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Like Farm to Table, Shipyard to Mothballs
by Bill Buppert | Feb 7, 2025 | Blog
USNS Cody USNS Cody (T-EPF-14), Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport, was christened on 25 February 2023 by ship's sponsor Averil D. Spencer, launched at Austal USA in Mobile, Alabama on 20 March 2023, and its delivery was accepted by the U.S. Navy on 11...
‘There Is No Balance in This Relationship’: Knesset Debates Israeli Reliance on US Aid
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 29, 2025 | Foreign Policy, News
Members of the Israeli Knesset held a session debating Tel Aviv’s reliance on aid from Washington. The US sends Israel at least $3.8 billion in annual military assistance, and in 2024, aid to Israel surged to over $20 billion. The Knesset members debated with...
News Roundup 1/24/2025
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 24, 2025 | News Roundup
US News The Pentagon’s New Middle East Policy Chief Wants To Scale Down US Presence in the Region AWC ‘YOU’RE FIRED!’ Trump Dismisses Brian Hook in Truth Social Post The Institute Pentagon Deploys 1,500 Troops to Southern Border The Institute Antony Blinken:...
What Will a Trump Second Term Mean for Russian-American Relations?
by José Niño | Jan 22, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Contrary to the conventional wisdom permeating across alternative media, a second Trump administration is likely going to be much more hawkish than expected. Donald Trump’s national security advisor, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), revealed in an ABC News interview that the...
Trump One, Biden Nothing
by Ted Snider | Jan 21, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Before the first day of Donald Trump’s second term in office, he already had more diplomatic achievements than Joe Biden did on the last day of his. The entrance of the Trump team into the negotiations was the difference in Gaza. Biden opened his administration with...
Red Sea Follies and a Navy in Disrepair
by Bill Buppert | Jan 21, 2025 | Blog
The beat-down goes on administered by the non-naval armories of the Houthis in Yemen. Geoff Ziezulewicz avers: Those SM-6 missiles are a cool four million dollars a pop. A rather chilly one third of a billion dollars in SM-6 expenditures alone. 320 million dollars....
News Roundup 1/20/2025
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 20, 2025 | News Roundup
Russia Biden Admin Adds New Sanctions on Russia, China The Institute US Made Significant Investment Into Ukraine’s Drone Program AWC China Incoming Trump Officials Name China as the ‘Biggest Threat’ Facing the US AWC Trump Says He Had ‘Very Good’ Phone Call With...
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The US Doesn’t Have a Monopoly on Contemporary Military Incompetence
The six-thousand-ton INS Arihant sank in 2017 and remained out of service at the docks while the water was pumped out, and the pipes replaced. The entire process took ten months. Imagine not only not having the sea sense to seal your boat before diving but having no...
Israeli War Crimes Documented by the Israeli Defense Forces
There’s no sense denying Israel’s indiscriminate attacks and wanton destruction when its war crimes are documented by its own armed forces.
Government Subsidy of K-PhD: The Suicide Pact of Western Civilization
The German Empire arranged passage for Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in 1917, joined by 29 other Russian exiles, a Pole and a Swiss, to Russia to try to seize power from the government. They traveled on an armored train through Germany then took a ship to Sweden where...
Money to Burn: Pentagon Blues
I often quip to the TSA slack-jawed shamblers at the airport when I fly that I am happy the TSA exists because think of how much more homelessness there would in the USA if the unemployable weren't in shitty government jobs hassling peaceful travelers. The DoD has...
Little Crappy Ships Continue to Waste Money, Again
The next to last floating dumpster of the Little Crappy Ship (LCS), USS Beloit, was launched, yet another future fish apartment complex; the USS Cleveland, the final ship of the Freedom class, is under construction and will be delivered in 2025 (don't hold your...
Submarine Blues: Over-budget and Not Underwater
I often bag on the US Navy surface fleet as a sad shadow of the fleet that used to be. The nuclear submarine fleet is joining that maritime house of woe. U.S. Navy Captain Jerry Hendrix, who in a recent assessment observed: “In fact, production of new submarines...
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