Thursday, January 19, 2023

Never knew a Palm Tree could jack you up...

Imagine being the person that didn't know those berries were poisonous! Imagine eating a few dozen and having your stomach pinned with all those needles. Imagine shitting that out! Nature is lit. Even the palm trees can fuck you up.
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Environments of the Royal Marines

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This dude really is a super villan

Dude is making statements that will make someone take a run at him. These people actually think they're gonna rule the world? Just wow!
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So we were planning for an Armageddon fight in the Middle East...

That's alot of fucking ammo. Gonna take years to refill our stocks. The risk is tremendous and getting more dire everyday. I just don't believe its worth it.
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Open Comment Post. 19 Jan 23

 


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What Force Design 2030 Really Does

 Read the whole article HERE!

Note.  I just plucked out a few sections that are of interest to me...

via Proceedings

 The Marine Corps is currently experimenting with Marine littoral regiments (MLRs), to the consternation of the critics, but it is far from certain how these units will evolve or how many will be established. 

How can you embark on a change this massive and sweeping and not have a vision of what it will look like when its finished.  This is 101 change agent failure.  If the ones leading the change don't know what it looks like then how can the people implementing the change know?

 Even if the Marine Corps establishes all three planned MLRs, the service is larger than three regiments. This does not turn the Marine Corps into a unidimensional organization devoted to a single scenario. MLRs provide theater-relevant intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR), precision strike, air defense, and close combat capabilities—all of which are highly relevant in any crisis response scenarios.

Ok, but the entire Marine Corps has been affected by this concept. If the change was less sweeping then this argument would be valid but we're seeing this on both coasts.  Additionally if you follow the money then its easy to see that traditional missions have been shit canned for this one capability.

 The Marine Corps’ warfighting philosophy is maneuver warfare, and the Marine Corps remains a heavy infantry force focused on closing with and destroying the enemy with fire and maneuver.

This is highly debatable.  Heavy infantry forces don't fight on water.  The new concept has Marine infantry acting as a RAF regiment protecting airfields and missiles.  Hardly a force that is optimized to close with and destroy the enemy.  Maybe a butched up RAF Regiment but the missions are the same.

 It is a convenient strawman for critics to postulate a small Marine detachment on an isolated and desolate island where Marines are cut off from resupply and subjected to pummeling attacks from precision munitions. This is not what SIF are intended to do. Could they seize and operate from a small island in a key location? Yes, but it is neither their primary employment option nor their focus. Partner nations throughout the western Pacific and Indian Ocean, including Japan, Philippines, Guam, Australia, Indonesia, and the Solomon Islands, all contain large land masses that provide substantial opportunities for cover, concealment, and local resupply.

This is another tent pole that seems more than a bit wobbly. Why is it assumed that allied nations will participate in a fight against the Chinese instead of simply staying on the sideline watching how things pan out?  There will be tremendous internal pressure in all countries listed to stay out of the fight unless they're directly attacked.  I don't see the Chinese attempting to widen a war with the US by involving other nations.  Additionally I can see a psyops campaign being launched to ENSURE partner nations remain out of the fight or face China's wrath.

 Of course, given the modest size of the currently envisioned EAB munitions, it is most appropriate to view this at the operational level at which the EAB’s primary contribution, should deterrence fail, is to enhance the joint kill web while the adversary reduces its stockpile of precision-guided munitions (PGMs) in a costly effort to destroy the EABs.

As usual the real truth comes out at the end of the article.  Stand In Forces will be detected and when detected it is hoped that they absorb hits/resources that won't be deployed against the fleet.

A ship can sail away.  If the Chinese decide to destroy entire grid squares because they have a general idea of where the EAB is then they get an easy kill.  Evacuation of wounded is almost never discussed because it just won't happen.

So this paper that seems to praise the current course still leaves me wanting.

Where are we with this thing?

1.  The Marine Corps is going SIF Corps wide.

2.  The USMC will no longer have a warfighting function but instead act as ISR for the joint force.

3.  Marine Infantry is essentially dead and is just a butched up RAF Regiment designed to protect missiles and airfields.

4.  They admit that these EABs can be detected and the HOPE is that they will displace before hit.  Idiot thinking.  The Chinese will eradicate entire grid squares from distance to kill the MLR detachments.

5.  EABs dying in place is a feature not a bug.  This is a die in place force.  It will inform the joint force by being destroyed in place and it is hoped that in dying they will save a warship by taking hits meant for the fleet.

Did I miss anything?

Defense Battalions didn't work in WW2 and this  reinvention of the wheel won't work in 2020-2040 time frame. 

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Canada announces it will donate 200 armoured vehicles to Ukraine

 via CBC

Canada is donating 200 Canadian-made armoured personnel carriers to Ukraine, Defence Minister Anita Anand announced on Wednesday while visiting Kyiv, Ukraine. 

"Today, I am glad to confirm our next package of military aid," Anand said while sitting alongside Ukraine's Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov.

"The vehicles offer state-of-the-art, best-in-class technology and weapons can easily be mounted on them," she said. "These vehicles also allow for the safe transportation of personnel and equipment." 

Anand said the Senator APCs are being purchased from Roshel, a Canadian company based in Mississauga, Ont., at a cost of $90 million. 

Here 

Hmm.  Is this a way for western nations to artificially stimulate their economies?  Every economist is predicting a global recession and this is one way to keep things APPEARING to hum along.

The flip side is that this is simply more govt spending at a time when no one can afford it.

We might not pay the price (politicians won't let us feel the full brunt of this) but our kids will.

War cheerleaders should be happy.  You're dooming your kids to a lower standard of living than you have. 

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Wednesday, January 18, 2023

French Farmers are masters at protests...

Pretty cool but we all should be concerned that farmers are under this kind of pressure in Europe. Make no mistake, farmers in the US are under the same pressure but in a different form. In the US its foreigners buying up farmland and corporate farms buying out family farmers. I wasn't sure but now I am. The global food chain is being targeted. I don't think its an attempt to wipe it out, no, I think its an attempt to direct it. What direction? I have no idea but in the modern age if you control power and food then you control the masses.
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Good Riddance!

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'If you come across a T-90, you need three of ours to deal with it — or very good luck.'”

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