"Our lives on this planet are too short and the work to be done too great to let this spirit flourish any longer in our land. Of course we cannot vanquish it with a program, nor with a resolution... But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life; that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

"Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend."

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."

- Joseph Stalin

• Russian forces have likely established control over the majority of the residential sector of Severodonetsk and conducted assaults against Ukrainian positions in the industrial zone in the past 24 hours. The operational environment within the city remains fluid.
• Russian forces continued efforts to advance on Slovyansk southeast from the Izyum area and west from Lyman, attempting to break through Ukrainian defenses that have halted most direct frontal assaults from Izyum.
• Russian forces are likely attempting to reinforce their operations in the Severodonetsk-Lysychansk area from both the Toshkivka-Ustynivka area in the south and Kupyansk from the northwest.
• Russian forces began withdrawing troops from positions in Zaporizhia Oblast, likely either to rotate damaged units into rear areas or to reinforce Russian defenses in northwestern Kherson Oblast, though ISW cannot currently confirm the destination of these forces.
• Russian forces failed to regain advanced positions on the western (now Ukrainian-occupied) bank of the Ihulets River on June 7.
• Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that Russian forces restored transit connections between newly occupied cities and Crimea.
• Russian occupation authorities continue to face challenges suppressing Ukrainian resistance and finding partisan supporters despite increasingly draconian occupation measures and attempts to bribe Ukrainian civilians.

• Main Effort—Eastern Ukraine (comprised of one subordinate and three supporting efforts);
• Subordinate Main Effort–Encirclement of Ukrainian troops in the cauldron between Izyum and Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts
• Supporting Effort 1—Kharkiv City;
• Supporting Effort 2—Southern Axis;
• Activities in Russian-occupied Areas

• For on-air talent, that includes engaging in respectful interviews that don't feel like PR stunts. For producers and bookers, that includes making programming decisions that are focused on nuance, not noise.

• To conservative critics, some on-air personalities, like Jim Acosta and Brian Stelter, have become the face of the network's liberal shift.

• Licht took the helm at CNN last month, shortly after longtime CNN president Jeff Zucker exited the network in scandal.
• His priorities are widely seen as aligned with the leadership of CNN parent Warner Bros. Discovery.
• CNN did not comment.

• Last week, Licht told employees in a memo that the network has added a "Breaking News” guideline to its stylebook, to address overuse of the breaking news banner across its network and cable news writ large.
• Licht said he agrees with complaints from "people both inside and outside the organization" that the network overuses the "Breaking News" banner.
• “We are truth-tellers, focused on informing, not alarming our viewers,” he said in the note obtained by Axios.

• "I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing,” Malone told CNBC last year.

1. Maintain the strategic breadth of the core curriculum and specialty lectures, continuing to include the programs’ latest initiatives and specialty deep dives.
2. Transform the “electives” periods to tackle Joint Staff and combatant command strategic planning requirements.
3. Ensure an iterative briefing and assessment process between student/faculty groups and Joint Staff and combatant command operational planning team leads to ensure academic rigor and repetitive iterations.
4. Establish self-selected planning teams based on follow-on assignments and mentor recommendations, nested with service talent management programs.
5. Increase joint assignments at service war colleges to as balanced a ratio as possible (providing for true joint staff planning), while maintaining the Joint and Fellow Senior Service College programs.

Second, as MacArthur witnessed in the Pacific, “Never before had a field of battle embraced land and water in such relative proportions.”50 This same observation holds true with China: to counter these distances Joint, interorganizational, and allies must be leveraged. Like the strategy against Japan, applying pressure from all sides to China will involve intense diplomatic efforts and support from regional allies. This same seamless effort will hold true in the South China Sea and must be recognized now by the Joint Force.

Sweden, of course, remains an extremely attractive NATO applicant, and there’s no doubt that it will be a considerable asset to NATO when it joins. That, though, won’t be this summer, and it may not be at the same time as Finland. The culprit is clearly Turkey, but Andersson—a rookie prime minister without foreign or security policy experience—clearly mismanaged the no-confidence vote against Johansson. As a result, Swedish national security will suffer at an extremely sensitive moment. It doesn’t matter that the Pentagon sent the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge as well as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, to Stockholm earlier this month. It also doesn’t matter that the U.S. and the UK (and other NATO member states including Germany) have in the past few weeks given Sweden and Finland security guarantees. NATO membership is different—and now it sadly looks more distant. At least for Sweden.

• Cyber
• Pentagon

• The World Bank slashed its global growth forecast on Tuesday to 2.9% for 2022.
• The bank warned that the world economy could slip into a period of stagflation reminiscent of the 1970s.
• “For many countries, recession will be hard to avoid,” World Bank President David Malpass said.

A senior DHS official, speaking to reporters ahead of the release of the bulletin, said it describes the situation as “dynamic” because authorities are seeing a wider variety of people motivated by a broader range of grievances and incidents than in the past.

The upcoming decision from the Supreme Court, which could overturn Roe v. Wade, could lead to violence from either extremist supporters or opponents of abortion rights depending on the outcome, said the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss some factors that went into the preparation of the bulletin.

Racial extremists may be motivated by immigration enforcement or whether the government continues to rely on Title 42, the public health order that has been used since the start of the coronavirus pandemic to prevent people from seeking asylum at the southwest border, DHS said.

The agency and the FBI are working with state and local law enforcement to raise awareness of the threat, and DHS has increased grant funding to local governments and religious organizations to improve security, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas said in a statement released with the bulletin.

In retrospect, it may seem that the three decades that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union represented a brief, bright, fleeting window in U.S.-Russia scientific and technology relations.

- Humans are more important than hardware