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Modern Warfare Doctrine Update: Strategic Deterrence — The Strait of Hormuz is not akin to a Nuclear Weapon ; that implies Mutually Assured Destruction. It is the highest form of Global Deterrence—Max impact, Non-Threatening Posture.

1/ جمهورى اسلامى ايران محدودهٔ نظارتى مديریت تنگه هرمز را به این شرح تعيین کرده است: «خط اتصال كوه مبارك درايران وجنوب فجيره درامارات در شرق تنگه تاخط اتصال انتهاى جزيره قشم درايران و ام القيوین امارات درغرب تنگه.»

There is NO REAL ALTERNATIVE. NONE. From oil prices EXPLODING overnight to the specter of famine stalking nations—THIS is the nightmare the world will face the MOMENT the Bab al-Mandab Strait slams shut.

🚨🇷🇺💥 These 'Apocalypse Weapons' can change the course of history in a single strike Russia's nuclear triad has been reloaded with Burevestnik, Poseidon, Sarmat, and Oreshnik President Putin says they're for parity, not threats — but these weapons keep the world on edge: 🧵

Against the odds. Race after race. Point after point. In a season defined by brand-new regulations and intense competition, the @HaasF1Team has shown what perseverance, determination, and relentless focus can achieve. As the smallest team on the grid, delivering points in every round of the 2026 championship so far is no small feat, it’s a statement. “It’s good in these brand new regulations, as the smallest team, we’ve scored a point in every single race, which is really positive.” — Ayao Komatsu, Team Principal This consistency isn’t luck, it’s the result of grit, precision, and a team that refuses to be outworked. From the garage to the grid, every detail matters. Every decision counts. Every lap pushes the boundary a little further. At Mphasis, we see a powerful parallel. Success in complex, fast-changing environments demands resilience, clarity of purpose, and the ability to perform under pressure, qualities that define both high-performance sport and high-performance business. We’re proud to support the TGR Haas F1 Team in their journey, and to stand alongside a team that continues to prove what’s possible with determination and focus. Here’s to the teams that keep showing up, pushing forward, and delivering, no matter the challenge. mphs.co/haas #F1 #HaasF1 #StayAhead #EngineeringIsInOurDNA #IntelligentEngineering #Mphasis #Teamwork

Not exactly, but mostly right 👇

Modern Warfare operates under a Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) doctrine. Below is a real time demonstration from - Information / Cognitive Domain #MW #WARFARE #Doctrine #Domains

[Press Update] HiLumi LHC: full-scale tests start. Find out more: home.cern/news/news/acce…

The IAEA has been informed by Iran that another projectile hit the premises of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant today. According to Iran, there was no damage to the NPP itself nor injuries to staff, and the condition of the plant is normal. IAEA DG @rafaelmgrossi reiterates call for maximum restraint to avoid nuclear safety risks during conflict.

The IAEA is aware of reports of an incident in the city of Dimona, Israel, involving a missile impact and has not received any indication of damage to the nuclear research center Negev. Information from regional States indicates that no abnormal radiation levels have been detected. Closely monitoring the situation, Director General @RafaelMGrossi stressed that "maximum military restraint should be observed, in particular in the vicinity of nuclear facilities".

In 2002, the US conducted Millennium Challenge, the largest war games in its history. They split soldiers into two teams: 🔵Blue, which was America, and 🔴Red, an unnamed generic Middle Eastern country. The 🔴Red team was led by retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Paul K. Van Riper. The idea behind the games was to see how, not if, the 🔵Blue team would win. In other words, the 🔴Red team was supposed to lose, but General Van Riper didn’t want to lose. So he played to win. He used asymmetric tactics by doing things like using civilian boats instead of military ones, motorcycle couriers and coded messages in mosque towers because their cell phone networks had been hacked. He launched a massive preemptive strike using a swarm of small boats and cruise missiles, which overwhelmed the 🔵Blue Team’s Aegis defense system. In the simulation, this resulted in the “sinking” of 16 American warships, including an aircraft carrier. The exercise was supposed to take 14 days. Vin Riper and his team won after day one. Understandably, the US military was embarrassed because this was supposed to show off all its superior tactics and cutting edge technologies. So, they restarted the exercise and changed the rules to force everyone to follow a script so that the 🔴red team could not win. The exercise controllers brought the sunken ships back to life, and forced Van Riper to follow a scripted path that ensured a 🔵Blue Team victory. 🔴Red was ordered to turn off certain air defense systems and use regular cellular communications to allow 🔵Blue to destroy them. 🔴Red was also told exactly where to move certain units so 🔵Blue could pretend to find them and neutralise them according to a pre-planned timeline. Most crucially, Van Riper was forbidden from using the swarming tactics that had been so effective in the opening hours. The controllers argued that the reset was necessary because the goal of Millennium Challenge 2002 wasn’t just to see who would win, but to test new Network-Centric Warfare concepts. They felt that if the game ended on Day 2, they wouldn’t get to test the rest of their expensive toys. Van Riper, however, argued that testing those toys in a rigged environment provided a false sense of security. General Van Riper was so angry, he quit the exercise midway and wrote a 21-page recommendation on changes the military had to make to, get around his asymmetric tactics. They ignored the report and said the exercises were a huge success that proved the military doctrine was good. “It was no longer a free-play exercise... it was a scripted exercise. They had a desired outcome, and they were going to get it.” — Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper 24 years later, maybe Von Riper was onto something.

What just happened? At 2:30 PM ET today, CBS News reported that President Trump was considering "boots on the ground" in Iran. Then, at 3:43 PM ET, President Trump said "I don't want to do a ceasefire with Iran," with the S&P 500 hitting a new 2026 low. Exactly 90 minutes later, at 5:13 PM ET, President Trump said the US is "considering winding down" the war with Iran. Between the 3:43 PM ET and 5:13 PM ET comments, the S&P 500 had already risen nearly +1% on NO news. By 6:15 PM ET, the S&P 500 rallied +1.8% from its low, adding +$900 BILLION in market cap. Markets are now closed until Monday.

🇨🇳 🇮🇷 In response to a reporter’s question on whether China provides military or dual-use materials to Iran, the Chinese spokesperson stated: "China opposes the illegal military strikes against Iran by Israel and the United States in violation of international law, supports Iran in safeguarding its sovereignty, security, territorial integrity, and national dignity, and supports Iran in protecting its legitimate rights and interests." In Chinese political discourse, this essentially means "yes."

SUCCESSFUL STRIKES by Turkey's SOM-J cruise missile in latest 'live-warhead test' The cruise missile has low radar visibility, sea-skimming flight and precision guidance

Every Senior DevOps should save this now. Because 2026 is coming through default changes, deprecations, runtime shifts, and ecosystem upgrades that will slowly make your “stable” production behave differently. Here’s what 2026 actually means. Ingress-NGINX is retiring (March 2026). If you’re still running it, you’re on borrowed time. Plan your migration to Gateway API (or another supported controller) while things are calm and not during a Sev-1. Gateway API is no longer “future talk.” It’s moving fast. Your Ingress knowledge is slowly becoming legacy, especially when teams demand richer traffic control. cgroup v2 is the real-world default now. CPU throttling patterns shift. Memory reclaim behaves differently. Old tuning assumptions don’t fully apply anymore. And subtle breakages are the new outages. Runtime upgrades are behavior changes. New containerd versions, new node images, new defaults. Re-test probes, shutdown paths, limits, PDBs. The “boring” paths are where 2026 incidents will hide. OpenTelemetry is spreading everywhere. Not just traces, pipelines too. CI/CD health becomes first-class telemetry, not just “green build = fine.” Kubernetes is now the default AI platform. Which means GPUs, quotas, and cost controls are your problem. Expect driver drift, GPU fragmentation, and runaway autoscaling. FinOps is runtime, not quarterly. Teams lose money from defaults: No limits. Over-requests. Zombie volumes. Egress leaks. Logging explosions. Guardrails must live in policies, not slides. The real 2026 “Senior DevOps” skill? Migration readiness. Ingress → Gateway. Agents → OTel. cgroup v1 thinking → cgroup v2 reality. Classic apps → AI workloads. Your job isn’t firefighting. It’s making change boring. Copied💯

Lots of agentic software to be written for enterprises. Sort of similar when digital computers and personal computers took off in 70s and 80s when lots of application software had to written. 1/2

Tributes to Bharat Ratna Dr. M. Visvesvaraya on his birth anniversary. On the occasion of #EngineersDay2025, we salute the innovative spirit of our engineers whose brilliance fuels innovation, strengthens defence, and steers India towards self-reliance.

"Mitchell And Webb Are Not Helping", a new sketch show featuring @arobertwebb, @5teviem, @kfRedhot, @lararicote, Krystal Evans and me, starts NEXT MONTH on @Channel4! Here's a little taster to get you in the holiday mood.

Einstein's handwritten notes on relativity, ca. 1913.

@KremlinRussia Date - 17 June 2025-Greviously Injured. Ma DECISION MAKING CYCLE is Compromised. State - Awake for a week and TIRED. [OpenLineComm]

Телефонный разговор с Премьер-министром Израиля Нафтали Беннетом. Тема: ситуация вокруг Украины, переговорный процесс vk.cc/cbS6RU