The Fat Amy follies continue apace. We discussed this recently and it looks more and more likely that the hapless and increasingly Orwellian Starmer junta in the UK may be reneging on plans to buy more than the present complement of shoddy F35B aircraft they currently...
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US to Ramp Up Military Support for Kenyan Operations in Haiti
The White House is upping its support for the Kenyan operations in Haiti by sending an additional two dozen armored vehicles. The US is backing Nairobi’s armed force in Port-au-Prince. On Friday, US Southern Command issued a statement on boosting military aid for the...
Sealift Takes a Dump: The US Navy Continues to Degrade
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...
News Roundup 8/23/2024
Russia Ukraine Says It Used US-Made GBU-39 Bomb Inside Russia’s Kursk Oblast AWC Ukrainian Commanders Blame Poorly Trained Soldiers for Donbas Losses The Institute EU’s Top Diplomat Calls for Supporting Long-Range Strikes in Russia AWC China China ‘Gravely Concerned’...
Ukrainian Commanders Blame Poorly Trained Soldiers for Donbas Losses
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...
The Spirit Dissolves: Imminent B2 Retirement
Stealth is a buzzword, please keep in mind that long wave radars detects the minuscule radar cross sections of "stealth" platforms. It can still be detected by a sufficiently powerful radar or at sufficiently close ranges. Dual-band radars are more effective against...
Icebreaker Follies: The US Continues to Drive to Zero
The Navy did have 1.5 icebreakers and now they have half of one. Well, actually, the US has no operational icebreakers now. The Coast Guard’s other icebreaker, the ancient heavy Polar Star, is undergoing a service life extension program at the Mare Island Dry Dock in...
CENTCOM Head Meets IDF Chief To Coordinate Iranian Response
On Monday, the head of US Central Command (CENTCOM), Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, met with Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi in Tel Aviv as the two militaries are preparing to defend Israel from an expected Iranian reprisal.
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
