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Sunday, July 21, 2019

Weekend Data Dump

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The Saudi coalition in Yemen continues to kill and capture international jihadi terrorists hiding in Yemen . Actual brave Resistance to t...
Saturday, July 20, 2019

Freedom of Navigation Recruiting Office

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Iran's actions in the Persian Gulf are too weak to hurt the West but strong enough to scare the West into action. The Coalition of the S...

Is CENTCOM a Shield or Sword?

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I'm certainly willing to entertain the notion of drawing down in CENTCOM or even leaving the region, as this author raises : I propos...
Friday, July 19, 2019

Stop Pretending We Don't Need Big, Heavy Vehicles

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The Army continues to have problems turning the Stryker into a Bradley Fighting Vehicle. The Army is upgunning (with an actual cannon and ...

The Mid-Empire Crisis Continues

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Oh thank God! Putin really wants his little red sports car out of the shop : [The] Kremlin seems to view aircraft carriers as an importan...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

Berlin Airlift (East)

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Could America take a page from our confrontation with the USSR to deny China a win against our ally the Philippines in the South China Sea? ...

The Technology Rooster Crows Again

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Once again air power advocates are trying to sell the notion that air power can win wars with ground forces mere forward observers. So a r...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

The Remnant of a Multi-War Drags On

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Iran's Syria's [oops] multi-war--a civil war of multiple factions and multiple foreign actors fighting for conflicting, parallel, a...

Isn't This What Being at War Means?

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So if Russia or China attacks America or one of our allies in one theater, we are supposed to simply fight only in the theater of war that R...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

So Will It Be a Pounding or a Crushing?

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Hezbollah threatens Israel and Israel responds in kind. Whose threat is greater? Hezbollah wants Israel to know that it is better armed an...

Shooting to Kill

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The technology for training infantry with weapons simulators has gotten very effective. The technology will make the weapons themselves more...
Monday, July 15, 2019

The Real Diplomatic Vandalism is Appeasement

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The British will agree to their own solo mini Iran deal over the Iranian tanker they seized at Gibraltar for breaking sanctions on oil ship...

You Enter War to Win, Not to Exit After Defined Losses

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This veteran has done more for our country than I ever have or will, but he is wrong to focus on getting an "exit strategy" in ca...
Sunday, July 14, 2019

Weekend Data Dump

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Apollo . I have memories of eagerly watching them on TV, but I honestly don't remember which ones. Some of my prized childhood toys were...

Davids and Goliath

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Hong Kong and Taiwan find they have much in common as Hong Kong clings to dwindling freedom with an expiration date and as Taiwan has built ...
Saturday, July 13, 2019

An Idea Close to My Heart

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In writing about converting warships for other purposes, this author advocates using Nimitz class carriers as amphibious warfare assets : ...

Two Birds With One Stone

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Iraq fights jihadis and works against Iran; rather than being a threat to our Arab allies, and is trying to eject Iranian influence. With Am...
Friday, July 12, 2019

Throw Them into the Sea

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It annoyed me that it was possible to argue that Taiwan does not need tanks or even an army in order to stop a Chinese invasion by sea and a...