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“Trillion Dollar Trainwreck…”

Hot garbage on the wing. The pursuit of US and Western air dominance is a pipe dream but a fever dream for the military industrial complex. The existential failure of this fighter program has been stunning to behold. The days of manned fighter aircraft are numbered in...

Murthy v. Missouri and Our Political Bureaucracy

Government bureaus have interests, and these always lay in more power and more money for their budgets. Here’s a case study to illustrate the general principle that the leadership of administrative agencies are best understood as political partisans. Over the last few...

KC-46A Pegasus Refueler Failure Continues

One of the components of American strategic projection has been the world's most prodigious and sophisticated aerial refueling fleet. There are currently approx 400+ KC-135s capable of refueling two receiver aircraft at the same time in the current USAF fleet. The...

Pentagon: Send More Money!

You can't make this up, the scale of incompetence and brain-dead planning on the part of the most expensive military paper tiger in the Earth's history is breathtaking. Best of both worlds from a government perspective: huge budgets and no accountability. The Pentagon...

A Morality of Anger and Guilt

Splendid Memorial Day speech by Matthew Hoh: The idea of my talk was originally going to be that of the unending costs of war, and I found that to be very daunting for a number of reasons.  One, I just didn't know where to begin, what to talk about, what facet of the...

The Zumwalt: Hit or Miss? Mostly Miss

The corporate/access media press is gushing about removing the 155 mm Advanced Gun System (AGS) to replace it with the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) missile on the ugly Zumwalt-class ship in the US Navy. The AGS was designed in the 1990s to increase the ability of...

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