Ditto

Antarctic Geopolitics: A view on the implications of current funding in the US Antarctic Program- Modern War Institute mwi.westpoint.edu/retreat-at-the…

A tired guy at the bar scans his phone, sighs, looks up, says to nobody, "One of the biggest justifications for the massive Ford Class Carrier $13 billion price tag were, ah, big improvements in damage control." He shifts in is chair, takes a sip, and turns back to his crossword.

FDR: "To change anything in the Na-a-vy is like punching a featherbed. You punch it with your right and you punch it with your left until you are finally exhausted, and then you find the damn bed just as it was before you started punching-Smoking out the mattress is the only way"

If somebody, somewhere in the Pentagon isn't muttering something along the lines of "there seems to be something wrong with our bloody mattresses today," then we need to fix Navy PME right away, STAT. (Apologies to the Royal Navy's Admiral David Beatty)

Vive le France Libre !

I guess “Amphibious landings are dead” essays are the gonna become the tactical equivalents to Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History”.

Hundreds go on strike at major Navy shipbuilder in Maine over wages and benefits apnews.com/article/navy-s…

Okay let’s discuss this in a little depth and hopefully some folk will learn something. Every day should be a school day. First, I was in the RN for eleven years. Four ships, and was involved in two relatively small fires plus innumerable fire exercises at sea and alongside /1

Are they pressing retirement homes for Boiler Technicians yet?

Hopefully this will detail the role of Greenland’s weather stations.

If this Gulf thing going to be an island-hopping campaign, let's start hearing about how some islands are getting completely cut off and are getting no resupply/reinforcement.

If the strategy is to grab islands in the Gulf, then there'd better be an iron-clad blockade of those islands already in place. Nothing getting through. No boats, birds, nothing. If not, then there needs to be accountability all the way up the entire command chain.

Remember, these folks aren’t getting paid to do what they do.

This is really not great.

Ahhhh…entering the third hour of being stranded on a train outside Paris…

With Iran off the table, maybe Congress can get back to town next week and spend a few days figuring out how to advance the SHIPS For America Act.

CNN: There does not appear to be a formal written document for the ceasefire agreement

Well that was a fun ceasefire!

Michael Steele Bridge Colby made a name for himself with China policy and here he is talking to one of the smallest nation-states in the world.