The dominant narrative in relation to the Iran War is that the United States and Israel are mercilessly mauling the Iranians, and are on the verge of administering the coup de grâce, after which Iran will obeisantly submit to unconditional surrender, and bathe Emperor...
"What the West has, and has had for some time now, is a single-shot military. One serious campaign, whether finally won or lost, would disarm the West for a decade." — " Aurelien" This, folks, is the simple truth of the matter. The US simply could not, at this moment...
I have, on multiple occasions, derided the Center for Strategic and International Studies #EmpirePropaganda mill. But, lo and behold, I have come upon something commendable published by them: an early December 2025 analysis of the acutely depleted United...
For several years now I have been making the argument that, because American military power is so widely dispersed and diluted across the planet, the only way the United States could concentrate sufficient forces to prosecute a war against one of its three major power...
A retrospective analysis of the so-called 12-Day War, and the triumphantly celebrated Operation Midnight Hammer. The GBU-57 is a big fat gravity bomb with fins. To achieve effective precision, a B-2 bomber must drop it on its intended target from no further...
One of the most common claims about the Trump 45 administration is that “He didn’t start any new wars.” This is demonstrably FALSE. During his first term, Trump became the ultimate causal agent for every one of the current conflicts with Russia, China, Iran, and...
As I have long dreaded, it appears the weight of the #EmpireAtAllCosts cult is bearing sway. They have both hands on one side of the tiller. On the other side is Team Peace Prize, patting each other on the back with one hand, and eating a cheeseburger with the other....
The United States wielded near-total hegemony from at least the early 1990s to 2014 or so, at which point the first big irreversible cracks began to form. Russia took back Crimea, and took the Donbass under its wing. China began to methodically divest itself of US...
Against the AGM-158 JASSM missile, has Russia’s Kerch Strait Bridge finally met its match? Talk of sending Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles to Ukraine commenced last year, during the later months of the Biden administration. It was reported...
My summary assessment of the missile war over Israel during the 12-day-long first act of the ongoing war between Israel et alia and Iran et alia: The first Iranian counterstrike against Israel (14 June) began with a few hundred drones and relatively...
How soon people have forgotten that, earlier this year, the US dispatched two carrier strike groups and a half-dozen B-2s (and other USAF assets) to disarm the Yemeni and open the selectively blockaded Red Sea. They failed. Abysmally. For the second time! First of...
The inexorable decline of the American Empire has arrived at an Imperial Paradox. It must either fight a war and die, or not fight a war and yet still die. Here are the options: China Neither South Korea nor Japan want anything to do with a war against...
(photo: The erstwhile USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75), now dubbed the USS Trembling Puppy for its multiple episodes of fleeing Yemeni missile strikes in a panic.) In the aftermath of the USS Trembling Puppy acknowledging the loss of yet another fighter aircraft in the...
Ok, right up front I want to make it clear that this post is simply an extended riff on the same theme I have been fixed upon in my three previous offerings. So, if a bit of repetition annoys you, feel free to just ignore the following somewhat rambling observations –...
Javelin, Stinger, M-777 howitzer, HIMARS, Excalibur, Switchblade, all manner of electronic warfare gizmos and counter-battery radars, Bradley IFVs, Stryker, Leopard, Challenger, Abrams, Patriot, JDAMs, HARMS, Storm Shadow, ATACMS ... I'm sure I'm forgetting some. Oh,...
F-16s, Romanian bases, and NATO pilots I shall return yet again to the prospect of “Made in the USA” F-16s sallying forth boldly into eastern Ukraine to "teach the cabbage heads what Airpower (capitalized) really means." From what information I've been...
The last two years have produced what is, for most people around the world who ponder such things, one of the most unanticipated and yet astounding geopolitical turnarounds in modern history. The heretofore reigning global hegemon designed to inflict upon Russia — its...
It now appears certain the United States is concentrating a huge naval force in the eastern Mediterranean, Red, and Arabian seas. Several NATO nations are also sending warships to join this growing fleet. Unknown numbers of US and NATO submarines are also certainly...
As I have noted on multiple occasions, I pledge allegiance to no political party on the face of the earth. None speak for me. I am a devout monarchist.That said, I will watch the 2024 US presidential campaign with great interest. It may very well be the last one we...
The United States pretty much had its way in the world from 1991 to 2014. But now the empire's strength is severely depleted and fatally overextended, whereas the military and industrial capacity of its increasingly allied adversaries is ascendant, and in aggregate,...
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