Have you heard the buzz? McMaster is out the door supposedly by the end of the month.
You do get the force of connection on this don't you?
It hasn't been reported much but McMaster didn't line up with Mattis at Defense or Tillerson at State.
That means that the Marine Corp Minor Trinity...Mattis, Kelley and Dunford are now running not only US military policy BUT ALSO a large part of US foreign policy.
I never knew it.
Dunford was obviously a political pro. He survived two administrations and I'm sure will be asked to stick around a bit longer. Mattis? I didn't think he had it in him. His tenure at CENTCOM wasn't exactly brilliant but my visibility was limited so I might be wrong. Regardless he didn't strike me as being able to maneuver politically but again I was wrong. Dude was a four star so he knows his way around the halls of Congress and at fancy dinner parties.
Which brings me to Kelley.
I've been quietly cheering this guy. His viewpoints have been exposed and he lines up pretty much across the board with my own (well maybe...don't know where he stands on this gun control stuff) and besides the hiccup with Charlottesville I think he's done an OUTSTANDING job at moderating Trump.
But this is an entirely new thing.
I suspect and it's only a gut feeling, that these guys basically rolled McMaster. I always viewed McMaster as an old school, McCain type globalist/Neo-Con when the military needed something different in order to prepare for the future.
In essence McMaster was an old skool counter terror hawk and a nation building zealot instead of someone wanting to prep for China.
Like I said.
I could be all wrong but it sure looks like the Marines have taken the hill and the White House belongs to the Corps and a wild man.
Rivals are being swept away but can they bring calm, boldness and rationality to a person that seems to enjoy chaos so much that if it doesn't exist he'll invent it?
I'm not sure but McMaster and Kushner claimed as scalps? Pretty nicely done in my view.
Thursday, March 01, 2018
Pentagon Predicts 10,000 US Military Casualties in Early Days of N. Korean War...that's waaaay too low!
via Sputnik
American military leaders who met to discuss a prospective US invasion of North Korea have reportedly claimed the fighting would cause around 10,000 American casualties in the very earliest stages of what could become a protracted conflict.Story here.
The New York Times reported that on Wednesday, US military leaders attended a classified exercise in Hawaii to discuss various scenarios that would arise in the opening days of a prospective US invasion of North Korea. The Pentagon stressed that the exercises did not signal that the White House had decided to go to war with North Korea.
The so-called "tabletop exercises," led by Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and US Special Operations Commander Gen. Raymond Thomas, estimated that the opening days of the invasion would be catastrophic.
That is waaay too low. In essence this tabletop showed the loss of a US Army Light Infantry Division.
Are you kidding?
It'll be way worse than that. My guess is that we'd lose the entire 2nd Infantry Division, a vast majority of the 25th ID (I'm guessing that the Army will want to be the lead service in this fight) and the Pacific Naval Air Force would probably be mauled a bit...not by missiles but by anti-air gunfire while they attempt to support the ground forces (same goes for USAF Pacific).
If I was boss for the war?
We'd just hit them with air from altitude to give them a bloody nose. We'd "encourage" the Chinese to move south into N. Korea and we'd have to somehow convince the S. Koreans to get their head straight and evacuate Seoul or else we'd be looking at a half million civilian killed (that city is incredibly densely packed compared to major Western cities).
Either way.
This will not be easy, we will not enjoy the fight and this will be the kind of war that puts the globalists back in their cage for multiple generations.
I hope they know what the hell they're doing.
26th MEU Conducts TRAP Rehearsals....pics by Cpl. Juan A. Soto-Delgado
You ever get the feeling that leadership is trying real hard how to use the UH-1Y now? With every concept I hear being pushed it seems more and more likely that the UH-1Y has been put out to pasture and they're just trying to find work for it.
Light attack? Kinda big to be ideal for that role. Heavy attack? We have the AH-1Z. Command and control? Bandwidth seems to count more than a commander's eyes on the battlefield like we saw so many times in Vietnam with them circling overhead in a Huey.
Recon insertion? Too short legged. TRAP? Only in benign environments. It'll be replaced by the CH-53K which is being marketed as a penetrating airplane or the MV-22 which is faster and can deeper. Medivac? Don't think so. That cabin is kinda confined for that role although they made it work in Vietnam.
So the question becomes. In the Marine Corps modern way of war, what do we do with the UH-1Y?
Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the ’90s
Public perception is a dangerous thing. It's easily manipulated and easily pushed toward a "flavor of the month". In this case gun control. Check this out via The Free Beacon.
Researchers from Northeastern University said on Monday that school shootings are not on the rise over the past decade and remain rare events.Story here.
James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern, and Emma Fridel, who is currently completing her doctorate at the school, revealed this week that their research indicates school shootings remain "incredibly rare events." Their findings, which are set to be published later this year, indicate that shooting incidents which involve students have actually declined since the 1990s.
The research team determined that, "on average, mass murders occur between 20 and 30 times per year, and about one of those incidents on average takes place at a school." They said the rate of students killed in school shootings is only a quarter of what it was in the early 1990s.
"There is not an epidemic of school shootings," Fox said.
Just plain wow. The dangers of a media that is on the side of a particular party is dangerous.
They can pick and choose whatever narrative they want.
Fact to prove the point?
The issue of school shootings. The issue of crime being over the top in the inner city but being ignored. The fact that children in the inner city have been suffering an epidemic of violence for years.
The difference. Their allies run those cities.
It's a cliche now but it has me raging, screaming at the moon and punching walls. Look at the plight of Chicago's South Side. Good people living in fear, bad people running wild, police paralyzed by individuals that care more for CRIMINALS than they do for law abiding citizens, failure to fully punish those criminals for gun crimes and the press ignoring it.
Fast forward to Broward County.
There you have a liberal Sheriff that shouts about gun control, a cowardly SRO and a failure of the system to protect (although according to the Supreme Court they don't have that responsibility...I keep telling you people that its up to each individual) and what do they focus on?
Gun control.
Freaking typical!
Marine Corps Nears IOC Decision on G/ATOR Radar System
via USNI News.com
The Marine Corps is about to declare initial operational capability for its AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) after the service certified that two operational units had the training and logistics in place to sustain the new radar.Story here.
Prior to the declaration, the Marine Corps conducted extensive testing with the radars at Wallops Island and Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, an interoperability demonstration between G/ATOR and the new Common Aviation Command and Control System (CAC2S) system, and operational assessments with Marine Air Control Squadron (MACS-1) in Yuma and MACS-2 in Cherry Point.
MACS-1 and MACS-2 will continue working with one radar system apiece for operational use, with plans to bring the radar to the spring and fall Weapons and Tactics Instructor Courses (WTI) in Yuma and to an exercise in Norway later this year, deputy program manager Roy Barnhill told USNI News today.
Barnhill said the Marine Corps certified last week that MACS-1 was fully ready to sustain the new system, and the service made a similar certification for MACS-2 about a month ago – which sets up the Marine Corps to declare Initial Operational Capability. Contractor Northrop Grumman said in a news release that the milestone proves “production systems, spares, logistic support items and documentation have been tested and validated through a rigorous process.”
Beginning with Lot 3 units, the service is switching to a Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductor to replace the Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) semiconductor used in Lot 1 and Lot 2, and Pentagon acquisition officials decided that initial operational test and evaluation (IOT&E) would have to wait until the GaN technology delivers to the Marines, Barnhill said.
This is good news. Further down in the article we see that 11th Marines will get a few pieces. They're talking counter battery work when it comes to actual combat but I can see (and hope) that the training aspect they're talking about comes into play.
WTF am I talking about?
The article states that the system will be used to track artillery shells to prove accuracy (or lack of) with their artillery pieces. That can easily transfer over to extended range munitions, rockets and hopefully the ground side will get a few more so that we can REBUILD the Corps' ground based anti-air defenses.
Marine Air will be fighting for its own survival in a peer vs peer conflict. The ground force will need to be able to defend itself against UAVs, Cruise Missiles, Attack Helicopters and Attack Aircraft when the Red Dragon comes calling.
Again.
This is good news.
What is going on in Taiwan?
I post alot of vids from arronlee33.
He runs a military YouTube Channel that covers things from around the world and I find many of his vids to be "blog worthy".
He recently wrote about something that has me curious.
He was talking about a shortage of tissue paper and other related paper products in Taiwan. He even put up a website called Qoo10 and a hyperlink there so his readers in that country could maybe get a bit of relief.
I never heard of Qoo10 before but they appear to be the "Amazon of the Orient" and do the same. Ship almost anything anywhere.
But that's not really the issue.
What is going on in Taiwan for there to be a paper shortage?
He runs a military YouTube Channel that covers things from around the world and I find many of his vids to be "blog worthy".
He recently wrote about something that has me curious.
He was talking about a shortage of tissue paper and other related paper products in Taiwan. He even put up a website called Qoo10 and a hyperlink there so his readers in that country could maybe get a bit of relief.
I never heard of Qoo10 before but they appear to be the "Amazon of the Orient" and do the same. Ship almost anything anywhere.
But that's not really the issue.
What is going on in Taiwan for there to be a paper shortage?
Israeli Ground Force Commanders will recommend the CH-47 OVER the CH-53K to the IAF!
via YNET news.
Ahead of next decade’s purchase of aircraft, the Ground Forces Command plans on recommending to the IAF the American Boeing CH-47 “Chinook” tandem-rotor helicopter, instead of the six-bladed Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter.Story here.
This is stunning news.
I thought this was a done deal but obviously the IDF Ground Forces see something in the CH-53K that they don't like.
I really can't think of a thing except for the price.
Just plain wow.
Military Arms Channel blows apart the rationale for banning bump stocks!
Do you get the force of connection?
You don't need a bump stock to fire a weapon rapidly! With just a LITTLE practice you can do it from your shoulder!
The bump stock ban is batshit stupid.
I warned you. The radicalization of some gun owners begins...
I stated in a blog post that unfair gun laws would make good people go bad. Some idiotic jackass responded that if that were the case then "you weren't good to begin with".
Ignoring that stupidity, what I warned about is coming to pass.
If you take the time to surf the gun community you'll find a lot of what you see above. Statements like the one I made. That I was born free, I'm a good citizen and I will not surrender my arms.
The problem?
Say they try an Australian confiscation scheme? We know from the example that Mass set that compliance with surrender laws isn't going to work. We can see the same in California. We know from Chicago and other big cities that criminals will still get guns so what if they go full bore?
I'm guessing at a minimum you'll have 10% of gun owners not only NOT comply but for those people to also actively resist.
The crazy thing?
It will take the govt turning to NSA, compiling information from the net on US citizens and then working out some arrangement with local/state law enforcement to take down the most strident.
My point.
If they actually want to enforce new, draconian laws against the 2nd Amendment then they must violate other laws against the other Amendments.
Nothing comes free.
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