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Why The Gaza Pier Failed | Five Issues and the Ultimate Cause Why JLOTS Did Not Succeed
What's Going on With Shipping ^ | 7/16/2024 | Sal Mercogliano

Posted on 07/25/2024 12:59:32 PM PDT by Paul R.

Five Reasons Why the Gaza Pier Failed July 16, 2024

In this episode, Sal Mercogliano - a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner - discusses the underlying causes for the failure of the US military Joint Logistics Over the Shore (JLOTS) Gaza Pier.

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aid; gaza; jlots; pier
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This is a pretty good, factual analysis, other than Sal trying to pre-emptively defend himself against the inevitable nonsense that he's hateful of the Gazans, and he probably takes that defense a bit too far.

I did a search and did not find this article on FR, but if it was and I missed that, mods, delete this post at your discretion.

As it is, this is a pretty damning indictment of the incompetence of the Harris / Biden Administration.

(Yes, I put Cackles first for good reasons!) :-)

1 posted on 07/25/2024 12:59:32 PM PDT by Paul R.
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To: Paul R.

never underestimate joe biden’s ability to eff everything up...


2 posted on 07/25/2024 1:02:16 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Paul R.

The ByeDone administration has succeeded in making the U.S. military look like FOOLS. Doesn’t quite outdo our withdrawal from Afghanistan, however.


3 posted on 07/25/2024 1:03:03 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Paul R.

It was an ill-conceived idea from the beginning to put it delicately.


4 posted on 07/25/2024 1:04:02 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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Why? Because it was ordered by Biden and it helped resupply Palestinian HAMAS terrorists. Plus, done without securing release of US hostages.


5 posted on 07/25/2024 1:04:06 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Biden's Given His Farewell Address, So When Is He Leaving?)
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To: Paul R.

I have another thread to post, and then I’ll be “out” for a bit. Back later / this evening, to check in on replies. :-)

If you have a comment to me about a specific point Sal makes, please note the time stamp. Thx!


6 posted on 07/25/2024 1:04:24 PM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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To: Reno89519

This is more of a technical analysis (what JLOTS can and cannot do, etc.) In effect, it even failed at substantially aiding HAMAS, when you get right down to it.


7 posted on 07/25/2024 1:06:32 PM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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To: SpaceBar

You are too kind - hahaha!


8 posted on 07/25/2024 1:07:03 PM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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To: teeman8r

Agreed, but we need to tie Harris to these failures too.


9 posted on 07/25/2024 1:08:14 PM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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To: Paul R.

1. Ham ass stole it all.


10 posted on 07/25/2024 1:16:50 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (And yet we have the morally inverted allahu akhbar chorus at FR on the pro-barbarism side!)
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the speaker sounds like he knows something about the technology

the biggest problem was the Biden/Harris regime’s desire to resupply their Fakestinian terrorist bff’s

(while stabbing Israel in the back)

we desperately need to replace these evil people, kick them out of WashingtonDC this November. they’re dragging down America, our defenses, our economy, our jobs, our moral values, and our individual liberties. We do NOT want to be dragged into becoming a commie.Nazi leftist dictatorship! America is just too great a nation, too great a people...for that kind of European krap.


11 posted on 07/25/2024 1:23:54 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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I blame the woke upper echelon officers who put SloJo’s love of the enemy over all the engineers who said it was a dumb idea.


12 posted on 07/25/2024 1:25:16 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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Quick summary. It failed because Biden ordered the military to install the pier in a place where it was never designed to go, i.e. a port damaged by war or natural disaster.


13 posted on 07/25/2024 1:26:45 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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she should have to answer for her compliance in deceiving the nation with a president who was incompetent.


14 posted on 07/25/2024 1:27:41 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Paul R.

God didn’t want it there.


15 posted on 07/25/2024 1:32:50 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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You should hear what is being said about Biden on Israeli news..they are saying that for a few yrs everyone knew that Biden was mentally gone..that others have been doing the work for him


16 posted on 07/25/2024 1:38:52 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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Not built for the open sea, which is where they tried to put it.

$324 Million for THAT?

17 posted on 07/25/2024 1:40:32 PM PDT by ZOOKER
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It didn’t fail. It allowed them to spend a half billion of our money, giving them more control.


18 posted on 07/25/2024 1:41:07 PM PDT by Eli Kopter
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To: Paul R.

Imagine had Trump done this - 24/7 lamestream exposes and suchlike.


19 posted on 07/25/2024 1:50:31 PM PDT by dodger
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The pier was designed for up to class three waves. The Mediterranean Sea features class four waves. A high schooler could have told you that it wouldn’t work.


20 posted on 07/25/2024 2:20:51 PM PDT by bennowens
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