Tuesday, May 03, 2022
Wow. Nance is accused of "cosplay" in Ukraine!
My brother in Christ you are not hunted you are in Lviv. The front is 1000km from you. Raise money, raise awareness, stop cosplaying a soldier. pic.twitter.com/VeHb9UF1jp
— Ukraine Memes for NATO Teens (@MENAConflicted) May 2, 2022
Monday, May 02, 2022
Want to read the weakest, most poorly written piece of hot garbage in defense of Force Design 2030?
via 1945.com
Repeat after me: “Force Design 2030” is not mainly about the South China Sea, no matter what General David Berger’s detractors say. That claim constitutes part of the pushback from retired marines against the Marine Corps commandant’s effort to reinvent the corps as an island-warfare force. The latest to advance it was retired colonel Gary Anderson, a former chief of staff of the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, over at Military.com last week.
This is the weakest piece of writing I've read in a long time. That's comes from a guy that is an EXTREMELY weak writer!
His effort was to push back against the claims being made against Force Design 2030.
He fails. BADLY.
There has only been ONE well written piece that is balanced and lays out the case for and against FD2030. Read it here.
I don't know this clown. Never even heard of him, but if he can sport Dr in front of his name with that hot garbage then I need to be running a think tank.
US Army is set to take on responsible for America's forcible entry missions...redesigning Airborne/Air Assault & developing a "Penetration Division"!
via AUSA.org
The adoption of the Penetration Division, in concert with similar redesigns for airborne and air assault forces to better achieve rapid forcible entry, holds foundational implications for the U.S. Army as it modernizes for large-scale combat operations.
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As part of the effort to transform the Army’s order of battle—which had previously maximized brigade combat team (BCT) capability for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—into an echeloned ground force that is optimized for high-intensity combat, the landpower institution is developing an MDO-capable formation called the Penetration Division. Representing the “sum of the Army’s thinking about large-scale combat operations,” as argued by the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, the newly designed command will be uniquely empowered with an enhanced combined-arms armored profile to “conduct the joint force’s most demanding operations,” including breaching prepared defenses and leading contested gap-crossings against peer adversaries.2
This focus on developing a purpose-built formation with echeloned fires and reconnaissance capacity to shape deep areas and bridge the tactical and operational levels of war represents not only structural modernization, but a conceptual shift by the Army toward providing the MDO concept, at least in part, with the option of employing the penetration form of maneuver along with traditional flank or envelopment actions. Recognizing the requirement to defeat sophisticated adversary antiaccess/area denial (A2/AD) defenses in expeditionary settings, the new division provides the Army with a purpose-built, cross-domain capability to execute penetration attacks to dis-integrate (as opposed to flank and envelopment actions that isolate) in order to defeat an enemy in-depth—while avoiding the perils of attrition, exhaustion and culmination.3
The adoption of the Penetration Division, in concert with similar redesigns for airborne and air assault forces to better achieve rapid forcible entry, and as a viable tactical instrument, thus holds foundational implications for both U.S. joint forces and coalition partners. Historically representing both a high risk and high reward endeavor that requires systemic integration and asymmetric advantages to enable success, the redesigned armored formation has the potential to empower, or conversely limit, the Army’s capacity to achieve decisive outcomes. As a new factor in the emerging MDO doctrine, it represents a continuance of an American way of war that prizes firepower and technology to avoid attrition and culmination.4 In this context, consideration of the design begins with understanding the theory and history behind the concept.
Well. If there is a void, then nature will fill it. The US Marines have abandoned forcible entry so its only natural that the US Army will take on the role.
Japan commissioned a new frigate FFM 1 Mogami
🇯🇵 On April 28, Japan commissioned a new frigate FFM 1 Mogami pic.twitter.com/hfWQukTZHL
— The RAGE ❌ (@theragex) May 2, 2022
Sunday, May 01, 2022
We just sent $33 billion in militarized aid to Ukraine.
What no one will tell you? Ukraine was one of the most impoverished nations in Europe at the start of this war. Ukrainians were immigrating before the start of this war.We just sent $33 billion in militarized aid to Ukraine.
— Kathryn Rose Fisher (@kayrosef) May 1, 2022
Meanwhile, here is Philadelphia. pic.twitter.com/fxuKbcqg9k
America has areas (cities and rural) that are hurting NOW. Why is "America First" considered an outlaw term?
The linen I was issued by 18th Airborne Corps Reception. Wtf via Reddit
The US military needs a top to bottom audit. OF EVERYTHING!
Saturday, April 30, 2022
Why am I so focused on solving America's problems first...even at the cost of Europe's issues?
You will see this all over America. We send billions overseas and spend a few million at home and watch Senators crow like they've done something great. This country needs to be rebuilt. If not you'll see it burn. You're being distracted by the elite while issues at home continue to fester.This is Detroit not Ukraine. While billions of dollars was sent to Ukraine. #AmericaLast pic.twitter.com/dGJ72ssRb0
— Destiny Chloe (@Desi_FLA) April 29, 2022
Powell Takes Lead in Round of Rate Hikes Worldwide
via Bloomberg
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has as good as promised that U.S. officials will deliver a 50 basis-point interest-rate increase, the biggest such adjustment in more than two decades, but he’s been less clear about how much further they’ll need to go.
In a week that’s likely to be marked by a global round of rate hikes, Fed officials are expected to raise their benchmark on Wednesday, and may also announce they’ll start letting the central bank’s bloated balance sheet start to shrink at a pace that will quickly step up to $95 billion a month.
Global rate hikes?
Unintended knock-on effects.
Remember the Arab Spring? No one talks about rising food prices being a major contributing factor to that fiasco.
What will we see? Pretty much everything I warned about. Even worse? We're seeing coordinated action by people that have demonstrated substandard performance in the past.
So instead of this pain being localized to just the EU and US, its apparently gonna be worldwide.
Just swell.
My big fear? Not high gas prices...they're gonna go up even more we just have to deal. Not high food prices...they're gonna go up even more. Not increased immigration...that's a given.
My fear revolves around the serious issue of food shortages.
Govts will topple unless somehow these goons can moderate things so that we have a relatively soft landing (and relative is ...relative!).
Economics is politics and politics is war.
Broaden your view of the Ukraine/NATO/US vs Russia war....
This is a small rant. Everyone is focused tightly on the actual fight..the kinetics, logistics involved in this fight and forgetting the other part.
The economics of this thing.
That's the weird part. Shortly after this fight started it was the US that turned this into an economic fight and that is where I think a HUGE mistake was made.
The reality?
War is politics.
Clausewitz conceived of war as a political, social, and military phenomenon which might—depending on circumstances—involve the entire population of a political entity at war.
Politics is economics/social.
Therefore War is Economics!
If you've been on this blog then you know that the allies have practically owned the SOCIAL media of this fight.
If you're in the Western world (I include my bros in S. America and parts of Africa in this too) then you've experienced the economic part of this.
Ukraine/NATO/EU/US will NOT lose this war on the battlefield. They MIGHT lose it in the grocery stores and gas stations.
Correction.
They WILL lose it in the grocery stores and gas stations UNLESS they're able to course correct NOW. If summer hits and we're in this same economic situation then all bets are off.
Russian 30mm cannon fire has been problematic for Ukrainian forces...
Just another bit of information to validate the Army's move to a 50mm gun. IF (and it is a HUGE IF) Berger is going to actually keep the ACV, and IF he is going to remain steadfast in his belief that even a light/medium tank isn't necessary then it appears obvious that a large caliber gun is necessary on the modern battlefield for IFV/APC.By the Ukrainians own admission, the volume of 30 mm fire from the Russians has been very problematic for them. If anything, this war has re-affirmed the concept of a 25-30 mm armed IFV. https://t.co/4PatT2gwfh
— Amaël Kotlarski (@JakOSpades) April 30, 2022
US and European Marines strengthen transatlantic security
Why do I get the feeling that this vid was posted in response to the Marine General bemoaning the fact that an MEU was called and couldn't get there?
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