HMS Prince of Wales will lead Carrier Strike Group 25 on a deployment to the Pacific. The Prince of Wales has suffered many propulsion issues (it’s a non-nuclear carrier) and engineering casualties. Non-nuclear carrier operations in war in the 21st century rely on static port refueling or underway POL replenishment. In peacetime, just dandy. In wartime in the missile age we live in, a disaster in the making. No port will be safe and no “blue water anchorage” for logistical refit will be safe. My forecast: the HMS Prince of Wales will not complete this task. They will suffer an existential...

One never knew the "brown-water" (riverine) navy would take to the high seas in this alpha example of engineering excellence. Did you know they designed the Ford with no urinals? We all know why and those toilets instead of the water-less urinals so common today have extraordinary performance during turbulent sea states. They based the toilet system on that used in commercial aircraft. Have they ever been on a commercial aircraft? Those are and always have been terrible. No urinals on a ship at sea. In addition, in another stroke of planning and foresight, the eleven weapons elevators, which...

The Pentagon needs to be taken apart root and branch, a sterling track record of defeat and stalemate for eight decades accustoms the malefactors to continue doing what they are doing when NO ONE is punished for naked and persistent incompetence, misappropriation and courts martial. If PowerPoint were a weapon, no one would stand a chance against the American armed forces. A one year stand-down of all military mischief overseas and a mass realignment starting with firing every flag officer and subjecting them to deep & embarrassing IG investigations is the only way. Every last one of...

In a cavalcade of calamities from a skilled workforce to a broken acquisition process to  a strategic deficit disorder that does not acknowledge the Revolutions in Military Affairs that are dominating and radically changing how naval warfare is evolving. The US Navy has the most advanced twentieth century naval surface combatant force on Earth in 2025. In the emerging salvo competition with quantity having a quality all of its own, the US surface navy is continuing to reinforce technology that is increasingly inadequate and anachronistic in the evolving war continuum. Warship force...

My conversation with Mark Booher at Pearl Snap Tactical. https://pearlsnaptactical.substack.com/p/war-against-the-cartels-americas Email me cgpodcast@pm.me  

The Pentagon did not get the memo on the death of manned combat aircraft in the 21st century. Is the 47 designation the year the first aircraft may be aloft? Don't believe any promises on price or schedule much less efficacy. They will not deliver. China’s two mysterious fighter jets broke cover in late 2024, throwing security mandarins across the world in a tizzy. In response, the Donald Trump administration finally unveiled the Next-Generation Air Dominance air superiority fighter F-47 at the White House on March 21. But wait, there's more: One of the major criteria for CCA is to be price...

Nicknamed “the father of public relations,” Edward Bernays (1891–1995) was a pioneer in the fields of propaganda and PR; this book is a great insight into the man behind the curtain. “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a...