Tuesday, February 14, 2023

This guy (or someone like him) is coming to a neighborhood near you. Are you ready?

Russian attacks on Ukrainian power plants are obviously having an effect

 

The amount of small arms ammo that the Ukrainians are using defies common sense...

The terrain, modern detection devices and the good ole mark 1 eyeball should make the idea of a machinegun position (with the gunners just hanging over the lip of a trench firing) batshit crazy.

Deep Jungle?  I get that.  But on the plains of Ukraine with forested positions?

That just don't make sense.

Yet here we see it.  I don't get it.  Something is off.  If its real then Russian basic infantry tactics are jacked up.  Considering the terrain and the ammo expended these gunners should have been easily spotted and eliminated.

US Govt tells its citizens to leave Russia immediately

Russia deploying tactical nuclear armed vessels in the Baltic Sea

Open Comment Post. 14 Feb 23

This vid on the train derailment is awesome (because it explains the chemistry behind it) and down right horrific. People are sucking in pure poison

 

Monday, February 13, 2023

On the topic of Marine Littoral Regiments (MLRs), the team found what I have suspected: that while these units are nice to have, they lack the sheer number of weapons to really move the needle in a large-scale conflict like this.

This ENTIRE Twitter Thread is worth reading.

While I highlighted the part about MLRs because its tearing up the Marine Corps I simply used that to highlight what a waste of resources they are.  The Army's Multi-Domain Brigades will have sufficient firepower (or at least on paper) to "move the needle".

So much makes sense now.

Of course the Navy would be hesitant to build the modernized LST if the results of wargaming are as described.

Why build targets that will be destroyed at the enemies leisure?

But the rest of the analysis by Tom Shugart is stunning.

Once again, in this wargame, we're looking at 90% of US forces DESTROYED IN THEIR BASES!

We've seen national authority stymied by balloons when it comes to their decision making.  What will happen if they're faced with 30K casualties before they even know we're at war?

Taiwan is un-defendable.  It's too close to China and only a ROBUST defense treaty with the Philippines that allow permanent US basing rights along with the development and deployment of MASSIVE numbers of anti-ship missiles coupled with authorizing the commanding general of the Pacific fleet authority to act in defense of both Taiwan and US forces do we even have a chance of success (and that's so dangerous it shouldn't even be considered).

In other words.  

When it comes to defending Taiwan we're fucked.

Sunday, February 12, 2023

Wait! How did I miss this? Massive fish and animals kills reported within a 100 mile radius of this train derailment!

 

Uh, why wasn't this the leading headline for the weekend? This is huge! a poison cloud over the heartland of America and no one, including me notices? Amazing!

Did the Commandant transform the Marine Corps with a war plan that was invalidated by joint war games?

 via Military.com

Finally, we come to the commandant of the Marine Corps, who has spent his time in office transforming the nation's worldwide combat force-in-readiness into a service specifically concentrated on a war with China in a given geographic area: the South China Sea. He did this based on some service-specific classified war games that have been contradicted by independent joint games. The commandant did this in a vacuum against the advice of nearly every former four-star Marine Corps general, most former commandants, and every living Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient.

This is fucking huge.

If he changed the very essence of the Marine Corps based on flawed and biased data then this dude committed high crimes against the nation.

We need more information on this.  If independent war games showed that FD2030 is trash then this has national survival implications.