Saturday, August 06, 2022
New York is just insane....
Pure speculation on my part but I bet that midget was gonna do something terrible to some child. I base it on nothing, just the strangeness of his activity. But the bigger issue is New York City. How anyone could want to live there is beyond me. I've seen vids of what goes on in the subway, on the streets, all that craziness added to the general insanity of the city and nope. Not for me.This is not acceptable. Wait maybe it is acceptable๐ง
— Tansu YEฤEN (@TansuYegen) August 5, 2022
pic.twitter.com/kp0b3TCw0A
My only hope is that they stay there. My fear is that they won't.
CDC advice for monkeypox
Have monkeypox? CDC advises no sex, but says masturbation 6 feet apart or virtual sex reduce risk https://t.co/Zko9MworRh
— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 5, 2022
The closer you are to nature, the more you realize we're just another cog...
These kids ๐๐ pic.twitter.com/fa2yQH71Eo
— figensezgin (@_figensezgin) August 5, 2022
These boys know that they're just another cog in nature's wheel and that they can get gobbled up just like any other animal, the poorer nations are closer to reality and for the most part focus on simply living.
Friday, August 05, 2022
Weird America. How did taking pictures of your food become fashionable?
This is weird.Good lesson! ๐๐๐pic.twitter.com/FxeKINSyjr
— Figen (@TheFigen) August 5, 2022
Question though.
Do ya'll take pics of your food?
Is the Marine Corps Becoming Irrelevant?
Thanks to Carlton for the link!
via Military.com
It should be noted that, during each challenge to the existence of the Marine Corps, it never discarded capabilities. Innovations were always additive. That is why so many retired Marines -- and secretly, many active-duty ones -- are so worried about the commandant's Force Design 2030 initiative, which is well underway.
In implementing Force Design 2030, Gen. David Berger, the current Marine Corps commandant, has consulted with the secretary of defense. Apparently, however, Berger did not coordinate with the combatant commanders who now control military operations in the major theaters worldwide.
Before the Goldwater-Nichols military reform legislation of the 1980s, the president, via the defense secretary, appointed a commander to manage a crisis and then assigned forces to that commander. Today, however, the combatant commanders plan and coordinate for potential crises in their assigned regions. The service chiefs vie to demonstrate capabilities in those theaters. Despite recent developments in Ukraine, the combatant commanders in the Middle East and Europe will want heavy combat equipment, which the Marine Corps no longer has.
Berger has bet the farm that the next big war will be against China. If he is right, and the Corps contributes significantly, he will be a hero. If he is wrong and the next conflict occurs elsewhere, the Marine Corps faces irrelevance. (NOTE THAT THIS HAS BEEN A COMMON COMPLAINT OF MINE....Berger is thinking Pacific, I'm thinking Middle East, again, or Africa)
Berger's ideas on sensor-to-shooter technologies, increased use of robotics and information operations are visionary and should be commended. In the 1990s, I was a senior member of the Marine Corps' experimentation establishment, and Berger was a midgrade staff officer. We hoped to leverage emerging technologies and field lighter, more lethal forces in situations where they were appropriate. However, I also believed that situations such as counterinsurgency and urban combat would still require conventional capabilities.
We could always organize small forces for high-tech combat if needed from larger existing formations, but that is no longer an option under Berger's plan. The Corps cannot afford to ever tell a combatant commander, "Sorry, we don't do windows."
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