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The TWZ Newsletter
Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy.
Welcome to Bunker Talk. This is a weekend open discussion post for the best commenting crew on the net, in which we can chat about all the stuff that went on this week that we didn’t cover. We can also talk about the stuff we did or whatever else grabs your interest. In other words, it’s an off-topic thread.
This week’s caption reads:
Soldiers with Bravo Company, Task Force Guardian, 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, secure a bunker in an enemy fortified entrenchment during the initial phase of combat operations as part of an exercise during the Joint ReadinessTraining Center (JRTC) rotation 24-09 at Fort Johnson, La., July 18, 2024. Task Force Guardian is comprised of personnel from 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry; 1st Battalion, 186th Infantry; and the 141st Brigade Support Battalion. The JRTC goal is to create realistic environments that help prepare units for complex operations. (Oregon Army National Guard photo by 1st Sgt. Zachary Holden, 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)
Prime Directives:

The US and Iran are working on a 14-point memorandum of understanding to define a month-long framework for negotiations aimed at ending their ongoing conflict. Talks could resume as early as next week in Islamabad, Pakistan, with Iran expressing a historic readiness to discuss its nuclear program. T

Vladimir Putin delivered a defiant speech at Moscow’s Victory Day parade on Saturday, May 9, claiming Russia would “win” its war against Ukraine despite a wave of successful Ukrainian strikes deep behind Russian lines. The parade was a significantly scaled-back 45-minute event, featuring no military

The Russian leader used his annual speech to justify his so-called special military operation in Ukraine.

As Russia celebrates Victory Day on May 9, it’s time to confront an inconvenient historical truth: no occupied nation produced more Nazi collaborators than Russia itself. American scholar of Russian origin Alexander Dallin revealed that hundreds of thousands of Russians – perhaps more than a million