🌊🚢 El buque multipropósito B.A.P “Pisco” e Infantes de Marina participaron de manera sobresaliente en la fase Anfibia del UNITAS LXIV Colombia 2023.#UNITASLXIV #MarinaDeGuerraDelPerú #BAP_Pisco pic.twitter.com/yqifmGL2I5
— Marina de Guerra (@naval_peru) July 21, 2023
The Sukhoi S-70 #OkhotnikB heavy unmanned combat aerial vehicle (#UCAV) was for the first time observed during this war around Sumy, #Ukraine. Now we have moving image too. Read full UCAV article here: https://t.co/xIwMKn8kuT… pic.twitter.com/HAg3uRY6Tt
— Grey Dynamics Aerospace (@greydynamicsAS) July 21, 2023
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— Southwood (@Southwood_) July 21, 2023
海兵隊の人がHK416A5のアッパーがついたM27を持っています pic.twitter.com/LPMJTXb19q
via Military Times
The U.S. is sending additional warships and thousands of Marines to the Middle East to increase security in the wake of Iranian attempts to seize commercial ships there.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday approved the deployment of the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group and the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit to the Gulf region, according to U.S. officials. The readiness group consists of three ships, including the Bataan, an amphibious assault ship. An expeditionary unit usually consists of about 2,500 Marines.
I bet the bitch ass staff officers that came up with FD2030 are wetting themselves right now.
You can also bet the 26th MEU won't be doing traditional MEU work. They can't. The MEU has been stripped to the bone (at least the GCE), so what is the Marine Corps left with?
A butched up Stand In Force on float. They will "sense" and "make sense".
In other words they're gonna land on a few islands and setup their Coast Watcher bullshit.
This is a dog and pony show for the 26th MEU that might kick shit off. The Iranians will test these dudes and might even lob some missiles.
I don't think this will go the way they think.
via AOM
While studying history back in the 1990s, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss noticed something: there seemed to be a pattern to history that repeated itself again and again. Howe and Strauss developed a theory that history moves in 80-100-year cycles divided into four 20-25-year “turnings”: the High, Awakening, Unraveling, and Crisis.
Neil Howe argues that we are currently living through a Fourth Turning, and today on the show, we unpack what that means. Neil is a historian, demographer, and economist, and his latest book is The Fourth Turning Is Here. The crisis of the Fourth Turning isn’t a historical event — it’s a generation-long era that sometimes seems to be getting better, sometimes seems to be getting worse, and moves through several phases before reaching a climax and resolution.
Thanks to Noble for the link!
Note. This US veteran is echoing many of the things I've been saying on this blog for months. He says this year or never? It won't be this year.
Via Newsweek
It's going to be one of those forever wars," Kramer—who served the U.S. military for 26 years in locations including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Congo, Iraq, and Kosovo—said.
The Russians have had months, if not years, to develop defense in depth. And the same things that were working against the Russian army—whether it's logistic lines, or logistic hubs, or these directed fires from the Ukrainians—also work against the Ukrainians when they're on the offense."
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"You always have to look at logistics and political will," the veteran added. "You can already see that the amount of stuff the West has given to Ukraine is depleting the West's ability to maintain a ready posture. I see it getting worse as the year goes on. I think less and less will be coming in."
At the July 11-12 NATO summit, Czech President Petr Pavel said Kyiv's "window of opportunity" to liberate land may close by the end of 2023, as worse weather and political conditions combine to increase pressure for negotiations with Moscow.
"I agree with the statement that it's this year or never," Kramer said.
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"There's a lot of casualties," Kramer said. "I've got some of my guys working a casualty collection point. And I don't want to say numbers, because it's all just anecdotal, but they're seeing triple the amount of casualties they saw a few months ago. It's pretty horrific."
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"The Ukrainians, their logistics are still very ad hoc," he said. "They rely a lot on their own rail systems too. So even if there is a breakthrough, the ability to push enough troops, reserve forces, and artillery forward is just not quite there."
Travis King: North Korea 'not responding to calls' on missing soldier, says USI wonder what the Chaplain and the Officer assigned says to his family? I feel sorry for them and I feel for him. The Norks are beating the dogshit outta him and it'll be a mercy if he either dies quickly or somehow they can get him back quickly. In a case like this (IMO) every hour spells doom. WTF was he thinking...
by u/newzee1 in Military
