...Peace Is Too Important to Be Left to the Generals. MUST READ!

 via Military.com

The recent disturbing trend toward allowing military flag officers to make decisions with strategic and foreign policy consequences devoid of civilian oversight was highlighted by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley's infamous calls to his Chinese counterpart in which he assured the leader of a foreign military with strategic nuclear weapons capable of reaching the United States that we would not attack. He also reportedly told joint force commanders not to obey orders from the president without checking with him first. That goes beyond the type of insubordination that got Gen. Douglas MacArthur fired during the Korean War.

Milley is not a commander. As chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he is merely the military adviser to the civilian chain of command. Before his first call, he apparently notified the then-secretary of defense of what he was going to do rather than ask permission. In the second instance, he acted unilaterally. This constituted a very dangerous precedent.

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Ok. This UFO thing is becoming a bit concerning...

 

JUST IN - Pentagon does not know to what keeps these "objects" aloft, unknown propulsion systems.

"We're calling them objects, not balloons, for a reason," says U.S. Air Force General Glen VanHerck.

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) February 13, 2023

If we don't know what keeps them aloft then thats a bit concerning. Either a threat nation has advanced technology that we're not familiar with (God forbid if this belongs to a corporation) or we're being tested by "another" power. Regardless I would expect a few serious investigative journalist to be all over this story. BUT we live in America so that means we won't hear jack till the govt puts out a press release...either to the entire country or one of their pets in the media who will claim its a huge scoop.

Ukrainian M113 hit by two ATGM

 

I think that's the most horrifying part about what we're seeing in Ukraine. You're taking fire, don't know where its coming from, standard react drills don't work cause you have a UAV flying above you chasing you and its all shit with no sugar.

Still seeing single vehicle ops.

I just don't get it.  Its like combined arms is an afterthought in this war.

Lastly, and if its been mentioned I haven't seen it but the terrain sucks for infantry AND armor.

Its like a grass filled desert with rows of trees between the wide open spaces.  Its like wide open plains over there.  Its no wonder that the fighting has been concentrated in certain cities and not in the countryside.

A multi-divisional thunder run to Kyiv might have worked for the Russians but this penny packet shit is just gonna bleed both sides dry.

Oh my God this shit is real. I thought it was just a bad meme.

This is fashion but us peasants are all too stupid to appreciate it pic.twitter.com/DD9nRb71Fx

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 12, 2023

How do you explain this shit to your grandchildren? Assuming you're capable of reproducing that is. What kind of drugs makes you think its cool to go out in public wearing this?

Slip away!!

 

Slip away!! pic.twitter.com/SjjECAfdri

— U.S Army WTF! Moments (@TheWTFNation) February 12, 2023

N. Korean Soldiers training in snowy conditions...

The next day they all died from exposure...

North Korea released a video of KPA soldiers undergoing "intense" winter training. pic.twitter.com/n4hGm3MLy3

— Global: Military-Info (@Global_Mil_Info) February 10, 2023

Rosomak Long

 

Danger Will Robinson, Danger! You start stretching wheeled vehicles and you start creating problems. Haven't they noticed that the longer the vehicle the more problems you create off roading it? I don't know the correct term but we call it high pointing a rig down here. That's when you trying to cross an obstacle and it gets stuck on whatever you were trying to traverse because the rig is so long. See it all the time with these dressed up F-250 crew cabs. Tons of horse power, tons of torque but they still get stuck. Bet the same happens with this if they ain't careful.

Rosomak in the extended version with ZSSW-30 is now called Rosomak Long. The demand of the Polish Army is a minimum of 200 vehicles and modernization is possible with MLU of the existing Rosomak. Rosomak Long is equipped with a new Scania DC13 engine.https://t.co/6vDsbLYUyt pic.twitter.com/oPuRRxQLC3

— Junsupreme (@RyszardJonski) February 10, 2023

News you missed. Russia used an underwater drone to attack a Ukrainian bridge...

Kinda funny with the Marine Corps so into the Sailor shit lately that this news wasn't even mentioned on any Marine Centric Sites. Russia used a drone to knock out a bridge? Ya know what the next logical step is right? To go after ships...consider them ultra long range torpedoes. Against slow moving modernized LSTs (which checking the stats will be much slower than the legacy models) will be ultra vulnerable to all manner of attack...

One serious question I have though is this. Why waste a drone? Why don't they use them to launch torpedoes at a target, return, refuel, rearm and go do it again. Seems like a waste of a resource that could potentially have more than one use.

The use of enemy under water drones. This footage is reportedly from Zatoka bridge in the Odesa region where Russian forces targeted the bridge pic.twitter.com/zFCLwHDEsB

— NOËL 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) February 10, 2023

Future Armour Lab working out robotic vehicles

 

This week we have been hosting @RheinmetallAG @MilremR and @ElbitSystemsLtd as part of the Future Capability Group’s heavy uncrewed ground vehicle challenge. Very exciting to put these vehicles through their paces and see what they are capable of! pic.twitter.com/FXF1RfCiLB

— FutureArmourLab (@ArmourLab) February 11, 2023

Well Shit! Seems the K2 didn't lose to the Leopard 2A7 in ANY category!

European politics at play in this selection? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!

K2 didn't lose to Leopard 2A7 in Norway.
The K2 was better than the Leopard 2A7 in every way.
Norway will receive the first Leopard 2A7s when Poland will have almost all of the 180 K2 Gap Fillers bought.
New leaked winter test video amazing sound.https://t.co/9LyaiEoQiF pic.twitter.com/62Py1D0gJX

— Junsupreme (@RyszardJonski) February 11, 2023