SIGMA 155m wheeled howitzer

Nature IS brutal but Australia is particularly fucked up....

pic.twitter.com/GCCOX0Sb73

— NATURE IS BRUTAL (@TheBrutalNature) July 27, 2024

Wagner got smashed. Bad intel or lower quality operators?

Putin's Wagner mercenaries annihilated by the rebels in Mali near the border with Algeria.
Russia is propping up the Mali dictatorship and uses Wagner mercenaries to mass murder civilians. pic.twitter.com/58sB76ZCWP

— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) July 27, 2024

Wagner got smashed in Africa. That continent is gonna be the place of the next major war between powers. Not some proxy shit but actual powers putting boots on the ground and getting after it. Why? Resources. Rare earth minerals that will make the next gen tech. But that's for another time. What happened here? Did they get bad intel or are we seeing lower quality operators? I think one thing is obvious. Wagner might continue in name but it ain't up to the same standard after the death of their benefactor. I'm thinking we're gonna see more of this and that spells doom on Russia's ambitions in the dark continent unless they get their act together.

Something to make ya smile

Best mom ever.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/Z25066vnPD

— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) July 26, 2024

Open Comment Post. 27 July 24

Things are worse in Ukraine than we're being told

 

I spent a week for @thetimes with Ukraine’s elite 47th Mechanised Brigade, equipped with M1 Abrams, M2 Bradleys and Paladin artillery. They told me they’re in “deep shit” in the Pokrovsk sector, where the Russians have advanced 6km towards the Donbas town in just over a week. pic.twitter.com/UpmimUuf9p

— Maxim Tucker (@MaxRTucker) July 27, 2024

Ya'll keeping up on the minor story about the Fat Sailor? Seems like his Chief is hunting for the Marines that took the pic

 

I saw the above pic on USMC Reddit.  I thought no big deal.  Seen a fat sailor before and kept it moving.  Well I circle back and this thing has taken on a life of its own.  Of course the Marine Corps network is lookin' out for its own.  Check out the next pic.

Ordinarily I'd think it was just shit posting but in this new age of the US military I'm not so sure.

Weird ain't it.

Our military is off course and headed to the rocks.  A Senior Chief is hunting for the people that took the pic instead of wanting the heads of the people in this guy's command that let him get this way?

We're fucked.

Ricochets are dangerous, this vid might save your life...

 

The lessons taught by these demonstrations may one day save you life
byu/tacticalDildos inFirear 

This one is for my bros in all walks of life. From the guys in law enforcement, to the bubas on active duty and to the armed citizens. Ricochets are dangerous and can kill. Double that if you're up against a trained opponent.

Most training emphasizes the defensive side of this thing.

Cover versus concealment.

I definitely get that.  Thinking that you're hidden from view of the enemy is much different from being protected from enemy gunfire.

My point is that while incoming ricochets are dangerous to the good guys (and I'm assuming that we're all the good guys and not the baddies), I have to wonder why aren't we teaching the offensive aspects of this thing.

Maybe the high speed dudes get that.  Talking Special Ops and Snipers, but for the rest of us its barely even mentioned.

I guess the problem is one of having to build brand new facilities in order to get units trained up but if we're talking about fighting in urban areas and even mega cities then this type training could save a life.

Hamas supporters are going after national monuments...disgusting....

 

My heart is just broken. pic.twitter.com/z0jkiP8GNY

— Sarah Fields (@SarahisCensored) July 24, 2024

This is peaceful protest?

They think that they are "changing minds" with acts like this?

No.

They know they aren't.  They aren't even trying to.  These folks get off (yeah in the damn near sexual sense) in the chaos and misery they cause.

Time to unleash some beasts that "get off" in correcting this type behavior.

Russian forces are close to encircling a few battalions of Ukraine's 31st Mech Brigade

 

Deep State updated their map their map this morning showing further Russian gains on the Pokrovsk front that places battalions from Ukraine’s 31st Mechanized Brigade in an increasingly precarious position. https://t.co/5a3izk0bil https://t.co/R98pGfoKpk pic.twitter.com/43QQg0l2k4

— Rob Lee (@RALee85) July 24, 2024

When my twitter feed starts getting filled with snuff videos of Russian troops being attacked by aerial drones....or...pundits start talking about the number of Russian troops losses, I start wondering what the fuck is actually going on. This is what's going on. Ukraine is being pushed on several fronts.

The sad thing?

I don't believe that anyone in the West actually believed that Ukraine could win this fight militarily.

I believe that the SANCTIONS was the trump card that was supposed to guarantee Ukrainian victory.

Unfortunately, policy makers didn't keep up with current events.  I BELIEVE that the BRICS/Belt & Road was actually setup to blunt Western sanctions.

That tool in the toolbox got over used and the enemy adjusted.

Add Saudi Arabia selling oil in a variety of currencies, Opec in general cooperating with Russia to raise oil prices AND a military industrial base that was too sluggish to ramp up and you had a built in failure.

Day 1 - The Movie!

Major thanks to Canuk Fighter for the link! 

This is rather telling. While the US is preparing for invasion I posted a tweet where the Chinese military were talking about launching a blockade on Taiwan instead. Obviously the Taiwanese are paying close attention to what Chinese military officials are saying....

Trailers for “零日攻擊 Zero Day”, a new 10-episode Taiwanese TV series about what happens in Taiwan after the PLA begins a maritime blockade of Taiwan under the pretext of searching for a missing Y-8, have just been released.

The video on the left is the full 17-minute+ trailer;… pic.twitter.com/CS6MVcYx0Z

— Byron Wan (@Byron_Wan) July 23, 2024

Amazing~! Zelensky now agrees with me and wants to turn the war off....

JUST IN: 🇺🇦 Ukrainian President Zelensky says "we have to finish the war as soon as possible, not to lose people's lives." pic.twitter.com/jWzXvMJGlc

— BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) July 23, 2024

A perfect plan too late is still a shit plan. Two years ago this might have made a difference. Now? Not so much. The Russians are grinding down the Ukrainians and the Ukraninian response is to fill the net with snuff vids of Russian soldiers getting zapped by drones. His bigger problem is that once this is over the Ukraninian people in my opinion are gonna want to hunt this guy down. He better find a safe haven sooner rather than later.

Open Comment Post. 23 July 24

Plain talk from Military Officers. Yes, it did exist at one time. Check out a UK example of then vs now....

Naughty I know, but you can tell who is/was better able to communicate with soldiers...@BritishArmy @RUSI_org pic.twitter.com/agcZ9x0ag8

— Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 (@robert_lyman) July 23, 2024

Un-uniformed Ukrainian teens (civilian clothing), appear to be engaged in the hostilities .... how are they classified?

 

Ukraine teens remove the Orcs pic.twitter.com/MvnNiGNI5G

— Fella From The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare (@mouw5284) July 20, 2024

No matter how Russian troops respond this is gonna be a nightmare for them. Engage them as combatants and they're shooting civilian kids that were just out playing, and if you don't its gonna embolden them even more and Ukraine could make whole platoons of these rascals. They just better hope they don't have US military type JAG officers that are trying to make a name or they're fucked regardless.

I do NOT understand the flow chart of the Middle East groups. ISIS has declared war on Hamas????

ISIS has reportedly declared war on the "Palestinian resistance, Hamas."

Can somebody build me some sort of chart as to who is fighting who?

It’s all getting a little confusing 🤷 pic.twitter.com/lNLQCVtUMY

— Shaun Pinner (@olddog100ua) July 20, 2024

This has been circulating all morning. Its the execution of an ISIS member that was smuggling weapons to Hamas (I think). Anyway it appears that ISIS has declared war on Hamas. I don't under the flow chart of the region with regard to the different groups fighting each other. What amazes me is that our intel agencies are exploiting this to the max. I don't understand why the IDF isn't exploiting this.

Long story short?

The so called puppet masters should be able to have all these groups fighting each other while we sit back drinking a cold Coors Light!!!

Nylon holsters are dead. Long live Kydex (for now)

 

Please for the love of God invest in a good holster and not this garbage
byu/nextwave4030 intacticalgear

Its not that nylon holsters are dead, its just that the design esthetics of the day have changed. Dating myself BIG TIME but remember the old leather and nylon holsters for the Beretta 92 and before for the 45s? Flap holsters had the advantage of providing protection to your side arm in jungle conditions. Current kydex, at least the ones in use for duty, don't do that. I bet if the military turns back toward the jungle fight then the old designs will find new favor? Until then its kydex with retention all day every day.

More food for thought on Berger's total focus on the pacific and ignoring other regions

 I've wondered what events conspired Berger to totally focus on the Pacific.  What made him go whole hog on Force Design 2030? What happened in his career (if we're assuming that Force Design 2030 isn't a vanity play) that would have him alter the Marine Corps in such a way that retired/former Marines would damn near revolt, yet would cause him to be so convinced in his "rightness" that he would ignore anyone that wasn't onboard with his radical plan.

I went open source trying to find speeches.

That was pretty useless.  Until he became commandant they were mostly boiler plate.

So I decided to look up his Wiki page and see his postings...via Wiki

Berger started serving as commanding general of Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command and the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center on January 11, 2013.[8][11] In July 2014, Berger was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and assumed command of I Marine Expeditionary Force.[12] On August 26, 2016, he was appointed simultaneously the commander, United States Marine Corps Forces, Pacific, and commanding general, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific.[13] During his time in that position he worked to strengthen the partnership between the U.S. Marine Corps and its local allies in Japan, Korea, Australia, and the Philippines,[10] including by increasing the size of the Marine Rotational Force in Darwin, Australia to a Marine air–ground task force. He also oversaw the introduction of the F-35 Lightning II and the expansion in the usage of the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey.[13]

On August 28, 2018, Berger took up his new post as the Commanding General of Marine Corps Combat Development Command and Deputy Commandant for Combat Development and Integration.[14] His appointed to that position happened around the time that the military began focusing on the rise of China. As the head of MCCDC, he began considering how the knowledge he gained while commanding Marine forces in the Pacific could be applied to the Corps. Berger oversaw a wargame at the Naval War College that simulated a potential conflict in that region, and its results influenced his policies when he later became the commandant. According to him, the wargame showed that mobility and sustaining forces in the Western Pacific were going to be challenges in such a conflict, but with certain changes, the Marine Corps could have an important role in sea-control and sea-denial operations.[10]

I accused the guy of going native.

I was right but wasn't forceful enough in my declaration.

Because of his postings and because HE CHOSE to only see China (a cover given to him by Mattis), he sought and has so far succeeded thanks to his minions, to transform and pigeon hole the Marine Corps into a future that I believe will lead to its destruction.

Arrogance, vanity and a belief that only he can see the future.

Berger's term MIGHT serve to do one good thing.  Any commandant that chooses to do so currently can do things that no other service chief would dare.

We are now aware of the IMPERIAL COMMANDANT, and it will take Congress to reign in his power or we will see this shit again. 

Open Comment Post. 20 July 24

I found it. This was the impetus behind Force Design 2030. It's the snapshot in time that led to the current madness

I found it! I found the rationale behind Force Design 2030, the reason why Berger went nuts on it and why a moment in time is jacking with our defense planning...https://t.co/gMxJfIOjYj

— Solomon (@SnafuBlogspot) July 20, 2024