Iran, Again

Returning to an on-going strategic puzzle that I co-wrote about in 2009 that continues to persist today.

A. On the underground economy.

B. Andrew Leigh MP who has written about existential risk talks about innovation in order to “talk his book.”

C. The Thaler-Sunstein behavioural economics “nudge” framework is now being disputed.

D. Gifted & Talented education programs in New York City are under fire.

E. How Project 2025 is reshaping the United States.

F. Iran is silencing dissent. I co-wrote a conference paper on this in 2009. Direct Broadcast Satellite use was also noted in the Vallely / Aquino MindWar paper (1980) which later circulated in conspiracy theory circles due to William Milton Cooper, Fritz Springmeier (whose Bloodlines of the Illuminati was found during Operation Neptune Spear on 1st May 2011 in Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, amongst OBL’s bookshelf reading.

G. Today’s MIT OCW free course is Introduction to Linguistics, created by Professor David Pesetsky.

H. An unofficial audiobook of William McRaven’s Spec Ops: Studies in Special Operations Warfare (Theory & Practice) (San Francisco: Presidio Press, 2009) an influential SOF theory of attritionist-driven Direct Action. Do make your bed (daily journal).

I. A trailer for the upcoming film Pressure out on 29th May 2026 about the D-Day operation’s strategic planning and the Clausewitzean friction impacts of adverse weather on D-Day’s tactical operations / execution.