A 2022 document. In service of the green agenda, the RANDians have lost their minds...again. Stop funding the RAND Corporation; zero out all government funding to it. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA1500/RRA1524-2/RAND_RRA1524-2.pdf My Substack Email me at cgpodcast@pm.me
I am debuting an occasional broadcast called WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast in the next week. It allows me to expand my inquiry into the martial phenomenon beyond the strictures of the niche irregular warfare rubric I labor under in Chasing Ghosts. I’ll dabble in history, contemporary mayhem and conflict futurism as my path-finding takes me on different azimuths. Stay tuned. The Earth is shifting; stay ahead of the curve. My Substack Email me at cgpodcast@pm.me
The genius public relations mandarins at the Joint F35 program office apparently can't identify the aircraft they have wasted hundreds of billions of dollars on. The picture above appears to be the Chinese J35 facsimile of the F35. You can't make this up. The chaos avalanche is increasing in severity weekly. We have many questions. Mainly: Where did those twin engines on the JPO image come from? The F-35 uses a single Pratt & Whitney F135 turbofan engine (in two different variants, depending on the aircraft), whereas the fighter in the JPO tweet appears to resemble the twin-engine...
A photograph taken on the morning of March 8, 1906, on the eastern crest of Bud Dajo. (John R. White Papers, Knight Library, University of Oregon) “Happy Veterans Day and thank you for your service” or “thanks for protecting our freedom.” The events at Bud Dajo in the Philippines will cure you of that happy salutation. What! I hear this familiar refrain again and again every November. I am appalled whenever this unthinking salutation is proffered. I am a retired career Army officer and like USMC General Smedley Butler before me, I find these sentiments to be hogwash. The only service...
Mark Booher at Pearl Snap Tactical interviewed me discussing irregular warfare and the threat to the homeland. We discuss irregular warfare and the impacts of an up-sized catastrophic attack on the US homeland. We riff on and discuss my "Storming America" series (episodes 37, 41-43 and 49-50) on the CG podcast. The election results don't change the imminent danger but may alter the warp and woof of the probability and timeline of attack. Pearl Snap Tactical interview can be found here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-150848439?source=queue I talk about William Forstchen's "Day of Wrath" and...
Ticonderoga Class Arleigh Burke Class It seems counterintuitive but keeping old ships commissioned is expensive. Expertise on the hulls ages out and retires, technology moves on and maintenance demands increase and don't decrease. These life extensions are random and sometimes informed by rational calculations but these are large and cumbersome bureaucracies for which pencil whipping is key. The B52 fleet, the last one rolled off the factory floor in 1962 is destined to be in service until 2060 due to its potential replacements in the B1B, F117 and the B2 bombers are being (or have been)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqJ0kg9xvLs I don't agree with everything he says and he gets technical details wrong like "...these destroyer class ships, probably doing the same thing the submarine does." No, but that's OK. One thing that is always missed here is the tax cascade of these purchases where the developers and buyers are paying taxes at every level making this a self-licking ice cream cone. It's much worse than you think. Is national bankruptcy the sole solution to stop the malpractice and fiscal bleeding. My Substack Email me at cgpodcast@pm.me
Of course they did. Boeing is the gift that keeps on giving A Pentagon audit revealed that Boeing overcharged the Air Force by nearly $1 million for spare parts on C-17 cargo planes, with some items marked up by as much as 8,000%. The audit reviewed prices paid for 46 spare parts, finding that 12 were overpriced and nine seemed reasonably priced, while fairness of prices on the other 25 items could not be determined. *** Boeing has been awarded over $30 billion in contracts by the U.S. government for purchasing spare parts for the C-17 and being reimbursed by the Air Force. Eight thousand...
