Hints and tips:
...The Pentagon is some way from making any decision, including on the task force idea, which was proposed by Admiral John Aquilino, Indopacom commander....
...Morpheus has been described as the “brain” of the army’s future armoured vehicles and a wider network linking infantry with commanders, sensors and weapons. But it has become mired in delays....
...To seize back the initiative against Moscow’s larger army, Ukrainian commanders have pleaded with the west to provide more long-range, “high-tech weapons”....
...john.thornhill@ft.com...
...But Iran seems to have been abusing the rules that protect diplomats by allowing the building to be used as a military HQ for Quds Force commanders....
...Lady and the Tramp offers one of the most unlikely scenes of wooing between two animated dogs, the elegant, doe-eyed Lady and street‑smart ruffian Tramp....
...Additional reporting by John Paul Rathbone in Munich...
...White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said on Monday that the next few months would be “critical for Ukraine”, whose commanders are faced with “difficult decisions” about what weaponry...
...Ted Sarandos, co-chief executive of Netflix, was made an honorary Commander of the British Empire....
...That would be an incredibly positive outcome if that were to continue,” Admiral John Aquilino, head of US Indo-Pacific Command, told reporters in Tokyo on Monday....
...But the Whites were aligned with the British, and too many officials in London and commanders on the ground “managed not to notice” what was going on, Reid says....
...Additional reporting by Ben Hall in London and John Reed in New Delhi...
...The IDF also says it has killed dozens of Hamas’s military commanders, including the group’s deputy head of intelligence Shadi Barud, who planned the October 7 raid....
...Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that Israel must be “punished” for the attack that killed several senior Iranian commanders....
...Several US sports teams have changed hands in recent years, including American football’s Washington Commanders for $6bn, an all-time record sum for a professional club....
...On Thursday, Sunnova priced $244mn of solar notes, its first with the DoE’s partial guarantees....
...US President Joe Biden was “certainly not looking for a war with Iran”, John Kirby, the US National Security Council spokesperson, said on Monday....
...Israel’s military said he was the deputy commander of Hizbollah’s rocket and missiles unit in Lebanon, but Hizbollah disputed that....
...One likely priority for chief justice John Roberts will be to gather as much consensus as possible for a decision, rather than expose the court to more criticisms about partisanship....
...The Speaker, John Bercow, is partisan and puffed-up....
...But Mohammed — who is reported to have a $300,000 bounty on his head, second only to the $400,000 offered for his brother — is also a senior military commander....
...“The centre of gravity for [Hamas’s rocket-launching capabilities] was the Gaza City metropolitan area,” said Zvika Haimovich, former commander of the Israel Air Defense Forces....
...We don’t want to see this escalate,” said John Kirby, spokesperson for the US National Security Council, on NBC’s Meet the Press. “We’re not looking for a wider war with Iran.”...
...“We are not seeking war, but we are not afraid of it,” Major General Hossein Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said on Wednesday....
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