F35 Follies: Fat Amy Fails Again and Again

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...

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Ep 063 “Spanner in the Works: Sabotage and War”

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. References: Ian Jones Booby Traps!: The History of Deadly Devices, from...

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New Chasing Ghosts Podcast Episode is Live Monday 5 May 2025.

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...

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Italian Navy Wins the Gold for Patrol Vessels

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...

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Yes, Minister Forever and Forever

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    

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Ep 017 “Military Science Fiction and the Profession of Arms”

Ep 017 “Military Science Fiction and the Profession of Arms”

"The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers *** Effective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively.*** I think the military science fiction milieu provides a great tool for forecasting and predicting possible conflict futures. It may be yet another tool to take this magnificent US 20th century fighting machine and make it a peer combat competitor in the 21st century. Speculative fiction provides a means to...

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Army Fiasco Train in the 21st Century

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...

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US Navy: No Relief on the Horizon

In a rare fit of martial sobriety, the notoriously woke and retarded "War on the Rocks" site published a compelling essay on pulling the US back from the brink and hinted at going a little easy on the Dr. Evil global hegemon routine that has possessed the US military for decades. The opposite is true. A navy tasked to do all these things cannot do them all well. Rolling back presence will strengthen, not weaken, deterrence. For too long, short-term thinking has taken priority over managing long-term risk. It’s time to flip the script. Readiness for great-power conflict — peace through...

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