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The Kuwait Airport Strikes Explained – Summary and Key Points: Iran’s missile and drone strikes on Kuwait International Airport mark a dangerous escalation in the Iran war and threaten to unravel a fragile ceasefire Washington has worked to preserve. Kuwait says the attack killed at least one person, injured dozens, damaged diplomatic missions, and forced flight suspensions. Tehran claims it acted in retaliation for U.S. strikes tied to Qeshm Island and an Iranian oil tanker, while warning Gulf governments against helping American military operations.

BALTIMORE — The Defense Information Systems Agency is deploying capabilities within U.S. Indo-Pacific Command that will create a secure space for the Pentagon to share information with its international partners and allies.
After months of testing capabilities for an effort known as the Coalition Information Environment (CIE), the agency is now preparing to demonstrate the new technology during the joint force’s Olympus Fires exercise in Indopacom, according to Lt. Col. David Courter, DISA’s chief of combatant command plan integration.

Shashank Joshi is the incoming Washington Bureau Chief for The Economist, according to his X profile. He has been involved in a running verbal gun battle on X with an active U.S. Army officer in the Pentagon who goes by @infantryDort.
@InfantryDort wrote a Substack which highlighted the obviously very real phenomenon of the great replacement for Western Christian society. The agenda is far along in Britain, where explosive anger is manifesting over the ‘White George Floyd‘ moment that happened recently.

The commanding officer, executive officer and senior enlisted leader of a Navy ship repair facility in Yokosuka, Japan, have been fired, service officials announced on Wednesday.
Capt. Wendel Penetrante, Capt. Edwin Catubig and Master Chief Petty Officer Thomas Dean Howell were relieved of their duties on Wednesday as commanding officer, executive officer, and command master chief, respectively, a Navy news release says.
They were all assigned to the U.S.

With U.S. military supply chains facing a growing risk of adversary attack, senior defense officials are keen on using AI and other advanced technologies to address the challenges associated with contested logistics.
Supply chains face a variety of potential threats, including kinetic strikes, cyberattacks, geopolitical instability and infrastructure vulnerabilities.

L Todd Wood talks with Alex from Kyiv on the moving front in Donbass and the collapsing Ukrainian lines.
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Summary and Key Points: So far, the Iran War has hit Americans where they expected: at the gas pump, where prices have jumped 35% to a four-year high. By one estimate, it’s already drained around $100 billion from U.S. households — roughly $750 each — and the tax refunds that quietly softened the blow stopped covering it in mid-May. But economists say the real squeeze is still coming, somewhere less obvious: the grocery store. The Strait of Hormuz doesn’t just carry oil — it carries the natural gas from which the world’s fertilizer is made.

Summary and Key Points: For more than a decade, the U.S. military ran war game after war game simulating a conflict with Iran, and almost every one ended the same way: Tehran blockades the Strait of Hormuz and sends the global economy reeling. One infamous 2002 simulation went further, with Iran defeating the United States outright. What’s unfolding now was among the most foreseeable outcomes imaginable, which makes the real puzzle how it caught Washington flat-footed.

Summary and Key Points: It looks almost comical — a squat white dome sailors nicknamed “R2-D2.” But the Phalanx is one of the deadliest defensive weapons afloat: a radar-guided Gatling gun that fires 4,500 rounds a minute and decides on its own when to shoot, no human required. It’s a warship’s last line of defense — and in the Red Sea, it shredded a Houthi missile that had slipped past a destroyer’s Aegis shield to within a mile. But the autonomy that makes it lethal has a dark side: once, a Phalanx locked onto the wrong target and opened fire on a friendly American jet.

Summary and Key Points: At first glance, it was a display of raw power: in one night, Russia hurled 656 drones and 73 missiles at cities across Ukraine, one of its largest barrages of the war. But a growing chorus of European officials and Western spy chiefs reads it the opposite way — as a sign of weakness, even desperation. Four years into a war meant to last weeks, Russia has barely advanced past the lines it held in 2014, and one spy chief warns, “time is not in Russia’s favor.