The Carrier Narrative is Dying

Carrier skeptics have been hammering away at the anachronistic cargo cult of the aircraft carrier. The Navy has invested a significant amount of political capital and mountains of budget dollars to maintaining a fleet of these allegedly deadly weapons of war that were recently steaming away with their tails between their legs from the Red Sea where the US Navy (in its own words) experienced the deadliest combat since WWII. Against a foe with no navy to speak of (largest vessels in the Yemeni fleet are fifty year old patrol vessels). Now Kat Klarenberg at Global Delinquents penned a brilliant...

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Tanks for Nothing: The Era of Manned Armor is Over

The beat goes on. I have made the outrageous claim that the era of the carrier is over and also infer that manned tanks are also way past their expiration date due to the demonstrative lop-sided opportunities in salvo competition that is seeing 7-10 million dollar tanks savaged by munitions a fraction of the cost. Even in peer wars of the past, industrial capacity would not be able to keep up with that attrition trade-off but in today's severely degraded manufacturing environment in the West, this is an invitation to disaster with no capacity to replenish war-stocks lost in combat. You want...

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Reader Request

Does anyone have the CRS or GAO report of the completed F35 OT&E [Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E)]? Any documentation will do. They fielded the 1,000th airframe and it has NEVER jumped from initial operational capability (IOC) to full operational capability (FOC) until possibly this year. To quote Lt. Gen. Michael Schmidt, the F-35′s program executive officer, said during a 30 March 2023: The “F-35 is currently planning to achieve full operational capability status after the full TR-3 and block 4 capabilities of the aircraft are fielded in 2028 — 27...

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Carrier Blues: Even the Mainstream is Waking Up

The ice is breaking on the stonewalling of the defense community and external observers to have an honest conversation on the aircraft carrier; they may be getting the message on how indefensible and anachronistic this extraordinarily expensive weapons system is. The Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base Coalition has already removed me from their Christmas card list. More and more of the Coprophile Media is reluctantly waking up to the apparently intuitively obvious conclusion. The defense journalism industry, like the cultural critics in Hollywood, tend to be sycophantic and are very careful...

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Ep 051 “Cellular Ecology: Guerrilla Organizations and Grunt Math”

Ep 051 “Cellular Ecology: Guerrilla Organizations and Grunt Math”

Episode Notes This is an episode to examine what cell structures look like and the methodologies of guerrillas and insurgents use to conduct clandestine or covert action. I further discuss traditional, subversive, critical cell and mass-oriented and unconventional cell structures. We visit some historical parallels and why the US and the West may not catch the next wave of terror in America (not cooked up by the clownish FBI like the Whitmer disaster). References: How They Hunt AQ Training Manual The IRA Greenbook Hunting the Sleepers An Analysis of Al-Qaida Tradecraft Modeling Terrorist...

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The Royal Navy Stumbles, Again

The Fat Amy follies continue apace. We discussed this recently and it looks more and more likely that the hapless and increasingly Orwellian Starmer junta in the UK may be reneging on plans to buy more than the present complement of shoddy F35B aircraft they currently have. They have started to weigh priorities to shift to a new joint fighter venture with Japan and Italy. It will be as disastrous as the F35 and the stumbling efforts of the USAF to come up with a sixth-generation fighter aircraft. I am amused they are all that concerned for having carrier-borne aircraft since both of their...

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Suck Less

Zero accountability for personal failure is the diamond-hard core principle of the woke mind virus. My Substack Email me at cgpodcast@pm.me

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