Comply or Be Burned to the Ground

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

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Ep 013 “End of an Era: The Infantry Folds Its Colors”

Ep 013 “End of an Era: The Infantry Folds Its Colors”

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 never hear me utter the former phase again. A hybrid of...

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Ep 013 “End of an Era: The Infantry Folds Its Colors”

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...

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Indeed

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

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US Hypersonics Off to Stuttering Start (Again)

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...

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Carrier Follies: Yet Another Failure Arrow in the Quiver

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...

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Ep 058 “The Mexican Cartel Conundrum: War Without End Part One”

Ep 058 “The Mexican Cartel Conundrum: War Without End Part One”

Ouroboros in the new age... There has been chatter and enthusiasm to use military means to take on the drugs and human trafficking organizations and cartels in Mexico (and I imagine the cartels in the north in Canada), this will not end well. I examine the implications and the second and third order effects of this endeavor which is, by extension, a declaration of war on the Mexican government. References: Benjamin T. Smith The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade Anabel Hernandez Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers Ioan Grillo El Narco: Inside Mexico's...

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Ep 012 “Fixing Fight Club: Closing Thoughts on War in the 21st Century”

Ep 012 “Fixing Fight Club: Closing Thoughts on War in the 21st Century”

After nearly twelve hours of a blistering and unapologetic critique of the American military, I wanted to post a conclusion where I can tie a bow on the jeremiad and offer some cogent and abbreviated recommendations on the road forward. In this new venture, I wanted to expand my portfolio of investigation and elucidation on war in the broader scope. I wanted to leave the more arcane and less well-known milieu of the other warfare to examine conventional war and the emerging tableau of near-peer and peer fighting that I am dead certain will raise its bloody hand in this century because humans...

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