The DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class, originally slated for 30+ hulls but only commissioning three has been haunted by failure and late delivery on everything. Now the first hull is being delivered after being retrofitting for Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) hypersonic weapons. The CPS doesn't carry nukes. Hence the term 'conventional' prompt strike. We shall see how that fares, if history is an indicator, it will take years to make it right. This is the ship that took five years after commissioning to launch its first missile out of the Vertical Launch System (VLS) tubes installed on the vessel. CPS...

The Greenland drama is amusing but reality about the players is rather sobering. A casual look at Russia's habitual military presence in the Arctic for generations dispels any illusion. Europe is presently making lots of noise in a scheduled exercise in Greenland to theatrically pose as the vanguards of protecting Greenland from an American invasion.

Dear NATO and EU/SSR, Keep this in the back of your mind in your salons and conference rooms in Brussels: “Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.” Frederick the Great

Occam's Razor provides the easiest answer to the "day care" fraud splashed across the media: NO government subsidy whatsoever. Then when you discover fraud in other government programs you do the same, eventually the fraud is reduced. Simple, elegant and logical

Yes! NATO members are actively planning a military confrontation with US forces in the event of a Greenland operation. I am indifferent to adding Greenland to US territories. This isn't without historical precedent. Greece and Turkey have nearly come to blows on several occasions, most notably when Turkey invaded majority-Greek Cyprus in 1974, proceeded to occupy nearly 40 percent of the island, and expelled Greek Cypriots from that territory. The occupation continues to this day. The Royal Air Force has 8x C17A and 22x Airbus A400M air-frames. Using the one third rule for readiness and...