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@SAISHopkins MA Strategy, Cybersecurity, & Intelligence. Cyber, terrorism, disinformation, COIN, OSINT, drones, Star Wars, Tomb Raider. RT/Like ≠ Endorsement.

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Top Hamas, Hezbollah leaders killed Russia expands naval base in Georgia to avoid drones U.S. Army angry with "The Rock"
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Huge, if true.
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Yes, because it's missing a piece.
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@michaeldweiss Good summary. A few things to add: - US 2k-4k was assessed as low confidence. - 7k-9k KIA would probably also leave behind 15k-20k WIA, MIA, and POW. (Also, good piece on Wagner)
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@Redpainter1 @patriottakes One vial of J&J is enough to immunize five people. The video ends with him saying "I got a full vial this time", suggesting he's done this more than once.
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Friendly reminder:
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It was all about money. The whole time it was all about money.
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@BillKristol @ColMorrisDavis We’ve literally gotten a raise every year.
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Fiona Hill and Her Unapologetic Anger Is What We All Need Right Now via @thedailybeast @mollyjongfast
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Doesn’t this normally happen on Friday?
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Paula Reid
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JUST IN: Two US officials tell @CBSNews DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen meeting with President Trump at 5pm, expected to resign.
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"Fake accounts tied to intelligence services in China, Iran and Russia had directed thousands of tweets at Mr. Trump, according to a Times analysis of propaganda accounts suspended by Twitter."
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WSJ: All three of Russia's main intelligence services (SVR, FSB, and GRU) ran fake news sites and phony social media accounts to spread misinformation about Pfeizer and Moderna vaccines in an attempt to undermine confidence in them. via @WSJ
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Just like in Charleston. I'm amazed at those who can be victims of such hatred and still have the courage to forgive. They are better than I
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Yashar Ali 🐘
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WATCH: Heather Heyer's father says he forgives the man who killed his daughter. "She had more courage than I had."
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The drink menu at @CapLounge for the #ImpeachmentHearings :
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@mirandayaver @realDonaldTrump A US service member was killed in Afghanistan two hours ago.
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Hey, even GRU officers go on vacation every now and then. To England. For 24 hours. To see a cathedral. But yet walk nowhere near the cathedral... /RT
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Skripal Poisoning Suspect’s Passport Data Shows Link to Security Services
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Another National Defense Strategy meme:
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B-2 and F-22s.
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Many of the details in this story are tragic. The Marine Corps Commandant said that his work hours (5:30 am to 11:30 pm) were "not sustainable". He was performing double-duty as both the #1 and #2 Marine officer, given holdups of GO confirmations...
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No. Stop this.
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This follows the deployment of 80 US service members. Pay attention to this, not AOC dance videos.
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The Associated Press
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BREAKING: Soldiers in Gabon have appeared on state television saying they have launched a coup in the West African country.
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@HealWithKasey Yes, but with great difficulty.
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This guy is one of my Twitter followers. I have finally become a thought leader. A bad thought leader, but a thought leader nonetheless.
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@JayinKyiv I’m thinking this has to be $500 million instead. $500 billion would be over half the U.S. Defense Dept budget.
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Five months ago, I was an unabashed McMaster fanboy. Had been since I read about him in Tom Clancy's "Armored Cav" in '98. Now, not so much.
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Jill Colvin
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McMaster tells reporters on Air Force One that: "America First means coalitions."
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As the official spokesperson of the United States of America, I would like to say to @NATO Thanks for supporting us in Afghanistan and invoking Article 5 to help defend the American homeland after 9/11. #NATOSummit
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NYT At War
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President Trump kicked off his meetings on a contentious note. He called allies “delinquent” for failing to spend enough on their own defense and attacked Germany as a “captive” of Russia because of its energy dealings.
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I can’t believe this still needs to be said, but here goes: @MalcolmNance : “Waterboarding is a torture technique...period.”
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Additional video of #CaptainCrozier ’s departure from @TheRealCVN71 . Cheering begins around 1:10.
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The Flynn case should cause the Armed Forces as an institution to do some serious soul-searching.
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I'm still stuck on the fact that she says she has no room for drama. Whenever someone says they hate drama, they usually have a lot of drama.
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CBS News
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"Shoot them all at the border": DMV employee investigated for Facebook comment on immigrants
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So if the government has been shut down, who’s going to feed the aliens at Area 51?
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Oh you have *a* carrier? That’s cute.
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@EerikNKross
Eerik N Kross
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FSB arrests the commander of the 🇷🇺 Black Sea fleet vice admiral Igor Ossipov. Obviously for the bad weather and an accidental fire on board of Moskva. 8th general out of commission by 🇺🇦 action in this war.
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Clearly you never read Thucydides...
@RealCandaceO
Candace Owens
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This new trend of using funerals and eulogies to deliver political messages is really quite disgusting. Sympathy from death as means to sway public opinion is next level corrupt. Everyone involved should be ashamed of themselves.
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Never make fun of slow runners or people who aren’t that great at the gym. They did much more than those who stayed on the couch all day. Pace them, coach them...just be kind.
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Tony Posnanski
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Struggling with weight isn’t a partisan issue and insulting anyone for it is juvenile. I post my workout everyday because I want that one person struggling to know that I am still the fattest guy at the gym... But today was my 32nd straight day at the gym. Fuck the haters.
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If I ever get killed in combat, you all have my permission to enjoy yourselves on Memorial Day.
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Someone needs to write this script.
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Two people were arrested after a traffic stop of a stolen car revealed the two had a rattlesnake, radioactive uranium, and an open bottle of Kentucky Deluxe.​
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Womp womp.
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oh look, North Korea has stopped cooperating
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I hate to say it, but the Russian campaign wouldn't be so effective if Americans didn't eagerly lap it up. We care more about whether or not someone stands or kneels during an NFL game than issues which genuinely affect Americans and our allies abroad.
How Russia Is Exploiting American White Supremacy via @thedailybeast
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@joshscampbell Up next: Josh Campbell’s Day Off
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Just remember: Nothing can stop the US Air Force. Except lightning within 5 nautical miles.
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Hey, ⁦ @AmbJohnBolton ⁩, here’s a translation since you don’t speak Arabic.
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Many of the students are old enough to enlist in the military, drive, and vote. They will remember this.
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WATCH: Florida state Rep. Elizabeth Porter dismisses Florida shooting survivors calls for increased gun control. "Do we allow the children to tell us that we should pass a law that says no homework?"
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It's Tuesday, August 31. For the first time in nearly 20 years, there are no US forces in Afghanistan. 🧵
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Just think of how bizarre this headline reads: “Russia hits military targets for a change.”
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Europe might remember your efforts more fondly if you didn't totally fuck over all of Eastern Europe for the better part of five decades.
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MFA Russia 🇷🇺
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#Zakharova : The Normandy landings were not a game-changer for the outcome of WWII and the Great Patriotic War. The outcome was determined by the Red Army’s victories – mainly, in Stalingrad and Kursk. For three years, the UK and then the US dragged out opening the second front
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Israelis Watch U.S. Abandon Kurds, and Worry: Who’s Next?
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Finland opens up parliamentary debate about joining NATO, sends additional weapons to Ukraine.
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The 82nd Airborne Just Reminded White Nationalists In Charlottesville What Real Valor Looks Like via @TaskandPurpose
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So help me God, if these two pilots receive a harsher punishment than any of the admirals involved in the Fat Leonard scandal...
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Is Alex Jones their official spokesperson?
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The Associated Press
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BREAKING: The Russian military says that an alleged chemical attack in Syria was staged and directed by Britain.
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“We have to hold on through this lonely Christmas. We have to hold on through this gray season. The sun is coming; spring is on its way, and with it will come more vaccines, economic recovery, and eventually a return to normalcy.” — ⁦ @MollyJongFast
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Nearly 300 students from Afghanistan’s Institute of Music have made it safely out of Afghanistan, many of them girls. Great work on the part of everyone who helped make this happen!
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Wait, you mean it's more complex than "fire and fury"?
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Despite threats from the White House, the US has no real, practical military option on North Korea, analysts say
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One of the first female Rangers takes command!
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3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Abn Div
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#PantherFamily , we congratulate Capt. James Simpson on a successful command of C/1-508 and wish Capt. Shaye Haver well as she assumes command!
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It defies belief that we’re asking people in hiding to fill out those ridiculously complex SIV packets on their smartphones.
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McMaster has gone through more executive assistants in four months than Darth Vader did admirals. Think of that.
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"Islam War Scarf"? They sell this piece of moto-gear at the PX. I may have it @ home...
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This is interesting: A Chinese government-owned company is a major shareholder in Erik Prince's Frontier Services Group (FSG). FSG is alleged to have been involved in a plan to illegally provide helicopters to the LNA in Libya.
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Shamelessly stolen:
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Heart goes out to @joshscampbell this week. Josh is a CNN reporter and a Naval Reservist who’s covering two mass shootings in two days at US Navy bases.
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Spotted in the parking lot.
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President @GeorgeHWBush visits troops in the Persian Gulf for Thanksgiving in 1990. Regardless of your party, this was a class act visit. Eating with service members and placing one's support of the troops over partisan political gain.
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“It’s the dirty secret of the Russian military: Russia’s peripheral subjects—Buryats, Dagestanis, Tuvans—are Putin’s cannon fodder.”
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Much has been made about the US military's renewed focus on Russia. But at the end of the day, Russia achieved with bots and hackers what it never could with tanks. Our best weapons are an informed citizenry and a free and independent press.
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#DDay infographic.
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I had Butina’s On The Rocks.
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Utah mayor Brent Taylor, a National Guardsman who was killed in Afghanistan this weekend, wrote this in his last Facebook post. People risked their lives during elections in Iraq and Afghanistan. Don't take democracy for granted...get out and vote.
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Snowflakes.
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Regarding the failed 🇷🇺 helicopter/airborne assault today.
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Lt. Col. Vindman’s uniform spoke loud. His humanity spoke louder.
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Sailors aboard @TheRealCVN71 cheer CAPT Brett Crozier, who was relieved by Navy officials after a memorandum warning of the effects of #COVID19 among the ship’s crew was leaked to the media.
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“SS” coffee? I wonder what @blckriflecoffee ’s target demographic is? 🤔
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Dana Loesch
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Started the morning with a new bag of @blckriflecoffee . ☕️
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Looks like Mueller is slapping another charge on Paul Manafort as well as three charges on Konstantin Kilimnik (formerly “Person A”), a longtime Manafort aide suspected of having ties to the GRU. Profile of Kilimnik from two days ago:
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"Much has and will be written about McCain’s military courage, his patriotism, his famed bipartisanship and his unimpeachable personal decency. His long-standing position on Russia deserves a special tribute."
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If you’re thinking of using your .mil account to sign up for a militia group, don’t. Just don’t.
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Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D
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Wow. Leaked data from the Oath Keepers shows that at least 160 alleged members registered with the militia using official US military or government email accounts.
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@Susan_Hennessey If it's what you say it is, I love it!
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@lieutenant_lady @KaitMarieox And yet it works for Clark Kent.
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So I've been hearing a lot of complaints that a parade doesn't contribute to readiness. But what if we all showed up for the parade and people stood on the side of the street giving us flu vaccines? Maybe a booth where I can update my DD93 and SGLI at the end of the march!
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Three of our NATO allies just died in Afghanistan. The only time NATO has invoked Article 5 was in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, and it is the basis for NATO involvement in Afghanistan.
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The Associated Press
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Czech military confirms the three victims of the suicide attack in Afghanistan were all Czech service members.
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"American intelligence officials informed senators and their aides in recent weeks that Russia had engaged in a yearslong campaign to essentially frame Ukraine as responsible for Moscow’s own hacking of the 2016 election." via @julianbarnes @AllMattNYT
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As opposed to those lightly-armed Marines.
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“His father gave up everything to escape from communism, an overbearing government, anti-Semitism and the painfully narrowed opportunities that Jews faced in the Soviet Union. Alexander #Vindman grew up in Brooklyn, determined to be as American as can be.”
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Things are happening quickly and I’m having trouble keeping up. Papadopoulos was Facebook friends with the Russian professor?
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Here’s why recognition of the LPR and DPR matters. Both self-proclaimed republics claim territory currently occupied by the 🇺🇦 Army. If 🇷🇺 recognizes the two, it can claim to be intervening to remove 🇺🇦 and protect the sovereignty of the two republics.
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NASCAR banned the Confederate flag before the US Army did. Let that sink in.
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I had a few drinks and I have a pronouncement. I love all of you.
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Guys, more national defense memes!
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I think this is literally the definition of collusion.
@jaketapper
Jake Tapper
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In our interview airing on @CNNSotu at 9 am ET, in response to criticism from @mittromney that Trump team was willing to accept help from Russia, Trump attorney @RudyGiuliani says there’s “nothing wrong” with a campaign accepting help from Russia. Tune in —
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