No only do we have a mineshaft gap, we also have gaps on drones, tanks, ships, aircraft carriers, submarines, small nuclear reactors, undersea drones, and shipbuilding in general. 
Lesson On Gaps
Drone Gaps
The Wall Street Journal laments Xi Jinping Has Learned a Lot From the War in Ukraine
Two years ago, Russia suffered a humiliating defeat in the battle for Kyiv. Vladimir Putin’s generals had promised their boss a swift operation.
Drones have revolutionized the battlefield in Ukraine. For now, the Russian and Ukrainian militaries are the only armies in the world learning how to operate thousands of surveillance and attack drones every day in real combat conditions. Through joint training operations with Russia, the PLA hopes to integrate those lessons into its own combat doctrine.
In early 2022, the West expected far-reaching sanctions against the Kremlin to spark protests among the Russian elite and public. But Moscow’s leverage over global energy markets, combined with limited pre-war financial decoupling from the West and industrial import substitution, helped Russia to pass the stress test. The economy is growing, fueled by orders for military supplies and lavish payments to soldiers and their families. Mr. Putin’s war chest is full. He is well-positioned to pay for at least another two years of war.
Chinese leaders have used Russia’s experience in Ukraine to refine their strategy for managing the home front. The Chinese system sets a high value on history’s lessons. More than three decades after the Soviet Union crumbled, its collapse is still being studied in Beijing. For Mr. Xi, the event was a formative experience, just as it was for Mr. Putin. Beijing is studying Russia’s moves again—this time, in Ukraine.
Aircraft Carrier Gap
Submarine Gap
Rocket Gap
Small Nuclear Reactor Gap
Tank Gap
Need to Plug the Gap
Undersea Drone Warfare Gap
While the Pentagon aims to counter China’s naval power with the Replicator initiative, traditional shipbuilding still dominates funding. Ocean Power CEO: “Big shipbuilding projects overshadow new tech like sea drones… a military industrial complex has the best lobbyists and knows exactly how the money flows and contracting works in the DoD.” Sea drones, unmanned vessels, operate on or below the surface, handling surveillance, reconnaissance, minehunting, or attacks.
Shipbuilding Gap
More on the Shipbuilding Gap
Shipbuilding Gap Investigation Underway
We Need to Do Something Useful
“Old conventional weapons we spent a fortune on are to become a waste by the day. At least we could do something productive while it’s still useful.”
Kamikaze Porpoises
What about kamikaze porpoises?
Sadly, this is not even on our radar, but is there any doubt we have a massive porpoise gap?
Need to Act Now
We need to do something useful with our tanks and other conventional before they go to waste.
And we better learn about drones and porpoises in a hurry. What better way than start a war?
I suggest we attack Greenland, Iceland, or New Zealand right away with tanks before they are obsolete, and with drones and kamikaze porpoises to learn about them.
First, we need men. That means a draft. Anyone who does not support a draft should be shot on sight. People can’t own people, but it’s the unalienable right of governments to own people.
After all, there was no other way we could fight such noble causes like the Vietnam war.
Just One Problem
There’s just one problem in what I propose.
If we can have a draft to fight Vietnam, why can’t Russia have a draft to invade Ukraine? Why can’t Germany invade Poland?
Nuremberg Trial Quotes
Göring: Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.
Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.
Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
This is how some poor slob on a US farm was convinced of the need to go to Vietnam to kill someone that posed no threat to the US. A forced draft made it possible.
Not only do governments take away your liberty, they force you to take away the life and liberty of others.
Only Congress Can Declare Wars
Yeah, right. This is why we have undeclared wars. Note that the United States did not declare war during its involvement in Vietnam.
And many presidential candidates think it would be OK to bomb Mexico to halt drug trade so add that to the list.
We need massive amounts of cognitive dissonance to believe that it’s OK for the US to have troops uninvited in Syria, that blowing Libya sky high is not warfare, and drone policy makes sense.
Shocking Headline of the Day: Germany to Re-Introduce Slavery
On May 10, I wrote Shocking Headline of the Day: Germany to Re-Introduce Slavery
Young Germans will have to choose between the Bundeswehr (military service) and unpaid social service work. Libertarians to a person, will call this slavery, because that is what it is.
From the Declaration of Independence “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
I love the wording “unalienable” and “self-evident”. No one can take those rights away.
Except governments of course. To repeat …
This is how some poor slob on a US farm was convinced of the need to go to Vietnam to kill someone that posed no threat to the US.
Not only do governments take away your liberty, they force you to take away the life and liberty of others.
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal moans all the time about deficits. It also moans all the time about gaps and the need to prepare for war. Not once do any of the WJS editorials suggest how to pay for any of this.
Cognitive Dissidence of the Day
How about we protect our borders and genuine national security interests and let others do the same?
As for a draft, no one has the right to own you, unless of course it is for a very good reason like Vietnam or invading Greenland, Iceland, or New Zealand to prepare for war.
To top it off, Greenland has minerals, New Zealand has an unfair monopoly on sheep, and Iceland has too much thermal energy that should be ours. We are fully justified to take what others hoard if our government so decides.
Those who would not support such actions would be traitors just as those who refused to fight in Vietnam were unpatriotic traitors.
Patriotism means doing whatever government says.
Could the Russian invasion be a valid reason for Ukraine to draft men? I think when your country is under attack on its own soil, that would be a valid reason.
How can we spend more on defense than the next ten nations behind us combined and still be so unprepared for future wars? Our lag is not for want of budget. Fighting everyone, everywhere, all the time has obviously taken its toll.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/u-s-military-spending-vs-other-top-countries/
The Army Has Officially Deployed Laser Weapons Overseas to Combat Enemy Drones
By Jared Keller
April 24, 2024
The Army has officially deployed a pair of high-energy lasers overseas to blast incoming enemy drones out of the sky, the service recently confirmed, marking a major milestone for the U.S. military’s ongoing development of futuristic directed-energy weapons.
The 20-kilowatt Palletized High Energy Laser, or P-HEL, “is currently deployed to support the Army’s mission” in an undisclosed location abroad, a spokesman for the service’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office, which manages its directed-energy portfolio, told Military.com.
The P-HEL, which is based on defense contractor BlueHalo’s LOCUST Laser Weapon System, “commenced operational employment” overseas in November 2022, while a second system arrived abroad “earlier this year,” the company recently revealed in a press release.
…
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/04/24/army-has-officially-deployed-laser-weapons-overseas-combat-enemy-drones.html
Biden does a pretty good job of droning on and on …
Part of this is just silly.
Using a Russian Propagandist X “Tweet” with a Tank that has almost certainly had the crew killed or severely injured on the second strike…and the turret “spinning” because the guy inside is likely dead or wounded. Bahahaha! Terrible take.
Russia has a Tank Gap, in that it is losing Tanks at a rate not seen since WW2.
The US has more Aircraft Carriers and Larger ones than every other Navy Combined. No idea about what you’re talking about??
The US DEFINITELY needs to have MORE Ship Building capabilities. That’s 100% something that needs to improve.
Without question the Drone Manufacturing Industry needs to be stepped up dramatically in the US and NOT just Super Expensive Large Drones that the MIC can pad thei pockets with. The Ukrainians are using mostly smaller and cheaper Drones to devastating effect against the Russians much larger military, Tanks Warships, military airfields, supply chain and against their OIL Refineries.
The Chinese would be deadly adversaries with massive drone manufacturing and missiles manufacturing. The pure volume of the capability to manufacture weapons and observation drones is beyond most of the rest of the world combined.
A big boat with 50,000 ai controlled drones packing mortar shells or some other nastiness would be hard to deal with. A ship probably has guns to fend them off, but an airfield or any civilian infrastructure is completely undefended from a swarm like that.
Wouldn’t you think that the strategists in the Pentagon & MIC have thought about such possibilities YEARS ago and have possible defenses in place? Sheese.
We spend nearly 10 times what the Russians spend on defense per year not including what nato contributes. Remember Russia collusion , weapons of mass distruction , gulf of Tonkin incident all lies bought to you by the alphabet agencies of the US government . There are so many it would take hours to bring them up . Yet you have part of the electorate that believe this crap . The Russians are coming ! China is coming ! Yet America as Ron Paul said is surrounded by friendly countries and 2.5 thousand miles of oceans .We should spend less than others not more but we have hundreds of bases all over the world on everyones doorstep . The Goring quotes are correct and the MSM who are and arm of the the Washington establishment has been used to rally support for war after war and incursion after incursion . Its about power your vote matters not .
Rafa bs. Sinwar moved 2 out of 4 battalions up north to beef up his hiding place. The
IDF might flush Sinwar in a pincer attack from several direction..
50,000/80,000 Russian soldiers crossed the border and moved south east to Kharkiv, Ukraine #2 city. The Russians are moving west in Donesk.
During the attack, after the Victory day, Putin replaced his defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, who was responsible for the failed attack on Kiev, two years ago. The new one, Andrei Belousov, is an economist. Lavrov stayed. Belousov will run defense bc it’s now about 7.5% of the Russia GDP.
It is easy to get excited. How would you argue the opposite perspective?
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-drone-hits-russian-oil-facility-record-1500-km-away-source-says-2024-05-09/
Ukraine strikes Russian Oil facility 1500 km inside russian borders.
Russia can’t stop this. Ukraine has been peppering their oil infrastructure for months.
If you are interested in how a technical innovation can lead you down the wrong path you should read about the “Jeune Ecole”. It has very relevant to the drone challenge. For those who like to learn about this stuff:
viewcontent.cgi (usnwc.edu)
“All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”
Yes, i remember how the unvaxxed were treated during Covid and the American disdain for the French Fry when France declined to support the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
U never know what to expect from a Libertarians blogger.
WWII started on May 10 1940 when the appeasement PM was ousted. He minded GB f*ing business, avoided a war with Germany and cut debt.
After the US War of Independence Napoleon sold the Louisiana territory to finance the invasion of England. France was paying 10% bc of their shoddy financial situation. For itself the war debt was not that bad. During the same period Britain wartime debt
expenditures were double of France, yet Britain was able to cut debt fairly quickly
through ==> raising taxes, reducing tax exemptions, improved collection and appropriated any surplus to pay debt, instead of some stupid pet project. They paid only 5%.
France’s off the books debt was rising exponentially. France plunged into a financial crisis that led to a revolution. Napoleon invaded Europe under the banner of freedom. They scared Katherine the Great, the King of England and Spain. Spain tightened their grip on the sugar island and their S. America colonies. S. America’s Indians revolted every ten years. Spain sacked political opponents. Francisco Miranda, a Spanish officer, who fought in the US and the French revolution escaped to the US and fermented a revolution in Venezuela. He was crushed, but Simon Bolivar was successful. Spain extracted silver from Mexico to pay debt. England, Spain and France were fighting on things that are not important today.
That was an impressive “Cri du Coeur”.
Imagine someone quoting a drug addict war criminal like Hermann Goering, trying to keep from being hanged, alibiing and shifting blame, as some kind of great philosopher. Mish the Clueless.
Did 70% of the Palestinians die from starvation yet in that post you had a few weeks ago? More nonsense
As Nazi leaders go, Goering was one of the least effective but kept his job because he was super loyal.
No worries Mish, we are way ahead of diversity equity and inclusion. To wit,
https://youtu.be/VnpD1tCjTcQ?si=47E1qC6aIXPFqywP
How will those Russia soldiers stand up against Emma the strong?
“No worries Mish, we are way ahead of diversity equity and inclusion.”
Not to mention the all important “making money from our home” as it, like absolutely all else in the country, sits there decaying….
And man, aren’t we the best at picking random numbers?!
But, aside from those: The 100% insurmountable reason none of these other “gaps” stand even a snowball’s chance in hades of ever being solved, is simply the brain gap: 50 years of the Fed redistributing ALL wealth; and hence ALL power; to NOONE other than the very least intelligent, least competent, least productive, least useful and least valuable of all possible Americans; have ensured that even if you added up everyone in any “position” in Washington, as well as any C-suiter and owner of anything in America bigger than an ice cream parlor; their combined intellect would not sum to that of even a single one of Xi’s house pets.
“We” are now a country fully, no exceptions, ran only by idiots dumb enough to believe picking random numbers is some sort of a real “job.” And that mold in the walls of decaying houses somehow magically generates massive value every year. And that printing dead guys’ faces on paper pieces does the same.
Those, and only those, 100% imbeciles, are now the ones who run, and “own”, everything in America and The West. And hence the ones who make all decisions. People that singularly stupid, are simply full-stop incapable of ever getting, nor doing, anything right. Ever. They simply don’t have the brains for anything other that sitting there spouting, and believing, trivially obvious pure nonsense while being handed 100% unearned loot by The Fed and junta. Commies aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed, either. But they’re not THAT singularly retarded. They may, at least occasionally, figure out something. Anything. Which is all it takes to completely overrun the “made money from my home and portfolio” set of only the rankest of all possible rank idiots.
All Uncle Xi has is “House Pets”. Anyone that crosses him get sent for “Re-Education” or disappears.
Democracy is Messy and Crony Capitalism is a waste of resources, although the US outperforms over the long run.
China will continue doing “well” until Xi Dies or they lose control of the Economy or large parts of the population.
China is WAY too tied to the performance of Real Estate and Exports. Both are vulnerable in China over the Long Run. Xi still trying to make Communism (by Dictatorship) be a successful hybrid. It eventually crashes as people are no longer peasants and serfs, they want more freedom and control of their lives.
”
“Anyone that crosses him get sent for “Re-Education” or disappears.
”
And yet: Chinese people have at least an order of magnitude more freedom over how to arrange their lives and businesses than Americans have had for at least an entire generation by now. Hence why Chinese people and businesses are mostly doing ok or even thriving. While Americans and American ones have gone backwards every year since ’71. It’s not even close anymore: Chinese people now are wealthier, and have a brighter both present and future than Americans. And the difference is growing year in, year out.
“although the US outperforms over the long run.”
Yeah! That’d be the day…
Truth to be told: The US has the opportunity to outperform. More than any other country, it has a history (albeit, by now, ancient) of some basic freedoms. Wipe clear off the books any and all laws, institutions and other pure pathologies instituted since back then, reset to 1789 and, yes, the commies will easily fade away in America’s rear view mirror. But as of now, “we” are; much; worse than “they” are. For darned near any present, or past, “they”. Anywhere and anytime. “We” have nothing to teach anyone. “We” are the stupid, useless kid who fails at everything. The commies beat us. As do even far and away most of the Mullahs.
“China is WAY too tied to the performance of Real Estate and Exports.”
In ANY other language than particularly childish dialects of Newspeak, being “tied to exports” means nothing other than being more competent at creating stuff than others. Now, wouldn’t it be a horror for America if that was the case for GM….
As for “real estate”: It has no single meaning at all: One one side, you have the very much value adding activity of construction. There is virtually nowhere on the planet, where an additional cubic foot of covered space, is not more valuable than one cubic foot of just uncovered air. Ergo: covering more space, generates wealth, and is hence a productive activity.
On the other side, “Real Estate”, particularly in kleptocracies by and for only incompetent idiots too stupid to create any value; instead tends to refer to stupid people “making money” not off of covering more space and hence creating value; but rather by just sitting there being stupid and useless, while organs of a totalitarian junta redistributes wealth created by others their way; by debasement, restrictions on more competent people creating higher quality space etc.
Now, which of the two “real estates” has China done the most of, versus the US, over the past few decades, and vice versa…
“It eventually crashes as people are no longer peasants and serfs, they want more freedom and control of their lives.”
So, since the US is now back to consisting almost entirely of just peasants and serfs without any neither freedom nor control over their lives, the current US will Not crash? Now; that would indeed be truly sad.
When WWII broke, Stalin was allied with Hitler, together they invaded Polonia. Communists all over the world cried pacifist slogans. “War is a capitalist mean to crush the proletariat!”
Two years later, Hitler invaded the USSR.
The communists started yelling “Great Britain is a traitor who don’t want to fight, we need a second front against Germany NOW.”
In our days, Russia and China promote pacifist messages in the USA, like Iran promote a cease fire in Gaza. Maybe all will change in a couple of years, if China invades Russia, or Putin attacks Kazakhstan…
First, Mish should have ended his blog with a (/sarc) tag.
Second, the content of his blog post is believable. So what do we conclude? That we have already lost? Yes, we have already lost. Should we end imperialism and plan the fastest way to the end of conflict by surrendering first? After all, Social Security checks are more important.
“Should we end imperialism and plan the fastest way to the end of conflict by surrendering first?”
Yes.
As Ron Paul, from memory…., put it: “We just walked in there. We can just walk back out.”
No more than that. Just literally walk on out. Then shut down, and part out, every facility and institution which could ever again be used to walk into anywhere. Just like that.
In a primary election, 80% of Texas Republicans voted to ban their guard being used in future undeclared wars (Proposition 6). It’s non-binding vote, but it does indicate how many Americans feel about their boys being sent to Iraq/Stan type of guerilla wars. Regular Army volunteers for that kind of foreign duty, but guard volunteered to protect their state.
Proposition 6 reads, “The Texas Legislature should prohibit the deployment of the Texas National Guard to a foreign conflict unless Congress first formally declares war.”
A carrier task force costs 40-50 billion dollars and a decade to replace. A swarm of land, sea, undersea and air drones is well under a billion and will take out that task force and its 10,000+ crew in a single encounter. Then the response will be either the US capitulation or going nuclear.
Worse yet it takes at least a decade to design all the weapons systems in that task force even before construction starts but drones are advancing in capabilities with improved versions from design to use in under a year so any counter measures designed for the carrier group might be obsolete even before they are tested.
The best move the West could make is a complete rapprochement with Russia. That will need most of the wests leaders to be voted out. Trump for all his faults is probably the only leader who could pull such a move off and negotiate such a deal with Putin and at the same time he could reinvigorate the Abraham Accords to get peace in the Middle East.
Correct. In modern naval warfare between 2 advanced countries there is only submarines and targets. The Millennium Challenge in 2002 proved that.
Carriers only value is intimidate smaller weaker counties and to protect sea lanes from pirates and other small craft.
Most Countries are Smaller and Weaker than the US Navy. Most Global Trade happens in Sea Lanes. You just proved the reason for Carriers.
What IS needed is Drone Launch Ships that can carry THOUSANDS of inexpensive Drones to swarm just about any Air Defenses or strike enemy Weapons Systems and Infrastructure anywhere in the world.
These Drone Launch ships could be deployed at a fraction of the cost of Traditional US Aircraft Carriers.
Hope someone is working on those instead of overpriced $1.5 Billion dollar drones.
What a bunch of Absolute Nonsense. Russia has been Invading its neighbors for HUNDREDS of Years. There’s NO appeasement of Russian Leaders, who don’t care about slaughtering their own population to get material wealth and territorial gains. Russia will eventually collapse (AGAIN) just like the USSR did only about 30 Years ago. The Russian Demographics were terrible BEFORE the War and they’re getting way worse with every thousand MORE Working Age Men that get killed in Ukraine.
Aligning with Russia when they’re in the middle of self destructing is a foolish move.
Trump is incompetent and corrupt as the day is long. He BANKRUPTS CASINOS for crying out loud. (And Steak Companies, Water Companies, Universities, etc., etc.) That takes a major level of incompetence to screw up a Casino. Get the crook out of Government and back on Reality TV, which was his only competency.
Time to bring in some Leadership that is competent AND NOT corrupt.
This isn’t Rocket Science people. Term Limits and Campaign Finance Reform have been needed for decades.
Even is Trump is bad as you say he is, the far worse problem is named Joe Biden.
“Those who would not support such actions would be traitors just as those who refused to fight in Vietnam were unpatriotic traitors.”
Yes, the same could be said about the refusal to take the death jab, which now we know was all BS.
“Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.”
Mish – Thanks for pointing out the bullshit in this statement/perception.
The Vietnam fraud of an undeclared 12 +/- year war carried over to the modern era where 6 of 7 modern U.S wars were NOT declared by Congress per The Law and the War Powers Resolution Act.
These wars “we” started were at the behest of an Executive and his administration and Congress had NO PART in them except for their annual “budget approvals” which is NOT HOW IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE DONE.
Congress declaring war REQUIRES every member putting their NAME to a VOTE. Yes or No. That is called accountability and they have all abdicated that HEAVY responsibility and washed their hands of the blood that is on them regardless. “We” have allowed them to abdicate that moral/legal/right v wrong/civic responsibility on war. It’s sad. Really sad.
In a civil and moral society those members and the Generals that acted without a Legal WPRA authorization would all be in prison
Amen
Some missing elements: space forces; ethnically targeted microbiological weapons.
Thank goodness no nation has anything threatening. It’s only for deterrence. All good.
It is comical to see so many posts from people that have never participated in stacking bodies but know so much. I suggest you read more Peter Zeihan and then post more of your nonsense about China’s dominance in the future.
I did see that comparison and yes China is no threat. According to his analysis we could have a two front war with both Russia and China and prevail. This politburo and MIC propaganda is disgusting. We have the best government money can buy.
1) The US has nano drones that fly like bees and drone swarms that can fly between trees. Front line soldiers call drones to eliminate opponents, reducing casualties, increasing efficiencies and reducing the need for a much larger army.
2) Long range drones with propellers are very slow, but leave low heat signatures. Drones with jet engines are leaving higher heat signatures. The Shia militia in Iraq launched Iran’s most sophisticated drones carrying 400kg TNT warhead and triple navigation systems towards Israel, but they failed to reach their targets. Did the US Space Force eliminate them from high above.
3) The “Palestinian War of Independence” stalled. Drones cannot destroy buildings. F-15 and F-16 launching one ton bombs with GPS and D-9 on the ground sent Jaza to the stone age.
4) The cost of drones is a fraction of modern F-35 and F-15. They don’t need airports. They can be launched from the ground or from a truck, carrying a cluster that can fly to different targets.
5) On Apr 14 Iran launched 110 ballistic missiles and 250 drones and cruise missiles,
but only 4 ballistic missiles reached Nevatim air base causing little damage. The US Navy has drones that can swim underwater to Tianjin and back to the US making 5 rd trips without stopping.
Last I heard it was 9 hitting 4 sites.
The Iranians deconflicted beforehand: It was a message.
We can put a missile right in the middle of a runway in the most protected airspace on the planet. The drones were also a message. It just cost you & your allies B$3 to shoot down M$60 of gear. Pennies on the dollar.
The massage : the US is the ME main valve that controls the flow of money, oil, troops, drones and missiles. Without the US the 5 mini superpowers : Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Iran and the Saudis could have been on each other’s neck a long time ago. The Iranian cauldron is tightening around Israel’s neck. It’s a mortal risk. Bibi couldn’t have done a thing without a legal cause. The cost of the Arrow system was $3B, but a much larger damage and prestige were eliminated. The Iranian could have hit Nevatim, Ramon, Ramat David… air bases along with MSFT, Googl, NVDA, IAI and Rafael, but they didn’t, bc they are afraid of the US.
Col Mickey and Scott Ritter are allergic to victories.
During the French revolution the mob demanded to cut gov spending. They sent Louis XVI to the guillotine along with scientists, the high tech elite and the aristocrats who served in the navy. That’s why the French navy lost Trafalgar in 1805.
It was a message written in Crayon. Iran isn’t a competent military force relative to more advanced countries. You can bet Israel (and some other countries) are upgrading their air defenses against Drones as we speak.
Drones are absolutely a huge threat in modern military warfare. Even Low and Slow Drones can be effective when you’re trained and equipped to fight Jet Fighters and Cruise Missiles and Advanced Weapons.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Iran’s Nightmares
The Daily Caller
April 25, 2024
Details of the recent limited Israeli retaliatory strike against Iranian anti-aircraft missile batteries at Isfahan are still sketchy. But nonetheless, we can draw some conclusions.
Israel’s small volley of missiles hit their intended targets, to the point of zeroing in on the very launchers designed to stop such incoming ordnance.
The target was near the Natanz enrichment facility. That proximity was by design. Israel showed Iran it could take out the very anti-missile battery designed to thwart an attack on its nearby nuclear facility.
The larger message sent to the world was that Israel could send a retaliatory barrage at Iranian nuclear sites with reasonable assurances that the incoming attacks could not be stopped. By comparison, Iran’s earlier attack on Israel was much greater and more indiscriminate. It was also a huge flop, with an estimated 99 percent of the more than 320 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles failing to hit their planned targets.
Moreover, it was reported that more than 50% of Iran’s roughly 115-120 ballistic missiles failed at launch or malfunctioned in flight.
Collate these facts, and it presents a disturbing corrective to Iran’s non-stop boasts of soon possessing a nuclear arsenal that will obliterate the Jewish state.
…
https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/25/victor-davis-hanson-iran-nightmare/
This is another reason we need Trump to win the election. Biden will continue to gut our military equipment. He’s already gutting our military (policies and forced vaccines). The military that refused the vaccines were discharged. There are ALOT of serious medical issues for those that took the vax (cancer, neurological and heart damage) that caused medical discharges In addition to lifetime medical bills $$$$$.
Your tinfoil hat fell off.
Trump isn’t good for anything but lining his own pockets and creative lying about anything and everything. He’s just not even intelligent about how he goes about making crap up. Send him to the clink or back to (Un)Reality TV. He’s bankrupted most of his other businesses, including CASINOs for crying out loud.
Pick another candidate that has a clue.
The first drone hit the T-90 tank engine that caught fire and failed. The second drone took the top out of the turret and killed all occupants of the T-90. The turret swings wildly out of control with momentum.
https://twitter.com/Alex_Oloyede2/status/1789227483805421771
Many inexpensive drones are purchased from China. Ukraine builds inexpensive drones with NATO parts and design expertise. NATO has the technology. NATO cannot build inexpensive drones because of high taxes and minimum wages.
Tanks are only needed now for mop up operations after battles and to control the civilian population.
Cheap drones have made tanks all but obsolete on the front lines. That’s the biggest lesson from the Ukrainian war, how much military hardware is from the last century.
It’s amazing how much has been spent on our military over the years. I suppose it is prudent to have a ‘defense’ department, but on a much more limited scale for real defense needs. Our ‘Defense Department’ used to be called the ‘War Department’. I guess that the higher-ups after WWII thought that changing the name to ‘Defense Department’ would be more palatable to the general public. Personally, I think that with the way we nilly-willy stick our noses into other countries business, we ought to return to the nomenclature of ‘WAR DEPARTMENT’. To paraphrase Robert Oppenheimer’s Vishnu quote…”I am the United States, the Destroyer of Worlds.
Too little too late … we’ve already sealed our fate …
Further to……..
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/05/11/element-79/
Nobody talks about China’s Great Underwater Wall. I haven’t read any analysis in years. Imagine a huge war room with giant screens pinpointing every vessel’s location along China’s coast – in real time. Imagine sailors facing virtual suicide aboard US ships moving towards attacking China. Better yet, I can foresee US military being invited to see what they’ve built in response to Sun Tzu’s counsel that the greatest feat in war is to defeat an adversary without attacking.
They have vessel locators for commercial ships in real-time. I would imagine that military vessels are more difficult to track but not impossible. Satellites photograph the entirety of the world every day. Ships don’t move that fast…maybe 20-30 knots.
https://www.vesselfinder.com/
Weapons are irrelevant. War is irrelevant. What matters is population growth. A wise man from long ago told you how it all ends.
“Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword.”
and
“The meek shall inherit the earth.”
Everything else is trivial because haters are gonna hate, warmongers are gonna warmonger and the meek are gonna meek.
So far the meek have inherited only Minnesota and North Dakota.