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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.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aid; gaza; jlots; pier
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To: SpaceBar

If it needs to float, call the navy. If it needs to sink or be blown to bits, call the army, or the marines, or the air force!


21 posted on 07/25/2024 3:39:25 PM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: Paul R.

Why The Gaza Pier Failed


Simple: they failed to build a break water to protect it.


22 posted on 07/25/2024 3:44:21 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Paul R.

Another Biden military fiasco reflecting poor leadership.


23 posted on 07/25/2024 4:21:02 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (Tthe trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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To: PIF

4 more issues to go, even if they built the break water.

Agreed though, that not building a breakwater meant guaranteed failure.


24 posted on 07/25/2024 6:58:46 PM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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To: VanShuyten

That sounds pretty much correct, except that I don’t know if Bite Me actually loves this enemy. He just loves “correct” political narrative, and getting the likes of The Squad off his back.


25 posted on 07/26/2024 4:26:08 PM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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