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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 3879 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 3540 26

How the Gulf War Sparked China’s Military Revolution

"We realised it was all decades behind the Americans"

Liu Zhen 3 Feb 21 1460 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 2761 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 1029 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 20 389 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 20 909 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 2795 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 20 928 5

Those Pesky Chinese

US Navy Submarine Fleet To Be Overtaken by China Before 2030

HI Sutton 16 Dec 20 658 3

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

Getting new boilers

Thomas Nilsen 14 Dec 20 2712 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 7069 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 20 827 19

Those Pesky Chinese

For the First Time China Hits Moving Ships With Ballistic Missiles

Joseph Trevithick 19 Nov 20 1314 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 2906 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 1169 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 1284 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 1241 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 1444 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 1909 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 1090 8

Venezuela Under Siege

China Arming Venezuelan Navy With Ship-to-Ship Missiles

H.I. Sutton 18 Oct 20 1319 32

51st State AdventuresWar in Syria

Israeli Soldiers Enter Syria, Blow Up Syrian Army Sites

The New Arab 18 Oct 20 1038 11

Empire Woes

Imperial Troopers Are Obsessed With Chasing the Elusive Technological Breakthrough That Will Revolutionize Warfare

Tech as a magical replacement to working on yourself

Navy Matters 14 Oct 20 560 8

Turkey Has F-16s Stationed in Azerbaijan

But claims they have not participated in the Turkish-backed Azeri offensive

Ragip Soylu 8 Oct 20 516 5

Empire Woes

Empire’s Navy Wants 530 Ships, but Has No Strategy on What to Build

"The United States could instead expand its inventory of A2/AD weapons and encourage its allies in Asia to do the same"

Brandon Valeriano 7 Oct 20 709 13

UK Monitor: 64 of the 1200 Syrian ‘Moderate Rebels’ Hired by Turkey for Azerbaijan Are Already KIA

Add the wounded and that is 20-25% of the force in under a week

AFP 5 Oct 20 513 3

Did Turkey Prepare the Azeri Karabakh Offensive?

The internet rumor mill detected the build-up of Syrian fighters in Azerbaijan a full two months before the outbreak of hostilities

David Matevosian 2 Oct 20 563 1

Syria’s “Moderate Rebels” Say Turkey Is Recruiting Them to Fight for Azerbaijan Against Armenia

Reportedly some were shocked and appalled to learn that Azeris are Shia and thus "apostates"

Bethan McKernan 29 Sep 20 538 2

How Bells, Whistles & Greed Blew Up the Imperial War Budget

When you go into combat you want to do it with a complex, unproven, hi-maintenance technology demonstrator

Dan Grazier 28 Sep 20 1162 11

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