The Royal Navy is experiencing readiness and maintenance shortfalls in its submarine force that is similar to the throughput problems for the US nuclear submarine forces. The logistical tail for exquisite platforms like nuclear submarines is enormous and a first world...
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The F35 Follies: Britannia Rules a Little
My recommendation to the British MoD: don't buy anymore of these flying failure factories. U.K. planned to buy138 F-35s, bought 48, delivered 35, aims at 75 by 2025. Judging from the delays and failures universally in the program, achieving a delivery of all...
News Roundup 7/25/2024
Ukraine Ukraine FM Signals Readiness To Resume Talks With Russia During China Visit AWC British Army Chief Says UK Must Be Ready To Fight a Major War in 3 Years AWC China US Says It’s Looking To Bolster Philippines Ability To Operate in South China Sea AWC Israel Ben...
News Roundup 5/7/2024
Ukraine Russia To Hold Nuclear Weapons Drills in Response to Latest Western Provocations AWC Ukraine Seeks Reaper Drones to Aid Deep Strikes on Russian Forces The Institute Moscow Warns It Will Strike UK Military Targets If British Weapons Are Used in Attacks on...
RIP, British Army 1415 – 2024
John Cleese and the Monty Python troop were seers in the 1970s. I am fond of saying the British win all their military victories in spite of their best efforts. The IED virus is destroying the institution. The British Army is reducing security checks in pursuit of...
News Roundup 3/28/2024
UK News British General Admits UK Couldn’t Fight Russia for More Than 2 Months AWC Israel Netanyahu Now Planning to Send Delegation to US for Rafah Talks AWC IDF Officer: ‘We Are Demolishing Everything Before Entering’ The Institute Poll: Majority of Americans...
Is War Inevitable? Lessons From History w/ Scott Horton
https://youtu.be/5_dZBu3zJxw The chronic Middle East crisis goes hack--as do many crises--to World War I. The British, in return for mobilizing the Arab peoples against their oppressors of imperial Turkey, promised the Arabs their independence when the war was over....
France to Provide Ukraine with Long-Range Cruise Missiles
French President Emmanual Macron announced Paris will join London in providing long-range missiles to Kiev. “In view of the situation and the Ukrainian counter-offensive, I have decided to increase deliveries of weapons and equipment,” Macron said upon arriving in...
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Empire of Lies: Fragments from the Memory Hole
Had Enough of the Deep State’s Warlords and War Lies? George W. Bush spent a year and a half gaslighting the American people, using the shock of 9/11 as the pretext for an unrelated war he sought long before that tragic event. Isolated incident? Not at all. Now a...
Creative Chaos: Inside the CIA’s Covert War to Topple the Syrian Government
