Michael R. Gordon

Trump Declares Truce With Houthis but Israel Still at Risk The intensifying conflict had risked complicating Trump’s nascent nuclear negotiations with Iran.

13.06.2025 12:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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07.05.2025 16:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Exclusive | Trump Ally Lindsey Graham Pushes Russia Crackdown South Carolina senator builds support for new sanctions on Moscow and tariffs on countries that buy Russia’s oil

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04.05.2025 21:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Exclusive | U.S. Army Plans Massive Increase in Its Use of Drones The shift to more small unmanned aircraft is based on lessons from the Ukraine battlefield.

Hegseth Dismisses Members of Pentagon Advisory Boards The move comes after several firings and dismissals by the defense chief.

04.05.2025 21:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

U.S. Offers Iran Civilian Nuclear Program in Possible Compromise With Tehran Negotiators to meet in Oman on Saturday for technical talks on a nuclear deal.

26.04.2025 14:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kyiv Is On the Clock to Respond to Trump Plan to End Ukraine Conflict The U.S. proposal includes recognition of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and blocking Ukraine from joining NATO.

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Iran Seeks Guarantees U.S. Won’t Leave Nuclear Pact Again Officials from the two countries met in Rome for a second round of talks.

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Europe Cajoles U.S. Into Talks Over Ukraine French President Emmanuel Macron hosted Steve Witkoff and Marco Rubio in an attempt to carve out room for Europe in Washington’s talks with Moscow.

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Many "Warfare" reviews mention that it (deliberately) lacks context: what is this SEAL platoon doing? Why? Where?

You can find a lot of that context in the battle-of-Ramadi chapter (ch. 14) of @mgordonwsj.bsky.social's 2012 book THE ENDGAME.

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U.S. Toughens Demands on Syria’s New Islamist-Led Leadership The Trump administration wants Damascus to crack down on extremists and expel Palestinian militants in return for a limited easing of sanctions.

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U.S. Will Pause Ukraine Peace Efforts if No Progress, Trump Warns The secretary of state, in earlier remarks aimed at putting pressure on both sides to compromise, said Washington had presented a framework for a deal to Kyiv and Moscow.

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Exclusive | Witkoff Says U.S. Open to Compromise Ahead of Iran Nuclear Talks U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said the Trump administration’s “red line” with Iran is to stop it from being able to produce a nuclear weapon.

19.04.2025 09:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hegseth Comes Under Scrutiny for Texting Strike Details as Fallout Grows Several Democrats called for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to resign after more details emerged showing he posted plans of an imminent military strike against Houthi militants on an unclassified grou...

12.04.2025 13:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

NEW: Senators Wicker and Reed, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, have sent a letter to the DOD IG asking for an investigation of policies and practices on sharing classified info over unclassified messaging services. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

27.03.2025 13:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump Administration Denies Signal Chat Shared Classified Details With Journalist Senate Democrats challenge testimony over the nature of messages reported by the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg.

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FBI Director Kash Patel declined to say whether his agency would investigate whether the chat discussion of the military operation vs the Houthis violated security procedures, saying he learned of it Monday night

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26.03.2025 10:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump Administration Denies Signal Chat Shared Classified Details With Journalist Senate Democrats challenge testimony over the nature of messages reported by the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg.

The hearing raised the question of whether and when Hegseth had formally declassified Pentagon information on the pending military operation against the Houthis he put into the Signal chat

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26.03.2025 09:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump Russia Envoy Echoes Kremlin’s Views on Ukraine Ahead of Peace Talks The U.S. is hoping for a broader cease-fire between Moscow and Kyiv covering the Black Sea in negotiations starting in Saudi Arabia.

Top Trump Officials Debated War Plans on Unclassified Chat Shared With Journalist The texts on the Signal encrypted messaging service revealed disagreements about whether to strike Houthis in Yemen.

24.03.2025 20:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump to Announce Multibillion-Dollar Jet Fighter The advanced piloted planes are to be fielded in the 2030s and would operate alongside semiautonomous drones.

24.03.2025 20:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Air Force U-2 Spy Planes Flying Along Southern Border The Air Force has been flying U-2 Dragon Lady spy planes along the southern border on intel missions, USAF and defense officials disclosed.

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NEW: U.S. Air Force U-2 spy planes are flying along the southern border, Air Force and defense officials disclosed. www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-u-...

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Canada Finds Solidarity at G-7 in Push Against Trump’s 51st State Idea Top diplomats from the world’s industrial democracies gathered with an extraordinary question looming: How to respond to the president’s threats to economically target, and potentially absorb, the mee...

Red and white color-coordinated outfits, aluminum pens and Trump trolling. The scene from a G7 foreign ministers meeting like no other. wsj.com/world/canada... via @wsj.com w/ @mgordonwsj.bsky.social

14.03.2025 03:02 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

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U.S. to Restore Military Support to Ukraine After It Agrees to Cease-Fire The 30-day truce, which is contingent on Russian acceptance, envisions the start of negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow on halting the war.

Marco Rubio Says Talks in Saudi Arabia Key to Resuming Military Support for Ukraine President Trump’s decision to stop military aid and reduce intelligence has put pressure on Kyiv to negotiate.

12.03.2025 00:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The America-Sized Hole in Ukraine’s War Effort Defenders can hold out against Russians for now, but impact of U.S. weapons and intelligence halt will “cascade and compound” over time.

11.03.2025 05:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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Ukraine Rattled as U.S. Negotiator Points to Russia-Backed Template for Peace Witkoff, Trump’s top negotiator, said the U.S. would be looking to talks from early in the war as a basis for a deal. Ukraine’s supporters saw it as an embrace of a Kremlin talking point.