On Operation Epic Fury
The United States and Israel strategically bomb Iran.
A. How the Central Intelligence Agency helped locate the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini for him to be killed (Khomeini’s strategic culture). What could go wrong. What might occur next. Why the US strike on Iran is different. Iran’s nuclear program remnants may still survive. The bar for success is very high.
B. San Francisco’s AI subculture. AI automation will risk transfer the costs to workers and suppress wages. The new payoff is meant to be more effective coordination / orchestration (Palantir Technologies ontology territory).
C. JSOU’s Special Operations Research Topics 2026 (Amazon Kindle version).
D. X is a disinformation vector on US/Israel-Iran and other geopolitics events. Meanwhile, the former Disinformation website is still silent.
E. Werner Herzog’s blend of fact and fiction.
F. Today’s MIT OCW free course is War & American Society, created by Professor Christopher Capozzola.
G. The United States is focusing on Australian sovereignty in the Indo-Pacific to offshore balance China.
H. Dave Mullins has a new podcast Aftercult on former members of cults and new religious movements. Understanding Beliefs by Nils J. Nilsson (Boston, MA: MIT Press, 2014) is very useful.
I. X comments on the Pete Hegseth / Department of War and Anthropic contract dispute: income reliance; warfighter signalling on how military strategy trumps corporate strategy; Anthropic’s misperception versus OpenAI’s victory in strategic moves; how Hedseth / DoW countered Anthropic’s technology / ethics concerns; why the name change from DoD to DoW is a very important signal (now confirmed by Operation Enduring Fury in Iran); business development failure to understand military / warfighting mindsets; on supply chain coercion; executive power use of denial and economic sanctions; and as a negotiation / brinkmanship case study.
J. The cultural politics in Japan of Sumo wrestling.
K. PBS News special on War With Iran.
L. Stan Druckenmiller offers investment lessons.
M. Option pricing explained.
N. The Oscar Peterson Trio in Tokyo in 1964.