The peak annual supplemental for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was the $196 billion the Bush admin requested in 2008 as the Iraq surge wound down and Afg ramped up. The two Iraq supplementals in 2003, the year of the invasion, added up to $167B. (Invasion one alone was $79B.)

“U.S. officials detected unidentified drones above the Washington Army base where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth live, according to three people briefed on the situation. Officials have not determined where they came from, two of the people said”

UMBC misses at the buzzer and Howard has its first-ever NCAA Tournament win.

I love seeing Chris Anderson criticize Katie. Chris was so ethics-free that he put HIS OWN DRONE COMPANY, WHICH HE OWNED WHILE EDITING WIRED, at the heart of a cover package. I was covering drones as death-instruments for Wired at the time & wasn’t even told about the cover. Wont happen under Katie!

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles diagnosed with 'early stage breast cancer': Trump

The Pentagon has identified the six airmen killed in an aircraft crash in western Iraq on Thursday. https://cnn.it/4scmgru

Trump threatened further strikes on Iran's Kharg Island oil export hub and urged allies to send warships to secure the Strait of Hormuz, as Tehran vowed to step up its response and the war showed no sign of coming to an end reut.rs/3N4c8BT

"On May 3, 2020, two boats with 60 men departed for Venezuela from Colombia. Eight men were killed by Venezuelan security forces. Thirteen were taken into Venezuelan custody, including two U.S. citizens, Green Berets who said Mr. Goudreau had recruited them."

Apple MacBook Neo emerges as company’s most repairable laptop in more than a decade reut.rs/4sLC30d

Five Air Force Refueling Planes Hit in Iranian Strike on Saudi Arabia www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

China talks about “cognitive operations” as a way to shape how enemies think and decide. But how much of it is theory and how much is actually making its way into military planning? (Members Only)

I both understand the reason they took the parachutes out, & also felt some comfort on C-130s for having actual parachutes in case of emergency after flying on the Sentry

Achievement unlocked: 'Laser Wars' cited in the @nytimes.com! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

Wrote this on Kyler on Monday: “Every team that passes on Murray will convince itself the character concerns were disqualifying. Likewise, the team that signs him will convince itself it found something everyone else missed.” Vikings betting they can fix him.

The sheer strategic stupidity of bailing Russia out of its economic hole by launching a war that entirely foreseeably spikes the oil price - and then having no minesweepers in place to deal with the foreseeable fallout. Rank incompetence.

The FBI should not know Brazilian jiu-jitsu, they should fight exclusively with roundhouse punches, real mid 20th century gangster movie-fu roughhousing only

Leaning against a nonexistent column on my nonexistent front porch, sipping a mug of black coffee and gazing out at the gentle rain falling and murmuring “we needed this“ as this guy‘s face rises over the horizon like the Teletubbies sun

On Hegseth and the lack of moral purpose in war. @gregjaffe.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...

Some folks treated me like a naive child for believing we had the money to cancel a portion of student loan debt

Guessing someone kicked off a war in the Middle East and realized they needed to reassert deterrence www.reuters.com/world/china/...

"U.S. officials called London insurers and brokers, trying to figure out how the market operates, industry insiders said." When applied to the current administration, I urge caution in using terms like "plans," "strategy," "policy," or "doctrine." www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...

Fair chance we have another NJ style drone hysteria, especially if an attack does occur

Hey CENTCOM you’ve been planning for this for decades, you wanna dust off that OPLAN for Hormuz now buddy? CENTCOM:

there aren’t many things i’m more “old man yells at clouds” about than kid sports. when i grew up your town had a team, you played on it with your friends and that was that. now i’m getting sold $950 lacrosse club team offers from a guy who claims to have noticed my kid at a practice she wasn’t at.

Given how Oklahoma's season has gone, a face-plant against South Carolina after a positive end to a mediocre regular season sounds about right

The incredible thing is that anyone with eyes or ears can tell that mamdani clearly loves NYC so much. The idea that he "hates America" is just so on its face ridiculous that people claiming it look particularly pathetic.

The WSJ calls it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.” ⛽️ @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

In Aug 2003, Colin Powell wrote to Paul Bremer that US troops on raids in Iraq “shouldn’t be taking the press with us or releasing photos” because the raids looked ugly. To DOD’s credit, it ignored Powell and didn’t begin to curtail embedding until a decade later. www.thetimes.com/article/00b2...

“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside." Read every word.

reframing a vote for war funds as a vote against the troops is not a “hard question”, it’s an intentional, bad faith misrepresentation of the situation that derives entirely from Tapper’s biases, not from hard hitting journalism I do hope this helps

I’ve seen several potential clients using AI LLMs to evaluate legal claims and, besides often being wrong, they reliably interpret the query to predict what answer the user *wants* to hear. So, worse than wrong.

Loud blast heard near US embassy in Oslo, Norway, police say reut.rs/4svxarZ

“China may never again have a moment when Washington is so reluctant to intervene on Taiwan’s behalf.”

“There are moments in history when multiple internal and external factors act jointly to promote a certain outcome—when “perfect storms” brew and the seemingly unimaginable starts to take hold. Given the current circumstances, such a perfect storm for Taiwan might be coming sooner than people think

The options Trump is weighing include a commando raid on Isfahan and other nuclear sites www.semafor.com/article/03/0...

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Weird how creating conditions where powerful people never have to face real accountability leads to powerful people abusing their power. Who could have predicted that?

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: The son of Lindsay Foreman, the Briton incarcerated in Tehran with her husband on espionage charges, describes the moment war came to her prison

I’m playing the new Star Trek Voyager game and it is lit Pretty much my dream game when I was in middle school come to life

One week into Iran war, the dangers for the US and Trump multiply reut.rs/4rAFh5T

Yes and also I’m not sure how publicly known it is how close it came to becoming black hawk down in Venezuela

Nobody should take messaging advice from me, but democrats might make a lot of mileage just by repeating facts about Iran like “it’s incredibly mountainous” and “there are 90 million Iranians”

The cuts signal a broader storage crisis that poses new risks to the global market. on.wsj.com/4bpV9TH

Trump administration says Nashville reporter arrested by ICE will get due process reut.rs/3MRDmeS

President Donald Trump demanded Iran capitulate in the war’s seventh day, suggesting a longer timeframe for the conflict even amid energy-market tumult and worries about whether the US has the military stockpiles to carry on the fight indefinitely

Apparent Israeli SOF air-assault operation in Beqaa valley. Would be first IDF ground operation that far north in Lebanon since their naval SOF did a raid on the coast north of Beirut in 2024—and as far as I know, the first ground operation in Beqaa since a major raid on a Baalbek hospital in 2006.

BREAKING Explosion heard over Dubai airport on Saturday followed by a cloud of smoke in the air, a witness told AFP, as Iran presses attacks across the Gulf. The Flightradar24 tracking website shows planes circulating above the airport in an apparent holding pattern

DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent." But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."