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...

The IED nonsense continues at professional military education institutions as the zampolits flee for cover. "The Engagement, Retention, and Equal Opportunity directly supports the Naval Academy's Strategic Imperative One: To recruit, admit, and graduate a diverse and talented Brigade of Midshipmen.” https://www.usna.edu/Engagement/staff/index.php DEI under a new rubric. Fire every head of the military academies and offer them a choice: teach the warrior basics or be defunded and demolished in one week. Email me at cgpodcast@pm.me

New WarNotes Podcast episode is live Monday 17 February 2025. The age of the infantry is over after a thousands-year long reign in human warfare and conflict. The next 75 years in the 21st century will put paid to an august and enduring institution in human conflict. The combination of salvo competition, reduced costs of combat UAS munitions, targeting of exquisite platforms, intelligence/reconnaissance/surveillance (ISR) ubiquity, and anti-fragility/fragility are some of the factors informing this demise. There is no longer near peer competition and there is only peer competition, you will...

A declaration of the University of the Intuitively Obvious. Spicy times ahead. My Substack   Email me at cgpodcast@pm.me

This is part of the "prompt strike" initiative trying to increase the speed of delivery of munitions operationally. It took two years of delays to have a first test launch in December 2024 (maybe, Pentagon is shady on launch date actual); The missile at the core of Dark Eagle, also known as the Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), is the same one the Navy plans to arm its Zumwalt class stealth destroyers and future Block V Virginia class submarines with. Here's rudimentary graphic illustrating the parabolic differences between launch modes. Why the Pentagon publishes milestones on these blue...

You had one job. Well, two. You can't launch and receive aircraft reliably. Nor apparently can you detect and deploy sensor capabilities to aim the aircraft that occasionally leave the very expensive deck. The radar has actually degraded over time. The dual-band radar (DBR) aboard the Navy aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), the ship’s primary sensor system, struggled to perform during a pre-deployment exercise and suffered failures as it grappled with the constant need for radar coverage. It remains unclear whether DBR’s issues impacted Ford’s operations during its first full...