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“The Biden and Trump administrations didn’t act on recommendations to upgrade a network of Saudi bases near the Red Sea, focusing instead on strengthening the American military position in the Pacific to counter China…” Yeah, so about that… https://t.co/lWaC9qdDQK
I’ve said many times On Here that the loser decides the war is over. If this conflict ends with Iran still fighting, and in de facto control of perhaps the most important waterway in the world, then no matter how...
We may be getting a reminder just how much it matters not to have a robust commercial shipping fleet - no matter what we say, we can’t make other countries’ merchant ships go through the Strait of Hormuz if they...
Here comes another Big One - on track to be as big as any of the Big Three SCS artificial island bases. https://t.co/3JJiM1TcAx
Re-upping this because apparently there were multiple waves of more than a dozen drones over one of our bomber bases last week. 😬
This caught-on-camera incident was the feature of this week's episode of @flywithaopa's excellent There I Was podcast series. Great job by the PIC to walk away from it. The only thing I noted was it didn't seem he squawked 7700, which...
Some interesting differences between the newly-released ODNI Annual Threat Assessment and the Pentagon's China Military Power Report (CMPR), released only a few months ago. https://t.co/X6EiKBmG3b
Welp, I guess China no longer merits its own place in the ToC of ODNI’s threat assessment report—it’s buried two levels down somewhere in the “regional challenges” part of the “Diverse Threat Vectors” section, whatever that means. (2025 report on...
The problem with "declaring victory & ending the war" is that the loser decides when the war is over. U.S. victory declaration or not, if Iran continues to decide who goes through the SoH unmolested, or continues to attack U.S. bases...
A superb article by @JeffVandenengel outlining an overarching strategic vision for the U.S. Navy in a renewed age of contested sea control. Much-needed - and hopefully much-heeded. https://t.co/7RLK6eTG0I
One thing I distinctly recall learning in my war college Strategy & Policy course (a military history overview) is the concept of "death ground" - that if you put an enemy in a position that threatens annihilation, they often do...
Saying "two hours to charge" on a road trip shows instantly you don't know diddly about today's EVs. My EV: ✅ can be driven 300+ plus miles ✅doesn't take 2 hrs to charge (more like 10-15 min to get enough charge to drive...
A worthy discussion here of the key inaccuracies and illogicality central to the plot of @netflix's film House of Dynamite: https://t.co/8CFYAw74md
"...China’s existing submarine force as well as its military’s anti-ship and land-attack missiles “already pose such a threat,” said Thomas Shugart, a former U.S. Navy submarine commander." https://t.co/QAKcI3LRKl
This is just amazingly, spectacularly bad timing. And LCS isn't really a "better" MCM platform than these. Worse, in some ways. IMO the only sensible thing to do right now would be an emergency reactivation given the circumstances, using whatever gear and...
