Posted on 09/26/2024 5:11:47 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
Bigger shingles and more s**t
What do we do about that?
Missile Threat Detection, Warning, and Defense systems need to be improved and deployed quickly. That's what USSF is supposed to be doing. They are sprinting towards that goal, among others.
China is probably still laughing at this one. First sentences are all about gender before merit. As a veteran who is a woman, at least I respected the unique capabilities of men. Then I left when they told me the only reason I was going to advanced training is because they have to send a female.. and I was the only one who could run 5 miles.
LOL...I was wondering the same thing.
The real issue, is that everyone becomes enamored by 'strategy', yet a strategy is only as good as the tactics being used, and the people actually doing the tasks.
I'm just not sure that today's military leaders understand that wokeism is part of the problem, and as long as it is allowed to fester, everything else is at risk.
“Priject 33” sounds communist.
I believe the entire Federal system is now like that. It started with the USPS.
Working in the private sector is for losers. \sarc
The US and Chinese navies are nowhere near as capable as people think. China's is crippled by corruption and the US Navy is crippled by incompetence and politics. Both are seriously undermanned.
What counts is strategic geography. China's is terrible. The US Navy and Air Force can blockade China from 2000 miles away, far out of the effective range of Chinese forces. China's economy will collapse in 12-18 months and its population will starve after two years of blockade. At that point there will probably be several Chinas all feuding with each other, and they'll give up Taiwan to get the blockade ended.
Taiwan could do far more to protect itself but hasn't because it expects Uncle $ugar to protect it instead. We shouldn't shove our Navy into suicidal range of Chinese missiles for a country which won't protect itself.
Instead we should use a Chinese attack on Taiwan as an opportunity to destroy the Chinese Communist Party through blockade, and end China's threat to us for 50-100 years.
It’s not a good plan if you release it to the media.
No they aren’t, and no it isn’t.
The military changes its training and equipment, and methods to meet anticipated threats just as it is doing now as it shifts to fighting our main enemies, Russia and China.
And the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force are not welfare programs for white people.
That’s exactly who I mean … as well as political hacks in Washington and Kiev.
“”””Then I left when they told me the only reason I was going to advanced training is because they have to send a female.. and I was the only one who could run 5 miles.””””
I lost what was a fairly sure thing of attending French Commando school which would have been a childhood dream (fantasy is the real world since I didn’t the possibility would ever be possible) come true for me, because the Green Beret MI Lt. Colonel who had the connections and was setting it up for my unit ran into protests from the females in his unit and the French reacted by withdrawing the opportunity.
Even this simple minded hatred of the weapons manufacturing that we are seeing on FR now is far, far over done.
We make the best weapons in the world and we need them, and lots of them, we always have and always will need improvements and better oversight of it but we sure can’t do without it.
You will never convince me that the U.S. Department of Defense needs anything close to a $900 billion annual budget to fulfill its constitutional mission.
Post 52 didn’t say anything along those lines.
Nothing I’ve posted here is “simple minded hatred of the weapons manufacturing,” either.
“”””The Department of Defense is basically a massive welfare program for white people.””””
Not you of course, but others.
Ukraine wiped out most of the Russian Black Sea fleet with cheap drones and missiles.
The future is swarm tactics using cheap drones via air and water.
A ship only has so much ammo for the close in defense gun.
Once the magazine is empty ...
Look up the Belknap and what happens when an aluminum ship catches on fire.
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