The first round of assessments is beginning to come in. As always, first things first. Preliminary reporting indicates that the opening strikes focused on Iranian integrated air defense systems. Russian-made radar arrays and surface-to-air missile sites were targeted with Tomahawk land-attack missiles, followed by air-delivered munitions against known relocation and command nodes. Early ISR suggests […]

The version suitable for polite circulation. This is how Miles would like you to view the Socotra House Daily meeting: studied, dressed, composed. Ready to deliver informed commentary to help navigate the tumult of the day with calm sophistication. As you know, that is largely a charade designed to conceal what the 4th Floor Conference […]

We won’t even try to start the morning meeting this close to lunch. There’s a growing sentiment to simply move Happy Hour forward — something more accommodating to deal with the increasing number of interesting, or threatening, meme-streams flowing around. Splash and Rocket thought “ceyo” might mean an inlet or bay, and started their pitch […]

There were some sleepy, baffled-looking people filtering into the conference room this morning. A few of the Boomers admitted they’d slept in their recliners trying to make it to the end of the President’s State of the Union. It was long. It was disciplined. It was predictable. The whiteboard got fuzzy as we tried to […]

The room was restive. Which is to say, the Boomers—whose minor prostate issues have them up early—and some of the Zoomers were trickling in from their parents’ places in Fairfax or Manassas. A few were just returning from their dens in the District. Some had done volunteer shoveling with the Building crew yesterday, and the […]

Snow Delays & Regime Change Windows Miles stood before the White Board like a man briefing a reluctant empire. STATE OF THE UNION – Tomorrow Night He tapped it with the marker. “With the USS Ford strike group still sliding east across the Mediterranean, and a prime-time address tomorrow, war with Iran probably can’t happen […]

Inline image Splash set the tablet in the middle of the Conference Table. The screen glowed blue — icy blues — snowflakes, rinks, and the sort of frozen theater that pauses a nation. He raised his hand over it, then pointed at Miles. Our Section Leader was reclined in his ergonomic throne, watching a faster […]

Men’s Olympic Hockey Gold in OT! We have some Michiganders in the crowd and emotion was high. The American men join the Women’s team as best on Ice in ’26! Elsewhere, shortly after midnight, a young man attempted to penetrate the security perimeter of the home of President Trump at Mar a Lago. He was […]

“Two shotguns, a pistol, ammunition, flamethrowers containing thermite, and a cell phone,” Miles announced to open the Saturday session. “Is that what we’re supposed to bring if we go to the VABC store before the next Bomb Cyclone?” Rocket asked. “The ice mound in the left turn lane off Leesburg Pike from January is still […]

If you were watching the Games, we were on the Big Screen at the business end of the Conference Room at Socotra House yesterday. There was a reason. Miles claimed he missed the production meeting due to an episode of sleep apnea. We suspect he was curled up in the Transient Suite on the 6th […]