*** I have been at a business conference all week that has consumed my attention. *** The IG Report (May 2025) appended below reveals many shortfalls in the Gaza pier disaster from 2024. Trillions spent on so many toys and then we they receive the items and systems from the lowest bidder, the US Army can't even be bothered to appoint responsible leadership, conduct the necessary training and bother to rehearse the utility of these Rube Goldberg contraptions. The pier was only operational for about 20 days and cost about $230 million. While there were no deaths or known direct attacks on the...

The F35 is in trouble in Europe. NATO observed the U.S. cut off its vital military aid deliveries to Ukraine, and choke Kyiv's access to American-derived intelligence in a bid to bend Ukraine to its will, namely to sit down at the negotiating table for ceasefire talks. Ukraine, the U.S.' allies could see, was backed into a corner by its dependence on the U.S. The Lockheed Martin-made F-35 is the only fifth-generation fighter aircraft available to Western militaries, and many of the 20 nations operating or buying F-35s are NATO members. "If an F-35 user wanted to use the jets in a way that...

Ep 063 "Spanner in the Works: Sabotage and War" Military sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a government effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, demoralization, destabilization, division, disruption, or destruction. It can take place left of bang or during war with the object the weakening of the military effort by an adversary. Military sabotage has been taking place since the early military adventures of men. The apocryphal story of the Trojan Horse is an ancient example and variations on the theme echo through historical warfare. You can find the episodes...

ITS Giovanni Delle Bande Nere arrived in Faslane and came alongside at Garelochhead yesterday. Italian shipbuilding bookends just how ghastly and horrendous US Navy procurement is. In roughly the same time it took the US to fight over and fail to build the Constellation class, Italy managed to build 9 multi-role warships with similar capabilities for *half* of the price. Nine. Classed as a "Multipurpose Offshore Patrol Vessel" (OPV) by the Italian Navy, she is effectively a frigate/destroyer and carries up to 16 Aster 30 Block 1NT missiles which may be test-fired during exercise Formidable...

Occam's Razor often reveals the easiest answer to a wicked problem. Take a half hour to watch the video below from the every entertaining staff at T.Rex. Yes, T.Rex makes some of the best holsters on Earth for all your social work needs. In the end, the state is built on unaccountable deep bureaucracies that can only be removed with nuclear mining equipment. The Deep State splendidly and succinctly explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH2aeha_UgU    

I was astonished in 2009 when I saw the cancellation of the Future Combat System contract to usher in the next generation of armored vehicles. The Army cancelled the billions-dollar program and got to witness the Army continuing to burns through tens of millions a week after cancellation to fulfill contract obligations with nothing to show for it but a big smoking hole where the money had been wasted for nothing. The XM1202 light tank was another ill considered blunder in the trail of tears that is the Sovietized and sclerotic acquisition system in the US Army and the DoD. The U.S. Army...