🆕 From Greenland to Spain: Trump Threatens Allies While Embracing Turkey at NATO Summit by Emily Holland and Aaron Stein. They highlight how, despite the summit being an objective success, it was riddled with US threats toward the Allies.

Man when Jack Reed is voting against the NDAA! www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-...

This is an interesting read beyond the TMZ article www.dodig.mil/reports.html...

Do you know how bad you have to fuck up to make the NDAA a purely partisan bill? It’s never happened!

I wish the Coruscant-ification of Populist Party politics would stop

FUCK

Raiding MILCON to fund whatever you need at that moment. Time honored traditon

Southern border operations cost DoD at least $2.6 billion

My name is Lydia Tár and I’m here to recruit you into the Revengers Initiative

📋 Iran and Nuclear Weapons Production This report examines Iran's nuclear weapons development programs, capabilities, and international efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons through diplomacy and sanctions.

Important caveat that Bulgaria is afaik the only European manufacturer of Soviet caliber munitions in the EU/NATO and though they have suspended support, weapons deliveries are ongoing as are sales

Happy Camille Desmoulins does a banger podcast day

EU, UK sign Gibraltar status treaty easing border checks

New article with Greg Whisler. We lay out how the Russian force expanded during the war leading to a paradox: as the quantity grew, its ability to employ force at scale decreased. As Moscow fielded more forces, the value of that mass steadily diminished. warontherocks.com/a-return-to-...

Some gravity bombs deliverable by max 12 aircraft is not a credible first-use warfighting capability.

Ukraine's parliament has affirmed the resignation of Yulia Svyrydenko, bringing her tenure as prime minister to a close dismissing the entire Ukrainian government. A new prime minister and cabinet will be appointed in the coming days.

ICE Pact News, though I thought we’d see some built at least in part in Canada (the article doesn’t say if that’s happening) www.military.com/3.3-billion-...

Syrian singer Omar Souleyman denied entry to Turkey for concert bianet.org/haber/syrian...

This is a very strange report and is among the more admin-facing CSIS reports that have come out, but it’s helpful especially in visualizing what’s going on. I don’t think the “wartime footing” is anything but a baloney label that makes the men at DoD feel a lil stronger L

NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally. n.pr/4w1lkb8

Pentagon announces ‘immediate suspension’ of CMMC mandates https://breakingdefense.com/2026/07/pentagon-announces-immediate-suspension-of-cmmc-mandates/

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Great to actually track the money and see how little the war in munitions/assistance has cost the United States about $68b over 4 years, not counting the supplemental to replenish our stocks www.everycrsreport.com/reports/IF12...

📋 U.S. Security Assistance to Ukraine Since 2022 The United States has provided military and financial aid to Ukraine since Russia's 2022 invasion, supporting the country's defense efforts through weapons, equipment, and funding.

For all the talk US force posture hasn’t changed since like mid March

Congress has a lot on its agenda and a short window of time

Turkey, Egypt expand military ties with cooperation frameworks: What to know www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

@jdcushman45.bsky.social V Bat Watch

Could be big. x.com/RALee85/stat...

US military uses unmanned surface vessels for the first time in strikes against Iran www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PUBLIC...

Transparency update: After repeated rounds of airstrikes on Iran over the last week, there's no sign of the Pentagon returning to news briefings that were occasionally held earlier in the war. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last briefed the public in a press conference at the Pentagon on May 5.

‘As if a hurricane had passed’: Puerto Ricans at breaking point after weeks without water

Throw it on the pile of ADA violations I really need someone on the hill to pick up on

LCCUSMC coming to an EABO near you!

It’s pretty fuckign wild that Turkey has become a stabilizing force in the Middle East over the last 2 years

That’s a whole buttload of LRASM/JASSMs sam.gov/workspace/co...

Nothing hits like "yeeting job applications into the void of USAJOBS" whiskey

reading fun things about the PLA and its children lately digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Hakkında yakalama kararı çıkarılan Haluk Levent Bursa'da gözaltına alındı

What a blow for queer representation in government, now we need to look to Scott Bessent for visibility and representation

Missed the announcement of Germany producing Ukrainian BARS from this week (tho you can just call a jet powered OWA a cruise missile, no need to muddle this just cause it looks funky) militarnyi.com/en/news/bars...

Michoacán plantea la desaparición de las policías municipales ante el impulso del CJNG en la meseta purépecha dozz.es/fk3trb

through normal attrition and abnormal attrition the senate is losing its strongest Ukraine supporters

Man the CJ-10s and 20s are not joke

Bad mental is first up the scaffolding when I get appointed to the Committee of General Security of Public Safety, tell you that much

Russia has quietly stripped much of the long-range air defence protecting its most important nuclear submarine shipyards, according to satellite imagery analysed by the Barents Observer.

Its really bad how this keeps happening

Son of AMX-10 RCR, developed by Arquus on their own funds, for the non-French heretics who fail to grok the concept of the EBRC Jaguar. Obviously filmed in Canjuers, so I guess Armée de Terre is taking a good look at it anyway.

Nice look at how Ukraine is using V-Bat

I think tankers in foreign yards (tho NASSCO seems to be doing pretty well on the John Lewis-class) is fine, maybe a little less surface combatants but I am super doubtful this gets the waiver from congress