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Aaron MacLean

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Aaron MacLean

@AaronBMacLean

Host @schoolofwarpod, national security analyst @CBSNews, columnist @TheFP

Virginia, USA

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Joined November 2013

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Aaron MacLean
@AaronBMacLean
Dec 30, 2025
We produced nearly 100 episodes of @schoolofwarpod in 2025. It was quite a year: authors like Stephen Kotkin (Ep. 180), Andrew Roberts (Ep. 189), @DouglasKMurray (Ep. 193), Walter Russell Mead (Ep. 186), and @barrystrauss (Ep. 224). Public figures like @TomCottonAR (Ep. 183);
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Aaron MacLean
@AaronBMacLean
Jun 22, 2025
This one’s for 1st Battalion, 8th Marines.
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Aaron MacLean
@AaronBMacLean
Oct 8, 2024
It is a tribute to the incredible resilience and agility of antisemitism that, at this time of deep American political division, dimwitted conspiracists on the right and the champagne toast of hypereducated progressives can find common ground on hating Jews.
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Aaron MacLean
@AaronBMacLean
Mar 15, 2025
Very welcome. Freedom of navigation is a core American interest, and the Houthis have been allowed to get away with their aggressions for too long,
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Aaron MacLean
@AaronBMacLean
Oct 17, 2023
Maybe taking the unverified word of the Gaza Health Ministry is not best journalistic practice...
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Aaron MacLean
@AaronBMacLean
Oct 18, 2023
This NYT headline actually did put American lives in danger...
Dylan Gresik
@DylanGresik
Oct 18, 2023
Anticipate a lot of retractions and corrections this am—but not a lot of consequences for those who willfully pushed Hamas misinformation.
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Aaron MacLean
@AaronBMacLean
Apr 24, 2024
TikTok cannot be divested from ByteDance because its value is not economic,but strategic, as a weapon of political warfare. For the CCP to lose control defeats the purpose--so its masters would rather have a ban, taking any domestic US dissatisfaction as a consolation prize.
TikTok Policy
@TikTokPolicy
Apr 24, 2024
Our Statement on Enactment of the TikTok Ban: This unconstitutional law is a TikTok ban, and we will challenge it in court. We believe the facts and the law are clearly on our side, and we will ultimately prevail. The fact is, we have invested billions of dollars to keep U.S.
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Aaron MacLean
@AaronBMacLean
Jul 12, 2024
A good friend once surprised me by saying that the key to understanding me (a mystery why anyone would try!) is to understand my feelings for my dad. Angus Boyd MacLean would have been 100 years old today. A birthday thread about a guy who lived the American century... 1/
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Aaron MacLean
@AaronBMacLean
Jun 13, 2025
Concerning as this footage is, there are no nuclear warheads on these missiles. If there were, all it would take is one. Israel's objectives are crystal clear and sensible.
OSINTtechnical
@Osinttechnical
Jun 13, 2025
Additional footage of an Iranian ballistic missile impacting near the center of Tel Aviv.
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Aaron MacLean
@AaronBMacLean
Nov 10, 2023
"No employee of The Times was embedded with Hamas..." The word "employee" is doing a lot of work here. This is a much more limited and careful denial than it appears...
NYTimes Communications
@NYTimesPR
Nov 10, 2023
Replying to @SenTomCotton
Deputy General Counsel for The New York Times David McCraw responded to Senator Cotton this morning.
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Aaron MacLean
@AaronBMacLean
Nov 10, 2025
This skinny lieutenant, who could be displaying better judgement on how he is carrying maps/concealing antennae etc., would like to wish all the Marines out there (and everyone else) a Happy 250th Birthday. Semper Fi!
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Aaron MacLean
@AaronBMacLean
Jul 6, 2025
It was my honor to give the keynote address at a dinner last week for the amazing @HudsonInstitute Political Studies Program. I warned the students that AI was first going to destroy them, and then America. AI and education seem topical this weekend, so I thought I'd just post my
Packy McCormick
@packyM
Jul 5, 2025
pro tip: you can basically read >100 books per day by asking chatgpt to summarize them for you.
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Aaron MacLean
@AaronBMacLean
Oct 1, 2024
Iran can afford the ballistic missiles that are targeting Israel right now because of a decade plus of Democratic Party focus on weakening sanctions and empowering the Iranian regime.
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Aaron MacLean
@AaronBMacLean
Apr 7, 2024
In 21st century America, it's not enough to lose our own wars. We have to make sure our friends lose their wars too.
Elliot Kaufman
@ElliotKaufman6
Apr 7, 2024
Nancy Pelosi joined a letter signed by 40 House Democrats urging President Biden to stop transferring weapons to Israel. Cutting off weapons to an ally in wartime would be the definition of betrayal. WSJ editorial:
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