Kosovo is on its way to attracting a record amount of foreign direct investment after last year’s level exceeded $1.2 billion for the first time in the country’s history, according to the central bank governor https://t.co/YdoR5sbQYc
My information consumption is now 1/4 X, 1/4 podcast interviews of the smartest practitioners, 1/4 talking to the leading AI models, and 1/4 reading old books. The opportunity cost of anything else is far too high, and rising daily.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Iran:
Cyber intelligence, signal intelligence, electronic intelligence, preventive intelligence, identifying aerial tracks, imagery intelligence, space-based... First of all, if you haven't done your homework and developed your capabilities in these areas, you shouldn't even engage in a verbal spat with Israel or America.
This is an important point. A power must be in a flawless state in these areas if it is truly preparing itself for such a struggle.
Besides that, air defense systems, radar systems, jamming systems... one needs to be very effective in these areas so that a country can protect its own airspace.
For instance, suppose they hacked phones and found the location of your leadership or others. That’s one capability. But being able to strike from the air is possible by entering your airspace and staying there for a long duration.
Idea: a bar called The Situation Room. Like a sports bar but for politics. Cable news and live feeds on the screens instead of football. Atlases and copies of Jane’s Defence Weekly on every table. Multiple sets of Risk and Diplomacy behind the bar.
During Operation ABSOLUTE RESOLVE, CW5 Eric Slover when flying his MH-47 to insert Delta Force into Maduro’s compound, was hit in the legs and hips by enemy machine gun fire. Bleeding profusely, Slover swung his Chinook around so that his gunners could silence the enemy forces. They did so, and Slover piloted the helo to the insertion point, from where every Delta operator disembarked to close in with the enemy and take the prize. Slover then told his co-pilot, also wounded to take over, for he was about to pass out.
Not only would every man aboard the Chinook have been killed if not for Slover’s actions, it was the keystone of the operation. We would’ve had to scrub the raid if it was lost.
American hero.