📍Djibouti | Le véhicule blindé SERVAL dans le désert 🇩🇯 ! 🏜️
— Armée française - Opérations militaires (@EtatMajorFR) July 6, 2024
Manœuvres terrestres sur des terrains d’entraînement djiboutiens dans un environnement désertique abrasif et exigeant. @FFDJ_Officiel @armeedeterre pic.twitter.com/TrCpOWubHR
Some lovely imagery of Hungary's new Leopard 2A7HU out and about
— Jon Hawkes (@JonHawkes275) July 1, 2024
H/T https://t.co/EUGwuBwZLg pic.twitter.com/cyIickhoBv
— NATURE IS BRUTAL (@TheBrutalNature) 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.Putin's Wagner mercenaries annihilated by the rebels in Mali near the border with Algeria.
— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) July 27, 2024
Russia is propping up the Mali dictatorship and uses Wagner mercenaries to mass murder civilians. pic.twitter.com/58sB76ZCWP
Best mom ever.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/Z25066vnPD
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) July 26, 2024
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
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.
The lessons taught by these demonstrations may one day save you lifeThis 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.
byu/tacticalDildos inFirear
This is peaceful protest?My heart is just broken. pic.twitter.com/z0jkiP8GNY
— Sarah Fields (@SarahisCensored) 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.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
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.
— Byron Wan (@Byron_Wan) July 23, 2024
The video on the left is the full 17-minute+ trailer;… pic.twitter.com/CS6MVcYx0Z
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.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
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
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.Ukraine teens remove the Orcs pic.twitter.com/MvnNiGNI5G
— Fella From The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare (@mouw5284) 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.ISIS has reportedly declared war on the "Palestinian resistance, Hamas."
— Shaun Pinner (@olddog100ua) July 20, 2024
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
Please for the love of God invest in a good holster and not this garbageIts 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.
byu/nextwave4030 intacticalgear
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.
