@seandnaylor
Co-founder of @thehighside.bsky.social; author of "Not a Good Day to Die" and "Relentless Strike;" previously a staff writer at Army Times, Foreign Policy and Yahoo News; other work in The New York Times and Newsweek.
Years ago my team at CNA did a review of the US use of proxies.
A pertinent finding: “Policymakers & the US military should restrict the use of proxies to irregular warfare activities against states or other nonstate armed groups & avoid any temptations to use them as surrogate conventional armies”
No, it’s worse.
It’s a war without a political objective.
Plenty of wars have opened without a clear plan to reconcile desired ends with available means, we may be the first country to go to war without even a basic concept of victory.
War for the memes. War for the vibes. War for the Warriors.
Just a lie
Sounds like Israeli SOF may be operating inside Iraq (presumably setting up FARPs and the like for aircraft that en route to/from Iran or ground launched munitions)—and some of them may have gotten into a shootout with Iraqi forces
Gen. Nakasone, former head of the NSA & an OpenAI board member, called out the Pentagon's move to designate Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" at a conference in Sausalito last night.
"This is not a good space for our nation."
more @axios.com:
www.axios.com/2026/03/03/n...
who made this
What in the ever loving fuck is this shit? If this is true it means there is a literal god damn doomsday cult in the military.
jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-...
Striking Hegseth press conference. In his effort to insist war is limited and bounded, he frames war aims almost entirely around Iranian missiles, essentially ignoring everything Trump has said about regime change. Naturally, he insults and belittles journalists who quote Trump's 4-5 weeks comment.
There are at least 10,000 Amcits in Qatar alone, and the US government is saying we are on our own
Hooo boy. There we go. It was about domestic surveillance after all.
A core finding of my forthcoming book on the history of US CT in Afghanistan is that you cannot, in fact, just kill people you think are bad and have it all be fine 🙄
Tune in next week for The Apprentice: Tehran!
For context, in the wake of 9/11, it took the George W. Bush admin 18 months to launch two regime change operations (AFG & IRQ)
This admin has now launched two regime change operations in the absence of any precipitating crisis in the past 1.5 months
Cash money baby
This aged well. Note the author.
Washington DC has always been a place full of hypocrites but this group has elevated hypocrisy to an art form
Two photos. The first shows Catturd tweeting: Name one US inspired regime change that hasn't ended in absolute disaster The next tweet shows him posting an AI illustration of Khamenei turned into a pile of dust. It says "I'm eliminated."
Two tweets. The first shows Laura Loomer promoting her show, where she says "A message has been sent that we are not interested in going back to the way politics were prior to Donald Trump, prior to 2016. We don't want warhawks. We don't want any more Neocons. We want American First. Period. End of discussion." The next tweet says: Today is a great day. Our military is amazing. @PeteHegseth is an absolute killer. Now you see why the Deep State worked so hard against him. It’s great having a Sec War who has Infidel literally tattooed on his body. He actually gets it. God bless him.
Two tweets. The first shows Will Chamberlain tweeting: The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars. If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position. The next tweet shows him posting "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead." The tweet has a USA flag attached.
Two tweets. The first shows Gunther Eagleman tweeting: "Warmonger Lindsey Graham just rushed to Fox to advocate for U.S. involvement as soon as he could. He is also pushing for a US-backed regime change in Iran. I would like to renominate Graham to get a one-way ticket to the frontlines of every war he wants America involved in." There's an attached video of Graham speaking. The next shows Eagleman tweeting: UST IN! President Trump is HARD AT WORK all weekend after the massive strikes on Iran! He’s already on the phone with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte! Trump is a machine!" There's an attached video of a news segment about the war in Iran.
manufacturing consent through lowly paid influencers
An excerpt from my article on @thehighside.bsky.social expanded in We Defy, about Green Light has been published in a 82nd airborne newsletter.
www.the-canopy.org/archives/202...
In Iran, air power alone will not reshape the regime. Since WWI, dozens of U.S., Israeli & allied air campaigns have tried to force political change — none installed friendly governments. None! They strengthen nationalism and intensify resistance.
the guy who wrote the literal book on this stuff is dunking on the admin:
The first US strikes on Tehran look to be TLAMs launched from USN ships in the Gulf.
The most “chickens coming home to roost“ moment in post-9/11 geopolitics imaginable.
Terrific to get this sort of endorsement from a former intelligence officer. Thank you, Stephen! If you want to read the stories that prompted him to become a paid subscriber and endorse us, click here: TheHighSide.substack.com. cc @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social and @seandnaylor.bsky.social
30 years.
This video should be on every network.
News: The Trump administration told Congress it won’t share the classified underlying intelligence—a conversation two foreigners had about Jared Kushner—that led to a whistleblower complaint against U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard, citing claims of executive privilege. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
The JSOC teams that worked alongside the CTPTs’ CIA handlers, providing the link to air support, were called Omega or ANSOF teams, which @seandnaylor.bsky.social and @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social of @thehighside.bsky.social have reported on in detail here:
thehighside.substack.com/p/zeroed-out...
