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Simone Ledeen
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Tech & National Security / Special Operations / Intelligence / Senior Fellow at @StraussCenter / fmr DASD Middle East and Treasury OIA
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If you’re looking for a movie to watch on Memorial Day that reminds us why we have this Monday off, give this one a look if you haven’t seen it already.
Taking Chance
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Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to those who made the ultimate sacrifice, and to the loved ones they left behind. Thank you for your service and sacrifice. Never forgotten 🇺🇸
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US-Saudi venture to build Shahed drone clones in Riyadh | Semafor semafor.com/article/05/25/…
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@AaronBMacLean @TheFP This is a great essay and a wonderful book.
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For Memorial Day, I contributed to @TheFP's Things Worth Remembering series with a short essay on Herman Wouk's magnificent Winds of War + War and Remembrance, books that ought to be assigned at every high school in the country.
thefp.com/p/war-memory-a…
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Robert Secher, Captain, USMC, KIA 08 Oct 2006. Closer than a brother and more than a best friend. It is hard to believe it's been 15 years...you are remembered and missed daily...#NeverForgotten
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Remembering Colonel Rich Higgins this Memorial Day weekend. In 1988, Rich was kidnapped, brutally tortured and hung by Hezbollah in Lebanon. The terrorists recorded his murder and watching the video of his hanging at the CIA/HLTF was horrific. It's hard to articulate the sense of failure on our part as we struggled to find the hostages. Never forget. @USMC @RFJ_USA @RFJ_Persian @FBIWFO
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Genuinely curious what shifted for the President between the decisiveness of Epic Fury and 40 days of effective military campaign, then 60 days of falling back to where we were right before Epic Fury - circular negotiations, little more than artificial progress.
A “deal” to talk about nuclear material over time feels like we’re back to square 1, with a lot of unnecessary challenges in between.
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No surprise given the events since last summer.
Egypt's Intel Observer@EGYOSINT
Satellite imagery confirms that significant expansion work has been underway since April 2026 at the U.S. Army Logistics Support Area in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, known as LSA Jenkins. It appears that more American troops and military equipment have been deployed to the site.
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This is nothing new but what is becoming oddly apparent is that someone is pushing John Kiriakou on every social media app.
Reminder, he went to jail for leaking secrets and then went to work for a Russian radio station afterwards.
Leading Report@LeadingReport
The CIA can access your phone and laptop microphones and cameras, per former CIA officer John Kiriakou.
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@shaunmmaguire We are barely at the beginning of the beginning.
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People are generally bad at thinking nonlinearly
I forecast people will be very surprised by the growth that’s about to come
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Elon Musk@elonmusk
As the recently expanded partnership with @AnthropicAI demonstrates, @SpaceX is offering AI compute as a service at significant scale. We are in discussions with other companies to do the same. Over time, especially with orbital data centers, we expect to serve AI at extremely high scale.
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Can’t argue these points. I saw the same and worse during my deployments to Afghanistan but nobody ever sympathized with the father like the BBC here.
Eris@EristheFair
1. The father should sell his own ass before prostituting a child. 2. The family member buying her could have helped financially without taking their child. 3. Why isn't the "labor" for hire? Why is the least skilled family member being SOLD? 4. No one appears to be starving.
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"For Epic Fury, perhaps the Most Valuable Player was Unmanned. The MQ-9. We made many many strikes..I don't want to say how many because the number is classified but no other platform is even close to the MQ-9. So we get a lot of utility out of them and don't put our folks in risk. " Gen. Kenneth S. Wilsbach Chief of Staff of the US Air Force (May 20, 2026)
Mark Vandroff@goatmaster89
@AirPowerNEW1 @Wezyr12 @kowa31347 Even though the MQ-9s are relatively expensive, they are still designed to take on higher risk ISR missions that would not be tasked to a manned aircraft due to risk to crew. It makes sense those assets would have higher combat loss numbers.
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If you mock the men and women who bleed for our country, you have no business representing them.
Fox News@FoxNews
“Dumb motherf****** didn’t deserve to live.” Far-left Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner mocking a U.S. soldier who was shot four times in Afghanistan in a resurfaced Reddit comment. The post made fun of Purple Heart recipient Pfc. Ted Daniels after he took incoming fire during a 2012 clash with the Taliban. Platner’s now deleted comment went on to say: "At least his stupidity and fat ass wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness and hold in contempt. Poor marksmanship on the Taliban's part is the only reason this mouthbreather made it home, he managed to make every possible s*** decision possible when it comes to small unit combat."
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Narcos from cartels in Mexico have been working in Africa for decades. It’s easy pickings for them…
Ali Bradley@AliBradleyTV
ICYMI: General Dagvin Anderson, commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) ties Mexican cartels to drug trafficking out of Africa saying Mexican cartel members were present at 11 of 12 labs they interdicted. He added that the cartels are linked to the biggest cocaine seizure in history worth roughly $1B — Adding that the drugs are bound for the Middle East, Europe and the U.S. through the northern border.
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