When you look at the larger disaster of American arms and readiness, all the services are in the hazard of being mission ineffective. The US Navy surface fleet has been an unmitigated building debacle with the Little Crappy Ships, Zumwalt class and the USS Ford...
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News Roundup 5/22/2024
Russia Top US General Says There Are ‘No Plans’ To Send US Trainers to Ukraine AWC Zelensky Says NATO Should Shoot Down Russian Missiles Over Ukraine AWC China US Working with EU to Sanction China SCMP Israel Israel Seizes AP’s Equipment, Reverses Move After Pressure...
Conflict in the 21st Century: A Dark and Robotic Future
I am delivering a talk at a professional organization in June 2024 on the 2020 Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict to illustrate the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) of a future conflict that is dark and robotic. For those paying attention, the harnessing of sensors to...
Russia Pummels Ukrainian Energy Infrastructure as Kiev Seeks More Air Defenses
Russian missiles and drones targeted energy infrastructure in cities across Ukraine on Tuesday night. The attack was one of Moscow’s largest so far in the war and came as Kiev is desperately seeking new air defense systems. According to Ukrainian officials, Russia...
The F35 Continues NOT to Stick the Landing
“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...
Military Aviation Joins the Emerging Competency Crisis in the West
Trend-lines on military aviation accidents are edging upwards to rival in the commercial aviation industry in mishaps. Not only is this a barometer for readiness and training but an indicator for the emerging competency crisis plaguing the West. Peacetime military...
Pentagon Follies: Accounting for DEI Expenditures
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...
The Aircraft Carrier is the Crossbow and Chariot of the Modern Age
The US Navy, of course, is desperately trying to get authorization to build more Ford-class carriers. Ironic that they name the carrier after a violence broker famous for being rather clumsy and unable to navigate around. The first of class doesn't work properly: it...
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