I don't get all the whining.
Women brought this on themselves. First they sat quiet or encouraged trans to participate in women's sports. Before that they said that women should be allowed to be in combat and engage in the ultimate sport of fighting men for their very lives.
Make up my mind.
Either you think women are equal which means that you should have no issue with this shit in the Olympics or admit that you were wrong on all counts.
You can't be both.
Rant off.
via Army Times
The 18th Airborne Corps has the global response force mission for the Army, meaning a rapid deployment of up to an entire brigade on short notice. The airborne and air assault capabilities also give the corps more ways to reach their target than nonairborne capable units.
Donahue pointed to those skillsets and ongoing work on maritime insertion, including the corps’ recent work operating the floating pier off the shore of Gaza in the Israel-Hamas conflict, as ways the corps is preparing to respond anywhere it’s needed.
If you abandon a mission, another force will pick it up.
From my chair it appears that the USMC has given up on being a global response force AND amphibious assault AND combined arms operations AND scaling up and down the force continuum to fit the needs of the combatant commander.
What are they doing instead?
Tying themselves to the navy in its "naval task force" construct.
That alone means fewer missions, less utility to the nation and becoming a non-starter for combatant commanders.
Who can blame the Army for doing what the Marine Corps has decided not to?
So Israel decided its gonna engage in a two front war with Hezbollah & Hamas? Correction. Add Iran to that mix. 1st MARDIV better get its act together. US involvement in some fashion seems certain. I bet JSOC is popping corks right now. They're going back to their happy hunting grounds.Last night:
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) July 31, 2024
H×mas number 1 eliminated in Tehran 🇮🇷
Hezbollah number 2 eliminated in Beirut 🇱🇧
They f*cked with Israel. They found out. pic.twitter.com/Ks3k4yhtMb
Don’t mind us, just watching this again. pic.twitter.com/OBIELIAmNX
— USA Rugby (@USARugby) July 31, 2024
Oh and supposedly the commander of the operation and a guy who led a big fight in Ukraine has been killed too. Wagner took a big hit in this op.Mali’s Azawad forces now say they’re ready to hand over captured Russian Wagner PMC mercenaries to Ukraine “as a sign of support and solidarity.” pic.twitter.com/AUz9HcW2aO
— Clash Report (@clashreport) July 28, 2024
We need to dial down on what a "protester" actually is. You have rioters, criminals, deviants and others that participate in "protests" and cause all types of mayhem and in some countries carry out acts of violence (including the USA). To call everyone that shows up at events protestors is just wrong.Bangladesh police kills a protestor trying to hide. pic.twitter.com/5ukBoVDTj4
— Clash Report (@clashreport) July 28, 2024
The US military has a problem. It has a general officer issue. We have so much bloat, so little accountability and so little commonsense that I wonder how we even carry out daily functions. From my chair it looks like this. Imagine a local convience store. You have one checkout person and one person stocking shelves. You have 10 managers supervising the activity with all 10 being paid quite generously and reporting up the line. How does the owner save money? In the US military it would be to cut the person stocking shelves and make the guy at the check out stock and handle customers. Everyone else knows that you could knock out 9 of the managers. The US military is just a modern day welfare society for flag officers.The U.S. is establishing a new military command in Japan to strengthen security ties.
— Clash Report (@clashreport) July 28, 2024
— This is the first time American warfighting capabilities will be under a command on Japanese territory.
— It will be led by a three-star general.
— The command will coordinate with Japanese… pic.twitter.com/U8pdbWyRZQ
Its kinda obvious that someone penetrated their comms/planning and set this whole thing up. When they woke up that morning they were already dead, they just didn't know it. Only thing left to wonder is who provided the intel. Gotta be a Western country and my guess is either the US or French. We have better comm intel, the French have folks on the ground. Human or signal really doesn't matter. Wagner has a problem they need to solve. If they're smart they'll take a knee and get their shit together before launching any more ops.Russian Wagner PMC convoy burning after ambush by Mali's Azawad Tuareg militants. pic.twitter.com/zerYl3ycAt
— Clash Report (@clashreport) July 28, 2024
📍Oahu, #UnitedStates (🇺🇸)
— SA Defensa (@SA_Defensa) July 22, 2024
The @naval_peru (🇵🇪) Naval Infantry’s LAV-II armored personnel carriers deployed with the @jmsdf_pao_eng’s (🇯🇵) amphibious assault ship JS Kunisaki (LST-4003) for #RIMPAC2024.
The #Peruvians conducted landing operations using #Japan’s LCAC hovercraft. pic.twitter.com/Oi1fDI0nbk
📍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
