Ep 063 "Spanner in the Works: Sabotage and War" Military sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a government effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, demoralization, destabilization, division, disruption, or destruction. It can take place left of bang or during war with the object the weakening of the military effort by an adversary. Military sabotage has been taking place since the early military adventures of men. The apocryphal story of the Trojan Horse is an ancient example and variations on the theme echo through historical warfare. You can find the episodes...

ITS Giovanni Delle Bande Nere arrived in Faslane and came alongside at Garelochhead yesterday. Italian shipbuilding bookends just how ghastly and horrendous US Navy procurement is. In roughly the same time it took the US to fight over and fail to build the Constellation class, Italy managed to build 9 multi-role warships with similar capabilities for *half* of the price. Nine. Classed as a "Multipurpose Offshore Patrol Vessel" (OPV) by the Italian Navy, she is effectively a frigate/destroyer and carries up to 16 Aster 30 Block 1NT missiles which may be test-fired during exercise Formidable...

Occam's Razor often reveals the easiest answer to a wicked problem. Take a half hour to watch the video below from the every entertaining staff at T.Rex. Yes, T.Rex makes some of the best holsters on Earth for all your social work needs. In the end, the state is built on unaccountable deep bureaucracies that can only be removed with nuclear mining equipment. The Deep State splendidly and succinctly explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH2aeha_UgU    

I was astonished in 2009 when I saw the cancellation of the Future Combat System contract to usher in the next generation of armored vehicles. The Army cancelled the billions-dollar program and got to witness the Army continuing to burns through tens of millions a week after cancellation to fulfill contract obligations with nothing to show for it but a big smoking hole where the money had been wasted for nothing. The XM1202 light tank was another ill considered blunder in the trail of tears that is the Sovietized and sclerotic acquisition system in the US Army and the DoD. The U.S. Army...

For those of you paying attention, the Institute has been far ahead of the curve in checking its bias and making a  bloody and dispassionate appraisal of Russian fighting abilities. The Coprophile Media has been in the the bag for the Ukrainians and had a tough time admitting what savvy observers knew from the beginning of the SMO, the Ukraine had no chance of winning. Now some members of the journalist class are waking up from their propaganda induced stupor to realize the Russians may be the deadliest land force on Earth. The writer at the Wall Street Journal aver: Americans think the...

This is the semiquincentennial anniversary of the "shots heard 'round the world" at Lexington Green on 19 April 1775. Some call this civil war the Revolutionary War. It was a civil war because when the alert muster activated and Paul Revere and his fellow horsemen were warning the countryside, Revere was saying "the regulars are out" because he was British that evening in the saddle. This extraordinary event set in train the events that finalized the Atlantic seaboard divorce from the London overlords. I have walked this road in Massachusetts. I published the "Three Strikes of the Match"...