I hope the Judge didn't ruin your breakfast as he feared by having you listen to Chickenhawk Graham. Megalomania must be a communicable disease as he sounds just like Trump.
The war with Iran is exposing the many failures of US military strategy and technology in a world that has moved on from capital ships and high tech manned aircraft: F35s shot down by their infrared signatures; the USS Ford hit by a missile - Larry Johnson showed a photo yesterday that appears to show the stern torn up by something incoming versus a supposed laundry fire.
But this is America - our capitalists will convince politicians that everyone else is wrong, and the follow-on to the F35 and a future Trump-class aircraft carrier (in addition to the battleships) will be required.
Assuming it was a laundry fire that disabled the Ford, that may be worse than being hit by a missile. At least a missile strike is respectable. Imagine not being able to control a fire in the laundry room!
And how about the problems with the toilets? "The vacuum collection, holding, and transfer (VCHT) system, adapted from cruise ships, has narrow pipes that struggle to handle the waste from a large crew. Sailors have reportedly flushed inappropriate items, such as clothing and cleaning supplies, which contribute to clogs." The cruise book from this oughta prove a collector's item - unless Trump orders all copies destroyed.
I'm going to say something, Bill, that you probably won't like. For many years, I have claimed that we need an Army but we don't need an Air Force -- and we might not even need a Navy. (Truth in advertising: I'm a Navy puke, not Army and my service loyalties will always be with the Navy.)
The only things that win wars are the ground troops. Without boots on the ground, you cannot hold the land and you cannot win wars. The only purpose of airplanes is to support the ground troops, and if you are not supporting ground troops, you are just squandering resources. The last time air power helped win a war was in WWII. At that time it was the U.S.Army Air Corps and the Army dictated the priorities, the missions and the weapons systems needed to support the ground war. Since 1947 when the U.S.Air Force was established, air power hasn't won a single war. (Out of how many? I've lost count.)
The problem, as I see it, is that the Air Force has a different mission and a different set of priorities (and a separate political organization set up to argue for resources that, in most instances, don't support the land forces.) Close air support for the troops is a secondary and low priority mission. The priority missions are strategic bombing and air superiority. Fighter aircraft are cool. Supersonic and stealth bombers are cool. But the best aircraft for supporting the ground troops the Air force ever had was the A10 -- and they hated it. It was ugly. But the damned thing was effective.
As you point out, bombing the crap out of country doesn't win wars. Bombing only helps win wars when it's needed for the ground forces to hold the land.
How dare you! Nothing can stop the US Air Force! :-)
As you know, we have a military designed to project power globally. An imperial military. And I wish that weren't so. What we need is a military to defend the US. A smaller, more focused, citizen-soldier military.
But global dominance is the cry, and we'll probably bankrupt ourselves in pursuit of it while killing plenty of innocents along the way, as in fact we already have.
Restructure the military. Reinstate the draft and require a 3:1 ratio of draftees to professionals. Reinstate the U.S. Army Air Corps as it was in WWII and abolish the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Space Force. Limit total uniformed personnel, including national guard and reservists, to 1 million and reduce the military budget by 75%.
You are right on both counts. Nothing will stop the Air Force until the government goes bankrupt (which it may in the not too distant future).
And the force structure we need to defend our country is probably less than 25% of what we have. With 2 huge oceans on either side of us, Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, the only real threat to our national security is internal. (As Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us".)
I imagine nearly everyone reading this is familiar with – indeed, kinda grew up with – SAC, the Strategic Air Command. I thought it was still around, but after doing a bit of online research earlier today, I found it no longer exists, coming to an end in 1992, some 34 year ago, after a 46-year run. It was recast that year to the Air Force Global Strike Command, AFSTRAT-AIR (I can’t decipher the military-speak of the latter part either).
I wondered what the impetus for the change was, and took a look at who was President then to see if that might shed some light. Turns out it was Bush I. A year prior he rejoiced in saying, “By God, we’ve kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all,” referencing Gulf War I. In other words, the U.S. was reverting to type after its bitter, humiliating, confidence-shaking defeat in Vietnam 17 years earlier. Since then America had been more or less wandering in the wilderness globally, an exception perhaps being Iran-Contra (interesting, Reagan was scheming to arm Iran back then). Defeating Saddam Hussein was therapeutic for what ailed this country militarily, psychically, as to its self-perceived role in the world. In a way, the new branding was a rare example of candor at the Pentagon and the DoD – we are “an imperial military… global dominance is the cry.”
XK: Ironically the "Strategic Air Command" of which I was a Member for 4 yrs. "Sky Cop" AB Security Forces was decommissioned supposedly because of the end of the Cold War, and the dissolving of the Soviet Union, and the now unlikely, or improbable chance of a Nuclear War lol :/ :o)
“… supposedly because of the end of the Cold War…”
In my (less) naïve days, I thought at the time that the world could now heave a tremendous sigh of relief, no more contention, we could now focus on the trivial things in life, like world poverty, global health, the environment… but n-o-o-o, not long after we were going down the road to war with Iraq. Remember the picture of Rumsfeld happily shaking hands with Saddam Hussein? And the concocted story of incubators being disconnected for Kuwaiti babies? And more recently Venezuela, Cuba too, and our revealed complicity with the genocidal entity to the point where Netanyahu wouldn’t hesitate to turn the rest of the world to trinitite for the sake of “the Homeland for the Jewish people”? Boy, was I thtoo-pid…
Read this morning that the orange maniac's daily brief now consists of two minutes of footage of Iranian targets being blown up. Wonder if Bibi gets a similar brief?
I wonder if they use the brief clips of movies and video games for him as they do with a number of their public releases..."look Mister President, Call of Duty - you could be one of those shooters".
It was such a pointless lie. Like arguing about whether Santa exists with a ten year old. But really, very few people are talking about the dangers of this nuclear moment we are in. And maybe they decided that's why they wouldn't talk about it. Or is this the security state mentality we live in, where "everything" is classified and so we can't talk about it. But, really, reading Daniel Ellsberg's book, "The Doomsday Machine," should be required reading.
Great line: "Any U.S. ground invasion of Iran proper or Kharg Island would be a total Scheißesturm, to use a technical term."
BTW, under U.S. law, it's illegal to send funds or arms to a nation with nuclear arms that isn't a signatory of the NPT. THAT'S why they can't admit that the settler colony has nukes.
When are homo sapiens going to learn to "Live and Let Live", when we're back to prehistoric times. Who was it that said I don't know who will win WW3, and with what weapons, but I know after the nuclear fires WW4 will be fought w/ sticks & stones!? I believe it was attributed to Albert Einstein...
Bill, listening to you tell the Judge you enlisted in ROTC in 1981 was interesting to me.
That year I hitchhiked from Ottawa, Ontario to Whitehorse in the Yukon and back, a distance of some 6,000 miles, to draw attention to the Rider on the White Horse in the Revelation of Jesus Christ 19:11.
'And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he does judge and make war [...] And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army' Revelation 19:19
As a complete unknown, The Calgary Herald, The Edmonton Journal, The Whitehorse Star, The Vancouver Sun and MacLeans Magazine chronicled my personal Journey of Faith for Posterity, these Times.
It's taken 45 years, but the WAR between Theocratic Israel & Theocratic US Christian Nationalism vs Theocratic Iran, is the beginning of Armageddon, the great day of the battle of Almighty God described in the Revelation 16:13-16 believe it or not!
Whether anyone believes me or not is not my concern since the Jewish Religious Establishment didn't believe Christ Jesus!
Like the JCPOA effectively prevented Iran from producing Nukes until Trump, at Netanyahu's insistence, pulled out of the deal. A serious Sin of Historical Omission.
US & Canadian MSM, War Propagandists for the US like a 5th horseman of the Apocalypse don't hype it so Americans know the Truth.
They don't hype this US/Israeli WAR they started, violates the same International Law Russia is DEMONIZED for violating in the plain language of the Revelation 16:13-16.
The major Jewish Prophet Isaiah saw some 2750 years ago the Jewish people were on the path where Judgment is turned away backward, and Justice stands far off: for Truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. 59:14
That's why People don't know what's True and believable these days.
SIPRI 2019 yearbook had Israel with 90 warheads and the US had 6,185. These are estimated world nuclear Arsenal sizes. I have it in my book WHAT JUST HAPPENED.
I hope the Judge didn't ruin your breakfast as he feared by having you listen to Chickenhawk Graham. Megalomania must be a communicable disease as he sounds just like Trump.
The war with Iran is exposing the many failures of US military strategy and technology in a world that has moved on from capital ships and high tech manned aircraft: F35s shot down by their infrared signatures; the USS Ford hit by a missile - Larry Johnson showed a photo yesterday that appears to show the stern torn up by something incoming versus a supposed laundry fire.
But this is America - our capitalists will convince politicians that everyone else is wrong, and the follow-on to the F35 and a future Trump-class aircraft carrier (in addition to the battleships) will be required.
Assuming it was a laundry fire that disabled the Ford, that may be worse than being hit by a missile. At least a missile strike is respectable. Imagine not being able to control a fire in the laundry room!
And how about the problems with the toilets? "The vacuum collection, holding, and transfer (VCHT) system, adapted from cruise ships, has narrow pipes that struggle to handle the waste from a large crew. Sailors have reportedly flushed inappropriate items, such as clothing and cleaning supplies, which contribute to clogs." The cruise book from this oughta prove a collector's item - unless Trump orders all copies destroyed.
I'm going to say something, Bill, that you probably won't like. For many years, I have claimed that we need an Army but we don't need an Air Force -- and we might not even need a Navy. (Truth in advertising: I'm a Navy puke, not Army and my service loyalties will always be with the Navy.)
The only things that win wars are the ground troops. Without boots on the ground, you cannot hold the land and you cannot win wars. The only purpose of airplanes is to support the ground troops, and if you are not supporting ground troops, you are just squandering resources. The last time air power helped win a war was in WWII. At that time it was the U.S.Army Air Corps and the Army dictated the priorities, the missions and the weapons systems needed to support the ground war. Since 1947 when the U.S.Air Force was established, air power hasn't won a single war. (Out of how many? I've lost count.)
The problem, as I see it, is that the Air Force has a different mission and a different set of priorities (and a separate political organization set up to argue for resources that, in most instances, don't support the land forces.) Close air support for the troops is a secondary and low priority mission. The priority missions are strategic bombing and air superiority. Fighter aircraft are cool. Supersonic and stealth bombers are cool. But the best aircraft for supporting the ground troops the Air force ever had was the A10 -- and they hated it. It was ugly. But the damned thing was effective.
As you point out, bombing the crap out of country doesn't win wars. Bombing only helps win wars when it's needed for the ground forces to hold the land.
How dare you! Nothing can stop the US Air Force! :-)
As you know, we have a military designed to project power globally. An imperial military. And I wish that weren't so. What we need is a military to defend the US. A smaller, more focused, citizen-soldier military.
But global dominance is the cry, and we'll probably bankrupt ourselves in pursuit of it while killing plenty of innocents along the way, as in fact we already have.
Restructure the military. Reinstate the draft and require a 3:1 ratio of draftees to professionals. Reinstate the U.S. Army Air Corps as it was in WWII and abolish the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Space Force. Limit total uniformed personnel, including national guard and reservists, to 1 million and reduce the military budget by 75%.
You are right on both counts. Nothing will stop the Air Force until the government goes bankrupt (which it may in the not too distant future).
And the force structure we need to defend our country is probably less than 25% of what we have. With 2 huge oceans on either side of us, Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, the only real threat to our national security is internal. (As Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us".)
I imagine nearly everyone reading this is familiar with – indeed, kinda grew up with – SAC, the Strategic Air Command. I thought it was still around, but after doing a bit of online research earlier today, I found it no longer exists, coming to an end in 1992, some 34 year ago, after a 46-year run. It was recast that year to the Air Force Global Strike Command, AFSTRAT-AIR (I can’t decipher the military-speak of the latter part either).
I wondered what the impetus for the change was, and took a look at who was President then to see if that might shed some light. Turns out it was Bush I. A year prior he rejoiced in saying, “By God, we’ve kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all,” referencing Gulf War I. In other words, the U.S. was reverting to type after its bitter, humiliating, confidence-shaking defeat in Vietnam 17 years earlier. Since then America had been more or less wandering in the wilderness globally, an exception perhaps being Iran-Contra (interesting, Reagan was scheming to arm Iran back then). Defeating Saddam Hussein was therapeutic for what ailed this country militarily, psychically, as to its self-perceived role in the world. In a way, the new branding was a rare example of candor at the Pentagon and the DoD – we are “an imperial military… global dominance is the cry.”
XK: Ironically the "Strategic Air Command" of which I was a Member for 4 yrs. "Sky Cop" AB Security Forces was decommissioned supposedly because of the end of the Cold War, and the dissolving of the Soviet Union, and the now unlikely, or improbable chance of a Nuclear War lol :/ :o)
“… supposedly because of the end of the Cold War…”
In my (less) naïve days, I thought at the time that the world could now heave a tremendous sigh of relief, no more contention, we could now focus on the trivial things in life, like world poverty, global health, the environment… but n-o-o-o, not long after we were going down the road to war with Iraq. Remember the picture of Rumsfeld happily shaking hands with Saddam Hussein? And the concocted story of incubators being disconnected for Kuwaiti babies? And more recently Venezuela, Cuba too, and our revealed complicity with the genocidal entity to the point where Netanyahu wouldn’t hesitate to turn the rest of the world to trinitite for the sake of “the Homeland for the Jewish people”? Boy, was I thtoo-pid…
Read this morning that the orange maniac's daily brief now consists of two minutes of footage of Iranian targets being blown up. Wonder if Bibi gets a similar brief?
I wonder if they use the brief clips of movies and video games for him as they do with a number of their public releases..."look Mister President, Call of Duty - you could be one of those shooters".
Wouldn't be at all surprised, Tom. He probably imagines himself as a drone pilot.
They don't have nukes but a few dirty bombs would circumvent that problem.
A few dirties scatter around Tel Aviv.
Israel zionists are special.
🙈🙉🙊
I don't find anything "Chosen" about them...!
Scary, that's for sure.
It was such a pointless lie. Like arguing about whether Santa exists with a ten year old. But really, very few people are talking about the dangers of this nuclear moment we are in. And maybe they decided that's why they wouldn't talk about it. Or is this the security state mentality we live in, where "everything" is classified and so we can't talk about it. But, really, reading Daniel Ellsberg's book, "The Doomsday Machine," should be required reading.
Great line: "Any U.S. ground invasion of Iran proper or Kharg Island would be a total Scheißesturm, to use a technical term."
BTW, under U.S. law, it's illegal to send funds or arms to a nation with nuclear arms that isn't a signatory of the NPT. THAT'S why they can't admit that the settler colony has nukes.
Thanks. Of course, when it comes to weapons sales, legality is rarely an issue for the U.S. government.
When are homo sapiens going to learn to "Live and Let Live", when we're back to prehistoric times. Who was it that said I don't know who will win WW3, and with what weapons, but I know after the nuclear fires WW4 will be fought w/ sticks & stones!? I believe it was attributed to Albert Einstein...
Bill, listening to you tell the Judge you enlisted in ROTC in 1981 was interesting to me.
That year I hitchhiked from Ottawa, Ontario to Whitehorse in the Yukon and back, a distance of some 6,000 miles, to draw attention to the Rider on the White Horse in the Revelation of Jesus Christ 19:11.
'And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he does judge and make war [...] And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army' Revelation 19:19
As a complete unknown, The Calgary Herald, The Edmonton Journal, The Whitehorse Star, The Vancouver Sun and MacLeans Magazine chronicled my personal Journey of Faith for Posterity, these Times.
It's taken 45 years, but the WAR between Theocratic Israel & Theocratic US Christian Nationalism vs Theocratic Iran, is the beginning of Armageddon, the great day of the battle of Almighty God described in the Revelation 16:13-16 believe it or not!
Whether anyone believes me or not is not my concern since the Jewish Religious Establishment didn't believe Christ Jesus!
Too many theocracies, not enough truth, Ray.
Amen.
Coming up close-- "Too many Churches Not enough Truth" The Guess Who...
Like the JCPOA effectively prevented Iran from producing Nukes until Trump, at Netanyahu's insistence, pulled out of the deal. A serious Sin of Historical Omission.
US & Canadian MSM, War Propagandists for the US like a 5th horseman of the Apocalypse don't hype it so Americans know the Truth.
They don't hype this US/Israeli WAR they started, violates the same International Law Russia is DEMONIZED for violating in the plain language of the Revelation 16:13-16.
The major Jewish Prophet Isaiah saw some 2750 years ago the Jewish people were on the path where Judgment is turned away backward, and Justice stands far off: for Truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. 59:14
That's why People don't know what's True and believable these days.
SIPRI 2019 yearbook had Israel with 90 warheads and the US had 6,185. These are estimated world nuclear Arsenal sizes. I have it in my book WHAT JUST HAPPENED.