Category: Military

Honoring our Sea Faring Services

Posted on by Bookworm

In honor of Fleet Week (which starts Saturday in San Francisco), I have three Navy/Marine related stories to relate and I want to promote a few of my favorite Navy related blogs. Story 1: My daughter has started a new school and is making new friends. The other day, I met the Mom of one […]

 

Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Leggy bay bee! As best understood, Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges is ancient Romanspeak roughly (very roughly, mind ye) xlated as “In combat time, attorneys can like STFU” During the decade of war (so far – nicht wahr?) Attorneys and their legion of the discombobulated detached detachment of inapropriate handwringers, boring assetted, worrying about the […]

 

Decade Of War

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

The last ten years has seen a semi unbound Great Satan – using her fire power, brain power, will power and staying power all across the globe in war.:  Wars occur at unpredictable times, take unpredictable courses and have unexpected consequences.:  Some wars are carefully planned, but even those wars rarely take place as expected. […]

 

If 911 Never Happened…

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

“And it came to pass in the decade after 911, alternate response and historical revisonary visions:  did abound“ The events of 9/11 reverberated through many spheres of American life but nowhere more profoundly than in American policy toward the outside world.:  We launched two wars, in Afghanistan and Iraq. We organized counterterrorism operations in far-flung […]

 

Libya: Airpower, SOF and the NTC

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Nick Prime gets his cherry popped over at das Elkus gruppen’s “Fear, Honor and Interest” (a group hug strategic website featuring sev cutting edge all stars) with a delish bit about Libyavention and future ‘ventions. Wild Blue Yonder + De Oppresso Liber = Victory! If such limited contributions of men and resources could achieve such […]

 

Fall Weiß Tag

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

At dawn on September 1st, Luftwaffe struck at Polish airfields destroying most of the planes before they could get off the ground. With control of the skies assured wicked Wehrmacht began the systematic destruction of railroads and the few communications nodes. From the very outset the Poles mobilization plan was seriously compromised. Before the day […]

 

“The Special Operations Forensic Tool Kit”

Posted on by Craig Newmark

“The raid of Osama bin Laden’s compound yielded a treasure trove of intelligence material–computers, thumb drives and other media. Special operations forces routinely confiscate such material from raids as part of what’s known as “sensitive site exploitation.” In fact, teams are now equipped with state-of-the-art kits designed to collect any scrap of material and information […]

 

Regime Changing

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Perhaps the most charming charm Great Satan has exhibited (aside from angling her body diplopolitaire’ to create other angles) is the killer cool heap of trashed out despots, dicts and autocrats she’s tossed on the junk heap since the new millennium broke unto us. The guy with one eye (hot rumours whisper he’s a moped […]

 

After Khadaffy Quickie

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Götterdämmerung! As the world’s longest ruling despotry crashes in a mini orgy of undisciplined rowdiness, firefights with searches for the Amazonian Guard and their “Lil Poppa” – it’s time to get real. : Real fast. And that means (all together luv!):  Boots on the ground. Libya’s especial weapon caches need to be captured, controlled or sweetly […]

 

ROC Def

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Tiny tiny Taiwan – a fun free choice little sister democrazy that hasn’t ever bothered anydobby China’s lustful desires for Taiwan are a lot like THAT LOOK given by older cats who realize their dreamy dreams of snagging a precious little wikibit hottie – right off the vine – may forever remain unrequited. President Hu’s […]

 

Revo Guards Rise

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Sepāh-e Pāsdārān-e Enqelāb-e “Slāmi, bay bee!! Perhaps the most charming ce je ne sais quoi about illegit despotries subtle, gross, horrid or benign is their magical ability to field praetorians. Throughout the manchile experience, the guardian guard of imperial imperators could perhaps best be scoped out as an uparmored posse of body guards sweetly functioning […]

 

Low Intensity Deux!

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Ouija! Talk about psychic – the horrific terror attacks against Little Satan emanating from Aegypt’s Sinai prove way more than the myth of Writ of State – it also makes the case that Low Intensity conflict can get way more bigger and xform into High Intensity conflict. :  An asymmetrical combined arms attack launched by […]

 

“Can somebody please fix this? Hello?”

Posted on by Craig Newmark

“Entire U.S. Stealth Fighter Fleet Grounded“. But after building more than 170 F-22 Raptors and a handful of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, not a single one is available for service. The Air Force currently has: zero: flyable stealth fighters. None. The vaunted F-22: has been grounded: with a possible faulty oxygen system since May. Production of the last few […]

 

AirSea Battle

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

It’s complicated! Collectivist China’s nat’l pride feel good sortee sexercise with Shi Lang aside, Great Satan’s Quad Def Review prophesied thatPeople’s Liberation Army Navy would focus without modesty or restraint on her twin dreams of area denial, securing needed resources and Taiwan: First, China seeks to: deny access: by Great Satan and other naval powers to the […]

 

After AFPak

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Strategic cul de sac? As America withdraws troops from remote areas of Afghanistan like the Tangi, Korangar, and Pech Valleys, insurgents are flooding back in to wreak havoc, necessitating retaliatory raids, redeployments, and stiffening operations to kill insurgents and to protect local Afghan units and villagers, even though some of these Afghan units and villagers […]

 

Sudanocide

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Kordofan! As best understood – Sudan’s chief exports are refugees fleeing misery projection, genocide, slavery, intolerance and a super suck of a self imposed 7th century mindset.:  Since seizing power in a coup d’etat eons past – Sudan’s Field Marshal President For Life Omar Bashir (the world’s only sitting Head of State indicted for war […]

 

GOP Electile Dysfunction

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Debates and Straw poles! As Primary party time approacheth, the recent confab of GOPeabodies sparked some serious reflective belt quizes about the seemingly inherent “Great Satan Come Home” meme. As GsGf’s nat’l security legislative chief and Armed Services and Intelligence committee cat (oh! He got game bay bee!) shares –:  when it comes to a […]

 

Hyperpuissance!

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Uniquely powerful – the only one of her kind! Hegemonic unipolarity and the “Off Shore Balancing” act are facing off at the highest (almost) levels of Great Satan’s Academic and Actualizing apex. As best understood, the Offshore Balancing fans are frightened that gap shrinking, global orderliness and reinforcing desired myriad nation state behavior will become […]

 

Presenting The U.S. Military’s New Fighter, the F-35 Lightning II

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It has been a tough few decades for high-end military procurement, for sure. Promising projects, hardware, weapons systems, trains, planes, and automobiles — not to mention numerous boats — have been started, millions spent on them, only to be unceremoniously cancelled due to those pernicious political whirlwinds. Our nation has an aging military infrastructure and […]

 

Obama Helps Himself to SEALs’ Honor

Posted on by Dave Blount

Since his catastrophic election, Barack Hussein Osama has done everything else wrong, but he did have the good sense to happen to be president when the SEALs caught up with Obama bin Laden. He has nothing else to run on, so he will be milking the SEALs for every drop possible: A White House photographer […]

 

R2P Or Not 2P

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Totally tweetable! New Millennium’s doctrinairish Responsibility To Protect in statecraft moderne can sweetly be – uh – shrunk – to like 3 characters. Perfect for policy cats au courant and future to drop like a mind bomb in nearly any environ! See, a new school concept of the state maintains that states have a primary […]

 

Low Intensity

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Writ of State! The ancient Westphalian concept can often be dumbed down to mean only l’etat has the monopoly on violence ( and you know THAT means lol ). In the new millennium voltiguer, conscript and professional armies, police and militaries are the nation/state’s instrument of choice in full filling certain statecraft crafts. Unexceptional exceptions […]