Today is Juneteenth. I celebrate the lethal electrocution of two communist spies on this day in 1953; Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, an American couple, were executed for their espionage service to Stalin and the USSR They became good communists on that day.
***Have been out of pocket for conference attendance*** The US Navy and the Pentagon continue the grand sclerotic and arthritic three ring circus of staggering inabilities to deliver any exquisite platforms on time, on budget and within scope. The sterling track record of bumbling an incompetence at the galactic level continues to amaze observers around eh world. For decades, mountains of red tape have stifled innovation and slowed the defense industrial base’s ability to respond to emerging global threats and even basic requirements. The new Air Force One is now five years behind schedule,...
My shortest post ever. Ironic that Israel has more US senators than America.
This episode examines civil war manifesting itself in the world in the west in the 21st century and some of my modest forecasts of war weather in the next few years. Dr. David Betz and others have started to float the balloons of probability and possibility of civil kinetic conflict in the West. My Storming America Series covers the gamut of what a spontaneous attack in the US will look like when terror cells launch a simultaneous attack on the US homeland which in my mind is the primary man-made vector for civil war in America. I cover it in Episodes 37, 41-43, 49-50 and 62 of my Chasing...
The not so vaunted North Korean Navy launched a Choi-Hyun class frigate, in a christening ceremony on its maiden voyage in less than spectacular fashion on 21 May this year and his Nibs himself, Kim Jong Porkchop, was in the audience to witness the hapless ceremony as the ship heeled over in a rather undignified fashion. It is now in dry dock for repair. Some bandits and wreckers have been arrested to be processed for fish food at a yet to be announced date. North Korean authorities are making good on promises to investigate all those involved in the failed launch of a new frigate at...
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...
We discuss coups, color revolutions and the changing face of political manipulation in the world. The world is not what it seems even in non-military political manipulation. The hybrid and grey zone conflict is real. Color revolution have hijacked Western democracy and precipitated he slow decline of modern civilization. References Global Instances of Coups from 1950 to 2010: A New Dataset Colpus Dataset KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America A Retrospective on RMA, 2000-2020. Edward Luttwak Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook, Revised Edition Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair...
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,...
