Absolute Revolve in Venezuela earlier this year, are reinforcing that controlling the EM spectrum and denying an enemy’s use of it are “essential,” experts told me www.businessinsider.com/us-war-with-...

The U.S. president and his officials can’t get their story straight. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/03/t...

"Operation Epic Fury is approved. No aborts. Good luck!" President Trump wrote in his message approving strikes on Iran, via @chrispanella.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/top-us-gener...

Israel struck parked Iranian F-4 Phantom II aircraft, via @chrispanella.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/israel-bombi...

"Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead," President Trump said: www.businessinsider.com/trump-says-i...

Satellite images show one Iranian warship on fire while at least four others nearby look untouched, @chrispanella.bsky.social and @byjepstein.bsky.social report www.businessinsider.com/satellite-im...

The challenges to destroy Iran's nuclear program look similiar to those in June: -Missing stockpiles of HE uranium -fortified underground sites & possibility of covert sites -Iran's technical expertise @chrispanella.bsky.social examined these issues then: www.businessinsider.com/bombings-set...

Shield AI's Hivemind was also used in the man vs. machine F-16 fly-offs in 2024, @chrispanella.bsky.social reports: www.businessinsider.com/shield-ai-hi...

The F-22 pilot commanded a stand-in for a future combat wingman drone, via @chrispanella.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/us-air-force...

"Very likely going to cause both the US and Russia to revert back to worst-case scenario assumptions." via @chrispanella.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/us-russia-co...

The US accused China of preparing for larger-yield nuclear tests. DiNanno's reference to "hundreds of tons" could mean China is mulling thermonuclear weapons that fall short of megatons via @chrispanella.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/us-accuses-c...

1,500 Chinese fishing vessels drawing a 300-mile line. "I've never seen anything like this," one expert told @chrispanella.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/chinese-fish...

Random Marvel Rivals season 6 thoughts: Gambit nerfs are fine. Invis nerfs are overtuned. Poke and hitscan being the meta is good, rewards good aim and skill. Triple support is still meta because only a handful of supports can keep up with the high healing needed in this game.

SECWAR Hegseth's extraordinary move to demote a retired military veteran in the Senate comes after weeks of threats for more severe punishment. @chrispanella.bsky.social has analysis of the case: www.businessinsider.com/hegseths-pro...

This chart shows how the scales have tipped towards China — one of its warships near Taiwan is nestled under layers of *thousands* of missiles via @chrispanella.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/new-pentagon...

Since Marvel Rivals introduced Emma Frost, we’ve had a string of characters with complex kits and potential for high skill plays. Feels like with every new character, the community says, “this is the coolest/hardest/most interesting character in the game.” It’s awesome and keeps the game fresh

Cell phones are prohibited from secure spaces to reduce the risk of security violations. Hegseth's unique set-up, where he had a computer access his personal phone in a secure office, was removed before the IG could assess it. via @chrispanella.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/hegseth-had-...

Our Black Friday deal just dropped! Discount code BFCM25 at bossfightbooks.com for 20% off your order.

"The key to success is ISR." Read @chrispanella.bsky.social's dispatch on the Coast Guard's ramped up counter-drug mission: www.businessinsider.com/coast-guard-...

Visited Coast Guard TACLET and HITRON in Florida last week to learn more about their lawful drug interdiction processes at a time when the service is seizing record numbers of drugs in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean. More stories to come www.businessinsider.com/coast-guard-...

A Coast Guard National Security Cutter crew seized 12,000 pounds of cocaine in one night using its new drone as a nighttime spotter, @chrispanella.bsky.social reports: www.businessinsider.com/coast-guard-...

Low wages are one of the many critical problems facing US shipbuilders, @chrispanella.bsky.social reports: www.businessinsider.com/navy-secreta...

Need the DPS players to put Gambit down because they’re insta-locking him (just like they did with Ultron) unless he’s banned and then doing no healing. If it’s triple support, that’s fine, but absolutely not if you’re running 2-2-2 or, God forbid, solo tank

(͡•_ ͡• ) via our nukes watcher, @chrispanella.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/what-about-t...

My son (his name is Marcus) and I enjoy a delicious coffee at one of Lumiose City’s cafes

"Independent, fact-based reporting is essential to our democracy." -Jamie Heller, @businessinsider.com Editor in Chief www.businessinsider.com/press-freedo...

The "fail fast" approach is really only as good as the oversight built in to catch bad ideas early, @chrispanella.bsky.social reports: www.businessinsider.com/us-armys-pus...

New story from me on what the US Army’s new command and control system, NGC2, says about the service’s larger shift towards rapid, Silicon Valley-esque procurement of weapons and tech www.businessinsider.com/us-armys-pus...

Marvel Rivals season 4.5 single handedly gonna end triple support meta and completely shift the strategist tier list (rocket and mantis are S tier, can probably run them together is rocket heal bots to make up for mantis’ healing output)

"You can engineer and build something much quicker than you can build up a group of people to operate it." via @chrispanella.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/how-chinas-a...

1/ Anti-'woke' veterans who wield leaked screenshots are thrusting cancel culture deep into the US military, adding to strains at an unprecedented moment. www.businessinsider.com/inside-anti-...

"Failing fast with a piece of software is one thing. Failing fast with weapons in combat is a very different thing." via @chrispanella.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/troops-could...

Talked to some folks and wrote about how cuts to the Pentagon’s independent weapons testing office, DOT&E, endangers military personnel. Read here: www.businessinsider.com/troops-could...

China has become the first country to launch a stealth fighter aircraft off a carrier's electromagnetic catapult via Matthew Loh and @chrispanella.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/china-videos...

Check out this fascinating @wbur.org "On Point" discussion of the end of the Humvee and what comes next for US soldiers featuring my colleague @chrispanella.bsky.social www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...

Marvel Rivals season 4 has a lot going for it and here’s to hoping that Angela coming in and the balance adjustments make the meta more flexible and dynamic

I appeared on @wbur.org’s On Point show last Friday to chat with host Meghna Chakrabarti on the end of the US military’s Humvee, why the Army is phasing out the iconic vehicle, and what weapons and systems Army leadership deems necessary for future wars. Listen or read the transcript here:

"I'm looking for a system that I can fight with for days at a time," a paratrooper told @chrispanella.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/paratroopers...

Marvel rivals season 3.5: is… Groot Luna Mantis Loki Adam plus another tank (Emma, Magneto) or DPS… a viable comp? The new team ups are insane, and I feel like the damage boost from Mantis/Loki lamps and anti-dive on Luna would make up for any weaknesses running 4 supports

The South Korean shipbuilder's contract on a new US dry cargo ship includes propeller cleaning, tank maintenance, and inspections of onboard equipment via @chrispanella.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/key-pacific-...

The US Army is getting in on the ship-killing game in the Western Pacific with the new Typhon missile launcher via @chrispanella.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/us-army-fire...

Four faves no starters

"What we've learned is you can't write a requirement for something you want five years from now," the head of Army Futures Command told @chrispanella.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/what-the-us-...

Crazy that Magneto didn’t get nerfed going into season 3. High pick and win rate across platform and quick play, ult can hard counter both some DPS ults and many strategist ults, shields incredibly useful and double with the Emma Frost teamup. Continues to be essential to team comps

Marvel Rivals season three vibes

US air defenses are critical for Ukraine just as they were for Qatar and Israel via @chrispanella.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/trump-cuttin...

Ukraine's Serebryansky Forest is tangled with synthetic drone-webs — one more sign of how jamming and efforts to defeat it define the war via @chrispanella.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/unjammable-f...

For years I’ve giggled at my friends/other ppl who wear ear plugs at concerts and DJ sets but now that I have to say “huh?” three times when someone’s talking to me… I get it