No need to wonder.
I’ve been using Strava for many years now and I can actually track my performance over the years for rides I do often. I call tell the year I broke my leg and how long that recovery way, the year I was overwhelmed with work and life and didn’t ride nearly enough, the time I was training for a monster ride, etc. And sometimes I look back and say “how the heck was I so fast that day?” and then I assume I had a great tailwind. And I do love the rankings and I can see how I’ve done against all my friends.
Yes, I vaguely recalled something about AWACS. Plus, there was a drone over the Black Sea that documented Russian plane snagging it. The article doesn’t mention anything except radar signatures, but my understanding is that AWACS is a full-fledged listening post able to identify, listen, locate and categorize many different electronic signatures.
The US has a lot of interesting sensor platforms other than AWACs. Tracking air vehicles in flight is AWACS’ big mission, but it does (or did in my era) have some pretty good ESM capabilities.
I’d not be surprised to learn there’s a bunch of other platforms deployed over there more or less hiding in the shadows surrounding the glaring PR about AWACS.
In addition, all of this information is being analyzed by the Pentagon and fed back to the Ukrainians in the form of coordinated, useful information with instructions on how to best utilize it. We are supplying the brainpower and Ukraine is supplying the muscle, blood and guts of the operation.
They are certainty also getting satellite information and sharing information from contacts on the ground and in Russia. Location of command centers and the Russian commanders is definitly something we would share. This is war.
To be fair, Ukraine is providing a lot of brainpower, too.
I had a bit of a laugh when I read that, because this is actually a plot point in one of the GTA V Online heist missions. A secret agent who is generally portrayed as a loud-mouthed idiot gets himself kidnapped because he does the same thing. “What’s the point in running if no one knows you’re doing it?”, he asks at one point.
Life really shouldn’t imitate stupid art.
I’m only as good as the adulation of my fans tells me I am.
A common enough failing of actual celebrities, but a pretty vapid philosophy to have most of society adopt. Vapid and dangerous, as failure before your fans, or failure to even attract fans, often leads to depression and other self-destructive behaviors.
The have arrested a suspect. A 64 year old man.
Another day, Russia is down another general. At least this one isn’t dead, Major General Ivan Popov, commander of the 58th Combined Arms Army was dismissed from his command. Surely for incompetence in his duties, right? Nope. Telling the truth.
Russian morale has been an issue elsewhere on the front as well.
Two Russian sources said Russian Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov dismissed Major General Ivan Popov, commander of the 58th Combined Arms Army (CAA), after the latter complained a rotation of his men facing a Ukrainian counteroffensive south of Orikhiv in the western Zaporizia region was long overdue. The 58th CAA has reportedly been on the front lines since October.
The reports appeared to confirm a suspected lack of strategic Russian war reserves.
In a voice note, Popov said that he raised questions about “the lack of counter-battery combat, the absence of artillery reconnaissance stations and the mass deaths and injuries of our brothers from enemy artillery. I also raised a number of other problems and expressed it all at the highest level frankly and extremely harshly.”
Popov said that the Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu then dismissed him.
The public resignation or dismissal of such a senior officer amid an open dispute over the conduct of the Russian campaign is unprecedented, according to analysts.
After the US learned “tell the dang marines to turn off the sharing features”, Israel also learned. But even locking down all sharing doesn’t disable the leaderboards on the “winding uphill slog” segment, unless you specifically opt out (I think each time you run it?).
So someone uploaded competition tracking segments on various Israeli secure locations. Only Mossad members can go for a lunch time jog inside their compound, so anyone showing up on the leaderboard is of interest to people who don’t like them. Even if you’ve locked things down, your info still showed up until Strava was contacted by counterintelligence people.
The above is an excerpt from the CNN article posted by @Dissonance.
Perhaps unprecedented in Russian / Soviet practice. IIRC Hitler and Hussein each dismissed commanders over being the bearers of real (= bad) news.
Perhaps the openness is the bigger deal or bigger difference. The USN famously tried to cashier the Captain of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt for calling publicly for the USN to stop the early COVID epidemic then raging on his ship.
Strava is also great for coordinating meetups. I run with a group out of my local running store on Saturday mornings, and the leaders use Strava to demonstrate the route, which changes every week. Very useful for my slow, arthritic ass, as I’m usually running solo by the first half mile, and Strava helps me stay on course when the young, fit, fast people are out of sight.
Ah, yes, the Crozier Affair…
The official story is, I believe, that he wasn’t fired for speaking truth to power, but rather for failing to do his utmost to do his duty to prevent the spread of the virus on his ship. So, more of an Admiral Byng situation (but I do still think it’s apt to call it something like a cashiering).