To Shorten Wars and Prevent Wider War The Biden Administration Should Lift Allies’ Conventional Strike Restrictions Against Iran’s and Russia’s Conventional Military Targets
October 4, 2024 Ukraine & Israel: Ukraine and Israel face common adversaries axially aligned. Russia and China enable Iran and its terror proxies with lethal supply and know-how to wage war against Israel. Russia and China could sanction Iran but do not. Iran, China, and North Korea likewise back Russia’s increasingly genocidal war of aggression…
In the News: Observations & Analyses
Ukraine: AP reported President Volodymyr Zelensky’s words at a ceremony commemorating the massacre at Babyn Yar in Kyiv of nearly 34,000 Jews during 48 hours in the 1941 Nazi occupation: “Babyn Yar is vivid proof of the atrocities that regimes are capable of when led by leaders who rely on intimidation and violence. At any…
Strategy Essay: Zelensky’s Unmet Requests are Xi Jinping’s Political Capital for Invasion of Taiwan
Chinese leader Xi Jinping uses China’s manufacturing power to help Russia’s aggression against Ukraine not out of friendship for President Vladimir Putin, but because a Putin victory in Ukraine can help him ram through his imperial military agenda for Taiwan and the region. The U.S. and free allies, by their munitions and weapons supply to…
Defending Ukraine, Changing War with Anti-Weapon Weapons
In February 2015, we wrote about a newly conceived category of advanced weapon systems purposed or repurposed to destroy aggressor states’ conventional weapons, ammo, and war supplies while such are used for aggression, yet refining the weapons to be ever more precise to that purpose, reducing collateral damage and depopulation: “These could be relabeled “disarmament…
Kinetic Supply Chain Attacks via Pager & Walkie Talkies
Updated: Ingenious precedent made historical rubberneckers of most of the world fascinated by reports of Israel’s synchronous pager attack on Lebanese Hezbollah yesterday, and today, Wednesday, a second wave by exploding Hezbollah’s walkie-talkies and some solar equipment. That Hezbollah is a designated terrorist group lobbing rockets at Israel made it easier to self-justify fascination with…
De Vice, Zero Trust, and The Ci-words
It’s all spyware, which is why there is Zero Trust. And Zero Trust is the epitome of secured insecurity. The premise of relying on a device suggests people cannot be relied upon unless they are surveilled with the help of strangers objectified as if they were not there, or were trustworthy because we’re paying them.…
Russia-Iran in Context: President Masoud Pezeshkian’s Glass House is also a Nesting Egg
AP reported yesterday: “Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday slammed the West, saying that Israel is “committing massacres” in the war in Gaza and using European and American weapons to do so.“ President Pezeshkian shattered yet another of Tehran’s glass houses given that Iran’s regime culturally and materially engineered Hamas to attack Israel on October…
Reality Over Reactivity for Right Result in Deterrence and Détente
As Iran provides Russia with short range ballistic missiles to use against Ukraine, U.S. officials are reportedly mulling approval of Ukraine’s request to use longer range U.S. weapons to strike Russian targets deeper inside Russia. Asked whether Ukraine should be allowed long range strike capabilities into Russian territory with U.S.-supplied weapons, The Wall Street Journal…
The Regime Too Expensive for the World
Iran has reportedly started shipping ballistic missiles to Russia to use against Ukraine, adding to its destabilizing weapons trafficking portfolio of terrorists, oppressive regimes, cartels, and aggressor states. Iran’s lethal trade is aimed mostly at Israel, other free nations, and against opponents to authoritarian leaders or military juntas that can provide sanctions-free income streams to…
Supporting a High Yield Presence in the Kursk Region
From inside Russia, Ukraine’s Kursk Raiders have fused guerrilla warfare, blitz, and entrenchment tactics to extend Ukraine’s range and divide Russian resources. As the Raiders live off the land and turn Russian resources against Russian military and intelligence forces, defense contact group supporters should help them accomplish their defense mission and make it home alive…