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Hamas Has Establishing Itself as a Player That Cannot Be Ignored

"The new military capabilities of Hamas - long-range and more accurate rockets, drones and an unmanned submarine - have taken the Israeli military by surprise"

Shir Hever 1 Jun 21 932 2

Budget WarsOur Benevolent Empire

Marines Take Fight to the Sea, Targeting China Dollars

Less about seizing islands on the other side of the globe, more about keeping territory in the Pentagon bureaucracy

Jeff Groom 30 May 21 682 8

Our Benevolent Empire

Navy Seals Are Refocusing to Fight Russia and China

"Great power competition and a conflict with a nation-state like China or Russia or even North Korea and Iran suits the SEAL Teams’ DNA better"

Sofrep 22 May 21 746 25

War in Syria

Pentagon Charges Sergeant for Attack on Syrian Army Checkpoint That Killed Syrian Soldier

Shouldn't have been there to begin with and provoked a fight by issuing threats to soldiers in their own country

Kyle Rempfer 2 May 21 823 5

Empire Woes

After 20 Years of the US Military Machine Fighting Them, the Taliban Hold 52% of Afghanistan’s Land

Home to 41% of the population. Empire to lose another war

Jason Ditz 15 Feb 21 190 3

Strengths and Weaknesses of Russia’s Maritime ‘A2/AD’

Michael Kofman 12 Feb 21 1171 5

War in Syria

An Unintended Syria Air Clash Could Pull Biden Into Conflict Involving Russia, Israel

Tom O’Connor 11 Feb 21 1474 16

War in Syria

A Bust of Roman Filipov, the Russian Pilot Who Pulled a Grenade Pin Rather Than Be Captured by al-Qaeda, Unveiled

At Russian-Syrian Khmeimim airbase

South Front 8 Feb 21 829 8

The US Is Sending Bomber Crews and Destroyer Captains North to Learn How to Fight in the Arctic

Who could that be about?

Christopher Woody 8 Feb 21 985 3

Empire Woes

F-35 Pilot Reveals the Disappointing Truth About the Fighter’s Cockpit

Touchscreens, magic helmets, voice input... — the pilots don't want any of it

Kyle Mizokami 7 Feb 21 4113 6

Those Pesky Russians

Russia’s Zircon Missile Relegates Carriers to Bombing Small Poor Countries

Pesky Russians went and built a Mach 8 anti-ship missile. "There is no technological solution for stopping this type of weapon in the US currently — the ramifications are colossal"

Andrei Martyanov 4 Feb 21 3796 26

How the Gulf War Sparked China’s Military Revolution

"We realised it was all decades behind the Americans"

Liu Zhen 3 Feb 21 1572 3

Those Pesky Chinese

China’s New Aircraft Carrier Killer Is World’s Largest Air-Launched Missile

Large rocket for a large boat

H.I. Sutton 2 Feb 21 2907 8

Empire WoesMIC Joys

Burned by Failed Futuristic Designs US Navy Now Building a Frigate That Will Be Obsolete From the Start

Overcorrection

Navy Matters 20 Jan 21 1144 1

Our Benevolent Empire

Trump Pardons 4 Blackwater War Criminals Who Slew 14 Iraqi Civilians in a ‘360 Rotational Fire’ Massacre

Shot up traffic in a 360 degree arc around them, as was routine for US forces — thousands should have been prosecuted

Leo Shane III 23 Dec 20 446 2

Our Benevolent Empire

CIA Is Running Death Squads in Afghanistan

"These raids all involve Afghan paramilitaries who are outside the control of the Afghan government"

Jeet Heer 22 Dec 20 958 2

Empire WoesMIC Joys

America’s New Ford Carrier Class Is Flawed Junk That Will Be Impossible to Rely On

"The design is fundamentally and irrevocably flawed from a maintenance perspective. The entire carrier must be powered down to work on any single component"

Navy Matters 22 Dec 20 2896 33

War in Syria

Turkey Has Evacuated Every Last Military Outpost Encircled by the Syrian Army

Had served as little more than hostages for Syria

Marko Marjanović 20 Dec 20 973 5

Those Pesky Chinese

US Navy Submarine Fleet To Be Overtaken by China Before 2030

HI Sutton 16 Dec 20 713 3

No More Smoke on the Water From Russia’s Aircraft Carrier

Getting new boilers

Thomas Nilsen 14 Dec 20 2771 14

From the Archive

The ’30-Year, Single-Elimination, Suck-Up Tournament’ or How America Selects Its Generals

To one day make general a US officer has to successfully suck up to about 60 superiors over the course of his career

John T. Reed 13 Dec 20 7186 20

Our Benevolent Empire

US Navy to Form a Second China-Centered Fleet to Encircle China From the South

The 1st Fleet would be based in Singapore or West Australia, opposite of the 7th Fleet in Japan

Dave DeCamp 7 Dec 20 870 19

Those Pesky Chinese

For the First Time China Hits Moving Ships With Ballistic Missiles

Joseph Trevithick 19 Nov 20 1382 17

Those Pesky Russians

Putin’s New Model Army: Russian Military Force Dazzles After a Decade of Reform

Phoenix rises

The Economist 3 Nov 20 2993 0

Empire WoesImperial Decline

Imperial Navy’s ‘Littoral Combat Ships’ Keep Breaking Down

So much so that they're not regularly escorted by special repair ships on deployment

David B. Larter 2 Nov 20 1240 4

Empire Woes

China Happy: Taiwan Blows $8 Billion on F-16s That Are Useless Militarily, Purely a Political Purchase

That's a huge chunk of its procurement budget that now can't be spent on much more useful systems (missiles, small attack ships)

James Holmes 30 Oct 20 1328 9

Our Benevolent Empire

Not to Be Left Out of the China Action, Marines Roll Out Subversive New Strategy

No war like the budget war

Mark Perry 29 Oct 20 1285 13

War in Syria

Russian Airstrike Hits HQ of Syrian Islamist Group Close to Turkey; 80 Killed

Russian message that it is displeased with Turkey de-stabilizing the Caucusus?

Marko Marjanović 26 Oct 20 1494 16

Armenians Are Losing the War in Karabakh Because Their Air Defenses Can Not Handle Slow-Flying Drones

Hindsight is 20/20 but turns out it was a big mistake not to have had modern drone-killing systems in place

Zoran Vukosavljević 24 Oct 20 1978 16

War in Syria

Turkey Withdraws From Military Outpost in Syria Surrounded by the Syrian Army

Turks had been surrounded there since August 2019

Marko Marjanović 20 Oct 20 1131 8

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