NonResident Senior Fellow @CEPA | fmr U.S. Navy Intelligence Officer | 2015-16 Navy Senior Fellow @AtlanticCouncil. Opinions are my own, RTs not endorsements.
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Steven Horrell retweeted
The Navy trains roughly 1,000 air-traffic controllers annually, at about $100,000 per trainee. Nearly a quarter fail. A Georgia Tech researcher was testing a better way to identify candidates likely to succeed. His early results were promising. Then the Navy canceled the grant. He says the project had no DEI component and believes it was cut because it took place at a university. The Pentagon's own review warns that the military's research "innovation engine is at risk of stalling." Here's what that warning looks like in practice: useful research, stopped midstream.
nytimes.com/2026/10/31/clima…
Steven Horrell retweeted
David Jolly: The other side of the aisle likes to throw around the term socialism. I just call it cheaper insurance. But tell me what a hurricane fund currently is that bails out our insurance companies?
It sounds a whole lot like socialism to me.
What does it mean when we give Elon Musk billions of dollars of tax credits and we don't tax his profits? Sounds a whole lot like socialism to me.
What about a president who says, hey, if you vote for me and elect my team, we're going to give you a $5,000 check? What about a president who removes Maduro but supports Delce in Venezuela? What about a president who suggests we should allow investment in the hospitality industry on the island of Cuba? What about a president who invited Vladimir Putin to South Florida to come to Miami in December, a leader who has backed the Maduro regime, the Sandinistas, and the Cuban regime? They don't even understand economic theory on the other side of the aisle, folks.
They're just arguing labels to try to scare us and divide us.
Steven Horrell retweeted
As the commander of military forces in E Africa, I asked the American Forces Network (TV) to replace Fox news during meal hours. Why? Because they were inimical to America's outreach overseas. Put troops in jeopardy. Made my job harder. And they now have accomplices.
Steven Horrell retweeted
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Steven Horrell retweeted
Well-known Ukrainian military aerial reconnaissance specialist Oleksandr "Serg Marco" Karpiuk writes on Facebook:
"...Starlink is a civilian communications system. And SpaceX is responsible for its civilian use. Standard Starlink terminals currently have a default speed limit of 22 m/s.
To enable flight at speeds above 22 m/s, Ukraine signed contracts for Starshield, which is overseen by the Pentagon. This is already a military system, with Starlink terminals that offer greater functionality, although the accounts are considerably more expensive.
And it was the Pentagon that did two things in a single day: restricted intelligence sharing and changed the parameters of Starshield accounts.
This was a decision by the head of the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth. Clearly on Trump's orders...."
Maybe this is the key to understanding what exactly happened.
Steven Horrell retweeted
President Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Russian fuel amidst Putin’s ongoing and brutal attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine makes no sense and is a betrayal of the legacy and leadership of the late Senator Lindsey Graham.
While Ukraine fights for its survival, Putin’s war machine continues to prosecute his terrorist war on civilian populations and innocent Ukrainians are dying every day.
Now, Instead of implementing the tough sanctions Lindsey Graham fought to his last breath to enact, President Trump has announced the United States is lifting sanctions on Russian energy, fueling the Putin’s war machine.
As I saw firsthand in Ukraine last month, Putin is losing this war. Ukraine has fought the Russian military to a standstill and reinvented warfare with drones taking the fight into the heart of Russia.
America should not be throwing a lifeline to Putin’s war machine. Now is the time to stand strong against Russian aggression as we did during the first Trump administration.
Putin doesn’t want peace. Putin wants Ukraine. I have no doubt that if Putin overruns Ukraine, it will only be a matter of time until Russia’s military crosses a border that our troops will have to deal with him.
America is the Leader of the Free World. For our National Security, for the security of our Allies in Europe including Ukraine, President Trump should rescind this deal immediately and return to the strong policies of our four years in the White House; impose harsh sanctions on any nation purchasing Russian energy and work with our allies to ensure Ukraine has the military support it needs to repel and defeat this Russian invasion once and for all. Slava Ukraini🇺🇸🇺🇦
Steven Horrell retweeted
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
Steven Horrell retweeted
Absolutely unreal story that just broke from NYT:
Two Trump top political advisors, James Blair and Chris LaCivita, were just paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to "give election advice" to the pro-Russia authoritarian government of Republika Srpska.
nytimes.com/2026/10/06/us/po…
Steven Horrell retweeted
A morbid farce
Breaking news: Christa Pike is alive, in critical condition “and receiving lifesaving medical care,” her attorneys said, after Tennessee officials tried and failed to execute her by lethal injection the previous night. wapo.st/4y2Xz2J
Steven Horrell retweeted
This is not just Trump's legacy. It's the legacy of every Republican who enabled him because they valued access and relevance above all else.
Trump: "Kim Jong Un is a friend of mine. I'm the only person in the entire world that he likes. And I like him."
teapawt.net/RpsAgainstTrump/status…
Steven Horrell retweeted
This is terrible news for the service academies…a real gut punch, and it will have lasting negative effects on the academies.
SCOOP: @SecWar is ending the appointment of civilian employees to tenured positions at U.S. Military Service Academies.
The move is intended to refocus military academies on “warfighter education,” Hegseth said in a memo obtained by @realDailyWire.
dailywire.com/news/hegseth-e…
Steven Horrell retweeted
FFS.
Hegseth is ending civilian tenure at the military academies because apparently “warfighter education” and serious academic education are now opposites.
The men and women who will command America’s military need more than tactical training. They need history, strategy, science, ethics, critical thinking—and the ability to challenge bad assumptions.
A military that teaches officers to fight but not to think is not stronger. It’s more dangerous. Hegseth just wants the military loyal to him—-it is urgent that he be impeached.
Steven Horrell retweeted
Military families, lets have a chat...
Searching Facebook today for the USS Theodore Roosevelt will bring up a plethora of posts from family members confirming their loved one deployed today.
Let's look at this public group, setup specifically for the ship's family.
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Steven Horrell retweeted
There hasn't been much detail on the cost of sustaining more than a dozen ships in CENTCOM in both sacks of money but the wear and tear on ships and how these commitments affect readiness* across the waterfront.
Yesterday's discussions at ASNE were refreshingly candid.
3 Years of Middle East Combat Altering How Navy Supplies, Maintains Fleet, Leaders Say — USNI News
news.usni.org/2026/09/23/3-y…
Steven Horrell retweeted
ICE has a bigger budget than the Marine Corps & still conned Congress out of $20M more for bodycams. Swore every agent would wear one by August.
It’s September and ICE shot an Austinite in the back. They say there was no camera.
They’re liars with masks and a blank check from Trump.
Steven Horrell retweeted
Meanwhile, TPS expires for Ukrainians on October 19, 2026
We’re kicking out people displaced by war, who have been working and contributing to our economy, but bringing in more Afrikaners as “refugees”
The Trump administration is planning to welcome up to 17,500 additional White Afrikaners from South Africa as refugees over the next 12 months, according to a notice sent to Congress on Tuesday and obtained by CBS News.
The State Department informed congressional officials that the Trump administration is planning to allocate 17,500 refugee spots for fiscal year 2027, and that they will "primarily" go to Afrikaners, who President Trump has claimed are being oppressed for being White. cbsn.ws/4xCaFUc
Steven Horrell retweeted
.@SecRubio got his talking points mixed up. Russia intentionally attacks American businesses in Ukraine, not the other way around.
Marco Rubio: "The one thing we are concerned about, however, is that over the last few months on a number of occasions American-linked ships, American oil supplies, have been targeted -- probably not deliberately -- but targeted nonetheless by Ukraine. That needs to be addressed. We can't have that happen."
Steven Horrell retweeted
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Russia is ‘Greatest Threat’ to U.K. Security, Says First Sea Lord — USNI News
news.usni.org/2026/09/21/rus…
Steven Horrell retweeted
A PSA: do NOT download the White House app. It is doing something very weird with the sandbox permissions you give it. Which I’m not sure yet, but is likely against every service term and developer agreement on earth. I downloaded it so you don’t have to onto an air gapped old iPad. It is phoning home, asking for way too much personal data, and attempting to bypass location services permissions. Aside from the propaganda, it’s a security nightmare.
