It appears the US Navy and the NATO midgets continue to be thwarted in trying to secure safe passage through the Red Sea arterials against a foe which has no navy to speak of. If the data is correct, the Yemeni Houthis have no vessels beyond the size of a patrol boat...
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Collision Alarm: Terror on the Horizon
by Bill Buppert | Aug 27, 2024 | Blog
"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell." -William Tecumseh Sherman I hate to say I told...
North vs. South: Korea’s Population Crisis
by Brad Pearce | Aug 27, 2024 | Featured Articles
Birthrates have been falling throughout the developed world for years. While it’s true that the global population can’t and shouldn’t grow forever, and that a gradual decline could be desirable, the current OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development)...
Weapons Makers See Huge Cash Flow Influx Amid Global Tensions
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 26, 2024 | News
As wars in Ukraine and the Middle East continue to rage, Vertical Research Partners forecasts top weapon manufacturers will experience record cash flow during the coming years. The analysis, which was commissioned by the Financial Times, reports, “The leading 15...
Sealift Takes a Dump: The US Navy Continues to Degrade
by Bill Buppert | Aug 26, 2024 | Blog
Another USN ship disaster in the offing. Contrary to what one would first think, this is tangential to the "IED* recruiting crisis." This is due to a separate recruiting crisis in Military Sealift Command (MSC) caused by the extreme workloads the civilian mariners who...
Why Elites Hate Trump: A Strategy for the Right
by Keith Knight | Aug 23, 2024 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/_yf1a-KK94w?si=qLU9LVWldGBYD0jt [T]he very fact of government and of taxation creates inherent conflict between two great classes: those who pay taxes, and those who live off them; the net tax payers vs. the tax consumers. The bigger government gets,...
Ukrainian Commanders Blame Poorly Trained Soldiers for Donbas Losses
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 22, 2024 | News
As Kiev attempts to bask in triumph over its territorial gains inside of Russia, its forces are losing territory along the Eastern front lines in Ukraine. Ukrainian military commanders say the reason for the losses is poorly trained soldiers; many are even afraid to...
Broken: The American Shipbuilding Crisis
by Bill Buppert | Aug 22, 2024 | Blog
USS The Sullivans sinking in New York in 2022. Over the decades, the destroyers have fallen into various states of disrepair. In April 2022, The Sullivans suffered a hull breach and partially sank at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park in Buffalo,...
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It NDs Today: The Swiss Adopt a Lemon
The Gods help them in this very silly selection by the Swiss armed forces. ND is a negligent discharge where the pistol fires when you haven't asked it to. Most inconvenient. So the Swiss are buying a gun that technically failed the evaluation just to keep the...
The Evergreen State Pays the Green Toll of Stupidity
I cover mostly military topics here at the LI Blog per my charter but on occasion I cover other topics. The Washington State ferry system is in tatters. It continues to get worse barely a week into the new year: Washington State Ferries needs 17 boats to operate at...
The Kyle Anzalone Show [GUEST] Patrick Henningsen: Venezuela: America’s Next Disaster?
A president is kidnapped, the government remains, and we’re told it isn’t regime change. We pull back the curtain on what our guest calls “regime changeover,” a strategy that uses spectacle and lawfare to force leverage without admitting occupation. From sanctions...
Pentagon Fraud: A Feature and Not a Bug Part XVII
The easiest solution to this is stand the entire military industrial complex down until they fix this. But that is far too responsible. The fraud you are seeing in MN, WA and MA is large but the financial mismanagement in the Pentagon is hundeds of billions of dollars...
New US Army Tank Just in Time for Retirement
“You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” - Ayn Rand I have said that aircraft carriers are the chariot and crossbow of the 21st century not fit for purpose on the oceans and the tank is certainly a nominee for that notion....
Trump Announces US Take Over of Venezuela, Kidnaps Maduro & Bombs Caracas
A pre-dawn post, a capital in darkness, and a president in cuffs aboard a U.S. ship—what started as a “one-night raid” is already morphing into something far bigger. We unpack how the strike on Venezuela unfolded, why the official story leaves key gaps, and what it...












