On Saturday evening, former president and 2024 frontrunner Donald Trump survived an attempted assassination at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The attack was utterly shocking, not only because a would-be assassin was able to get so close to Trump with a...
History
Ticonderoga Leaves the Fleet: The US Surface Navy Continues to Shrink
by Bill Buppert | Jul 23, 2024 | Blog
The US Navy surface fleet continues to shrink. And every surface hull commissioned after the Arleigh Burke class in 1991 has been a failure. The Chinese Navy exceeds the US Navy in total warships deployed. What makes this even more astonishing is that the Chinese...
7/18/24 Matt Taibbi on the RNC, the Trump Assassination Attempt and Biden’s Likely Replacements
by Scott Horton | Jul 22, 2024 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Matt Taibbi returns to the show in an interview recorded while he was at the Republican National Convention. He and Scott talk about the Trump assassination attempt, likely replacements for Joe Biden (the interview was recorded before Biden...
A Temporary Calm in the South China Sea
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jul 22, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
After a particularly fraught period, complete with water cannons, near collisions, and an actual melee where a Filippino sailor apparently lost a thumb, things in the South China Sea look set to settle down following Manila and Beijing’s reaching of a "provisional...
Tariffs Are Bipartisan Enemies of Freedom
by Jim Bovard | Jul 17, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both portray tariffs as magic wands to create national prosperity. Trump is calling for a 10% across-the-board tariff on imports, while Biden is imposing selective tariffs that he portrays as miracle cures for any...
The U.S. Continues to Undermine Its Own Interests in Iran
by Ted Snider | Jul 17, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The American-led isolation of Iran is springing leaks all over. It seems that wherever Iran knocks, everyone answers. Except the United States. Instead, the U.S. continues to close the door, following a long pattern with Iran of undermining its own interests. In 2016,...
The News From Across the Pond
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jul 16, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
The recent elections in the United Kingdom and France underscore a broader trend of political stagnation and directionless muddling within Europe. Despite clear signals from voters rejecting the status quo, the established elites are resisting substantive changes,...
Ep 047 “Nagorno-Karabakh: A Dark and Robotic Future”
by Bill Buppert | Jul 15, 2024 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
I discuss the Fall 2020 war between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the tiny sliver of Nagorno-Karabakh and why I would suggest that it was a glimpse into the future of warfare for the remainder of this century. the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) for the following...
Blog
Crash Chronicles: Fat Amy Continues the Cringe
One billion dollars for twisted metal for ten F35 crashes, soon you're talking real money. The incident rate with respect the US Air Force (USAF) has continued to decline since the 1950s as safety practices have increased and technology has matured. During the 1950s,...
The Royal Navy Shrinks to Insignificance
A crashed RN F35 on the seafloor.* My readers knew all of this already; the Royal Navy will not be mission effective as a blue water navy after 2030 and the era of aircraft carriers is over. Eight billion dollars for future fish apartments. Eight billion dollars. Kit...
Becoming the French Bulldog
I could hear it, the snarling struggle to live as deformed nostrils fought for each breath. A snarl of liquid flesh flapping about, then a mild grow. Such a process just for an intake of air. The weather was not too hot though it’s tongue dragged from it’s mouth....
Are we already fighting WWIII? Welcome to the Circus! Watch the New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
Welcome back to the Kyle Anzalone Show! In today's explosive episode, we look into the escalating tensions that have many questioning whether we are on the brink of World War III. The recent transfer of long-range missiles from the US to Ukraine marks a significant...
John Boyd: Patterns of Conflict
COL John Boyd was a singular mind in military matters and had a terrific impact on shattering some of the myths that have made the American military art since 1945 so awful and mired in defeat. Boyd was a heavy intellectual lifter in innovative ideas and one of the...
Economics and Everyday Life, 2
"[E]conomic relations constitute a machinery by which men devote their energies to the immediate accomplishment of each other's purposes in order to secure the ultimate accomplishment of their own, irrespective of what those purposes of their own may be, and therefore...
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