The Royal Navy continues to become irrelevant with a bone in its teeth. The 2025 Strategic Defence Review (SDR) for the Royal Navy has been published and it is just as bad as you think it will be. Another buzzword salad buffet with zero calories and promises that will not be kept. Another simpleton's wish list, with an unlikely promise about 3% GDP Defence Funding (2035?). Just another compilation of if’s and maybe’s which are entirely useless for planning in any future planning or fight. There is not a single viable or deliverable element in the document. The mind-numbing repetition of “we...

The F35 continues to shine as a boondoggle and taxpayer nightmare fuel. Taiclet’s boasts to investors about the program were quickly tempered by real world events the same day when video circulated of an out of control Air Force F-35 tumbling to a fiery crash in Alaska, after its pilot ejected. An “inflight malfunction” led to the crash, said Col. Paul Townsend, commander of the 354th Fight Wing, at a news conference. Townsend promised “a thorough investigation in hopes to minimize the chances of such occurrences from happening again.” Even aside from the doubts raised by the crash,...

The predominance of Western military superiority in weapons systems is unraveling and the increasing dissonance in the US military complex coming to grips with existential changes in how peer competition in war is evolving is causing tremendous reduction in both both confidence and orders placed for US aircraft. Western arms are expensive and stuck in a doom loop of anachronistic 20th century warfare techniques and materiel that are dead and buried. A war with Iran would be vastly more complex than the Iraq or Afghanistan campaigns. Iran is well-armed, deeply networked, and battle-hardened...

Aircraft carriers are the crossbow and chariot of the 21st century. Very expensive 20th century modalities not fit for purpose in 21st century peer naval combat. Carriers like the USS Ford can barely function but the sentence above applies to even best of class in carrier naval aviation. USS Gerald Ford Formal start of construction: 11 Aug 2005 Delivered to the Navy: 31 May 2017 Departed Norfolk for first deployment: 02 May 2023 12 years of construction, 6 years of tests & sea trials; 18 years before being combat ready. And it is still unproven and not combat ready....

Hell freezes over occasionally. On May 7, 2025, the Department of Defense published a memo in which it admitted in writing that the implementation of its covid shot mandate was unlawful. This echoes similar remarks made by Secretary Pete Hegseth in a video released on April 23, 2025. The May 7 memo offered updated guidance on DoD's ongoing plan to offer records correction for those impacted by the mandate. Fix it and prosecute the uniformed malefactors immediately....

This picture shows him masked up for another robbery. He threw it all away for a $355k contract. This is the tip of the iceberg. A jury convicted former Vice Chief of Naval Operations ADM Robert Burke of four counts related to what prosecutors call a bribery scheme to get Navy contracts in exchange for a post-retirement job. Most likely, this turd had a retirement pension exceeding 150k per year from the US government. But in summer 2021, Messenger and Kim met with Burke in Washington, D.C., to reestablish their company’s business relationship with the Navy. While at the meeting, the two...