What happens when billions of dollars of Western radars are shattered and decimated? Once fire direction can’t translate & collate Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) inputs to operable cueing and precise targeting for munitions, efficacy of fires falls off a cliff. You can have mountains of missiles and munitions but the tyranny of angles and location in a dynamic conflict demand precision targeting. These billion+ dollar radar architectures are complex with long lead times to completion. The cost means the templating geographic coverage does not have very much...

No urinals on the USS Ford. This is a feature and not a bug. The main issue is breakdowns with the ship’s Vacuum Collection, Holding and Transfer (VCHT) system, which controls its toilets and sewage collection. The system is split across ten independent zones and supports more than 600 toilets on the ship. Acid flushes can clear and restore the system, but according to that 2020 GAO report, each flush costs the Navy $400,000. Approx 15% of the crew are female. "Nine hot dogs for every bun" as my Navy colleague would mention. Don't look away when you see the video footage of the toilets...

I have not published an episode for a month which is unusual to those of you used to my fortnightly cadence. Well, I am moving and that has caused some difficulties in time management. We have relocated and now we are looking for a house while in temporary arrangements. Then, I happened to have what is best described as a Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) which may be related to TBI[s] that were discovered in 2019 most likely related to my proximity to three IED explosions. This was sort of a mini-stroke and caused some articulation/elocution problems that made my speaking voice rather...

I loathe the British Royal family. I loathe the Markle couple and Harry the Handbag even more. Piers Morgan, love him or hate him, has done a standup and stunning expose on Meghan Markle’s financial skullduggery. AMEX is going to blow this terrible fraud complex to smithereens. The discovery process in this case in Calizuela is going to be quite revealing. loathe the British Royal family. This will impact the Royals in the UK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTtK32lvbSw

One trillion dollars, the rest of the planet spends approx 2.4-2.7 trillion dollars, the Pentagon is not delivering much bang for the buck. They even funded accounting errors to reward the poor performance of Pentagon program managers. When combined with off DOD budget spending at Department of Energy north of 34 billion dollars and the associated intelligence spending, the budget for the notorious spendthrifts at the Department of War cavalcade of calamities is fast approaching a trillion debt-bucks. Despite the $8 billion in added funds, because the Pentagon has submitted more than $50...

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are non-profit, voluntary, and independent citizen groups operating at local, national, or international levels.   The very nature of NGOs needs a complete overhaul.   The very term NGO has an undeserved cache of innocence and goodness.   There is NO such thing as an NGO that does not press for larger and more intrusive government.   None.   Defund them all.

I was a technical climber as a young man and just watched the amazing Alex Honnold free solo the Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan. Individual achievement is the bedrock of pushing the envelope in human creativity and innovation. I think free solo is eventually going to kill all its practitioners but hats off to his superb athletic skill. The death toll has taken free solo greats like Paul Preuss (1913), Derek Hersey (1993), and John Bachar (2009). Alex is in my autistic tribe, obviously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkVZm5UuXIs