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Doubling Down on Failure: Ford Fiasco Follies

A new updated CRS report dated 5 August 2024 is out on the USS Ford debacle. I read these reports so you don't have to. For plenty of reasons, the carrier is the crossbow and chariot of the 21st century. Yet the US insists on spending tens of billions of dollars on...

News Roundup 8/7/2024

News Roundup 8/7/2024

Russia Russia Warns Ukraine Cost for Peace Will Increase as War Drags On AWC US Gives Ukraine $3.9 Billion in ‘Direct Budgetary Aid’ AWC Israel Israel Sends Truck Full of Dead Palestinians Into Gaza AWC Hamas Names Yahya Sinwar as New Political Chief AWC Majority of...

Raptor Woes Continue to Plague the Air Force

More mismanagement and strategic deficit disorder at the Pentagon. The F22 Raptor is a very capable late 20th century aircraft and arguably superior to the much more expensive and increasingly anachronistic  F35; it is being put out to pasture early because of...

US Surface Navy is No Longer a Global Force

The US Navy may credibly dominate the Atlantic but the Pacific Ocean is no longer an exclusive US naval domination calculus. The Arctic is still dominated by the Russians and will remain so. The US Navy's ability to build functioning surface ships is compromised...

Sweden Calls on NATO to Focus on China to Placate Trump

Sweden Calls on NATO to Focus on China to Placate Trump

As members of the North Atlantic Alliance gather in Washington DC to celebrate the pact’s 75th year, Sweden is calling on the alliance to shift some of its attention to China. Stockholm argues this will align the bloc more with former US President Donald Trump's...

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Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...

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