“I’m getting tired of over-promising and under-delivering,” F-35 program head Air Force Lt. Gen. Mike Schmidt said. The newly-envisioned Block 4 would instead focus on delivering “‘must-have’ content,” Schmidt wrote, which will include an undefined “subset” of 88...
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US Gaza Pier Could Be Operational By Weekend
by Kyle Anzalone | May 1, 2024 | News
Unnamed officials said the floating pier and causeway that Washington hopes to use to bring aid into Gaza could be completed by Friday with aid deliveries beginning Saturday. The development comes as the cost of the pier has nearly doubled, and Defense Secretary Lloyd...
Troops on the Ground: Biden’s Plan for Ukraine
by Ted Snider | May 1, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Despite billions of dollars of military aid, equipment maintenance, training, intelligence, and planning from the United States and its partners in the political West, the war in Ukraine is going very badly. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,...
Horror Show: More Proof Troops Massacred Afghans After ISIS Attack at Kabul Airport
by Scott Horton | Apr 30, 2024 | Blog
As we reported at the time, marines slaughtered innocent people after the bombing. The perfect clusterfu*k of an ending to a perfect clusterfu*k of a war. Watch US Marine’s GoPro footage that challenges Pentagon’s account of attack at Kabul airport...
Pentagon Follies: Accounting for DEI Expenditures
by Bill Buppert | Apr 30, 2024 | Blog
Inclusion, Equity and Diversity (IED) is communism in blackface. This viral contagion has raced to the top of government bureaucracies and, of course, facilitates a race to the bottom in quality and competence. The wizards at the Pentagon who have yet to account for...
News Roundup 4/29/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 29, 2024 | News Roundup
Ukraine Ukraine Sidelines Abrams Tanks After Russian Drone Attacks – AP The Institute Pentagon Unveils $6 Billion Arms Package for Ukraine AWC Poland, Lithuania Say They Can Help Return Military-Age Men to Ukraine AWC Ukrainians Say $61 Billion Aid Package Will...
Ukraine Sidelines Abrams Tanks After Russian Drone Attacks – AP
by Will Porter | Apr 25, 2024 | News
The Ukrainian military has opted to withdraw its US-supplied M1 Abrams main battle tanks from the front lines due to the threat posed by Russian drones, American officials told the Associated Press.
News Roundup 4/25/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 25, 2024 | News Roundup
US News Senate Passes $95 Billion Foreign Military Aid Bill AWC Biden Signs TikTok Ban, But Campaign Will Remain on Platform The Institute Ukraine UK to Send Record $620 Million Military Aid Package to Ukraine The Institute Ukraine Cuts Off Consular Services for...
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The SANDF is a Military Dumpster Fire
The South African National Defense Force (SANDF) is in tatters. The SA Navy is also in the hazard. One glaring example is the MTU 1163 propulsion engine. Grimms was paid R55 million for a W6 engine overhaul, yet the engine has still not undergone a dyno test or no...
Terrestrial Speed Demon: Non-Nuclear Throw-Weight Comes of Age
Russians play chess and the West plays Naked Twister. ICBMs and IRBMs have been hyper-sonic since the 1950s. Replace the warhead with a terrestrial-launched Rod from God and you have a very effective non-nuclear option to reach anywhere in the northern hemisphere with...
Macgregor Steps Up to the Plate
COL Douglas Macgregor shows the stark choices ahead a defense establishment in the US and the west that is inexorably grinding to a halt in effectiveness and incompetence. The incoming President has three choices: 1. Allow service bureaucracies or external events to...
Mr Jarfart
Just think about this, whatever your child or your niece, nephew and some strangers kids are feeding their eyes with is likely attached to a clown or maybe a cynical conglomerate that knows social media and children fed algorithms will make them rich. Those little...
Free Trade Facts Don’t Matter to Democrats or Republicans
Both parties tend to ignore facts about the benefits of free trade because both parties oppose free trade.
The Government Had to Bankrupt Spirit Airlines to Save It
The US government is very good at destroying things on the pretense that its actions are required to save the things destroyed.
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