Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed six high-ranking military officials. The sweeping firings come as the Ukrainian leader plans to travel to Washington later this week to lobby Congress to pass a multi-billion funding package for Kiev. Taras Melnychuk,...
United States
Milley: Chinese Spy Balloon Collected No Intelligence
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 18, 2023 | News
Seven months ago a Chinese weather balloon floated over the US, causing the American official to cancel high-level meetings with Beijing In February, a Chinese balloon floated over the US, prompting politicians on both sides of the aisle to claim Beijing was...
Senate Armed Services Committee ‘Aggressively’ Investigating Elon Musk
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 18, 2023 | News
The probe is a result of a misreported story that falsely claimed Musk thwarted a Ukrainian attack on the Russian naval fleet Senator Jack Reed is leading an aggressive probe into Elon Musk and SpaceX’s role in the American war industry. The investigation stems from...
The U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan Was Never Necessary
by Trenton Hale | Sep 18, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Twenty-two years ago today, the Authorization for Use of Military Force of 2001 became law following the attacks of 9/11, allowing the United States to invade Afghanistan that October. That war lasted for two decades and led to an opium crisis, the Taliban maintaining...
So, About that Global Pandemic Treaty…
by Patrick Macfarlane | Sep 13, 2023 | Featured Articles
Last week, First Lady Jill Biden reportedly tested positive for COVID-19 despite being double vaxxed and boosted. The White House Press Secretary then described President Joe Biden's subsequent return to cautionary measures like masking and "social distancing" to...
Putin Says Trump Won’t Change US Foreign Policy
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 12, 2023 | News
Russian President Vladimir Putin does not believe former President Donald Trump could end the war in Ukraine if he was reelected. Trump has slammed President Joe Biden for allowing the war in Ukraine to spiral out of control and promised to end the conflict within...
Why We Don’t Negotiate
by Ted Snider | Sep 12, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The signature of Joe Biden's State Department has been the abdication of diplomacy. Its head, Antony Blinken, the chief U.S. diplomat, has abdicated the role of diplomat. Though obvious in Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea, this absence of diplomacy has been...
US, Bahrain to Sign Strategic Security and Economic Agreement
by Connor Freeman | Sep 11, 2023 | News
The US and Bahrain will ink a deal to upgrade the two nations’ strategic partnership this week, according to Axios. One source briefed on the issue said the White House hopes to use this deal as a framework for other regional agreements. The Joe Biden administration...
Blog
Carrier Follies on Parade (Again)
Fact is more hilarious than fiction now. USS Repulse and USS Prince of Wales would be more appropriate names for these missile sponges and future fish apartments. The sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse by Japanese naval aviation was a naval engagement in World War...
Production Is Spiritual, Not Material
"Production is not an act of creation; it does not bring about something that did not exist before. It is a transformation of given elements through arrangement and combination. The producer is not a creator. Man is creative only in thinking and in the realm of...
NGIA, Please
Employees will start moving into new $1.7B NGA HQ in St. Louis, MO in Fall 2025. In other news, it’s a good thing the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency wasn’t called the National Intelligence-Geospatial Agency... Please. The budget is classified of course but...
Back to Basics: A Rare Instance of US Naval Sobriety
Navigation is fundamental. Every ship in the USN should do this yearly. Advanced, hand-computed celestial navigation is a full-time job. It required both of us to be on (or near) the bridge for approximately 18 hours a day, especially during the morning and evening...
Gaza’s Future and Trump’s Bold Rhetoric: New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
Dave DeCamp from Antiwar.com joins us for an eye-opening exploration of Middle Eastern politics. Former President Donald Trump has issued a stark warning about Gaza, claiming "all hell will break loose" if hostages aren't released by his next tenure. Is this another...
RIP USMC: The Corps is Toast
Force Design 2030 murdered the USMC. The Marines are struggling to keep more than one Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) forward deployed at a time. Sometimes, two are forward deployed but only for limited periods. Each MEU has about two weeks of sustainment. Unless...
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