Technology and Warfare, Strategist, Army Veteran. Opinions (and bad jokes) my own.
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Fitting that they used the Iowa for this image.
The Trump Admin is taking decisive action to revitalize American shipbuilding, strengthening economic prosperity and national security.
Since President Trump signed the "Restoring America's Maritime Dominance" EO, ships are being built faster, billions are being invested, and both commercial and military shipbuilding are back.
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This is the way.
Counter-drone air defense on a Ford Ranger. General Dynamics will show it at the AUSA show in Washington next week. The U.S. Army wants drone defense that fits in the back of almost any vehicle, from a Humvee to a pickup.
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Some of these formations never existed off paper, but what would be really interesting would be to place the emphasis back on fielding a deeper bench of combat formations, even if they are administrative and not fully manned, and less on padding giant functional commands to justify the number of stars on the flag out front. The SecWar's efforts to reduce the number of GOs could play a role in getting Soldiers re-assigned to the types of units we'd need to scale for LSCO.
The Division is the unit size most relevant to studying strategic and operational level of war. Why?
1. It's the smallest unit that can operate independently - has its own staff, engineers, transport, etc.
2. It's the smallest unit that national leaders actually care about.
3. It is the largest unit size that has its own distinct, stable identity. Corps, Armies, etc. are often changed or dissolved, Divisions are usually permanent.
4. It is combined arms. Even an armoured division has plenty of infantry, all divisions have organic artillery, etc.
5. Divisions participate in multiple large scale campaigns and usually have detailed histories. Individual Regiments, Battalions, etc. are often destroyed or rotated out of line, but their Division remains engaged.
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Imagine more division HQs focused on training combat arms, even if those divs aren't fully manned. Imagine more corps HQs training staff officers to fight at that echelon even if they only have one or two divisions under their umbrella. Having thousands of officers assigned to HQDA or something like AMC (two elements largely failing their mission) does almost nothing to prepare us for LSCO.
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I cycled through Hood to train with 1st Cavalry just a few months before this attack, to include attending appointments at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center.
I arrived in Iraq just a couple weeks after the Camp Liberty shooting and my BN HQ was just feet from the clinic where it occurred.
Guys like Russell and Hasan should have been hanged on the site of their crimes mere days after the event.
Trump approves firing squad for the execution of the 2009 Fort Hood shooter trib.al/U4emrls
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We should be looking at ways to reduce how many berets we have, not introduce more.
If we *must* do this head gear thing, there are other types of hat that are way more American than the beret.
Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians can now wear a rust-colored beret, joining other fancy hat wearers like Security Forces.
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When you're dealing with an entrenched bureaucracy, operating on economic analysis and trust isn't going to cut it.
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1. This is why I laugh when the media starts wringing its hands about the sanctity of senior civilian and GO career trajectories: Who exactly do you think is supposed to be tackling problems like hardening our facilities against ballistic missiles in a region where that is the adversary's primary capability?
2. I worry about this culture of airing grievances in the press. This will certainly be used against us in the next big fight in a major way. Families especially have every right to advocate for their service members, but we can't have it playing out this way if we end up in LSCO.
AP Exclusive: Survivors of a drone attack that killed six U.S. soldiers question Army leadership over safety and the medical care that followed. apnews.com/article/iran-war-…
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I like the idea of using task-conditions-standards methodology to spread technology skills across the force. There's still a real issue with experimentation happening in isolation. The challenge here would be that doctrine starts to catch up so that E3B standards become a forcing function.
Designating specific units to experiment with unmanned technologies is important, but it won't generate force-wide competence across the Army. Thankfully, there is an existing mechanism that can be leveraged to achieve that goal. mwi.westpoint.edu/the-army-n…
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This is insanity. The British Navy literally had a core mission for most of the 19th century to interdict slave traders and enforce international treaties designed to suppress the slave trade.
JUST IN: King Charles to address the issue of slavery reparations during his upcoming Caribbean tour, as calls for Britain to pay compensation intensify.
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The Pentomic Division is back!
"Distribution does not eliminate mass. It creates another way to achieve it.... [Autonomous] platforms can remain distributed while massing their sensing, electronic warfare, deception, protection, or other effects against the same tactical problem." mwi.westpoint.edu/autonomy-w…
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Monty Python's portrayal of Isandlwana in "The Meaning of Life" is probably fairly close to a documentary.
Lord Uxbridge (hit by a cannon ball at the battle of Waterloo): By God, I've lost my leg.
Duke of Wellington: By God, Sir, so you have.
Surely the greatest exchange in British military history.
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Sounds to me like they're actually being used to promote human rights then. Next slide.
The US State Department directed millions of dollars originally earmarked to promote human rights to promote far-right causes including Afrikaner rights in South Africa, safeguarding "Western civilizational norms," and documenting "backsliding" in Europe related to mass migration, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. cnn.it/471EYZQ
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