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The Empire Strikes Back: Soldiering and Brain Injury

by | Jul 17, 2024 |

Whatever empires do abroad eventually comes home. Yet another unintended consequences come home in a tidal wave. This is personal; I was diagnosed with Traumatic Brain Injury in 2019. I spent nearly a quarter century in the US military. I know there's a connection. This isn't isolated to the military, concussion in amateur and professional sports is real along with a number of blue collar jobs. The downstream effects of so many soldiers deployed overseas in combat theaters for the first two decades of the 21st century will resonate through American society for generations and even on the...

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US Surface Navy is No Longer a Global Force

by | Jul 16, 2024 |

The US Navy may credibly dominate the Atlantic but the Pacific Ocean is no longer an exclusive US naval domination calculus. The Arctic is still dominated by the Russians and will remain so. The US Navy's ability to build functioning surface ships is compromised beyond repair due to a lack of proper planning, enormous maintenance backlogs, and global "commitments" taking the remaining surface fleet endlessly steaming circles in hulls with limited lifespans. Do hulls have an expiration date? Yes, they do hence the Navy retiring all 22 remaining cruisers in the fleet by 2027. Not to mention...

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Ep 047 “Nagorno-Karabakh: A Dark and Robotic Future”

Ep 047 “Nagorno-Karabakh: A Dark and Robotic Future”

by | Jul 15, 2024 |

I discuss the Fall 2020 war between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the tiny sliver of Nagorno-Karabakh and why I would suggest that it was a glimpse into the future of warfare for the remainder of this century. the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) for the following reasons: Robotics and drones are the new "low tech" answer to the First World's exquisite military platform that are over priced and have the same provenance of battleships planet-wide in January 1942. The electronic emissions environment in future conflicts will be a two-way street that will put any active acquisition sensors and...

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US Government Teachers: The Overseas Army of Marxian Educators

by | Jul 11, 2024 |

When I was active duty and deployed overseas, we thankfully home educated our children because the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) is just as rancid and immoral as the government schools in CONUS. They lied, the DoDEA did not cancel their IED propaganda in the DoD schools. They shifted the funding to a less visible place. As you can imagine, it may be even worse than the NEA/AFT Marxist madrassas that soil the landscape of America in government schooling. The DoDEA refuses to disclose the individual salaries of its staff, unlike government schools nationwide and almost every...

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Military Education and the Zampolit Parade Through the Institutions

by | Jul 10, 2024 |

The professional military education systems and the academies have been captured by the Inclusion, Equity and Diversity (IED) zampolit cadres in a detailed and comprehensive way. In the military a zampolit is a political commissar or political officer (or politruk, a portmanteau word from Russian; translated as a political leader or political instructor); a supervisory officer responsible for the political education (ideology) and organization of the unit to which they are assigned, with the intention of ensuring political control of the military. The report below is filled with citations...

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Regime Apologists Continue to Insist the Carrier is Useful

by | Jul 9, 2024 |

They misspelled disposable.   There is nothing hard to target about a very large ship traveling at very large ship speeds with very large wakes in the modern era by air breathing and non-air breathing detection assets. What this means is that all the carriers deployed (you'd be fortunate to get four of the eleven US carriers underway at once due to refitting and refueling maintenance cadence) can't get near contested coastlines of sophisticated militaries like Russia and China but then again the Houthis in Yemen recently chased off a carrier battle group out of the Red Sea with no Navy...

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The F35 Continues to Excel at the Pentagon

by | Jul 8, 2024 |

The "mission capable rate" of these F35s is simply appalling. 23 years in and it still doesn't work. 23 years. And Congress won't kill it but continues to feed money into the F35 industrial wood-chipper. The jets have often been stuck on the ground due to engine design flaws that cause the aircraft to overheat, damaging parts and boosting maintenance costs. This inability to stay in the air has made it more difficult to get pilots sufficient training in real-life scenarios, which increases the likelihood of crashes and other costly accidents, according to Dan Grazier of the Project on...

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“Trillion Dollar Trainwreck…”

by | Jul 5, 2024 |

Hot garbage on the wing. The pursuit of US and Western air dominance is a pipe dream but a fever dream for the military industrial complex. The existential failure of this fighter program has been stunning to behold. The days of manned fighter aircraft are numbered in years and not decades. It’s a startling development for advocates of American air power. For generations, the whole US military – not to mention the militaries of America’s closest allies – have depended on the US Air Force to achieve air superiority against even the most determined and sophisticated foe, affording freedom of...

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