M. T. Hlad

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. - John F. Kennedy -Semper Fidelis -

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

Honky Chonk Beardonkadonk⁣⁣

[M. T. Hlad @thor1775]

An outstanding leader and a great piece on the reality and complexity of the PACOM AOR https://t.co/NZTIkVzfwO

[TIME @TIME]

TIME's new cover: Admiral Samuel Paparo is preparing for a war he hopes never to fight. His mission: prevent conflict with China.

“If I do my job right, history will never know my name,” he tells TIME in an exclusive interview https://t.co/ps943S94SD

[Cincinnati Bengals @Bengals]

First road win.

[NFL @NFL]

FINAL: The @Bengals get the Week 1 win!

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

First on 60 Minutes: Newly declassified video shows service members from U.S. Joint Special Operations Command rescuing Bravo, one of the two U.S. Air Force officers shot down over Iran in April. Bravo was stranded for two days – alone and badly wounded, behind enemy lines. https://t.co/9RegDJ3iPV

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We're publishing our most detailed threat intelligence report to date.

It covers how people tried to misuse Claude—for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, biology, and building weapons—and how we found and stopped them.

We disrupted every operation in the report, and used the lessons from them to strengthen our safeguards. Where appropriate, we also shared what we found with authorities and other AI companies.

These cases are not typical: we’re highlighting some of the most sophisticated misuse we’ve seen. But they’re especially important to discuss, because they show us where AI misuse is headed, where our safeguards work, and where they need to improve.

We’re publishing this report so others can spot the same activity on their own platforms, and so we can give the public a clearer view of how emerging threats develop.

Read the report: https://t.co/0EJUnYEgfz

[M. T. Hlad @thor1775]

3rdBn Kilo - PLT 3069! The awesome Sr Drill instructor SSGT Carter… 1999

[U.S. Marines @USMC]

#MarineCorps recruits with Mike Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion take part in the Confidence Course aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C.

The course is designed to help recruits build their confidence by overcoming various obstacles.

#Marines #USMC #Military

[U.S. Marines @USMC]

#MarineCorps recruits with Mike Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion take part in the Confidence Course aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C.

The course is designed to help recruits build their confidence by overcoming various obstacles.

#Marines #USMC #Military

[在日米第三海兵遠征軍 @IIIMEF_JP]

第３海兵遠征軍は、通信、情報、サイバー空間作戦、情報関連能力を一体的に統合する、部隊ならではの役割を紹介しました。 https://t.co/4Y8rqvOc53

[Bloomberg @business]

China’s test this week of a submarine-fired ballistic missile may mark the beginning of more regular Pacific launches as the country advances its arsenal for delivering nuclear warheads https://t.co/40hDYOFseX

[Commandant of the @USMC @CMC_MarineCorps]

Today, I was honored to host ROKMC Commandant Gen Ju, Il-Suk, at the Pentagon. The bond between our Corps is built through decades of trust, service, and sacrifice. Together, we strengthen our alliance, enhance readiness, and ensure our Marines are prepared to fight and win.

[M. T. Hlad @thor1775]

'This is how we prevail in the Pacific': US, allies train to repel amphibious assault https://t.co/n8lgz7ESWC via @DefenseOne

[NASA @NASA]

Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶

The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

[U.S. Marines @USMC]

Chuck Norris didn't join the Marine Corps...the Marine Corps applied to him.

Heaven’s streets have always been guarded by Marines. Today, Chuck Norris reported for duty.

We mourn the passing of Chuck Norris, a @usairforce veteran, who also became an honorary Marine in 2007 when awarded the title by then Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. James T. Conway.

Chuck Norris is one of just over 100 individuals to be awarded the title of Honorary Marine in the entire 250-year history of the Corps.

Some missions may require a battalion, but this one just requires an Honorary Marine.

#USMCHistory #USMC #SemperFidelis

[NSA/CSS @NSAGov]

Gen. Joshua Rudd has assumed the role of Commander, @US_CYBERCOM, Director, @NSAGov / Chief, CSS following an assumption of command, directorship, and responsibility ceremony at the Pentagon today.

[Military Times @MilitaryTimes]

Pentagon staffers, former officials and IT contractors who work closely with the U.S. military say they are reluctant to give up Anthropic’s AI tools. https://t.co/V4pnQKuMLo

[Pacific Forum @PacificForum]

Peter Kouretsos, researcher at IDA and #PacificForum Young Leader, published a piece in @CIMSEC this week on the U.S. Navy's declining missile capacity and challenges for #DistributedMaritimeOperations in the #IndoPacific.
Read the full article here: https://t.co/dMZCOyPzRL

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

🇨🇳 Thousands of Chinese fishing boats have been massing in geometric formations in the East China Sea, in coordinated actions that experts believe are part of Beijing's preparations for a potential regional crisis or conflict.
➡️ https://t.co/7G3gb1A2bb

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Look at this image carefully. You are looking at a Chinese commercial satellite photograph of Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. Every red box is an artificial intelligence model identifying a US military aircraft by type. Every label is in Mandarin. And the base you are looking at is the one Iran fired ballistic missiles at on Saturday night.

A company called MizarVision, founded five years ago in Hangzhou, published this. Not the Pentagon. Not the CIA. Not a classified intelligence briefing delivered to the Situation Room. A Chinese startup with access to sub-meter resolution Earth observation satellites and an AI object detection model that can distinguish a KC-135 Stratotanker from a KC-46 Pegasus from orbit.

Aviation Week confirmed what the image shows. Fifteen KC-135 aerial refueling tankers. Six KC-46 Pegasus tankers. Six E-3 Sentry airborne early warning aircraft, which is significant because only thirty one E-3s remain in the entire US Air Force inventory worldwide, meaning roughly a fifth of America’s operational AWACS fleet is parked on a single ramp in the Saudi desert. Two E-11A Battlefield Airborne Communications Nodes. C-130 Hercules transports. C-5 Galaxy heavy lifters. The backbone of Operation Epic Fury, catalogued from space and published on Weibo.

This is the base that Iran targeted. AFP journalists in Riyadh reported explosions in the eastern part of the capital with thick smoke rising. The Saudi Foreign Ministry condemned Iranian attacks targeting Riyadh and the Eastern Province. Saudi air defenses intercepted the projectiles. But the image you are looking at was published days before the strike. Which means Iran had exactly the same intelligence picture that MizarVision gave the entire world for free.

This is what the democratization of intelligence looks like. In 1991, only the United States could see individual aircraft on a ramp from space. In 2003, a handful of nations had that capability. In 2026, a Chinese startup publishes annotated satellite imagery of American force dispositions on social media, and Aviation Week runs the analysis before the first missile is fired.

Defence Security Asia captured what this means: sub-meter resolution imagery distinguishing individual aircraft types fundamentally alters the secrecy calculus of pre-strike deployments. You cannot mass two hundred aircraft across half a dozen bases and keep it secret when commercial satellites photograph every ramp twice a day and AI models label every airframe before an analyst finishes their coffee.

The age of hidden buildups is over. Every deployment is now observable, catalogued, and published in near real time by companies with no security clearance and no allegiance to anyone. The next war will not be planned in secret. It will be watched from orbit by everyone, in every language, simultaneously.

https://t.co/BrzGRrU3VW