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Fraud on Fraud: Compounding The LCS Follies

It only took the DoJ eight years to levy a fine for ripping off tax dollars. Imagine if journalists on the Pentagon beat actually went after the fraud and inefficiencies of the military industrial complex with investigative lenses and FOIA festivals that could shed...

The F35 Continues to Excel at the Pentagon

The "mission capable rate" of these F35s is simply appalling. 23 years in and it still doesn't work. 23 years. And Congress won't kill it but continues to feed money into the F35 industrial wood-chipper. The jets have often been stuck on the ground due to engine...

The Yemeni Mouse That Roared

The picture above is the anti-ship missile employed by the Houthi in Yemen. American taxpayers have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on the world's most advanced naval force. The U.S.-led campaign against the Houthi rebels, overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war in...

Wayback Snapshot: Japanese Invasion on American Soil

Yes, American soil has been invaded and occupied in the twentieth century. "In June 1942, the United States launched its first offensive in the Pacific, the Aleutian Campaign. From June 1942 to May 1943 Japan held the Island of Attu. The Battle of Attu took place May...

No Velocity Whatsoever: Hyper-Velocity Pipe-dreams

Since October 2021, it has either failed the flight test or scrubbed launches. Three years. The joint Army/Navy Dark Eagle Long Range Hypersonic Weapon, that despite the $8.3 billion in R&D invested in it have so far failed to successfully fire a single AUR, All...

The US Submarine Force is Sunk

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...

The Conscientious Objector As Hero

The Medal of Honor is the highest award for valor granted in the US armed forces. Out of the 41 million who have served in the U.S. military, the Medal has been presented to only 3,517 service members (618 awarded posthumously) who went above and beyond the call of...

John Boyd: Persona Non Grata at the Pentagon

COL John Boyd was quite the maverick in the military ranks and rocked the boat all the time. You will not though incredibly capable, he was never promoted to flag rank. One of the best insights he ever gave was that when one distills strategy simply, it is:...

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