Sam Fellman
Journalist @Business Insider + 🇺🇸 veteran | Giving voice to troops | Priors: Military Times, 'Balance of Power' talking head, Iraq, USS Nimitz | "Too easy"
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- Scenes from this actual NATO training look like Star Wars' planet Hoth — complete with arctic camouflage, assault vehicles and lasers. Read @byjepstein.bsky.social's report from the Arctic circle: www.businessinsider.com/how-finland-...
- "While the Israeli military possesses many of the same tools, it has not adopted the same institutional culture of restraint that emerged from U.S. experience," writes Andy Milburn, who commanded US forces in Mosul, Iraq warontherocks.com/2026/01/gaza...
- Hovering over Col. Milburn's measured assessment is the question: Will the US military's culture of restraint persist?
- 1,500 Chinese fishing vessels drawing a 300-mile line. "I've never seen anything like this," one expert told @chrispanella.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/chinese-fish...
- "Military power is being asked to do the work that policy has not" towards Iran, in ways that resemble the US's disastrous war in Iraq, retired Navy Captain @joncduffy.bsky.social warns: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
- "The Iranian drone continued to fly toward the ship despite de-escalatory measures taken by US forces," the CENTCOM spokesman told @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/navy-jet-sho...
- "This man's actions are extremely serious. A potential terrorist could see this and think, 'Look, there's a loophole.'" via @trainsonplanes.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/man-allegedl...
- BI's Kelsey Baker solved the Pentagon's "mystery box" mystery: www.businessinsider.com/mystery-vend...
- This video suggests either incompetence or excessive use of force. If the car was a lethal threat, why did an officer walk right in front of it?
- "No wonder that even the US investors are now looking at the European landscape, which wasn't a thing a year ago." Read Matthew Loh's look at European defense start-ups: www.businessinsider.com/europe-defen...
- Many Target staffers are pressing their employer to do more. "It's hard to show up at work and put my own values aside," one told me: www.businessinsider.com/ice-minneapo...
