Podcasts about Guam

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DorkFest On Location: Pacific Surfliner to San Diego, 9/11 Reflections, and a Guam DetourLara and Tyler record from DorkFest in Los Angeles with guests Dave and longtime listener DJ, discussing meeting fellow spotters, Hyatt Globalist perks, and their day trip riding Amtrak's state-supported Pacific Surfliner to San Diego for lunch at the Top Gun–filming Kansas City Barbecue and a Navy SEAL museum visit with friends from across the U.S. DJ shares his lifelong train and plane-spotting background, upcoming New York plans mixing commuter rail and food stops, and bucket-list routes. The group reflects on September 11, including Laura and Dave's experiences as flight attendants, early post-9/11 flying conditions, and DJ's interest in the Flight 11 crew's heroism. Tyler recounts a Guam trip with his son via Tokyo, highlighting United's Guam hub, resort stay, and travel logistics, and notes his transfer from Phoenix to Salt Lake.00:00 Spotter Small Talk00:55 Live From DorkFest01:43 Hyatt Status Perks02:53 Meet DJ and Dave04:43 Surfliner Day Trip06:07 How Surfliner Works08:28 Top Gun Bar Stop10:21 Coastal Views and Erosion12:34 DJ Train Plane Origin14:21 Bucket List Rail Routes15:28 Cousin Devin Travels18:12 Secret NYC Train Plan20:09 Remembering 9 1121:30 Missionary During 9 1124:02 Flight Attendant Story33:07 Mission Sendoff Cut Short34:00 Flying After 9/1134:20 Empty Planes And Furloughs36:20 Come From Away Memories37:44 Honoring Flight 11 Crew39:56 How America Healed41:52 Why Guam Happened45:09 Getting There Via Tokyo47:00 United's Guam Hub Explained51:33 Guam Highlights And Hyatt Stay53:41 Tokyo Airports And Tips57:17 Security And Standby Seat Stress01:00:49 Dreamliner Window Drama01:03:45 Beach Stories With Chris01:04:54 Leaving Phoenix For Salt Lake01:09:48 Wrap Up And SponsorStaffTraveler is offering a 10% discount code for any of our listeners who buy their eSIM.Use the Promo code ST10NONREVLOUNGE  https://share.stafftraveler.com/nrl-esim✈StaffTraveler is a great app that can assist with your non-rev travels! Use it to find loads for your non-rev travel! Use this to sign up:https://stafftraveler.com/nonrevlounge

James Arlon Jenkins was an American Marine who served through some of the fiercest fighting of World War II. After enlisting in 1940, he witnessed the attack on Pearl Harbor before deploying to the Pacific theater, where he saw continuous action during the grueling campaigns on Guadalcanal, Guam, and Iwo Jima. Following the war, he completed occupation duty in Japan before being discharged with a disability caused by recurring bouts of malaria and severe stomach ulcers contracted during his service.Returning to civilian life in Oklahoma, Jenkins worked to overcome the physical toll of tropical illness and combat trauma. He supported his family through shoe repair and pursued studies in mechanical engineering, ultimately building a stable postwar career that concluded with 18 years of service for the Tulsa Airport Authority. Support the show

In Part 1 of our conversation with Dr. Nam Kim, we dig into the journey that took him from refugee to archaeologist and the family history that drove him there. We get into:Nam's path from studying international relations at Penn to becoming an archaeologist (3:03)Excavating Cổ Loa, Vietnam's version of Camelot, as the first American archaeologist allowed to dig there, and navigating the politics of history (13:40)The wedding dress left on a Saigon rooftop, and Nam's family escape from Vietnam the day before the city fell (27:41)His father's survival through Japanese occupation and the Korean War (33:28)Operation New Life, the Guam refugee camps with no memorial, and why 120,000 refugees left almost no trace (33:28)Finding his own baby photo in a USS Midway Navy archive 50 years later (63:45)

If your kitchen table has ever turned into a homework war zone at 9 p.m., this episode is for you. We're talking about Tutor.com, the resource that lets military-connected kids get one-on-one help for free, so you can finally retire from pretending you remember how to factor polynomials. Tutor.com covers more than 250 education topics, helps students build study habits that actually stick, and will review essays before they're turned in (no more "I think it's good?" at midnight). Through its connection to The Princeton Review, it also offers test prep that can take some of the dread out of the big exams. And it isn't just for older kids, either, because Tutor.com helps our youngest learners grow into strong, confident readers. Whether your student is sounding out their first chapter book or staring down the SAT or even if they are building a resume, tune in to hear how this resource can bring a little more peace to your evenings and a lot more confidence to your kids.    Show Notes: This show is provided through generous funding by the USAA Foundation. Mixed and mastered by Concentus Media, Inc., Temple, Texas, USA.   RESOURCES: Tutor.com Tutor.com for Military and Military Families Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC) Military Child Education Coalition     Biography for Guest Maureen Haney: Maureen Haney is a Senior Program Manager for Tutor.com Military and Government Programs. She has been with Tutor.com for over 13 years and is part of the team that focuses on Tutor.com/military outreach and customer service for military-connected families. She is a military brat from birth, born on Guam and attended 9 different schools in many locations before proudly graduating from a DOD high school in the United Kingdom. She is now an Air Force Spouse and she and her husband, Patrick, are currently stationed in San Antonio, TX. Maureen holds degrees in Journalism & Mass Communication as well as Technical & Professional Writing from the University of New Mexico. She started her career in Public Affairs for state government agencies in New Mexico and Virginia but has found her passion lies in working with military families like her own. Sharing the no-cost Tutor.com/military resource with families around the world feels like something she was born to do.    

Pastor William Joel has served at Calvary Baptist Church in Pohnpei since 1999. Today, he and Pastor Walton discuss his long association with Guam and Harvest.

Drs. Jeffrey Jensen and Johanna Richey welcome Dustin Prins, DPM, Director of Clinical Education at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Podiatric Medicine.Dr. Prins shares the professional journey that ultimately brought him to one of podiatric medicine's newest academic programs. His path has been anything but linear—beginning with residency training, moving through private practice and military service, taking him to Guam, and eventually leading to his current role at UTRGV.In this thoughtful conversation, Dr. Prins reflects on how the lessons gained in each phase of his career have shaped the way he approaches patient care, mentorship, clinical decision-making, and the education of future podiatric physicians. He also discusses the transition from practice to academic medicine and the importance of creating meaningful clinical experiences for students as they develop their professional identity.In This Episode• The early influences that led Dr. Prins into podiatric medicine• Lessons from residency and the transition into private practice• His military experience and how service shaped his leadership and clinical perspective• Practicing in Guam and the unique professional opportunities and challenges of that chapter• Why he made the move into academic medicine• His current role as Director of Clinical Education at UTRGV School of Podiatric Medicine• Building strong clinical education experiences and relationships for podiatric students• The value of mentorship, adaptability, and saying yes to unexpected career opportunities• Advice for students, residents, and young physicians considering the many possible paths within podiatryWhy This Episode Matters:Dr. Prins's story is a reminder that there is no single blueprint for a successful career in podiatric medicine. Private practice, military service, work in unique practice environments, and academic leadership can each add perspective and purpose. For students and young physicians, this episode offers an honest look at how varied experiences can prepare someone to educate, lead, and contribute to the future of the profession.About Dean's ChatDean's Chat is a long-form educational podcast hosted by Drs. Jeffrey Jensen and Johanna Richey. Conversations feature leaders, educators, clinicians, residents, and students discussing podiatric medicine, medical education, residency training, leadership, research, and the future of the profession.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Value: After Hours is a podcast about value investing, Fintwit, and all things finance and investment by investors Tobias Carlisle, and Jake Taylor. We are live every Tuesday at 1.30pm E / 10.30am P.────────────────────── ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠VALUE OPTIONS LETTER⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Three to five curated ideas every week — cash-secured puts, covered calls, and spreads on businesses we'd want to own at strikes we'd be willing to pay. Every trade includes the business thesis in plain English, the fair-value estimate and its key assumptions, the specific option trade with target premium, and the pre-identified exit criteria.Every idea reviewed and approved by an analyst before it hits your inbox.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠valueoptionsletter.com/subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠──────────────────────See our latest episodes at https://acquirersmultiple.com/podcastAbout Jake Jake's Twitter: https://twitter.com/farnamjake1Jake's book: The Rebel Allocator https://amzn.to/2sgip3lABOUT THE PODCASTHi, I'm Tobias Carlisle. I launched The Acquirers Podcast to discuss the process of finding undervalued stocks, deep value investing, hedge funds, activism, buyouts, and special situations.We uncover the tactics and strategies for finding good investments, managing risk, dealing with bad luck, and maximizing success.SEE LATEST EPISODEShttps://acquirersmultiple.com/podcast/SEE OUR FREE DEEP VALUE STOCK SCREENER https://acquirersmultiple.com/screener/FOLLOW TOBIASWebsite: https://acquirersmultiple.com/Firm: https://acquirersfunds.com/ Twitter: ttps://twitter.com/GreenbackdLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobycarlisleFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/tobiascarlisleInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tobias_carlisleABOUT TOBIAS CARLISLETobias Carlisle is the founder of The Acquirer's Multiple®, and Acquirers Funds®. He is best known as the author of the #1 new release in Amazon's Business and Finance The Acquirer's Multiple: How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market, the Amazon best-sellers Deep Value: Why Activists Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations (2014) (https://amzn.to/2VwvAGF), Quantitative Value: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors (2012) (https://amzn.to/2SDDxrN), and Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World's Greatest Concentrated Value Investors (2016) (https://amzn.to/2SEEjVn). He has extensive experience in investment management, business valuation, public company corporate governance, and corporate law.Prior to founding the forerunner to Acquirers Funds in 2010, Tobias was an analyst at an activist hedge fund, general counsel of a company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, and a corporate advisory lawyer. As a lawyer specializing in mergers and acquisitions he has advised on transactions across a variety of industries in the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Australia, Singapore, Bermuda, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and Guam. He is a graduate of the University of Queensland in Australia with degrees in Law (2001) and Business (Management) (1999).

Elee Joven's journey has taken her across cultures, countries, careers, and generations. Born in Guam and raised with Filipino heritage, Elee grew up navigating different languages, traditions, and communities. After becoming a mother at 18, traveling to more than 30 countries, and building a career around cultural intelligence and AI strategy, she has learned how understanding differences can become a powerful strength.On this episode of The Tiberius Show, Elee talks with Tiberius about cultural intelligence, identity, travel, parenting, resilience, artificial intelligence, and the importance of maintaining human connection in an increasingly digital world.She explains what cultural intelligence really means, why it goes far beyond food and language, and how understanding the “why” behind people's behavior can reduce misunderstandings and conflict. Elee also shares her experiences growing up between Guam and the Philippines, becoming a young mother, embracing her cultural identity, and learning to be proud of where she comes from.Elee and Tiberius also explore how AI can be used as a tool without replacing human relationships, why families should set boundaries around technology, and why kids can develop cultural intelligence by simply becoming more aware of the diverse people around them.Plus, Elee joins Tiberius for Math Corners to solve an international festival problem and shares her thoughts on why humans still need to check AI-generated translations for tone, meaning, and cultural context.In this episode, you'll learn:●    What cultural intelligence is and why it matters●    Why culture goes deeper than food, language, and traditions●    How growing up between Guam and the Philippines shaped Elee●    Why cultural identity can become a personal strength●    What becoming a mother at 18 taught Elee about resilience●    How traveling to more than 30 countries changed her perspective●    Why visiting places where your native language isn't spoken can expand your worldview●    Why understanding the “why” behind cultural behaviors matters●    How cultural intelligence can help reduce misunderstandings and conflict●    Why kids can develop cultural intelligence at any age●    How AI can help families, students, and professionals●    Why AI should remain a tool rather than a replacement for people●    Why humans still need to check AI translations and messages●    How immigrants and newcomers can balance their heritage with a new culture●    Why you should never be ashamed of your accent, name, food, or traditions●    What Elee would tell her 15-year-old self about the future●    Why she believes letting go can be one of life's biggest lessons●    How integrity means being honest even when nobody is watchingJoin Tiberius as he learns from Elee Joven about cultural intelligence, identity, travel, parenting, artificial intelligence, and the importance of staying connected to people in a rapidly changing world.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-tiberius-show--3352195/support.

James Arlon Jenkins was an American Marine who served through some of the fiercest fighting of World War II. After enlisting in 1940, he witnessed the attack on Pearl Harbor before deploying to the Pacific theater, where he saw continuous action during the grueling campaigns on Guadalcanal, Guam, and Iwo Jima. Following the war, he completed occupation duty in Japan before being discharged with a disability caused by recurring bouts of malaria and severe stomach ulcers contracted during his service.Returning to civilian life in Oklahoma, Jenkins worked to overcome the physical toll of tropical illness and combat trauma. He supported his family through shoe repair and pursued studies in mechanical engineering, ultimately building a stable postwar career that concluded with 18 years of service for the Tulsa Airport Authority. Support the show

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Budget issues could hit the MTS hard following a major budget deficit. Before thousands of sailors and marines on board the USS Lincoln arrive in San Diego, they're making another stop in Guam. The teenager accused of playing a key role in May's deadly mosque shooting is set to appear in court tomorrow. NBC 7's Monica Hernandez has those stories, plus your forecast on September 20, 2026 from chief meteorologist Sheena Parveen.

You've seen the headlines about the lists, the claims, the THREE times this same executive order about voting by mail has gone to the Supreme Court. But is Trump's interference with mail-in voting settled—at least with respect to the midterms? Our go-to election law expert, Richard Hasen of UCLA School of Law, joins Dahlia to unpack what just happened and how this postal chaos alters voters' sense of election security. We're calling this discussion “information” and not “catastrophizing.” Hasen has this advice for listeners: get out there and vote in-person. Next, Sam Sankar of the environmental-law organization Earthjustice explains why SCOTUS' longstanding skepticism towards the environment does not make him as pessimistic as one might expect. He also takes us behind the scenes in two environmental cases that will kick off the Supreme Court term in a few weeks, including an appeal over whether the Air Force may continue to blow stuff up over an historic beach in Guam.Want more Amicus? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes with exclusive legal analysis. Plus, you'll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Amicus show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/amicusplus to get access wherever you listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You've seen the headlines about the lists, the claims, the THREE times this same executive order about voting by mail has gone to the Supreme Court. But is Trump's interference with mail-in voting settled—at least with respect to the midterms? Our go-to election law expert, Richard Hasen of UCLA School of Law, joins Dahlia to unpack what just happened and how this postal chaos alters voters' sense of election security. We're calling this discussion “information” and not “catastrophizing.” Hasen has this advice for listeners: get out there and vote in-person. Next, Sam Sankar of the environmental-law organization Earthjustice explains why SCOTUS' longstanding skepticism towards the environment does not make him as pessimistic as one might expect. He also takes us behind the scenes in two environmental cases that will kick off the Supreme Court term in a few weeks, including an appeal over whether the Air Force may continue to blow stuff up over an historic beach in Guam.Want more Amicus? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes with exclusive legal analysis. Plus, you'll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Amicus show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/amicusplus to get access wherever you listen.Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You've seen the headlines about the lists, the claims, the THREE times this same executive order about voting by mail has gone to the Supreme Court. But is Trump's interference with mail-in voting settled—at least with respect to the midterms? Our go-to election law expert, Richard Hasen of UCLA School of Law, joins Dahlia to unpack what just happened and how this postal chaos alters voters' sense of election security. We're calling this discussion “information” and not “catastrophizing.” Hasen has this advice for listeners: get out there and vote in-person. Next, Sam Sankar of the environmental-law organization Earthjustice explains why SCOTUS' longstanding skepticism towards the environment does not make him as pessimistic as one might expect. He also takes us behind the scenes in two environmental cases that will kick off the Supreme Court term in a few weeks, including an appeal over whether the Air Force may continue to blow stuff up over an historic beach in Guam.Want more Amicus? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes with exclusive legal analysis. Plus, you'll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Amicus show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/amicusplus to get access wherever you listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The guys return this week with a very special guest, Dr. Matthew Everhard! In this episode, the gents interview Matt about the newly released Jonathan Edwards Study Bible from Thomas Nelson Publishers. Matt served as the General Editor for this project. The guys open with some banter about their footprint in Guam and the start …

Value: After Hours is a podcast about value investing, Fintwit, and all things finance and investment by investors Tobias Carlisle, and Jake Taylor. We are live every Tuesday at 1.30pm E / 10.30am P.────────────────────── ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠VALUE OPTIONS LETTER⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Three to five curated ideas every week — cash-secured puts, covered calls, and spreads on businesses we'd want to own at strikes we'd be willing to pay. Every trade includes the business thesis in plain English, the fair-value estimate and its key assumptions, the specific option trade with target premium, and the pre-identified exit criteria.Every idea reviewed and approved by an analyst before it hits your inbox.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠valueoptionsletter.com/subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠──────────────────────See our latest episodes at https://acquirersmultiple.com/podcastAbout Jake Jake's Twitter: https://twitter.com/farnamjake1Jake's book: The Rebel Allocator https://amzn.to/2sgip3lABOUT THE PODCASTHi, I'm Tobias Carlisle. I launched The Acquirers Podcast to discuss the process of finding undervalued stocks, deep value investing, hedge funds, activism, buyouts, and special situations.We uncover the tactics and strategies for finding good investments, managing risk, dealing with bad luck, and maximizing success.SEE LATEST EPISODEShttps://acquirersmultiple.com/podcast/SEE OUR FREE DEEP VALUE STOCK SCREENER https://acquirersmultiple.com/screener/FOLLOW TOBIASWebsite: https://acquirersmultiple.com/Firm: https://acquirersfunds.com/ Twitter: ttps://twitter.com/GreenbackdLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobycarlisleFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/tobiascarlisleInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tobias_carlisleABOUT TOBIAS CARLISLETobias Carlisle is the founder of The Acquirer's Multiple®, and Acquirers Funds®. He is best known as the author of the #1 new release in Amazon's Business and Finance The Acquirer's Multiple: How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market, the Amazon best-sellers Deep Value: Why Activists Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations (2014) (https://amzn.to/2VwvAGF), Quantitative Value: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors (2012) (https://amzn.to/2SDDxrN), and Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World's Greatest Concentrated Value Investors (2016) (https://amzn.to/2SEEjVn). He has extensive experience in investment management, business valuation, public company corporate governance, and corporate law.Prior to founding the forerunner to Acquirers Funds in 2010, Tobias was an analyst at an activist hedge fund, general counsel of a company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, and a corporate advisory lawyer. As a lawyer specializing in mergers and acquisitions he has advised on transactions across a variety of industries in the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Australia, Singapore, Bermuda, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and Guam. He is a graduate of the University of Queensland in Australia with degrees in Law (2001) and Business (Management) (1999).

Why is a war fought 44 years ago back on the front pages?What happens when a combative president in Buenos Aires, a friend in the White House and an oil field due online in 2028 all point at the same islands?And, when 99.8% of the people who live there have already voted, whose islands are they to argue over?Fresh from Sir Lawrence Freedman's two-volume official history of the Falklands campaign, Peter Frankopan takes on the question Afua Hirsch can't let go: whose rights come first?The official record reads like a detective story: the orders, the officers' doubts, and a Prime Minister who went against some of her own senior ministers. But the argument behind it never went away. Afua sets out why the politics look upside down to someone who opposes colonialism. Peter traces Argentina's claim back to a 15th-century treaty. Then come Chagos, Guam and the British Virgin Islands, and the question of whether Britain applies its own principle consistently. There's also the odd matter of why Yair Netanyahu weighed in at all.Join Legacy Plus for bonus episodes, early access, Q&A's, fewer adverts and more.legacy.supportingcast.fm[1:15] A summer with Sir Lawrence Freedman's official history of the Falklands[2:34] Milei, Trump and oil: why a 1982 war is live again[7:18] Inside the official records, and Thatcher's gamble[10:54] Afua's question: whose rights?[14:08] 99.8%, and the islanders who've been there for 200 years[16:48] Chagos, Guam, the British Virgin Islands: is Britain consistent?[19:47] Two wrongs, red post boxes and the Victory Pub[24:44] Why Yair Netanyahu picked a sideStay connected with Legacy:Instagram: @originallegacypodcastTikTok: @legacy_productionsExplore more from Peter and Afua — essays, sources, and ideas:Substack: peterfrankopan.substack.com | afuahirsch.substack.comJoin Legacy+ for bonus episodes, early access, Q&A's, fewer adverts and more.legacy.supportingcast.fmStay connected with Legacy:Instagram: @originallegacypodcastTikTok: @legacy_productionsExplore more from Peter and Afua — essays, sources, and ideas: Substack: peterfrankopan.substack.com | afuahirsch.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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James Arlon Jenkins was an American Marine who served through some of the fiercest fighting of World War II. After enlisting in 1940, he witnessed the attack on Pearl Harbor before deploying to the Pacific theater, where he saw continuous action during the grueling campaigns on Guadalcanal, Guam, and Iwo Jima. Following the war, he completed occupation duty in Japan before being discharged with a disability caused by recurring bouts of malaria and severe stomach ulcers contracted during his service.Returning to civilian life in Oklahoma, Jenkins worked to overcome the physical toll of tropical illness and combat trauma. He supported his family through shoe repair and pursued studies in mechanical engineering, ultimately building a stable postwar career that concluded with 18 years of service for the Tulsa Airport Authority. Support the show

Joey “Devil Doc Talk” Martinez sits down with Mac McWhorter for a conversation that cuts straight to the heart of the mission: Service To Others Above Self.This one is about what it actually looks like when veterans keep serving after the uniform comes off—through the VFW, through community, and through the quiet work that never makes the headlines. Mac brings the kind of lived experience that reminds us why the Cross of Malta still matters and why Posts, Auxiliaries, and Service Officers are still on the line for our brothers and sisters.Joey, a U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman combat veteran and proud VFW member, has built this platform to entertain and empower. We stand with the Veterans of Foreign Wars because they still show up—claims help, buddy checks, community service, legislative fight, and the simple act of making sure no veteran walks alone. That's the standard. That's the work.Watch it. Share it with someone who served. Then go find your local VFW Post and ask how you can help.The Devil Doc Talk ShowHosted by Joey “Devil Doc Talk” MartinezU.S. Navy Corpsman • Combat Veteran • VFW MemberEntertain & Empower.Produced by ADAX Entertainment (veteran-owned).All links: https://linktr.ee/thedevildoctalkshowYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thedevildoctalkshowApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-devil-doc-talk-show/id810683741Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5RbFbsF6rUd7zX5J2UDf03Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/devildoctalk/X: https://x.com/DevilDocTalkEmail: thedevildoctalkshow@gmail.comLIKE if this hit home.SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss the next one.SHARE it with a veteran who needs to hear it.#DevilDocTalk #VFW #ServiceToOthers #Veterans #NavyCorpsman #FMF #VeteranPodcast #StillServing #VFWStrong #EntertainAndEmpower #ADAXEntertainmentJoin in on the Conversation! Speak up! 

Côté IA : MCP devient stateless, Claude watermarke ses textes, GPT-6 Astra défie Claude Fable, et une étude JetBrains confirme Claude Code en tête des agents de code. Côté JVM : JDK 27 généralise G1, Kotlin 2.4 stabilise les context parameters, une API JSON arrive dans le JDK, et Quarkus comme Micronaut enchaînent les versions. En bonus, trois pannes IA simultanées et un câble débranché chez Google Cloud. Enregistré le 11 septembre 2026 Téléchargement de l'épisode LesCastCodeurs-Episode-343.mp3 ou en vidéo sur YouTube. News Langages Les Types Algébriques de Données (ADTs) en Java rockthejvm.com/articles/algebraic-data-types-in-java Le problème : L'approche classique (champs nullables, hiérarchies de classes ouvertes) crée des états invalides et des erreurs à l'exécution (comme le NullPointerException). Types Produits (ET logique) : Implémentés en Java avec les Records. Ils regroupent plusieurs champs de manière immuable et concise. Types Sommes (OU logique) : Implémentés avec les Sealed Interfaces. Elles définissent un ensemble strictement fermé de sous-types connus à la compilation. ADTs (Types Algébriques) : La combinaison des Sealed Interfaces et des Records. Ils garantissent que les états invalides sont impossibles à représenter dans le code. Pattern Matching : L'extraction des données se fait via des expressions switch exhaustives, supprimant le besoin de casts manuels et obligeant le développeur à traiter tous les cas possibles. Généralisation : Ce modèle est idéal pour créer des types comme Result, forçant le traitement explicite et sécurisé des succès et des erreurs typées. Pourquoi "Algébrique" ? Parce que les types sont combinés mathématiquement (Produits = multiplication, Sommes = addition) pour limiter strictement le nombre d'états possibles d'une donnée. JDK 27 : fonctionnalités et calendrier de sortie openjdk.org/projects/jdk/27 infoworld.com/article/4202901/jdk-27-the-new-features-of-java-27.html JDK 27 est la prochaine version majeure de Java, une version non-LTS avec seulement 6 mois de support, qui succède à JDK 26. La disponibilité générale est prévue pour le 15 septembre 2026, avec des release candidates les 6 et 20 août 2026. Le périmètre est désormais figé (feature freeze) avec neuf JEP au programme. Le ramasse-miettes G1 devient le collecteur par défaut dans tous les environnements, et plus seulement en mode serveur. Ajout d'un support de la cryptographie post-quantique pour TLS 1.3, via des échanges de clés hybrides combinant algorithmes classiques et résistants au quantique. Finalisation de l'API PEM pour encoder et décoder clés, certificats et listes de révocation au format PEM. L'API Vector poursuit son incubation pour la douzième fois, permettant d'exprimer des calculs vectoriels compilés en instructions CPU optimisées. Les en-têtes d'objets compacts, introduits en JDK 24, sont désormais activés par défaut et réduisent l'empreinte mémoire du tas. Plusieurs previews sont reconduites : constantes paresseuses (3e preview), types primitifs dans les patterns (5e preview) et concurrence structurée (7e preview). Ajout d'une fonctionnalité de rédaction in-process pour JFR, afin de masquer les données sensibles dans les enregistrements de profiling. Kotlin 2.4 : nouveautés du langage et outillage kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsnew24.html Kotlin est un langage moderne, multiplateforme (JVM, Android, iOS, JavaScript, Wasm) développé par JetBrains, souvent utilisé comme alternative à Java. Les context parameters passent en stable : ils permettent de fournir des dépendances implicites à une fonction sans les déclarer en paramètre explicite, un peu comme une injection de dépendances. Les collection literals arrivent en expérimental : on peut écrire une liste avec des crochets, comme en Python, par exemple val fruits = ["pomme", "banane"]. L'API UUID de la bibliothèque standard devient stable, pour générer et manipuler des identifiants uniques nativement. Nouvelles fonctions utilitaires comme isSorted() pour vérifier si une collection est déjà triée. Support de Java 26 côté JVM et alignement automatique des versions Java et Kotlin dans les projets Maven. Kotlin/Native, la compilation vers du code natif iOS et macOS, active par défaut un nouveau ramasse-miettes plus rapide et améliore l'export vers Swift. Kotlin/Wasm, la compilation vers WebAssembly pour faire tourner du Kotlin dans le navigateur, rend la compilation incrémentale stable. Kotlin/JS permet désormais d'exporter des value classes vers JavaScript et TypeScript. Le compilateur K1, l'ancienne génération, n'est plus supporté : seul le nouveau compilateur K2 reste disponible. JEP 540 : une API JSON simple intégrée au JDK (incubation) openjdk.org/jeps/540 Le JDK ne propose aujourd'hui aucune API JSON native, obligeant à dépendre de bibliothèques externes comme Jackson, Gson ou Jakarta JSON pour parser ou générer du JSON. Cette JEP remplace la JEP 198 de 2014 et cible JDK 28 avec le nouveau module incubateur jdk.incubator.json. L'objectif est de couvrir les besoins simples d'extraction de données sans binding de données ni API de streaming, en laissant ces cas avancés aux bibliothèques existantes. L'API s'articule autour de l'interface scellée JsonValue avec six sous-types : JsonString, JsonNumber, JsonBoolean, JsonNull, JsonObject et JsonArray. Le parsing est strict et conforme à RFC 8259 : pas de virgules finales, pas de commentaires, et les noms de membres dupliqués provoquent une erreur. Donc pas de JSON5 La navigation se fait via get et tryGet, et la conversion vers des types Java via asInt, asLong, asDouble, asString, asMap ou asList. En cas d'erreur, une JsonValueException précise le chemin exact dans le document et sa position en ligne et colonne. Le pattern matching sur les sous-types de JsonValue permet de gérer proprement l'évolution du format d'un document JSON dans le temps. La génération se fait via toString pour une sortie compacte ou Json.toDisplayString pour une sortie indentée et lisible. À terme, le JDK pourrait utiliser cette API en interne, par exemple pour remplacer les fichiers de configuration au format property par du JSON. Autres nouvelles du JDK openjdk.org/jeps/535 openjdk.org/jeps/541 le mode generationel pour Shenandoah est prévu par défaut et deprécue le non générationel en 28 fini le support de Java sur Apple Intel GraalVM 25.2 : références compressées et Graal Script Agent medium.com/graalvm/… GraalVM est une machine virtuelle polyglotte d'Oracle offrant compilation JIT avancée et compilation en image native pour accélérer les applications Java et d'autres langages. Cette version 25.2 fait partie du train de releases innovation qui livre les nouveautés plus vite, pendant que GraalVM 25.0 reste la version stable recevant les correctifs de sécurité critiques. Nouveauté phare, le Graal Script Agent transforme des demandes en langage naturel en plugins sandboxés exécutés localement, en JavaScript ou Python, avec un accès restreint aux APIs de l'application. Les références compressées sont désormais activées par défaut dans Native Image sur les systèmes 64 bits, remplaçant les adresses complètes par des valeurs 32 bits relatives au tas. Cette optimisation réduit de 39% la consommation mémoire RSS d'une application Micronaut connectée à Oracle Database, comparée à la version 25.0. Contrepartie de cette optimisation, le tas géré est désormais plafonné à 32 Go. Le garbage collector G1 est maintenant disponible sur toutes les plateformes, y compris Windows, via l'option –gc=G1. G1 apporte de meilleures performances, une latence réduite et un démarrage plus rapide, avec des images natives plus petites grâce à l'optimisation guidée par profil. Le Vector API de Java est activé par défaut pour exploiter les instructions SIMD, utile pour le machine learning et le traitement de données. Bonne intégration avec l'écosystème via Micronaut 5.1, Quarkus et WebAssembly. Shopify arrête React Native pour ses applis mobiles iOS et Android et repasse à du natif avec Swift et Kotlin shopify.engineering/back-to-native Les progrès majeurs des LLM (IA) réduisent drastiquement le coût du développement sur deux plateformes distinctes. Les bénéfices du natif pur restent supérieurs, moins de couches d'abstractions, de dépenfances externes, et plus rapide pour adopter les dernières fonctionnalités des OS Les bibliothèques open-source (Skia, FlashList, Restyle) évoluent : Skia sera forkée par William Candillon, FlashList cherche un nouveau repreneur, Restyle sera archivée fin 2026. Migration des applications (Shop, Shopify, etc.) réalisée en mode "greenfield" (reconstruction totale) assistée par IA. Utilisation du système "Helix" pour un développement itératif et contrôlé par des agents IA. Découplage de la logique métier et de l'interface via une CLI pour accélérer les tests et éviter les lenteurs des simulateurs. L'application Shop a été entièrement reconstruite en natif en 12 semaines ; les autres suivront. Librairies LangChain4j CDI est une extension CDI qui intègre LangChain4j avec CDI de Jakarta EE langchain4j.github.io/langchain4j-cdi LangChain4j CDI : Extension intégrant LangChain4j à Jakarta EE et MicroProfile. Services IA : Injection et gestion de cycle de vie via @RegisterAIService. Orchestration d'agents : 11 topologies d'agents configurables par annotations. Serveur MCP : Conversion de beans CDI en serveurs Model Context Protocol. Fonctionnalités d'entreprise : Configuration externe, tolérance aux pannes et observabilité OpenTelemetry. Installation Maven : Deux extensions disponibles selon l'environnement (build-time pour Quarkus/Helidon, portable pour WildFly/GlassFish/Liberty). Prérequis techniques : Java 17+, Jakarta EE 10, MicroProfile 6.1. Quarkus 3.36, 3.37 et 3.38 : trois releases avant Quarkus 4 quarkus.io/blog/quarkus-3-38-released quarkus.io/blog/quarkus-3-37-released quarkus.io/blog/quarkus-3-36-released Quarkus est un framework Java cloud natif optimisé pour GraalVM et HotSpot, conçu pour les microservices et les environnements conteneurisés. En 3.38 (29 juillet), l'équipe allège les nouveautés pour se concentrer sur Quarkus 4, la communauté atteint 1213 contributeurs. 3.38 introduit l'éviction basée sur le poids mémoire pour le cache Caffeine de second niveau d'Hibernate, en plus de l'éviction par comptage. 3.38 apporte l'extension Quarkus HTTP Problem qui implémente la RFC 9457 pour mapper les exceptions en réponses application/problem+json, intégrée à OpenAPI. 3.37 (24 juin) ajoute l'extension expérimentale quarkus jlink pour générer des images runtime JDK sur mesure et réduire la taille des conteneurs. 3.37 active par défaut la sérialisation Jackson sans réflexion pour de meilleures performances. et 3.39 lesdesactivent et les rement en opt-in 3.37 introduit dans REST Client RestMultiResponse pour lire codes de statut et en-têtes sur des réponses REST en streaming, avec passage à Hibernate ORM 7.4 qui exige PostgreSQL 14 minimum. 3.36 (27 mai) propose Quarkus Signals en expérimental, un système de communication typée entre composants inspiré des events CDI et de l'EventBus Vert.x. 3.36 embarque des SBOM applicatifs exposés via /.well-known/sbom, y compris en image native selon la spécification GraalVM. 3.36 ajoute l'authentification OIDC via JWT SPIFFE, facilitant l'identité de charge de travail en environnement zero trust. Micronaut Framework 5.1.0 : injection de dépendances, IA et sécurité renforcées github.com/micronaut-projects/micronaut-platform/…/v5.1.0 Micronaut est un framework JVM pour microservices et applications cloud-natives, avec injection de dépendances à la compilation et démarrage rapide. Introduction d'Open DI 1.0.0, une implémentation CDI Lite s'appuyant sur l'infrastructure d'injection de dépendances de Micronaut. Côté données, support officiel de SQLite et intégration MyBatis, avec ETags basés sur les valeurs pour le verrouillage optimiste. En sécurité, arrivée d'un module OWASP HTML Sanitizer, délégation d'authentification @RunAs et résolution de locale via OIDC. Côté IA, LangChain4j ajoute le support Chroma, la mémorisation de chat Oracle et l'authentification Google injectée pour Vertex AI, avec passage du MCP en version 2.0.0. Mises à jour majeures des dépendances : Spring Boot 4.1.0, Jetty 12.1.10, Tomcat 11.0.23, OpenTelemetry 1.64.0 et Kubernetes Java Client 27.0.0. SSL activé par défaut par service pour les clients HTTP Infrastructure Ça coûte combien de faire tourner un LLM local sur son Apple Silicon ? towardsdatascience.com/how-much-does-a-local-llm-actually-cost-to-run-i-measured-every-watt-on-apple-silicon Coût électrique des LLM locaux sur Mac Apple Silicon Un modèle 120B (MoE) coûte 5x à 10x moins cher qu'un modèle 27B (Dense). Le coût dépend du débit (tokens/seconde), pas du nombre de paramètres. Modèle dense –> Charge 100% des poids par token = lent et très énergivore. MoE (Mixture of Experts) –> N'active qu'une fraction des poids = rapide et économe. Conclusion : Pour réduire la facture électrique, choisir des modèles MoE quantifiés (haut débit). Kubernetes 1.36 (Haru) : sécurité renforcée et alignement IA infoq.com/news/2026/05/kubernetes-1-36-released Kubernetes est la plateforme open source de référence pour l'orchestration de conteneurs, portée par la CNCF. La version 1.36 nommée Haru apporte 70 améliorations : 18 passent stables, 25 en bêta et 25 en alpha, avec 106 entreprises et 491 contributeurs. Les user namespaces passent en disponibilité générale, isolant le root du conteneur de celui de l'hôte. Les Mutating Admission Policies passent en GA, remplaçant les webhooks par des règles CEL natives plus performantes. L'autorisation de l'API kubelet devient plus fine, remplaçant le droit trop large nodes/proxy. Le labeling SELinux des volumes utilise désormais mount -o context, accélérant le démarrage des pods. Plusieurs avancées ciblent les charges IA : gang scheduling en bêta, préemption consciente des groupes de pods, et allocation dynamique de ressources activée par défaut pour le partage fin des GPU. Le redimensionnement vertical des pods en place passe en bêta et activé par défaut, ajustant CPU et mémoire sans redémarrage. Suppression du plugin gitRepo, source de risque de sécurité, et du mode IPVS de kube-proxy, tous deux dépréciés de longue date. Avec la sortie de 1.36, la version 1.34 devient la plus ancienne branche encore supportée et entre en maintenance, ne recevant plus que des correctifs critiques avant sa fin de support. Terraform vs OpenTofu en 2026 : la divergence est actée ecorpit.hashnode.dev/terraform-vs-opentofu-in-2026-the-fork-has-diverged-so-which-do-you-standardize-on env0.com/insights/opentofu-in-2026-what-the-terraform-fork-became-after-three-years-of-independence Terraform est l'outil historique d'Infrastructure as Code de HashiCorp, OpenTofu en est le fork open source lancé après le changement de licence. HashiCorp est passé de la licence MPL 2.0 a la BUSL 1.1 en aout 2023, ce qui a poussé une partie de la communauté a créer OpenTofu sous la Linux Foundation. IBM a racheté HashiCorp pour 6,4 milliards de dollars, finalisé en février 2025, tandis qu'OpenTofu rejoignait le CNCF comme projet sandbox en avril 2025. OpenTofu prend de l'avance sur des fonctionnalités inédites : chiffrement du state côté client depuis la v1.7, valeurs éphémères qui gardent les secrets hors du state depuis la v1.11, et prevent_destroy dynamique en v1.12 (mai 2026). Terraform garde l'avantage sur l'orchestration managée avec Terraform Stacks, désormais en disponibilité générale, sans équivalent natif côté OpenTofu. Le coût diverge fortement : HCP Terraform facture jusqu'à 0,99 dollar par ressource gérée et par mois, alors qu'OpenTofu reste une CLI gratuite couplée au backend de son choix. Fidelity Investments a migré plus de 2000 applications et 50000 fichiers d'état vers OpenTofu, la complexité venant surtout de l'écosystème (CI/CD, gouvernance) plutôt que du binaire lui-même. OpenTofu reste compatible avec les configurations Terraform jusqu'a la version 1.6.x, mais les versions Terraform plus récentes n'offrent plus aucune garantie de compatibilité. Pour les secteurs régulés, le chiffrement natif du state par OpenTofu et sa gouvernance ouverte sont des arguments forts face aux exigences de protection des données. La recommandation qui ressort des deux articles : partir sur OpenTofu pour les projets neufs et rester sur Terraform si l'on est déjà investi dans HCP Terraform et ses fonctionnalités de gouvernance. OTel est à la peine ? matduggan.com/otel-isnt-going-well-and-i-made-a-spreadsheet-about-it Le développement d'OTel est un peu au point mort Périmètre démesuré : Volonté de supporter un nombre gigantesque de langages, bibliothèques et frameworks. Pénurie critique de mainteneurs : Les données montrent une hyper-concentration du travail ; de nombreux SDK (comme PHP ou Ruby) dépendent d'une ou deux personnes seulement. Stabilité paralysante : La règle interdisant toute modification d'une fonctionnalité déclarée « stable » crée une peur de valider les nouveautés, entraînant des mois de débats. Solutions proposées par l'auteur : Créer un niveau « Bêta » temporaire (ex: 12 mois) entre les statuts « Expérimental » et « Stable ». Faire preuve de transparence sur les différences de qualité/maintenance entre les langages (ne pas mettre Go et Ruby sur le même plan). Communiquer activement sur le besoin urgent de nouveaux mainteneurs. Assouplir la politique de stabilité en acceptant des breaking changes bien documentés. Honeycomb transforme son infrastructure Kafka honeycomb.io/blog/transforming-how-we-run-kafka-honeycomb Honeycomb est une plateforme d'observabilité dont Kafka est le coeur du pipeline d'ingestion, traitant des millions d'événements par seconde. L'entreprise a migré de Confluent Platform auto-hébergée vers Apache Kafka 4.1.1 en mode KRaft. Le nouveau cluster tourne sur AWS EKS avec Strimzi comme couche d'orchestration Kubernetes. Motivation principale : la récupération après remplacement de broker était passée de 8-12h à 48-72h avec l'ancienne stack. Confluent imposait aussi sa solution propriétaire de Tiered Storage, impossible à corriger en interne. Un incident de décembre 2025 ayant vidé un cluster a révélé une fenêtre d'opportunité pour migrer. La migration s'est faite progressivement sur six clusters, de dogfood jusqu'à la production. Les producteurs sont basculés avant les consommateurs, avec une courte fenêtre de downtime assumée entre les deux. Le stockage utilise des NVMe en instance store plutôt que de l'EBS pour minimiser la latence. interessant de voir une société reprendre en main sa compétence et de voir les contraintes de certaines fonctionalités propriétaires Cloud AWS us-west-2 : panne réseau régionale et effet domino chez les fournisseurs SaaS blog.incidenthub.cloud/aws-us-west-2-outage-jul-24-2026 AWS us-west-2 (Oregon) est une région cloud majeure hébergeant de nombreux services et fournisseurs SaaS. Le 24 juillet 2026, une panne matérielle réseau a coupé la connectivité entre la région et le Seattle Metro pendant environ 20 minutes. Particularité notable, seule la couche de connectivité externe a été touchée, le trafic interne à la région a continué de fonctionner normalement. Après la réparation matérielle, une phase distincte de reconvergence des routes a de nouveau causé une connectivité intermittente pendant plusieurs dizaines de minutes. Les clients Direct Connect via EqSe2 ont subi une coupure bien plus longue que le reste, 1h17 au total. Neuf incidents chez sept fournisseurs ont cité explicitement AWS comme cause, dont SendGrid, SparkPost et NinjaOne. Fait marquant, les temps de rétablissement des fournisseurs tiers ont largement dépassé la durée de la panne AWS elle même. NinjaOne a mis 9h29 à se rétablir totalement, avec 150000 appareils tentant de se reconnecter simultanément freinés par des mécanismes de backoff et jitter. SparkPost a mis 6h45 à absorber l'arriéré de courriels accumulé pendant la coupure, avec encore 80 à 90 minutes de retard des heures plus tard. L'article recommande d'identifier ses dépendances en us-west-2 et de prévoir capacité et bascule, l'effet différé pouvant durer bien plus longtemps que l'incident initial. Rapport Cloudflare Radar sur les perturbations Internet au Q2 2026 blog.cloudflare.com/fr-fr/q2-2026-internet-disruption-summary Cloudflare Radar est la plateforme qui analyse en temps réel le trafic mondial pour détecter pannes, coupures et censures Internet. l'instabilité est le nouveau normal Le super-typhon Sinlaku a fait chuter le trafic de près de 80% à Guam les 13 et 14 avril. Deux séismes de magnitude 7,5 ont fortement dégradé la connectivité au Venezuela le 24 juin. Une coupure électrique a provoqué cinq heures de perturbation en Tanzanie le 27 juin. En Iran, la connectivité s'est stabilisée à 59% du niveau normal après 88 jours de coupure. Le Soudan a imposé dix coupures programmées pendant les examens nationaux mi-avril. L'Irak a coupé Internet à trois reprises pour lutter contre la fraude aux examens. Des frappes de drones ont endommagé la région AWS me-central-1 aux Émirats arabes unis. Un renouvellement de clés DNSSEC a rendu les sites .de inaccessibles en Allemagne le 5 mai. Une rupture de câble sous-marin a fait chuter le trafic de 60% à Sainte-Lucie fin juin. l'instabilité est le nouveau normal Un ingénieur Google débranche une zone entière de Google Cloud https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/09/04/google-engineer-unplugged-every-fiber-they-could-see-and-surprise-took-down-a-chunk-of-the-g-cloud/5294418 Google Cloud est la plateforme d'infrastructure cloud de Google, organisée en régions et zones de disponibilité comme us-central1. Le 1er septembre 2026, un ingénieur a débranché par erreur des câbles fibre optique lors d'une opération de maintenance matérielle routinière dans la zone us-central1-b. En 13 minutes, il a déconnecté 100 % des chemins de fibre optique de tous les équipements de cette portion de la zone. Les machines virtuelles hébergées dans la zone touchée sont devenues injoignables, avec une perte de paquets élevée. Le taux de chute du trafic réseau pour les ressources concernées a atteint 100 %. L'incident a duré 4 heures et 11 minutes, de 7h41 à 11h52 heure du Pacifique. Google a détecté l'anomalie, reroute le trafic, identifié les liaisons optiques débranchées puis rebranché physiquement les fibres avant le retour à la normale. Les post-mortems d'incident cloud sont un classique du podcast, mais l'erreur humaine sur du câblage physique chez un hyperscaler mérite une minute d'antenne. ChatGPT, Claude et Grok en panne presque simultanément le 3 septembre theregister.com/ai-and-ml/…/5294322 ChatGPT, Claude et Grok sont les assistants IA et coding agents désormais utilisés au quotidien par de nombreux développeurs. xAI loue ses datacenters à un certains nombre de fournisseurs de cloud et d'IA. ils ont fait tombé ses concurrents :slightly_smiling_face: Arreter là Le 3 septembre 2026, les trois services sont tombés en panne quasiment en même temps. ChatGPT a connu une panne de 7h43 à 8h17 PT, soit environ 34 minutes, due à une erreur de routage rendant ChatGPT et Codex indisponibles. Claude a subi une panne partielle de 3 heures et 6 minutes touchant Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork et l'API Claude, résolue à 16h16 UTC. xAI a commencé à enquêter sur les problèmes de Grok dès 6h30 PT, puis SpaceX a confirmé une panne de son centre de calcul de Memphis. La coïncidence des trois pannes a fait suspecter un fournisseur commun à l'origine du problème. Pour les développeurs devenus dépendants de ces coding agents, l'épisode illustre le risque d'un point de défaillance unique xAI loue ses datacenters à un certains nombre de fournisseurs de cloud et d'IA. Web Nouveautés CSS 2026 : mixins, masonry natif et animations pilotées par le scroll modern-css.com/whats-new-in-css-2026 animation-timeline: scroll() et view() atteignent le baseline cross-browser, Firefox et Safari ayant livré le support complet. Plus besoin de préfixes ni de librairie JS. @starting-style devient cross-browser : animations d'entrée depuis display: none sans hack de timing JS. Firefox 147 amène l'anchor positioning au baseline, plus les view transition types et la Navigation API. Les menus contextuels via popover CSS arrivent aussi. Data et Intelligence Artificielle Guillaume a porté le SDK Python d'Antigravity en Java… en utilisant Antigravity lui même comme assistant ! glaforge.dev/posts/…/the-unofficial-antigravity-sdk-for-java SDK Java non officiel pour Antigravity, rétro-ingénierie du SDK Python pour exploiter un binaire Go sous-jacent. Cas d'usage : pipelines CI/CD, applications d'entreprise (Spring Boot), outils internes, surveillance en arrière-plan, interfaces personnalisées. Gestion des ressources : implémente AutoCloseable(try-with-resources) pour lancer et fermer proprement le processus Go. Exécution de code Java personnalisé : exposition de méthodes Java comme outils IA via les annotations @Toolet@Param. Streaming et programmation réactive : prise en charge des CompletableFuture, des callbacks (chatStream), et deFlow.Publisher. Fonctionnalités avancées : persistance de session, protocole MCP, politiques de sécurité, entrées multimodales, et sorties structurées mappées sur des records Java. Le SDK Java pour le protocol Agent2Agent sort sa version 1.2.0 medium.com/google-cloud/a2a-java-sdk-1-2-0-final-released… Prise en charge de la spécification A2A 1.0. Sécurité renforcée : Vérification stricte des autorisations de lecture sur les tâches référencées et implémentation d'une logique de blocage par défaut (fail-closed). Intégration facilitée : Support du câblage programmatique des autorisations pour les environnements non-CDI (comme Spring). Contrôle des flux : Ajout du Task Stream Lifecycle Hook pour surveiller et gérer le cycle de vie des abonnements aux flux d'événements. Stabilité des données : Immutabilité stricte imposée sur les enregistrements de spécifications pour empêcher toute modification accidentelle. Documentation : Lancement d'une documentation web multi-versions et d'un Javadoc agrégé pour tous les modules. Corrections de bugs : Résolution de problèmes liés à la synchronisation des tâches, aux réponses de streaming et aux conditions de concurrence HTTP. Breaking changes : Nécessite une migration suite à la modification de certaines méthodes d'autorisation, la réorganisation de packages et le renommage de l'état TaskState.UNRECOGNIZED en TaskState.TASK_STATE_UNSPECIFIED. Article sur le blog de JetBrains : blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2026/08/intellij-idea-goes-lsp pas trop de temps Langchain4j continue sa progression github.com/langchain4j/langchain4j/…/1.18.0 github.com/langchain4j/langchain4j/…/1.19.0 github.com/langchain4j/langchain4j/…/1.17.0 Introduction du pattern Debate pour lancer des sous agents dans rechercehnt et entrent dans un debat critique sur une decision avant qu'un juge decide (1.17) compensation d'action d'un outil avec @ReverseTool (1.17) Ajout du pattern Belief-Desire-Intention (1.18): belief est l'état du monde cru, desire est la liste des objectifs, intention est le plan pour avancer un ou plusieurs objectif Support d'un systeme crash resilient dans l'approche Human in the loop avec des checkpoints nestés (1.18) Support Open AI TextToSpeech (1.18) Support de Mistral batch chat (1.18) support MCP client 2026-07-28 (1.19) Anthromic batch chat et Google thinking mode (1.19) Embabel atteint 1.0 GA github.com/embabel/embabel-agent/…/v1.0.0 embabel d'eloigne de Spring AI ne s'appuie que sur Spring (notamment tool calling) nettoyage des explorations autour du pattern GOAL avant a 1.0 ajout observabilite (dont le cout) les approches de retry solidifiées et d'autres choses toujours basées sur la description de goals typés et des dependences entre eux via les types MCP 2026-07-28 : le protocole devient stateless blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-07-28 MCP (Model Context Protocol) est le protocole standard permettant aux LLM et agents IA de communiquer avec des outils, ressources et serveurs externes. Cette version marque le plus gros changement depuis le lancement du MCP distant il y a 18 mois. Le protocole passe d'un modèle bidirectionnel avec état à un modèle stateless en requête/réponse. Suppression de la poignée de main initialize/initialized et du header Mcp-Session-Id, chaque requête devient autoportante. N'importe quelle requête peut désormais être routée vers n'importe quelle instance de serveur derrière un load balancer classique, sans stockage partagé. Introduction des Multi Round-Trip Requests (MRTR) pour remplacer les requêtes initiées par le serveur, via un resultType input_required et des inputResponses. Nouveaux headers Mcp-Method et Mcp-Name pour permettre aux gateways de router et autoriser sans parser le JSON. Les résultats de tools, prompts et resources deviennent cacheables grâce aux paramètres ttlMs et cacheScope. Renforcement sécurité avec la validation d'issuer RFC 9207 pour éviter les attaques de confusion entre serveurs d'autorisation, et transition de DCR vers CIMD. Roots, Sampling et Logging sont dépréciés avec douze mois de support garanti, tout comme le transport legacy HTTP+SSE. Un site qui référence les skills pour la JVM (framework, langage, build…) jvmskills.com Frameworks : Spring, Quarkus, Jakarta EE, Reactor, Camel Java : bonne pratiques, conventions, guides de mise à jour à niveau LTS, API spécifiques (streams, optionals, logs…) Bases de données : ORM, validation, modélisation PostgreSQL, vectorielle avec pgvector Tests et qualité : TDD, mutation testing, debogage avec JDB Workflows dev et archi : commits git, domain modeling Outils et diagnostics JVM : JFR, Jstall, JSpecify Une skill n'est pas une librairie https://devx.writizzy.blog/p/un-skill-nest-pas-une-lib Les skills sont des éléments de configuration en prose pour agents IA comme Claude, distribués via des marketplaces à la manière de librairies logicielles. Frédéric Camblor critique cette analogie car partager un skill n'est pas la même chose que le mutualiser durablement. Écrire un skill prend 30 minutes mais l'adopter ailleurs coûte cher en appropriation et en maintenance. Forker un skill s'avère souvent plus efficace que de chercher à converger vers une version commune. Contrairement au code, les régressions d'un skill ne sont pas détectables automatiquement. Un skill peut se dégrader silencieusement sur plusieurs cas d'usage en corrigeant un autre. Les skills vieillissent vite car les modèles progressent et intègrent naturellement certaines bonnes pratiques. Le skill-creator d'Anthropic permet d'évaluer un skill via des jeux de cas et des mesures de variance. L'auteur distingue quatre sphères de partage : personnelle, équipe, outil et marketplace. Il propose un cycle partage puis appropriation puis duplication puis divergence plutôt qu'une installation collective figée. Les modèles Anthropic introduisent un filigrane (watermark) dans les textes qu'ils génèrent https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-text-watermark Claude est l'assistant IA d'Anthropic, et le watermarking est une technique permettant de marquer discrètement un contenu généré par IA pour en tracer l'origine. Anthropic annonce que les futurs modèles Claude intégreront un filigrane numérique invisible dans le texte généré. Le principe exploite les choix de mots équivalents que le modèle fait naturellement, en les orientant via une clé cryptographique plutôt qu'un tirage aléatoire. Le texte produit reste indiscernable à l'œil nu, sans caractères cachés, sans ralentissement ni coût supplémentaire. Seule la personne possédant la clé correspondante peut détecter la présence du filigrane. Le filigrane est plus fiable sur les textes longs et créatifs, moins sur du texte factuel, du code ou après une édition manuelle poussée. Il ne prouve pas qu'un texte est écrit par IA, ni n'identifie l'auteur ou la conversation d'origine, il donne seulement une probabilité d'implication de Claude. Une API de détection est proposée en accès restreint aux régulateurs, forces de l'ordre, médias et vérificateurs de faits. Pour les fichiers non textuels comme les images ou les PDF, Anthropic s'appuie sur le standard C2PA. Cette initiative s'inscrit dans le Code de Pratique de l'UE sur la transparence des contenus IA, signé par Anthropic et environ 190 autres acteurs, en lien avec la loi européenne sur l'IA. GPT-6 Astra, le nouveau modèle d'OpenAI face à Claude Fable 5.1 https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/ GPT-6 Astra est le nouveau modèle phare d'OpenAI, annoncé le 3 septembre 2026 comme le plus intelligent et le plus aligné de l'entreprise. Le modèle arrive deux jours après Claude Fable 5.1, à un tarif affiché comparable, dans une course accélérée aux modèles de code et de raisonnement. Astra revendique 98 % sur FrontierMath Tier 4, 99,9 % sur ARC-AGI-3 et 100 % sur ExploitBench. Fenêtre de contexte d'environ 1,05 million de tokens. Tarification API, 10 dollars par million de tokens en entrée, 50 dollars en sortie, et 1 dollar par million pour les tokens en cache. Au-delà de 272 000 tokens en entrée, toute la requête est facturée au double sur l'entrée et une fois et demie sur la sortie. Astra est le premier modèle d'OpenAI à franchir le seuil interne critique en cybersécurité. La version publique refuse les tâches offensives avancées comme générer des preuves de concept d'exploits. Le déploiement est progressif, les entreprises du programme de cybersécurité Daybreak d'OpenAI y accèdent en premier, avant ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, l'API et AWS. Même logique de diffusion contrôlée que chez Anthropic avec Mythos 5.1 : deux jours d'écart, deux modèles de tête, et la même question de savoir qui accède en premier aux capacités les plus sensibles. Outillage JetBrains s'est lancé dans les LSP (Language Server Protocol) avec une extension IntelliJ pour VS Code et assimilés marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=JetBrains.intellij-s… Nouveau produit : Lancement de l'extension Java & Kotlin by IntelliJ IDEA pour les éditeurs basés sur VS Code (incluant Cursor). Technologie : Utilisation du standard LSP (Language Server Protocol). Objectif : S'adapter au développement piloté par les agents IA, qui nécessite des fonctionnalités IDE légères et standardisées. Fonctionnalités clés : Support des projets Java, Kotlin et mixtes. Débogage (DAP). Complétion intelligente, navigation et analyse de code. Refactoring. Prise en charge de Maven, Gradle et Bazel. Disponibilité : Téléchargeable via le Visual Studio Marketplace et l'Open VSX registry. Licence / Prix : Gratuit durant la phase de preview (évaluation renouvelable de 30 jours). Nécessitera un abonnement IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate après la preview. (Note : Le LSP purement Kotlin reste gratuit et open-source). Avenir : Développement en cours pour optimiser les flux de travail avec les agents IA en ligne de commande (ex: Claude Code, Codex) afin de réduire la consommation de tokens. Après son acquisition par SpaceX, Cursor perd l'accès aux modèles OpenAI https://openai.com/index/our-decision-on-cursor-following-its-acquisition-by-spacex/ decision difficile mais Elon ment comme un arracheur de dent (et c'est un competiteur donc bon ça nous arrange) David Pilato a créé un thème spéciale pour les gens pour les devrel, ou qui font des talks à droite à gauche, pour le moteur Hugo https://david.pilato.fr/posts/2026-09-07-hugo-theme-devrel/ hugo-theme-devrel, thème Hugo (MIT) pour Developer Advocates et conférenciers, fonctionnant comme un module superposé au thème Dream. Gestion des conférences (cartes Leaflet), présentations (PDF, YouTube, co-auteurs), vues dédiées (archives, sujets récurrents, vidéos) et recherche Pagefind. Chaque intervention est un page bundle YAML structuré comme une base de données relationnelle compilée par Hugo. Architecture Airbnb refond son authentification en architecture server-driven, 60 % de code en moins https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/09/airbnb-server-driven-login/ Airbnb a restructuré son authentification autour d'un modèle en deux phases, identification du compte (email, téléphone ou connexion sociale) puis choix du challenge d'authentification décidé côté serveur selon le contexte utilisateur. Ce qui est interessant c'est que choisir la method d'authentification est côté serveur et adaptative, comme si c'était une révolution Arreter là Un moteur de politique serveur sélectionne la méthode d'authentification optimale avec des solutions de repli, permettant des adaptations régionales comme l'OTP WhatsApp au Brésil ou des fournisseurs d'identité locaux en Corée du Sud sans nouvelle version client. Un Challenge Picker propose des méthodes alternatives classées par probabilité de succès en cas d'échec. Résultat chiffré, 60 % de code d'authentification en moins et 100 Ko de moins sur le bundle client web. Méthodologies Les nouvelles règles d'ingénierie du contexte pour les modèles Claude 5 x.com/trq212/status/2080710971228918066 Partage par Thariq des apprentissages sur l'ingénierie du contexte et le prompt engineering pour les nouveaux modèles Claude 5 (comme Claude Opus 5 et Claude Fable 5) utilisés dans Claude Code. Évolution majeure vers le dés-empirement (unhobbling) : plus de 80 % du prompt système de Claude Code a pu être supprimé sans perte sur les évaluations de code, les modèles récents faisant preuve d'un bien meilleur jugement contextuel. Passage des règles strictes au jugement : au lieu d'interdire les commentaires ou d'imposer des contraintes lourdes, les modèles s'adaptent désormais au code environnant et font appel à leur propre discernement. Remplacement des exemples par la conception d'interfaces : fournir des exemples figés restreint l'exploration du modèle, d'où l'importance de concevoir des outils et des fichiers plus expressifs. Adoption de la divulgation progressive (progressive disclosure) : chargement dynamique du contexte (via des compétences ou des outils à chargement différé comme ToolSearch) pour éviter de saturer la fenêtre de contexte avec des instructions fixes. Utilisation d'une mémoire automatique et de références riches (artefacts HTML, suites de tests, fonctions de référence) plutôt que de fichiers CLAUDE.md pléthoriques ou de consignes répétitives. Recommandation pour les fichiers CLAUDE.md et les Skills : les garder légers, se concentrer sur les pièges spécifiques (gotchas) du dépôt, et structurer les guides sous forme d'arborescences modulaires pour ne charger que le nécessaire. Niveau d'adoption des agents IA de codage selon une étude de JetBrains blog.jetbrains.com/research/2026/08/ai-coding-agent-adoption-2026 Adoption massive : 90 % des développeurs professionnels utilisent des agents d'IA de codage au moins une fois par semaine, et 68 % quotidiennement. Claude Code domine : Il devient le nouveau leader du marché avec 39 % d'adoption mondiale (47 % aux États-Unis), détrônant largement ses concurrents. Déclin de GitHub Copilot : L'ancien leader perd de sa superbe, passant de 29 % à 21 % d'adoption, bien qu'il conserve une très forte notoriété (79 %). Percée de Codex : Sa croissance est fulgurante, son taux d'adoption ayant été multiplié par 5 en quelques mois (de 3 % à 16 %). Recul de Cursor : L'outil connaît une légère baisse, passant de 18 % à 12 % d'adoption, principalement due à une forte chute sur le marché chinois. Écosystème diversifié : JetBrains AI atteint 9 % d'adoption. Des alternatives comme OpenCode (7 %) et Google Antigravity (6 %, mais très populaire en Inde à 15 %) continuent de s'implanter. L'IA a cassé les hypothèses de la CI… ou pas https://stack72.dev/ai-broke-the-assumptions-behind-ci/ Paul Stack (ex-Pulumi) explique que l'intégration continue a toujours mêlé deux rôles distincts, exécuter la vérification du code et coordonner les fusions. avec les agents, la pression sur la CI augmente, car ils ne testent pas end to end tout le temps ils ont maintenant des workflows qui verifient tests, lint, revue d'agent etc dans un env local isolé donc c'est pre PR push Il propose de séparer vérification (exécution), attestations structurées (hash de commit, checksums SHA256) et CI, réduite à la validation et à la coordination des fusions. Sa thèse, les agents IA peuvent désormais vérifier tout le code localement avant même l'ouverture d'une pull request, ce qui bouleverse cet équilibre. l'attestation vient ensuite et la CI est une étape de vérification (attestation de commit et de tests et si branche a bougé, repart à l'execution) Martin Fowler, qui a repéré l'article dans ses Fragments du 1er septembre 2026, réplique que la vraie CI a toujours exigé une vérification locale avant de pousser le code. ca demande une chaine d'attestation forte quid de garder les metriques historique de CI Sécurité France Passoire: une analyse sur les différents vols de données des services publics de ces dernières mois https://www.cybernetica.fr/piratage-des-impots-comment-en-est-on-arrive-la/ Analyse du piratage massif de la DGFiP et d'autres administrations françaises en 2026, révélateur de failles systémiques de cybersécurité de l'État. Intrusion détectée fin juin à la DGFiP, mais l'exfiltration de 678 000 entrées fiscales n'a été découverte qu'en août lors de leur mise en vente. Données volées : noms, revenu fiscal de référence, taux de prélèvement, adresse, téléphone. Une seconde attaque du même pirate a visé le cadastre fin juillet, exposant plus de 2 millions de personnes. L'Éducation nationale a aussi été piratée fin juillet, données de tous les agents depuis 2001 exposées. Cause principale : modèle de sécurité fondé sur le périmètre physique plutôt que sur le zero trust, sans contrôle après authentification. Le télétravail post Covid a étendu les accès distants sans reconstruire les modèles de confiance. Aucun système de détection d'exfiltration n'existait, la fuite n'a été révélée que par le pirate lui-même. La transposition de la directive NIS2 est bloquée en France depuis septembre 2025, la CJUE a condamné le pays à des astreintes. L'article souligne un désengagement croissant des Etats-Unis en matière de cybersécurité internationale et une dépendance technologique accrue de la France. Loi, société et organisation Ce que l'IA change vraiment au métier de manager shapeandship.ai/p/ce-que-lia-change-vraiment-au-metier-de-manager Retour d'expérience et analyse par Mathilde Rigabert sur l'impact réel de l'IA générative dans le quotidien d'un Engineering Manager. L'IA excelle pour automatiser la reconstitution factuelle de l'activité (lecture de PRs, commits, reviews) nécessaire aux 1:1 et entretiens annuels, mais elle offre une vision uniquement quantitative et nécessite d'être croisée avec des notes de terrain. L'IA rend le maintien de la qualité et des standards plus difficile : selon une étude Faros AI sur 22 000 développeurs, les PRs mergées sans aucune revue ont augmenté de 31 %, fragilisant la compréhension commune apportée par le pairing et les revues de code. Le temps gagné par l'IA ne permet pas d'augmenter massivement le span of control (seulement 2 ou 3 personnes de plus), car l'IA compresse la collecte d'informations mais pas les conversations humaines complexes ou l'accompagnement du changement. Les compétences d'orchestration et de gestion de sujets multiples acquises par les managers facilitent leur transition vers le pilotage de plusieurs agents IA en contribution individuelle. Le piège actuel réside dans l'accumulation des casquettes (manager, tech lead, product owner, contributeur, pompier), conduisant à l'épuisement et au délaissement du travail de fond sur l'organisation et l'humain. Le temps libéré par l'IA doit être réinvesti dans le travail invisible qui fait tenir le système (suivi des actions de rétro, analyse de métriques, coaching), que personne ne réclame à court terme mais dont l'absence fragilise les équipes à long terme. Je regrette d'avoir migré vers Codeberg xn–gckvb8fzb.com/i-regret-migrating-to-codeberg L'auteur explique pourquoi il regrette d'avoir quitté GitHub pour Codeberg, à la suite des récentes modifications des conditions d'utilisation (ToS) de la plateforme. Codeberg a interdit les projets principalement générés par des LLM ainsi que les projets liés aux cryptomonnaies via des propositions de l'Assembly 2026, au motif qu'ils nuisent à sa réputation. blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from… Critique de l'argument de Codeberg sur l'absence de communauté des vibe coders, en rappelant que la majorité des logiciels libres (FOSS) sont créés par des développeurs solos sans communauté au sens romancé du terme. Ironie soulignée concernant la posture de Codeberg et Forgejo, qui a hérité de la communauté de Gitea après un hard fork avant de faire la leçon aux développeurs individuels. Alerte sur le risque de censure idéologique : interdire des catégories entières plutôt que de traiter les abus réels ou la consommation d'infrastructure crée un précédent dangereux pour une forge qui se veut libre. Proposition de solutions alternatives pour gérer l'impact des LLM et de la crypto : déclaration obligatoire via des cases à cocher, hébergement sur des tiers d'infrastructure spécifiques payants ou sous quotas, et disclaimers automatiques. Décision de l'auteur de quitter Codeberg pour mettre en place son propre serveur Git personnel afin d'éviter la dépendance à une plateforme qui modifie ses règles de manière unilatérale. Cloud souverain : Airbus choisit Scaleway pour l'hébergement de ses applications critiques https://www.usine-digitale.fr/aeronautique-spatial/airbus/cloud-souverain-airbus-choisit-scaleway-pour-lhebergement-de-ses-applications-critiques.OHBVBMSZIJELNOKN6G5F6B7NSI.html Scaleway est le cloud provider français filiale du groupe Iliad, positionné comme alternative souveraine aux hyperscalers américains. Airbus a lancé un appel d'offres de six mois consultant une cinquantaine d'acteurs dont OVHcloud, Thales, Google S3NS et Microsoft Bleu. Scaleway a été retenu pour héberger les applications critiques liées à la conception d'aéronefs, l'ingénierie, la production industrielle et les opérations. Le contrat prévoit la migration d'environ 70 applications d'ici 2028, puis jusqu'à 900 applications sur 5 à 6 ans. Le montant du contrat n'a pas été communiqué. Scaleway revendique zéro actionnaire, zéro employé et zéro filiale hors Union européenne pour garantir une protection contre les lois extraterritoriales. Damien Lucas, PDG de Scaleway, évoque une immunité complète face aux évolutions politiques et législatives externes. La plateforme doit aussi accélérer les usages d'intelligence artificielle d'Airbus, avec les modèles de Mistral AI déjà déployés chez Scaleway. Catherine Jestin, responsable numérique d'Airbus, souligne que cette intégration accélère la démarche IA du groupe. Ce choix ne remet pas en cause la stratégie multicloud d'Airbus, Scaleway venant compléter les fournisseurs existants pour les charges nécessitant le plus haut niveau de gouvernance et de résilience. Debian adopte une résolution sur l'usage responsable de l'IA générative lwn.net/Articles/1091231 La discussion sur l'usage des LLM dans Debian s'est tenue du 23 juillet au 13 août 2026, suivie d'un vote du 15 au 28 août 2026. 1045 développeurs Debian étaient éligibles à voter, avec un quorum de 48,49 votes largement dépassé par les huit options en lice. Les options allaient d'une interdiction stricte des contributions générées par LLM inscrite dans le contrat social à une acceptation encadrée des contributions IA. L'option gagnante au classement Condorcet est Responsible Use of Generative AI, devant Allow AI-Assisted Contributions with conditions et A cautious approach to generative AI. Le texte adopté n'interdit ni n'encourage l'usage d'outils d'IA générative dans le développement de Debian. Il exige que toute contribution, quels que soient les outils utilisés pour la produire, respecte les mêmes standards de qualité, correction, maintenabilité et conformité légale. Les contributeurs doivent comprendre, relire, tester et si besoin modifier la production assistée par IA avant de l'intégrer à Debian. Les informations sensibles du projet ne doivent pas être transmises à des fournisseurs d'IA non fiables, et la divulgation de l'usage de l'IA est encouragée sans être obligatoire. Le détail du vote et le texte complet de la résolution sont disponibles sur la page officielle [debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002](https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002). Contraste direct avec l'OpenJDK, qui a publié une politique interdisant le code généré par LLM (épisode 340), et avec l'auteur de jqwik qui a piégé sa librairie contre les agents. 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Miss May I frontman Levi Benton joins Scott Penfold on the Loaded Radio Podcast to talk about the band's eighth album No Place For Me, out October 2 via Solid State Records — a record he's described as everything he's felt for a long time but never had the words for. We get into where it came from, the decision to release five singles from a ten-track album, the entirely DIY video for "Death Threat," and nineteen years fronting a band from Troy, Ohio that outlasted most of the scene it came from. Plus the Perpetual Iron tour with Born of Osiris. Also on the episode: Jake Diab of Autumn Kings on Epiphanies, out September 18 via Hopeless Records — their first label album after nine years fully independent. Jake talks about what Hopeless changed and what he refused to let them change, building a record around three songs that had already charted, getting Howard Jones on "yOunG BLoOds," meeting his bandmate at a grocery store in LaSalle, playing for US troops across Japan, South Korea and Guam, and what release day looks like when it lands mid-tour with Black Veil Brides. Read the full write-up at loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or grab the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play. Follow us on Facebook, X, Instagram, Threads, TikTok and YouTube.

Today we meet former US Army Captain Mike Klein and learn about the growing up part of his life as the son of a US Navy physician in Guam. Following his father's departure from the Navy and move to Gainesville, Florida, Mike graduated from West Point, served as an Infantry Officer and was deployed to Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.  Today he is Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Warrior Centric Health and is running for US Congress for Florida's District 3 as an Independent.Our library of shows can be found at www.veteranscornerradio.comJoin us on Facebook at the page Veterans Corner RadioYou can contact our host Joe Muhlberger at joseph.muhlberger@gmail.com

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Shoichi Yokoi was a Japanese soldier who refused to surrender at the end of World War II. Instead, he vanished into the jungles of Guam and lived in an underground cave for nearly 28 years after the war was over.He survived on fruit, nuts, snails, shrimp, eels, and rats. Today, he is remembered for the ingenuity that kept him alive and unseen for almost three decades. But it is hard to admire that feat without feeling the sting of its irony. Yokoi did eventually return to Japan. What he could never recover was half a lifetime spent on a struggle that no longer needed to be fought.How could a soldier stay hidden that long, and why was he so afraid to come out? In this program, Gary Kent tells the heroic and tragic story of Shoichi Yokoi, the fear that kept him underground, and what that story has to say about your life.

Value: After Hours is a podcast about value investing, Fintwit, and all things finance and investment by investors Tobias Carlisle, and Jake Taylor. We are live every Tuesday at 1.30pm E / 10.30am P.────────────────────── ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠VALUE OPTIONS LETTER⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Three to five curated ideas every week — cash-secured puts, covered calls, and spreads on businesses we'd want to own at strikes we'd be willing to pay. Every trade includes the business thesis in plain English, the fair-value estimate and its key assumptions, the specific option trade with target premium, and the pre-identified exit criteria.Every idea reviewed and approved by an analyst before it hits your inbox.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠valueoptionsletter.com/subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠──────────────────────See our latest episodes at https://acquirersmultiple.com/podcastAbout Jake Jake's Twitter: https://twitter.com/farnamjake1Jake's book: The Rebel Allocator https://amzn.to/2sgip3lABOUT THE PODCASTHi, I'm Tobias Carlisle. I launched The Acquirers Podcast to discuss the process of finding undervalued stocks, deep value investing, hedge funds, activism, buyouts, and special situations.We uncover the tactics and strategies for finding good investments, managing risk, dealing with bad luck, and maximizing success.SEE LATEST EPISODEShttps://acquirersmultiple.com/podcast/SEE OUR FREE DEEP VALUE STOCK SCREENER https://acquirersmultiple.com/screener/FOLLOW TOBIASWebsite: https://acquirersmultiple.com/Firm: https://acquirersfunds.com/ Twitter: ttps://twitter.com/GreenbackdLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobycarlisleFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/tobiascarlisleInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tobias_carlisleABOUT TOBIAS CARLISLETobias Carlisle is the founder of The Acquirer's Multiple®, and Acquirers Funds®. He is best known as the author of the #1 new release in Amazon's Business and Finance The Acquirer's Multiple: How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market, the Amazon best-sellers Deep Value: Why Activists Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations (2014) (https://amzn.to/2VwvAGF), Quantitative Value: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors (2012) (https://amzn.to/2SDDxrN), and Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World's Greatest Concentrated Value Investors (2016) (https://amzn.to/2SEEjVn). He has extensive experience in investment management, business valuation, public company corporate governance, and corporate law.Prior to founding the forerunner to Acquirers Funds in 2010, Tobias was an analyst at an activist hedge fund, general counsel of a company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, and a corporate advisory lawyer. As a lawyer specializing in mergers and acquisitions he has advised on transactions across a variety of industries in the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Australia, Singapore, Bermuda, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and Guam. He is a graduate of the University of Queensland in Australia with degrees in Law (2001) and Business (Management) (1999).

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James Arlon Jenkins was an American Marine who served through some of the fiercest fighting of World War II. After enlisting in 1940, he witnessed the attack on Pearl Harbor before deploying to the Pacific theater, where he saw continuous action during the grueling campaigns on Guadalcanal, Guam, and Iwo Jima. Following the war, he completed occupation duty in Japan before being discharged with a disability caused by recurring bouts of malaria and severe stomach ulcers contracted during his service.Returning to civilian life in Oklahoma, Jenkins worked to overcome the physical toll of tropical illness and combat trauma. He supported his family through shoe repair and pursued studies in mechanical engineering, ultimately building a stable postwar career that concluded with 18 years of service for the Tulsa Airport Authority. Support the show

In this special episode, we're sharing a conversation from Liv's guest interview on the Courageous Wellness Podcast with Aly French, where she shares the story of how an injury first led her from dance into yoga, and how that unexpected shift eventually became a full-time path in holistic wellness, retreats, and community care. From immersing herself in meditation, breath work, and sound healing to leaving eight years of corporate life behind, Liv reflects on the moments that pushed her to take a leap before she felt fully ready.She also shares why returning to Guam felt like an opportunity to build something from the ground up, the meaning behind the name Ina, and her vision for bringing wellness practitioners and experiences together through Ina Wellness Collective. Together, they explore the healing power of community and what it means to create wellness spaces where people can feel supported, seen, and like they belong. Liv also shares how Well Within, her 12-month membership and coaching experience, and her retreats create opportunities for deeper connection, personal growth, and transformation both on Guam and around the world.EPISODE TAKEAWAYSRecognizing when you're out of alignment and trusting yourself through periods of changeHow major life transitions can create the space for new beginnings and deeper clarityThe power of community, belonging, and shared experiences in supporting healing and growthWhy wellness doesn't have to be complicated—simple, consistent practices can make a lasting impactThe value of taking the leap before everything feels perfectly figured outHow motherhood and other life transitions can reshape our priorities, identity, and definition of self-careWhy lasting transformation is supported by consistency, community, and long-term connectionRethinking wellness as a collective experience that can create impact far beyond the individualCHECK OUT COURAGEOUS WELLNESS PODCASTWebsite: https://courageouswellness.net/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/courageouswellness/?hl=en Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0GnUo4uxZOjqpBCHItC18s CONNECT WITH LIVLivia Marati founded Ina Wellness Collective in 2020 with a mission to ignite a movement that empowers individuals to live with intention and cultivate a thriving community grounded in holistic wellbeing. As an aligned living coach, yoga teacher, retreat host, podcast host, and transformational speaker, she guides her community to harmonize their habits, relationships, and mindset through her Rise & Align Method. Liv has built a vibrant international wellness community, hosts global retreats, and created Ina Well Fest, Guam's signature wellness festival. Whether through coaching, conversations, or community experiences, she creates intentional spaces for healing, growth, and connection, helping people unlock their highest potential and live a life of true alignment and fulfillment.Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/alignedbylivCONNECT WITH INA WELLNESS COLLECTIVEWebsite: https://www.inawellnesscollective.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inawellnesscollectiveWATCH FULL EPISODES ON YOUTUBEhttps://www.youtube.com/@inawellnessENROLLMENT IS NOW OPEN FOR RISE & ALIGNRise & Align Group Programhttps://www.inawellnesscollective.com/riseandalign(Mention Illuminated Path Podcast when you apply for $100 off!)

"Shame, Shame, Shame." Not on you, but maybe on us? Either way, we're Back! Tonight, Four Shame, Pokémon distraction, HE CLICKED THE BUTTON, Blair Witch Project, I don't know where I am or what I'm doing, someone just tapped on the window, stay strapped, Winnie the Poohing it, drone shots, Master Angler Award, here zit, awarded for the small ones, figure-eightin' for the life, the Best that almost was, he's finally the bride - no longer the muskie virgin, I have boxes, it was just in the carpet, he did what in his cup?, looking crispy, can officially wear The Shirt, rite of passage - sleeping on a blowup mattress in your kids home, only Kmart in the world - in Guam, I just Shipped the Bed, old house prairie woman, never a callout - maybe a suggestion, and a few Dad jokes where the points don't matter! All this and a fire that didn't start itself on this week's episode of Brothers in Arms!   Where you can reach us: YouTube: BrothersinArmsPodcast Instagram: Yourbrothersinarmspodcast Gmail: yourbrothersinarmspodcast@gmail.com Twitch: Twitch.tv/brothersinarmspodcast (schedule varies due to life) Website: https://brothersinarms.podbean.com

CAPTIO DECEMBER  7, 1941943 to Tokyo Bay: The Central Pacific Drive and the Politics of Supreme CommaCraig Symonds, Part Two: This second interview segment covers the Central Pacific campaign from late 1943 to postwar reconciliation. It begins with the bloody amphibious landing at Tarawa, where Marine General Holland Smith trained troops to overcome coral obstacles. Nimitz resolved persistent command tensions, managing difficult deputy John Towers and supporting carrier commander Marc Mitscher. His calculated risk paid off at Kwajalein and during the Battle of the Philippine Sea, though Raymond Spruance's beachhead-focused defense drew aviator criticism. During the Battle of Leyte Gulf, William Halsey aggressively chased decoy carriers, leaving the beachhead vulnerable and triggering the famous "where is Task Force 34" message controversy. Despite Halsey later steering the fleet into two deadly typhoons, Nimitz protected him from dismissal to preserve public morale. After moving headquarters to Guam, Nimitz oversaw costly victories at Iwo Jima and Okinawa, countered kamikazes, approved the blockade strategy, and ultimately accepted Japan's surrender. He subsequently served as Chief of Naval Operations postwar. (2)

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In this episode: Why "purging immigrants" doesn't fix working-class wages—it's a wealth story, not a race story. Attending New Zealand's student-led "School Strike 4 Climate" in Wellington—how the movement's demands have evolved from narrow climate asks (ending fossil fuel exploration, scrapping fast-track approvals) toward linking climate justice with broader political education and youth voter enrollment. The White House's official website is hosting deportation-themed arcade games—fascism makes cruelty a spectacle. Trump's social media post depicting U.S. "territories," which doubled as an admission that Guam, Puerto Rico, CNMI, Washington D.C., Palau, the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia function as U.S. colonial holdings—plus a jab claiming the Strait of Hormuz as American territory. The Economist magazine had embarrassing coverage of Australia's Pacific security agreements, which are asymmetric "protectorate" deals that expand Australian sub-imperial influence and destabilize the region more than any Chinese military presence does. Economic pundit Steve Ratner has a chart showing that ICE raid-heavy states have seen the slowest wage growth...and that opens an explainer about fascism, counter-revolution, and who benefits from ethnonationalism (oligarchs!). Labor's share of national income—not immigration—is driving economic insecurity. Non-sequitur: Hulu's Furious might be the best show on streaming right now.  Also this episode: A crossover conversation with the show Bogan Intelligentsia about US economic war with Canada; our complicated feelings about Mark Carney as Canada's PM; why Australia is totally misreading American politics and the world's geopolitics; how different political constituencies interpret multipolarity; the Democratic Party in the US; and more.  Subscribe to the Un-Diplomatic Newsletter: https://www.un-diplomatic.com/ Watch Un-Diplomatic Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@un-diplomaticpodcast Disclaimer: The views expressed are those of the individuals and not of any institutions

00:00 Intro01:07 Trump Nominates Anti-Communist for US Navy Chief 01:40 Hung Cao Speaks Out Against Communism 03:08 US Lawmakers Stand With Joshua Wong From Hong Kong 04:16 Chevron to Invest $7B+, Double Output in Venezuela 06:42 US Pledges More Than $150M for Pacific Nations 08:13 China Uses Economic Leverage to Gain Influence 09:59 Palau Stands Firm Against China's Pressure 12:31 US Must Turn Pacific Promises Into Action 13:52 Taiwan Proposes Extra $4.6B in Defense Spending 14:58 China Mapped Ocean Floors Near Hawaii, Guam 15:10 Bessent Pressures China on Trade Imbalances 15:40 China Uses Subsidies to Prop Up Its Economy

Value: After Hours is a podcast about value investing, Fintwit, and all things finance and investment by investors Tobias Carlisle, and Jake Taylor. We are live every Tuesday at 1.30pm E / 10.30am P.────────────────────── ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠VALUE OPTIONS LETTER⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Three to five curated ideas every week — cash-secured puts, covered calls, and spreads on businesses we'd want to own at strikes we'd be willing to pay. Every trade includes the business thesis in plain English, the fair-value estimate and its key assumptions, the specific option trade with target premium, and the pre-identified exit criteria.Every idea reviewed and approved by an analyst before it hits your inbox.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠valueoptionsletter.com/subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠──────────────────────See our latest episodes at https://acquirersmultiple.com/podcastAbout Jake Jake's Twitter: https://twitter.com/farnamjake1Jake's book: The Rebel Allocator https://amzn.to/2sgip3lABOUT THE PODCASTHi, I'm Tobias Carlisle. I launched The Acquirers Podcast to discuss the process of finding undervalued stocks, deep value investing, hedge funds, activism, buyouts, and special situations.We uncover the tactics and strategies for finding good investments, managing risk, dealing with bad luck, and maximizing success.SEE LATEST EPISODEShttps://acquirersmultiple.com/podcast/SEE OUR FREE DEEP VALUE STOCK SCREENER https://acquirersmultiple.com/screener/FOLLOW TOBIASWebsite: https://acquirersmultiple.com/Firm: https://acquirersfunds.com/ Twitter: ttps://twitter.com/GreenbackdLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobycarlisleFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/tobiascarlisleInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tobias_carlisleABOUT TOBIAS CARLISLETobias Carlisle is the founder of The Acquirer's Multiple®, and Acquirers Funds®. He is best known as the author of the #1 new release in Amazon's Business and Finance The Acquirer's Multiple: How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market, the Amazon best-sellers Deep Value: Why Activists Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations (2014) (https://amzn.to/2VwvAGF), Quantitative Value: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors (2012) (https://amzn.to/2SDDxrN), and Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World's Greatest Concentrated Value Investors (2016) (https://amzn.to/2SEEjVn). He has extensive experience in investment management, business valuation, public company corporate governance, and corporate law.Prior to founding the forerunner to Acquirers Funds in 2010, Tobias was an analyst at an activist hedge fund, general counsel of a company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, and a corporate advisory lawyer. As a lawyer specializing in mergers and acquisitions he has advised on transactions across a variety of industries in the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Australia, Singapore, Bermuda, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and Guam. He is a graduate of the University of Queensland in Australia with degrees in Law (2001) and Business (Management) (1999).

Joey “Devil Doc Talk” Martinez sits down with James Acuna of Ondas Capital — former CIA operations officer, founder of Baltic Ghost Wing, and the man now backing combat-proven unmanned systems for Allied defense. From denied-area ops to Ukraine's drone battlefield to deploying capital at speed, this one is about what actually works when the mission is real.

Adam is joined by the Executive Director of FIBA Oceania, Amanda Jenkins, to talk about the tremendous growth across the region - from Guam's involvement in international tournaments to the rise of the sport in the Polynesian region.Unwrapped is presented by C2C Sport. Get 10% exclusive discount on your initial order, use code PICKROLL on the checkout page at c2csport.com.au. Valid for custom orders. Contact sales@c2csport.com or call 02 6581 1558 if you need help. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Joey “Devil Doc Talk” Martinez sits down with Lt Col (Ret.) Hunter K. Jones — U.S. Naval Academy graduate, former Air Force OSI federal agent, and Founder & CEO of Jones & Associates.Hunter's path runs from Navy football to some of OSI's hardest missions: felony crime, narcotics, executive protection, counterintelligence, counterespionage, and counterterrorism. He deployed twice as a Special Agent in Charge during Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, served as Global Security Director and Personal Security Advisor to Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John Jumper, commanded a 24-agent unit at Hill AFB, and later led plans, programs, and policy at U.S. Central Command.After the uniform he carried that standard into Booz Allen Hamilton, Boeing, Penn Medicine's cybersecurity SOC, and national-security business development. He still coaches high school football to teach life lessons and grow future leaders. He and his wife Tara are raising two sons in the same Berwyn, PA neighborhood where he grew up.Together they talk command under pressure, life after the badge, and why Service To Others Above Self still matters when the mission changes.Watch. Like. Share it with someone who served.The Devil Doc Talk Show — hosted by Joey “Devil Doc Talk” Martinez (U.S. Navy Corpsman combat veteran). Entertain & Empower. Produced by ADAX Entertainment (veteran-owned).ALL LINKS: https://linktr.ee/thedevildoctalkshow YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thedevildoctalkshow Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-devil-doc-talk-show/id810683741 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5RbFbsF6rUd7zX5J2UDf03 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/devildoctalk/ X: https://x.com/DevilDocTalk Email: thedevildoctalkshow@gmail.comLIKE if this hit home. COMMENT: What did your next mission look like after service? SUBSCRIBE for more conversations that entertain and empower.#DevilDocTalkShow #HunterJones #OSI #AirForce #NavalAcademy #VeteranPodcast #Leadership #VeteranTransition #ServiceToOthers #ADAXEntertainment© 2026 The Devil Doc Talk Show / ADAX Entertainment. “Service To Others Above Self”

Value: After Hours is a podcast about value investing, Fintwit, and all things finance and investment by investors Tobias Carlisle, and Jake Taylor. We are live every Tuesday at 1.30pm E / 10.30am P.────────────────────── ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠VALUE OPTIONS LETTER⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Three to five curated ideas every week — cash-secured puts, covered calls, and spreads on businesses we'd want to own at strikes we'd be willing to pay. Every trade includes the business thesis in plain English, the fair-value estimate and its key assumptions, the specific option trade with target premium, and the pre-identified exit criteria.Every idea reviewed and approved by an analyst before it hits your inbox.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠valueoptionsletter.com/subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠──────────────────────See our latest episodes at https://acquirersmultiple.com/podcastAbout Jake Jake's Twitter: https://twitter.com/farnamjake1Jake's book: The Rebel Allocator https://amzn.to/2sgip3lABOUT THE PODCASTHi, I'm Tobias Carlisle. I launched The Acquirers Podcast to discuss the process of finding undervalued stocks, deep value investing, hedge funds, activism, buyouts, and special situations.We uncover the tactics and strategies for finding good investments, managing risk, dealing with bad luck, and maximizing success.SEE LATEST EPISODEShttps://acquirersmultiple.com/podcast/SEE OUR FREE DEEP VALUE STOCK SCREENER https://acquirersmultiple.com/screener/FOLLOW TOBIASWebsite: https://acquirersmultiple.com/Firm: https://acquirersfunds.com/ Twitter: ttps://twitter.com/GreenbackdLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobycarlisleFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/tobiascarlisleInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tobias_carlisleABOUT TOBIAS CARLISLETobias Carlisle is the founder of The Acquirer's Multiple®, and Acquirers Funds®. He is best known as the author of the #1 new release in Amazon's Business and Finance The Acquirer's Multiple: How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market, the Amazon best-sellers Deep Value: Why Activists Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations (2014) (https://amzn.to/2VwvAGF), Quantitative Value: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors (2012) (https://amzn.to/2SDDxrN), and Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World's Greatest Concentrated Value Investors (2016) (https://amzn.to/2SEEjVn). He has extensive experience in investment management, business valuation, public company corporate governance, and corporate law.Prior to founding the forerunner to Acquirers Funds in 2010, Tobias was an analyst at an activist hedge fund, general counsel of a company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, and a corporate advisory lawyer. As a lawyer specializing in mergers and acquisitions he has advised on transactions across a variety of industries in the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Australia, Singapore, Bermuda, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and Guam. He is a graduate of the University of Queensland in Australia with degrees in Law (2001) and Business (Management) (1999).

Tom Clancy Pressure Depth by Jack Stewart https://www.amazon.com/Clancy-Pressure-Depth-Jack-Novel/dp/B0GQF8ZW6Z Some secrets are best left at the bottom of the ocean. But since that's not in Jack Ryan, Jr.'s nature, he'll battle all of China to stop them from finding a weapon of immense destructive power in the latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Jack Ryan Jr. is on Guam to work on a project for Hendley Associates. It’s a perfectly ordinary insurance matter, but trouble finds the Ryans wherever they go. So, it’s no surprise when Jack’s involvement with a US Navy dive team working off the coast uncovers a threat to international security. For years, rumors persisted that the Soviets had placed a device for tracking American submarines on the sea floor. By now, the technology should be outdated. But the Americans are still interested in recovering it. It’s a seemingly routine mission until they make a shocking discovery: the defensive network they thought they were looking for is actually a weapon unlike anything they've ever seen. That explains the arrival of a Chinese special operations team who seem determined to get their hands on the aging tech, even if they have to kill to do it. They’re sure they can handle the Americans. But they don’t know Jack.

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Value: After Hours is a podcast about value investing, Fintwit, and all things finance and investment by investors Tobias Carlisle, and Jake Taylor. We are live every Tuesday at 1.30pm E / 10.30am P.────────────────────── ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠VALUE OPTIONS LETTER⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Three to five curated ideas every week — cash-secured puts, covered calls, and spreads on businesses we'd want to own at strikes we'd be willing to pay. Every trade includes the business thesis in plain English, the fair-value estimate and its key assumptions, the specific option trade with target premium, and the pre-identified exit criteria.Every idea reviewed and approved by an analyst before it hits your inbox.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠valueoptionsletter.com/subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠──────────────────────See our latest episodes at https://acquirersmultiple.com/podcastAbout Jake Jake's Twitter: https://twitter.com/farnamjake1Jake's book: The Rebel Allocator https://amzn.to/2sgip3lABOUT THE PODCASTHi, I'm Tobias Carlisle. I launched The Acquirers Podcast to discuss the process of finding undervalued stocks, deep value investing, hedge funds, activism, buyouts, and special situations.We uncover the tactics and strategies for finding good investments, managing risk, dealing with bad luck, and maximizing success.SEE LATEST EPISODEShttps://acquirersmultiple.com/podcast/SEE OUR FREE DEEP VALUE STOCK SCREENER https://acquirersmultiple.com/screener/FOLLOW TOBIASWebsite: https://acquirersmultiple.com/Firm: https://acquirersfunds.com/ Twitter: ttps://twitter.com/GreenbackdLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobycarlisleFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/tobiascarlisleInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tobias_carlisleABOUT TOBIAS CARLISLETobias Carlisle is the founder of The Acquirer's Multiple®, and Acquirers Funds®. He is best known as the author of the #1 new release in Amazon's Business and Finance The Acquirer's Multiple: How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market, the Amazon best-sellers Deep Value: Why Activists Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations (2014) (https://amzn.to/2VwvAGF), Quantitative Value: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors (2012) (https://amzn.to/2SDDxrN), and Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World's Greatest Concentrated Value Investors (2016) (https://amzn.to/2SEEjVn). He has extensive experience in investment management, business valuation, public company corporate governance, and corporate law.Prior to founding the forerunner to Acquirers Funds in 2010, Tobias was an analyst at an activist hedge fund, general counsel of a company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, and a corporate advisory lawyer. As a lawyer specializing in mergers and acquisitions he has advised on transactions across a variety of industries in the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Australia, Singapore, Bermuda, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and Guam. He is a graduate of the University of Queensland in Australia with degrees in Law (2001) and Business (Management) (1999).

On Friday, Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao announced that the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) is returning to the United States as part of a “planned rotation.” Cao's announcement follows weeks of reporting on strained conditions aboard the ship, including food and supply shortages, mental health struggles among sailors, and multiple sailors reportedly attempting to jump overboard. Aside from brief stops in Guam in December and Oman in July, the carrier has been operating for 271 days at sea without its crew taking a port call. The Japan-based USS George Washington (CVN-73) is set to relieve the Lincoln.Ad-free podcasts are here!Get 20% off your first year of ad-free episodes, exclusive interviews, and deep dives with Tangle's podcast membership!The real story of the Reflecting Pool.By now, you've almost certainly heard about the controversy over President Trump's renovations to the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. But while most news reports have focused on alleged vandalism and administration infighting, questions remain about what, exactly, went wrong. In our latest video, Associate Producer Aidan Gorman reports from the National Mall. You can watch it here. You can read today's podcast⁠ ⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠ and today's “Have a nice day” story ⁠here⁠.You can subscribe to Tangle by clicking here or drop something in our tip jar by clicking here. Take the survey: Are you concerned about U.S. military readiness? Let us know.Our Executive Editor and Founder is Isaac Saul. Our Executive Producer is Jon Lall.This podcast written by: Will Kaback and audio engineered and edited by Dewey Thomas. Music for the podcast was produced by Diet 75.Our newsletter is edited by Managing Editor Ari Weitzman, Senior Editor Will Kaback, Bailey Saul, Audrey Moorehead, and Carina Pacheco. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last time we spoke about the beginning of the Pacific War. In late 1941, the Second Battle of Changsha ended with Chinese forces claiming victory despite suffering nearly 100,000 casualties against roughly 1,670 Japanese losses. Chiang Kai-shek's government launched an aggressive propaganda campaign, flooding international press with fabricated triumph narratives to sustain national morale. Behind closed doors, Chiang was furious at his generals' tactical failures, executing commanders and dismantling units. Meanwhile, geopolitical forces threatened China's survival. Japan's 1939 defeat at Nomonhan crushed hopes for a Soviet alliance against Tokyo. Germany's pact with the Soviet Union left China isolated, while Western powers remained reluctant to commit meaningful support. Britain offered little; the US provided only modest loans. By 1941, facing potential collapse, Chiang desperately searched for allies while Wang Jingwei's Japanese-backed rival government beckoned as an alternative. China's exhausted people endured horror—including a 1941 bombing massacre in Chongqing that killed over 400 trapped civilians. Then Japan unleashed a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.   #215 An Implosion in the East Welcome to the Fall and Rise of China Podcast, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about the history of Asia? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on history of asia and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel where I cover the history of China and Japan from the 19th century until the end of the Pacific War.   In the early morning of December 7, 1941, the US Pacific Fleet was anchored at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Two waves of Japanese bomber aircraft, launched from six aircraft carriers, attacked the vessels and their sleeping crews, destroying the battleship Arizona outright and damaging seventeen others, as well as most of the military aircraft parked nearby. Some 2,400 Americans died, and another 1,100 were wounded. Within a day Japanese invasion forces had attacked Siam, Malaya, and the Philippines. Chiang Kai-shek heard the news at one o'clock in the morning and immediately dictated a letter of support to President Roosevelt, pledging commitment to a new "common battle." The news reached Zhou Fohai in Shanghai as well. On December 8 across the international date line from Hawaii he had heard the sounds of firing as the Japanese took over the rest of the city, and then received reports that Japan had declared war on the Western powers. "I heard they'd bombed Honolulu, Manila, Singapore, and Hong Kong. From now on, the Pacific becomes a killing ground."   When Japanese carrier planes descended on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, they were executing far more than a tactical strike. They were unleashing the culmination of a strategic vision that had shaped Japanese military planning since the 1920s: the Nanshin-ron, or "Southern Advance" doctrine.    The Nanshin-ron represented a critical strategic choice that emerged from internal Japanese debates during the 1920s and 1930s. Japan faced an inescapable vulnerability: it was an island nation with virtually no natural resources of its own. The nation's population had doubled since the Meiji Restoration, growing to over 70 million by 1941. An industrial economy of tremendous sophistication, capable of producing world-class warships, aircraft, and military equipment, depended entirely on imported raw materials. Oil, rubber, tin, iron ore, bauxite, copper, and manganese all had to be acquired through foreign trade or conquest. This resource dependency was not a luxury problem; it was an existential one. A nation that could not feed itself or fuel its economy was a nation vulnerable to strangulation by enemies who controlled the resources it needed. Japanese strategic thinkers divided into two camps on how to resolve this vulnerability. The Hokushin-ron advocates, primarily within the Army, pushed for expansion northward into Siberia and Mongolia, seeking to conquer Soviet territory and resources. The Soviet Union possessed vast tracts of land, mineral wealth, timber, and agricultural output. From a purely materialist perspective, the Northern Advance made geographic sense—it was contiguous with Manchuria, which Japan had already secured in 1931. Yet by the late 1930s, the Hokushin-ron strategy had suffered a catastrophic blow. In 1938 and 1939, Japanese and Soviet forces clashed at Khalkhin Gol in Mongolia in what the Japanese called the Nomonhan Incident. The battles revealed a terrifying truth: the Soviet Red Army, under General Georgy Zhukov, was far more formidable than Japanese military planners had anticipated. Soviet armor, air power, and coordinated tactics annihilated Japanese forces. Japan suffered over 60,000 casualties while inflicting perhaps 10,000 on the Soviets. The defeat was concealed from the Japanese public, but it was unmistakable to military planners. A direct clash with Soviet power could end catastrophically. The Northern Advance, it became clear, would almost certainly provoke war with a nation capable of destroying the Japanese Army. This strategic defeat tilted the balance decisively toward the Nanshin-ron. If Japan could not safely expand northward, it must expand southward, toward Southeast Asia, the Dutch East Indies, Indochina, and the western Pacific. The appeal of the Nanshin-ron was immediately apparent to the Navy, which had always been more oriented toward maritime commerce and expansion across the ocean. The territories to the south were not militarily formidable. The colonial powers, Britain, the Netherlands, France, were either already defeated in 1940 or distracted by their own desperate struggles leaving Britain fighting alone against Germany. The United States, though potentially a formidable adversary, was not yet at war, and there was a chance, however slender, that a decisive blow against American naval power might convince America to negotiate rather than fight. But beyond strategic opportunity, the Nanshin-ron offered something that the Hokushin-ron did not: it offered resources of staggering abundance. The Dutch East Indies possessed oil reserves that could dwarf Japan's consumption for years. Malaya produced the world's rubber. Thailand offered agricultural bounty and geographic position. Burma's timber and agricultural products could feed Japan's growing empire. The Philippines possessed harbors, airfields, and economic output. These were not marginal additions to Japan's economy—they were transformative. Together, they would convert Japan from a resource-hungry island nation into the master of an imperial domain encompassing hundreds of millions of people and containing most of the strategic materials necessary for sustained industrial warfare. In the last episode I explained the western sanctions and embargoes that drained Japan's military of the resources they required to continue the China War. By 1941, Japan faced a civilization crisis. Japan imported roughly 90 percent of its petroleum, and the bulk of that came from the Dutch East Indies and the United States. Suddenly, the American supply was cut off entirely. Reserves would last perhaps 18 months if Japan's military and industrial consumption continued at existing rates. After that, the military machine would sputter and die. The industrial economy would collapse. Even civilian life would become impossible to sustain. Japan was facing not merely economic inconvenience but literal strangulation by the Western powers.   Yet it would be a mistake to reduce Japanese motivation to just materialism. Japanese military leaders wrapped their conquests in an ideological framework, one that many of them genuinely believed, or wanted to believe, served a higher historical purpose. The concept of the Daitoa Kyoeiken, the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," posited a new regional order in which Japan would play the leading role in liberating Asian peoples from Western colonial domination and creating an Asian-centered political and economic system. This ideology drew on genuine anti-colonial sentiment. For a century, Western powers had dominated Asia, treating Asian peoples and nations as subordinate, colonized territories existing to serve Western economic interests. Japan, which had modernized and Westernized enough to avoid colonization, saw itself as the natural leader of an Asian renaissance—a civilizing force that would restore Asian dignity and independence even as it established Japanese hegemony. Of course, this was propagandistic. Japanese conquest represented a substitution of one imperial master for another, and often a harsher and more brutal one at that. But for understanding Japanese decision-making, the ideology mattered profoundly. It provided Japanese leaders with a moral narrative for conquest. It allowed them to understand themselves as liberators rather than mere conquerors. It provided a rationale for extracting resources from occupied territories and for mobilizing subject populations to support the Japanese war effort. And it resonated with anti-Western sentiment throughout Asia, making Japanese occupation seem, in some quarters, preferable to continued Western colonial rule. The slogan Hakko ichiu—"eight corners under one roof", captured this ideological vision: a unified Asia and eventually world under Japanese guidance. Whether Japanese leaders truly believed this vision or cynically deployed it as propaganda, it shaped how they understood their actions and justified them to their subjects. Now I know this is a podcast dedicated to the century of humiliation, ie: China's experience. But I thought it was necessary just to have one episode explain what Dan Carlin titled "a supernova in the east" and I have titled an implosion in the east. I won't go into depth into the campaigns as some of them have a lot of Chinese involvement and we will be covering them in depth, but rather I will explain the rationale for Japan's numerous invasions following the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.   Japan's assault on Malaya began within hours of the Pearl Harbor attack, indeed, Japanese troops were already landing on the Kota Bharu beachhead on the Malaysian peninsula before dawn on December 8, 1941 local time. Malaya was one of the world's largest rubber producers, and Singapore, at the tip of the peninsula, was the linchpin of British naval power in the Far East.The Japanese interest in Malaya was straightforward but crucial: rubber. The Japanese military consumed vast quantities of rubber for tires, gaskets, hoses, and countless other applications. American and Dutch rubber supplies were now cut off by embargo. Malaya's rubber plantations represented perhaps the world's richest reservoir of this strategic material. Beyond rubber, Malaya and the surrounding region were major tin producers—essential for alloys and manufacturing. For Japan to conduct prolonged warfare, Malaya was not a luxury target; it was a necessity. Singapore represented something different: a symbol of Western power in Asia and a strategic chokepoint. As the major British naval base in the region, Singapore served as the anchor of British imperial authority across the South China Sea. By seizing Singapore, Japan would not only capture crucial resources and port facilities but would also deliver a psychological blow to the entire edifice of Western dominance in Asia. The fortress city that the British considered nearly impregnable fell within seventy days, a stunning demonstration of Japanese military capability and the vulnerability of overextended Western empires. If Malaya was critical for rubber, the Dutch East Indies was essential for oil. The region, comprising present-day Indonesia, was the world's third-largest oil producer and had reserves that could sustain Japanese military operations for years. This was the jewel of the resource-conquest strategy. Japanese planners had long eyed the East Indies, but direct conquest had seemed risky while Britain and America remained neutral or opposed. With both now at war, the window of opportunity had opened. Japan needed the oil so desperately that when the Dutch East Indies Petroleum Company initially agreed to some Japanese oil purchases before the war, Tokyo was already planning its takeover. The conquest of the Dutch East Indies would provide not just oil but also tin, nickel, bauxite, and other materials essential to an industrial war machine. The islands would also provide air and naval bases from which Japan could defend its new empire and potentially threaten Australia. The Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies, which began in late December 1941 and accelerated through January and February 1942, was methodical and comprehensive. Various island groups were targeted systematically: Java, Borneo, Celebes, and the Moluccas. Dutch military forces, though brave, were overwhelmed. By March 1942, Japan had secured the entire archipelago,a stunning logistical and military achievement that delivered vast resources into Japanese hands. Thailand presented a fundamentally different case from Japan's other targets. Rather than conquest, Japan pursued alliance with military strongman Plaek Phibunsongkhram, who had seized power in a 1938 coup as a nationalist ideologue determined to reassert Thai sovereignty and recover territory lost to French colonialism in the nineteenth century. Thailand was the last independent state in mainland Southeast Asia, hemmed in by British-controlled Burma and Malaya to the west, and French Indochina to the east. For a century, Thailand had survived by playing European imperial powers against each other. But by the late 1930s, this strategy was becoming obsolete. Europe was distracted by Hitler's Germany. Colonial powers were weakening. Japanese power was visibly ascending. Phibunsongkhram recognized both danger and opportunity. He could resist Japan and invite invasion, or he could ally with Japan and profit from rising Asian power. Japanese diplomats approached Thailand with sophistication: they offered military alliance and support for Thai territorial expansion at French expense. This addressed Thailand's deepest national wound, the humiliation of nineteenth-century territorial losses to France. The Franco-Thai War of 1940-1941 became transformative. With Japan providing military support, advisors, tanks, aircraft, Thai forces defeated the French for the first time in history. By May 1941, Thailand had recovered 54,000 square kilometers of Cambodian territory and portions of Laos. For Phibunsongkhram, this was extraordinary: he had achieved what Thai leaders could not in a century, reclaiming territory from a Western imperial power. Domestically, his position was dramatically strengthened. The parallel to China's century of humiliation—the foundation of your podcast is striking: Thailand too was reversing colonial diminishment through association with rising Asian power. The Thai-Japanese relationship was unique. Unlike the Philippines, Malaya, or the Dutch East Indies, Thailand would retain nominal independence. Phibunsongkhram remained in power. Japanese occupation was light. Thai forces maintained their own command structure. Most importantly, Thailand's territorial gains from the Franco-Thai War were recognized and secured. Japan valued Thai cooperation more than conquest. Burma, controlled by the British, was the next target in Japan's southwestward advance. Japanese planners had multiple motivations for invading Burma. First, it was strategically positioned on India's eastern frontier, and Japan harbored ambitions of eventually striking toward India and linking up with Germany in the Middle East or at least destabilizing the British position in South Asia. Second, Burma was a significant producer of timber and agricultural products. Third, and perhaps most importantly, the invasion of Burma was meant to cut the Burma Road, the crucial supply line that allowed American aid to reach Nationalist China. The invasion of Burma began in late 1941 and accelerated through early 1942.  The invasion of the Philippines, which began on December 10, 1941, just days after Pearl Harbor, served multiple strategic purposes. Like the assault on Pearl Harbor itself, it was meant to neutralize American military power in the region, in this case, the American garrison under General Douglas MacArthur and the American colonial administration. But the Philippines were also valuable in their own right. The islands sat directly in the path of what Japan envisioned as its defensive perimeter. By controlling the Philippines, Japan would make it extraordinarily difficult for American forces to project power westward into Southeast Asia. The territory would provide naval and air bases critical to defending Japan's new empire. Additionally, the Philippines possessed some agricultural and industrial resources valuable to the war effort, and their conquest delivered a psychological victory, defeating American forces and ending American colonial rule in Asia, which appealed to anti-Western sentiment that Japan tried to cultivate. Beyond Southeast Asia and the Philippines, Japan rapidly invaded Guam and Wake island to extend Japan's defensive perimeter further into the Pacific and eliminate American air and naval bases that could threaten Japanese operations. Guam, seized on December 10, 1941, fell within two days, the American garrison was small and the island's strategic value lay primarily in denying the United States a forward staging ground for any counteroffensive. Wake Island, attacked the same day and finally captured on December 23 after a brief but heroic American defense, served similar purposes: cutting off American reconnaissance and interdicting potential supply lines to the Philippines.  Now I believe that's enough of the implosion in the east, let's get back to the situation in China. After Chiang Kai-shek sent his letter of support to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, pledging Chinese commitment to what he termed a new "common battle." he did something most revealing about his mood towards the global war. He played "Ave Maria" on his gramophone, celebrating with an almost spiritual gratitude the implications of what had just transpired in the American Pacific. This moment crystallized the profound difference Pearl Harbor would mean to different members of the emerging Allied coalition. For the United States, the attack was pure shock, a violation of the sanctity of American soil and the complacency of American isolationism. For Britain, it was like the pricking of a large, painful blister—painful but perhaps not entirely unexpected given Japan's regional ambitions. But for China, the relief that surged through the government and the consciousness of the Chinese people surpassed even Britain's response. For four long years, China had fought Japan almost alone, watching as Western nations remained neutral or limited their commitment to rhetorical support and modest material assistance. Now, suddenly, the trajectory of the entire conflict had shifted with breathtaking speed. Chiang's emotional state at this moment could scarcely be contained, and those close to him understood that beneath his carefully maintained Confucian composure burned an intoxicating sensation of vindication. These Western powers who had been so impatient with Chinese strategy, who had mocked the retreats of the Nationalist Army and spoken scornfully of Japanese capabilities, were now themselves in headlong retreat from those very islanders. In Hong Kong, Singapore, and Manila, British and American forces would be fighting desperately for their lives against the Japanese military that China had been contending with for years. Chiang could not have failed to perceive the irony: the Japanese had conquered vast stretches of China through relentless campaigns, yet Westerners had dismissed Chinese resistance as inadequate. Now the Japanese were proving that they posed a formidable challenge to Western military power as well. There was a bitter satisfaction in this vindication, even as Chiang understood that the strategic implications of American entry far outweighed any emotional satisfaction. What was pragmatic and strategically clear to Chiang, however, was far more important than any emotional satisfaction. The United States was now at war, and it was on China's side. This represented the transformation for which Chiang had labored for years, bringing the full weight of American industrial capacity and military might to bear against the Japanese enemy. The diplomatic foundations for this alliance had already been laid in the months preceding Pearl Harbor. Beginning in the spring of 1941, the United States had begun to commit significant resources to supporting China. In April 1941, following the conclusion of the Soviet-Japanese neutrality agreement, which had devastated Chinese morale by suggesting that Japan might attack the Soviet Union rather than move southward, the Roosevelt administration had determined to provide $45 million worth of militarily useful commodities to China as an immediate gesture of support. Then, on May 6, 1941, President Roosevelt had made a more formal commitment by announcing that the munitions provisions of the Lend-Lease Act applied to China, declaring a phrase that captured the strategic logic of American assistance: "defending China is the key to defending America." This declaration represented a significant shift in American policy, elevating China from a regional concern to a central element of American grand strategy in Asia. Subsequently, in July 1941, Roosevelt had sent Owen Lattimore to China to serve as political adviser to the Chinese government, a position that signaled deepening American engagement with Chinese affairs. In August, the administration appointed John Magruder as military attaché and head of the American Military Mission to China (AMMISCA), with the primary responsibility of overseeing the delivery of Lend-Lease material to the Chinese armed forces. On the diplomatic front, Chiang moved with remarkable alacrity. He had already severed relations with Germany on July 2, 1941, the very day after Hitler had formally recognized the Wang Jingwei puppet government in an attempt to appease Japan and encourage it to finally implement the Southern Advance. Now, on December 8, 1941, just one day after the Pearl Harbor attack, Chiang took the decisive step of formally declaring war against the Axis powers, Germany, Italy, and Japan. This declaration transformed China's position from a beleaguered nation fighting a war of survival into a formal member of the Allied coalition. Chiang had seized the opportunity that Pearl Harbor presented to ally China with a genuinely strong power against Japan, a gambit that fundamentally altered the diplomatic weight and international legitimacy of both the Chinese government and the Chinese cause. From a strategic perspective, the Japanese had committed what Chiang and others immediately recognized as a catastrophic blunder. On the operational level, Pearl Harbor was indeed a devastating tactical success, the American Pacific Fleet was crippled, and Japanese forces now enjoyed temporary naval superiority throughout much of the Pacific and Southeast Asia. Yet strategically, Pearl Harbor represented a failure of epic proportions, a miscalculation rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of the intangibles of warfare: what motivated the Chinese people and what motivated the Americans. The Chinese had understood, through four years of brutal conflict, that warfare was about more than territorial conquest and resource acquisition. It was about will, about endurance, about the capacity to absorb punishment and continue fighting. The Japanese had learned this lesson imperfectly in China, where despite overwhelming military advantages they had been unable to force a decisive conclusion or compel Chinese surrender. The Americans would teach the Japanese this lesson even more emphatically. The attack on American sailors in Hawaii instantly galvanized the American population to prosecute an unlimited war, with Tokyo itself as the ultimate destination of American counterattack. While Americans would remember the "date that will live in infamy" primarily because of the assault on Pearl Harbor itself, the strategic consequence was that Japanese actions in Hawaii had introduced numerous new adversaries into the Pacific conflict: not only the United States, but also Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands. These additions transformed what had been, from the Japanese perspective, a regional conflict with manageable parameters into a global war that Japan could not possibly win through any conceivable means. What made this particularly disastrous for Japan was the context in which the new theater had been opened. Japan was already deeply mired in a quagmire in China—a "malignant quagmire," as one observer would later characterize it, that had consumed vast resources, inflicted enormous casualties, and failed to produce decisive victory. In military strategy, it is sometimes wise to open a new theater in order to attack an enemy from an additional and unexpected direction, thereby dispersing their forces and creating new challenges for them to manage. But opening a new theater that introduces an entirely new, powerful adversary, and doing so when one is already overextended in an existing theater is a prescription for strategic catastrophe. This was precisely what Japan had done at Pearl Harbor. Chiang Kai-shek understood the magnitude of Japan's miscalculation with crystalline clarity. He understood that whatever the military complexities that lay ahead, whatever the challenges of coordinating with Western allies, and whatever the limitations of Western military assistance to China might be, the fundamental equation had changed. The United States would ultimately defeat Japan. The Chinese did not need to defeat Japan by themselves; they merely needed to survive long enough for American industrial and military capacity to grind the Japanese military into defeat. In the immediate aftermath of Pearl Harbor, Chinese and American officials moved swiftly to formalize the alliance and establish the mechanisms of wartime cooperation. Roosevelt asked Chiang Kai-shek to serve as commander in chief of the Allied forces in the China theater, a designation that recognized China's central role in the Pacific War and elevated Chiang's international standing to something he had long sought: a position as an equal partner in the Allied coalition, a seat at the "top table of global decision-making" alongside Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. To support this expanded role and to ensure effective coordination of the military effort, Roosevelt dispatched Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell to China. Stilwell was not chosen randomly; he brought fifteen years of experience in China, a deep familiarity with the country, its military, and its complexities that few American officers possessed. Stilwell was appointed to serve simultaneously as the U.S. government's military representative in China, as chief of staff of the China Theater, and as commander in chief of the American forces in the China-Burma-India (CBI) theater. This appointment established the framework for joint Chinese-American military cooperation and represented an American commitment to the Asian theater that, while never receiving the resources devoted to the European theater, nonetheless signified recognition of China's strategic importance. Trust me, going forward we will be having a lot of time dedicated to the hilarious bromance / bro hatred of Vinegar Joe and Peanut.  Yet the formation of an alliance and the establishment of command structures was easier than the practical implementation of military cooperation. The fundamental challenge that would plague Chinese-American relations throughout the war emerged almost immediately: the problem of delivering military assistance to China. Before Pearl Harbor, the United States and China had reached agreement on three major points regarding military assistance. First, the United States would provide training and technical support to assist China in establishing a modern air force. Second, the United States would provide training and equipment for a ground army consisting of thirty divisions. Third, the United States would assist China in constructing railways and highways from Yunnan to Burma, along with the provision of rolling stock and vehicles to support these new transportation routes. These were ambitious plans, reflecting the extent of Chinese need and American willingness to support the Chinese war effort. However, the outbreak of the Pacific War threw American plans into disarray. The fundamental strategic doctrine guiding American policy was the "Europe first" strategy, which meant that the European theater and the defeat of Nazi Germany received priority over the Pacific theater. Additionally, China's geography made it extraordinarily difficult to supply. China could only be reached through supply lines of extraordinary length and complexity, either through the port of Rangoon in Burma and then overland via the treacherous Yunnan-Burma Road, or through the port of Hong Kong, which immediately fell into Japanese hands after Pearl Harbor. The first Sino-American loan agreement had specified that the United States would deliver commodities worth $45 million to China in 1941. However, shipping shortages meant that only $26 million worth of commodities actually left the United States. These commodities were shipped to the transit port of Rangoon, where a massive traffic jam developed as supplies accumulated faster than they could be distributed onward to China. Along the Yunnan-Burma Road, that "much-contested life line" as it came to be known, conditions were chaotic. The road had always been a source of trouble: it was long, extraordinarily difficult to keep in repair, fantastically dangerous to travel, and too narrow to permit much volume of traffic at any one time. Due to mismanagement and pilfering, the commodities that were shipped out of Burma suffered heavy losses in transit, and only one-third of them eventually arrived in Chongqing. Yet the United States had already established one valuable asset in China that could be deployed relatively quickly: an air force nucleus. Just before Pearl Harbor, a group of American aviators had been formally organized in Chongqing who worked on volunteer status for China under the command of Colonel Claire Chennault, an American aviation officer who served as instructor at the Chinese Air Force Cadet School. Some of these men had been flying in China since the Kuomintang first began purchasing American aircraft, having come to demonstrate the aircraft and remaining to pilot and teach. Others had hurried to China after being released from their volunteer service in Spain, where they had gained combat experience during the Spanish Civil War. It was a familiar joke that pilots from both sides of the Spanish conflict were likely to meet and work side by side in China, but political convictions proved immaterial to these professional aviators, they got on well enough with each other, mercenaries of the twentieth century united by their expertise and their willingness to fight. When American traffic on the Burma Road swelled in volume and became chaotic, with cargo lost to pilfering and trucks breaking down from mishandling, the air freight service into Chongqing became increasingly vital to maintaining Chinese military capabilities. The backbone of this organization was American, and it had been in operation for months before the Japanese attack. Halfway down the Burma Road, over the border in Burma, was a plane factory backed by American and Chinese capital, providing some degree of repair and maintenance capacity for the aircraft operating out of China. Recognizing the strategic value of these experienced aviators and the need to formalize and expand their operations, American and Chinese officials moved quickly to incorporate this volunteer group, formally known as the American Volunteer Group or "Flying Tigers," into the U.S. Army Air Force. This transformation of volunteer aviators into official American military personnel represented a commitment to providing air support to Chinese operations, recognizing that air power could compensate to some degree for Chinese numerical disadvantages in ground combat. In Chongqing, it was clear that among the United Nations fighting Japan, America was the only one taking China seriously, the only one prepared to invest significant resources in Chinese military capabilities and the Chinese war effort. Yet Pearl Harbor brought consequences that extended far beyond the strategic and diplomatic spheres. For Western civilians living in China,missionaries, teachers, doctors, businessmen, and journalists, the attack represented a catastrophic change in their status and their fate. Until December 8, 1941, Westerners residing in China had maintained a curious protected status as foreign neutrals, even in areas nominally controlled by the Japanese. This status had provided them with a measure of distance from, and protection against, the grinding reality of the war that had devastated Chinese populations. For a century, Americans had been part of an imperial presence in China, sometimes benevolent, sometimes violent, but always ultimately under Western control. That world came to an abrupt end on December 8, 1941. All across eastern China, Americans and Britons were rounded up and interned. The International Settlement of Shanghai—that remarkable oasis of neutrality that had persisted in the midst of a war-torn city—was now reunified under Japanese control. Thousands of foreigners with Allied nationality were sent to holding camps scattered throughout occupied China. Some, like the eleven-year-old British boy Jim Ballard, would remain imprisoned for the remainder of the war, enduring hunger, cold, and disease in camps like Longhua, which housed approximately 2,000 detainees. Forty years later, as the novelist J. G. Ballard, he would memorialized this experience in his semi-autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun. For missionaries like Velva Brown, the evacuation process was degrading and final. The missionary staff were permitted to pack no more than three suitcases with their belongings. As they prepared to leave, Japanese and Taiwanese "sightseeing" parties arrived to decide which houses they might want to occupy. The journey home aboard crowded Japanese ships offered no concessions to status or dignity; ambassadors, consuls, merchants, and missionaries alike were given "bed-sized strips of Chinese matting which we spread side by side on the iron floor of the hold," as Brown recorded. The humiliation was compounded by the finality of it all. For many, their decades-long presence in China was ending not in orderly retreat but in hasty evacuation, leaving behind "servants, many of whom had been with us for fifteen or twenty years." Despite these immediate human tragedies, the strategic transformation that Pearl Harbor wrought for China was undeniable. Chiang Kai-shek now embarked on an entirely new sort of life, heavily involved with the leaders and generals of the Western powers. He held diplomatic discussions with the leaders of the United Nations and military planning sessions with Western generals. In these unfamiliar circumstances, he did his best to live up to the Confucian ideal of the gentleman, seldom permitting the mask to slip—though the pressure of these new responsibilities and the intoxicating combination of vindication and anxiety would occasionally prove too much even for his considerable self-control. Within weeks of Pearl Harbor, Chiang demonstrated the value he could bring to the new alliance. He visited India and spoke with the leaders of the Indian independence struggle as an ally and friend, as a fellow non-European speaking to others seeking to escape from colonialism and imperial domination. He joined the Allies in their first joint campaign, not in China but in the jungles of neighboring Burma, committing Chinese forces to operations outside China's borders in support of the broader Allied military strategy. Yet the price that Chiang would pay for China's belated entry into the global alliance against the Axis powers would prove to be a heavy one. Chiang desperately needed his new American and British partners, but accepting this alliance would unleash forces within Chinese society that would threaten the very basis of his political control. The complexities of this bargain would become most visible in the four-year struggle between Chiang and General Joseph Warren Stilwell, the American officer who would become simultaneously his chief of staff and the administrator of American military assistance to China. This relationship, shaped by mutual suspicion, different strategic visions, and incompatible political agendas, would define Chinese-American military cooperation during the Pacific War and would have profound implications extending far beyond the battlefields of Asia. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. Pearl Harbor's shock reverberated through Asia. Japan's assault on Hawaii, combined with invasions of Burma, the Philippines, Guam, and Wake Island, inadvertently transformed regional conflict into global war. Chiang Kai-shek, vindicated after four years of isolation fighting Japan, embraced American alliance with profound relief. The U.S. committed military aid, appointed General Stilwell as chief of staff, and recognized China as a co-belligerent. For Chiang, this partnership brought diplomatic status but also internal tensions that would define the Pacific War's final chapter.

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William Taubman, author of McNamara at War: A New History, Part One: Taubman discusses Robert McNamara's early career and rise to power, beginning with his role as a World War II statistician on Guam. McNamara advised General Curtis LeMay on low-altitude bombing tactics that led to the devastating Tokyo firebombing, a success he later considered a moral "stain." Taubman explores his psychological need to serve "strong men," a trait tracing back to his childhood with a cold father and a mother who relentlessly pushed him to excel. After becoming one of the "Whiz Kids" who modernized Ford Motor Company, McNamara was recruited by John F. Kennedy as Secretary of Defense. He quickly became the "star" of the cabinet, guiding the administration through the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Following JFK's assassination, McNamara immediately committed his loyalty to Lyndon Johnson, despite the friction between the Kennedy inner circle and the new president. (1)