Give AFRICOM something good to do for once.

You remember correctly. Trying to recall the year, want to say it feels 2010ish.

Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to drop the silos entirely and focus on building up dual use systems that fit in with the conventional force projection priorities? Putting money into the silos is literally just pouring money into the ground, I’d get rid of it entirely if I were king for a day.

We're calling Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz the Ayatollbooth, tell your friends

Threatening the destruction of "a whole civilization" is just explicitly a threat of genocide. Even if it is just a bargaining tactic, even if it is just bluster, it is a threat of genocide. Everyone who has furthered, and continues to further, the aims of this regime is morally culpable.

As a 30 year old guy 25% of the ads I see are draftkings/other sports betting and then another full 25% is Kalshi “not technically betting” BS. Thankfully I’m not into it but I fear for the people who are. It’s relentless.

Pretty sure this is what I remember seeing. bsky.app/profile/ship...

Don’t know if the footage is the same, but I saw the same exact target and the same blurring of identifiable landmarks in a shorter clip from yesterday. FWIW.

If memory serves the base location is also supposed to be in some of the polar lunar craters in the hopes of finding ice there. And there’s only a limited number of possible craters that would have high enough rims to keep interiors shadowed from the sun. So first come first serve incentive also!

this is *incredibly* fucked up

Next president gotta purge centcom top to bottom.

They still need to answer the QP that cert was granted under anyway, right? Or are the arguments so different that it now seems like the QP isn’t even likely to be argued?

Agreed, like referring to DoD as DoW, it doesn’t make sense and isn’t even the legally designated title.

Secretary of “war”

Just an utterly embarrassing article at every level

CENTCOM told me Iran keeps hitting their high-value assets so I asked how many they have and they said they just go to the Pentagon and get new ones afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding high-value assets to the Iranians and then INDOPACOM started crying

“Earn this.” -CPT Miller

What’s this from?

Maybe they’ll fix the literal game crashing bug around 400-500 hours of playtime that causes a stack overflow that you can’t work around. Or the ship crash during renaming bug I ran into last year, 2 years post release.

I think lucky is an understatement, truly literally miraculous if status quo in the region returns within the next decade

Damn the way congressional members are reacting to this you'd think you'd just started a large-scale conventional conflict

"The US military failed to come up with a viable solution to a solvable military problem" is very different from "the US military said there was no military solution and the President went anyway"

so this is actually interesting imo because I think it is simultaneously true that there is not and never really has been a plan to "open" the Strait if Iran decided to close it because there's no realistic military solution, and also it's not unreasonable for normies to assume there was a solution

I disagree because of the risk tolerance difference between the two. I would hope the military has a larger risk tolerance for getting supplies into conflict zones than ship insurers have for getting goods out of them.

The biggest comparison to a Taiwan conflict I can see from this would be how a confused war without defined goals for an end state can lead to an escalating quagmire, but we’ve kinda “learned” (not) that lesson numerous times already and then it doesn’t matter how tactically superior any force is.

promised that the navy would be able to protect global chip manufacturing in that scenario. Basically once the missiles start flying the most any branch can do is effectively execute missions that political leaders decide will bring about the end of the war so things can go back closer to normal

It’s not that our forces are running out of bullets, munitions, or fuel, it’s that global trade in oil has taken a massive hit. But there’s no realistic scenario for a Taiwan conflict where global chip manufacturing doesn’t similarly collapse during the shooting and I don’t think anyone has ever

Sure, protecting the logistics chain for the entire force will be a (if not THE) most important objective of an operation there, but the Iran war hasn’t threatened that logistical chain (military supplies) in a major way that I’ve seen so I don’t think it’s an applicable cudgel to beat the Navy with

I think everyone has different definitions for what “protect trade routes/shipping” means in various contexts. With ship insurance being as cost averse as it is, I don’t think people were expecting much cargo to pass through the strait of Taiwan while missiles would still be flying.

I will attempt to one up you with one a friend sent me the other day: