The development and maintenance of advanced naval platforms like the HMS Queen Elizabeth are costly endeavors. Budgetary constraints have often led to delays in maintenance and upgrades, exacerbating existing issues and preventing timely resolution of technical problems. Ensuring adequate funding is crucial for maintaining the carrier’s operational readiness and addressing its persistent challenges. They are being coy about just how bad this ship is. And the very notion of having a single carrier instead of two does not say much about force projection capabilities. I am highly suspect...

Dear President Trump, Fire missions! Please conduct airstrikes on: The FBI Central Records Complex in Winchester, Virginia. AND The NSA Bluffdale/Camp Williams LEED Silver facility in Saratoga Springs, Utah. Please be sure to evacuate all employees to a local detention center to be screened before release. Cordially, The American Taxpayer *** America turns this into a national event with a countdown televised and broadcast across the land. SHOT, OUT. SHOT, OVER. SPLASH, OUT. SPLASH, OVER. Then do firefighter aircraft flyovers with massive salt drops to symbolically close the mass...

Nothing is working for anyone with a clear eye to reform in the Department of Defense. We may find some reform will take place now but I am cynical and not holding out much hope. Nothing. "Fixes are proposed; panels are held; good, sensible reforms are constantly suggested: yet nothing works, everything keeps getting worse, and there seems to be no way out of the crisis." The crisis will be solved through the bankruptcy the state is volunteering for. The missing link inside the American policy establishment today is a basic discussion about the future and sustainability of the empire in...

Thought experiment: what if it turns out that the happy warriors for the socialist & government supremacist projects claiming aspirations of altruistic and shining ambition for the betterment of humankind were insincere and all of it was actually a gigantic grift and heist to enrich themselves as history's most successful political entrepreneurs? Once the DOGE dust settles, everyone will see the biggest heist in human history be revealed in all its excessive glory and forensically detailed splendor. It may turn out that the ideological cover of "Workers of the World Unite!" has been a...

The Wayback Machine reminds us of all past tense showing us the future. The base in Balakliya, near Kharkiv, is around 100km (60 miles) from fighting against Russian-backed separatists in the eastern oblasts (2017). 2017: “The Ukrainian SBU – the equivalent of the FBI – now believe that the destruction of a giant arms depot at Balakliya in eastern Ukraine in March was carried out by a small drone. The spectacular explosion and fire destroyed some seventy thousand tons of munitions with damage estimated at a billion dollars, though only one person was killed. This destruction is a graphic...

United States declares eight Latin American drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. This will not go well and the sophisticated ratlines, logistics enterprises and support networks will be leveraged to the highest order for retaliatory strikes in CONUS. Remember the premier human trafficking networks from the southern border for illegal entry are run by the cartels to include the entry of OTM (Other Than Mexicans) which may very well be the escort of Islamist and third country nationals with mayhem and mischief on their resumes. Everybody better buckle up with heads on a swivel and...

Here are some news items from the war on cartels. This is a very ominous development. After two weeks of US Air Force RC-135V/W Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft conducting multiple signals intelligence (SIGINT) operations along the US-Mexico border and in international waters off southern Baja California—areas controlled by heavily armed drug cartels—the Mexican Senate Commission has approved the deployment of US Special Forces operators to the country for "training missions." SOFREP's Guy D. McCardle reports that the Mexican Senate Commission has already approved the US Army's 7th...