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Congress's slip of the lip
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August 06, 2015, 02:57:35 PM »
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Saudi Arabia and Egypt covet new assault ships.
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August 17, 2015, 08:03:51 AM »
Not sure where to put this one so I put it here:
Saudi Arabia and Egypt Covet New Assault Ships
August 17, 2015 | 09:15 GMT
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A Mistral-class warship under construction in Saint-Azaire, France, in December 2014. (JEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARD/AFP Photo)
Saudi Arabia and Egypt want to buy the Mistral vessels France originally agreed to sell to Russia. Stratfor sources in the region have largely confirmed French media reports, indicating that there is at least a preliminary interest in acquiring the vessels. Despite the considerable obstacles that Riyadh and Cairo would have to surmount before they could effectively utilize Mistral-class ships, the vessels could eventually offer these Arab countries increased capability to respond to varying threats in the region.
Saudi Arabia is making considerable efforts to bolster its air and land force capabilities, and now Riyadh appears increasingly focused on investing in its naval forces. The acquisition of potent new ships easily fits within the envisaged Saudi maritime upgrade. Mistrals are flexible amphibious assault platforms that are ideal for the projection of force in littoral waters. In missions of short duration, a battalion approximately 400-900 troops can deploy from the Mistral, using landing craft or helicopters. In addition to carrying an infantry-based force, the vessels can be configured to lift significant numbers of vehicles (armored or otherwise) that can deploy by landing craft to a designated landing zone. The helicopter air wing aboard the Mistral can also be configured to the task at hand, with the ability to deploy large numbers of anti-submarine warfare helicopters for sub-hunting missions. However, the vessels have little self-defense capacity and rely on other surface warships to escort them and to provide protection.
There is definitely a requirement for Mistral-type ships in Riyadh's arsenal. The vessels, if correctly manned and equipped, would have been very useful in the Saudi-led coalition's operations in Yemen. It often takes offensive action for an armed force to understand that a capability gap exists, and the ability to project force from sea to shore is critical for a modern military. The Saudis could also benefit from using the vessels in and around the Persian Gulf, especially close to the islands of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs islands. These islands are disputed by Iran as well as the United Arab Emirates, but Riyadh could very rapidly deploy forces from a Mistral to capture terrain.
As Stratfor has noted in the past, Saudi Arabia has a strong desire to set up a joint Arab intervention force to counter threats to individual and collective interests in the region. The U.S. rapprochement with Iran and increased Turkish assertiveness mean that the Saudis are looking to their Arab brethren to reinforce their own military alliance system. As alluded to in the French reports, the Saudis may be interested in procuring the Mistrals as part of the greater joint Arab force project.
Military capabilities alone are not enough to create a viable and effective joint force that requires strong political will. Indeed, there are several obstacles that work against the success of a joint Arab intervention force, especially one where Riyadh is vying for leadership. The Sunni Arab states, though willing to work closely on occasion, have disparate goals and interests that will continue to undermine their unity. Egypt would likely host the envisaged joint Arab force, and it would make considerable sense to base the Mistrals in Egypt. In this case, one or both of the Mistrals would be docked in Egypt close to the headquarters of the Arab force. Alternatively, one could be stationed in Egypt while the other would be deployed with the Saudi navy. This raises the question, would Cairo be willing to foot the bill for one or both of the Mistrals?
Financing the Purchase
The Egyptians lack money and are principally concerned with countering threats in their immediate locale. Therefore, Cairo would be unlikely to go ahead with any purchase without Saudi financial backing. Assuming the Saudis fund the purchase, the Egyptians would benefit from the considerable prestige of maintaining one or both Mistral vessels within their own fleet. Furthermore, Egypt is involved in a number of regional conflicts where the deployment of a Mistral vessel might be useful, the Libyan conflict being the most obvious example.
While Saudi Arabia may be willing to finance the acquisition of the Mistrals, there are several obstacles that will continue to hamper the Saudis and the Egyptians when it comes to using the equipment. The biggest obstacle is the absence of trained crews to operate the vessels, and even more important, well-trained forces to deploy from the Mistrals. While both Egypt and Saudi Arabia maintain small marine forces, neither nation has previously operated large amphibious assault vessels and will need considerable time and investment to build up the necessary institutional knowledge to use the Mistrals effectively.
Furthermore, procuring the Mistrals is only the first step. The Saudis and Egyptians would still need to purchase the associated specialized helicopters and landing craft that would operate from each Mistral. Additionally, the Mistral vessels in question were specifically built for the Russians, and Riyadh and Cairo will undoubtedly have to refurbish the ships and modify them to suit their own particular command, control, communications and climate requirements.
Despite these constraints, there is a high likelihood that Egypt and Saudi Arabia will purchase the Mistrals. Assuming Riyadh is willing to fund their purchase and associated costs, in time the Egyptians and the Saudis could have a considerable rapid response force ready to deploy from these vessels for missions across the Arab world. That would fit in neatly with the current Saudi-led efforts to create a potent unified Arab force that would help safeguard shared interests across the region.
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Re: Military Science and Military Issues
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August 17, 2015, 08:12:04 AM »
Prepping for the great (nuclear) Sunni-shia war. Obama's legacy.
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Re: Military Science and Military Issues
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August 17, 2015, 12:31:26 PM »
Quote from: G M on August 17, 2015, 08:12:04 AM
Prepping for the great (nuclear) Sunni-shia war. Obama's legacy.
In the post-Obama world we might need to add a nuclear fallout protection shield to the ammo and canned goods in the bunker.
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Thinking About When the Bad Guys have UAVs
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August 27, 2015, 07:43:19 PM »
Some interesting forward thinking:
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Re: Thinking About When the Bad Guys have UAVs
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August 27, 2015, 07:54:02 PM »
Quote from: Body-by-Guinness on August 27, 2015, 07:43:19 PM
Some interesting forward thinking:
No doubt that lots of people in the national security field are worried about this. Not hard to create a flying claymore mine with current technology.
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Re: Military Science and Military Issues
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August 27, 2015, 07:59:46 PM »
It would appear we are rapidly closing in on the opening scenes of The Terminator.
In a related vein:
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Sec Def Ash Carter seeks alliance with high tech companies
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August 28, 2015, 08:30:46 AM »
By Paul McLeary with Adam Rawnsley
#flex? Defense Secretary Ash Carter is back in Silicon Valley to sell his vision for a collaboration between fast-moving tech giants and the more traditional Pentagon bureaucracy. In his second trip there in four months, Carter will use a speech Friday afternoon to unveil the $171 million FlexTech Alliance award, a collaboration between a consortium of tech companies and the Pentagon whose goal is to produce flexible sensors that can be stretched over clothing or fitted on ships and airplanes.
Backed by 162 companies, universities, and research labs, the alliance includes names like Apple and Lockheed Martin and will be managed by the Air Force Research laboratory. Overall, itll receive $75 million in Defense Department funding over the next five years, along with $96 million from the civilian sector.
Carter has been pushing the nascent partnership with the tech world hard since assuming office in February. He last visited Silicon Valley in April, and addressed a conference of tech CEOs in Idaho in early July at The Allen & Co. conference, where he pitched a greater collaboration between the two. He has also put some roots down in the valley, having opened the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUX) at Moffet Field in San Jose, right next to a building owned by Google.
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Rare Earth Elements
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September 05, 2015, 08:02:19 AM »
1. What is US government policy on strategic resources the
dozens of arcane metals and minerals from antimony to
zirconium that we use in smart-phones, hybrid batteries, and
sophisticated military equipment? According to the US
Geological Survey, the US is completely import-dependent for
19 different minerals, counting the rare earths group of 17
elements as one.
The Government Accounting Office says a
score or more major US weapons systems are dependent on rare
earths coming from China. If this sounds like a growing
consensus that critical minerals supply is a matter of national
security risk, someone in the US Government forgot to send the
Pentagon the memo.
A new study by the legislative branchs
Congressional Research Service (CRS) Rare Earths Elements in
National Defense documents in dispassionate detail a reality
entirely at odds with the Pentagon report. The report finds that
10 of the 17 rare earth elements are used in five functional areas
that cover every major war-fighting capability used to project power
via ground, sea, air and space: Guidance & Control, Electronic
Motors and Battlefield Communications. All told, CRS identified 24
specific weapons systems or cross-platform capabilities with critical
rare earths components, including: JDAMS smart bomb converter
kits, the Tomahawk cruise missile and Predator unmanned aircraft.
The Resource Wars is one conflict the American military machine
seemingly wants no part of. We are truly a nation at risk.
Daniel McGroarty, President, American Resources Policy Network
Ed: China has been dumping its Rare Earths on world markets to
depress prices and put its competitors out of business classic
predator pricing. If America and China get into a military conflict,
and the US gets cut off, what would the Pentagon do? Where do we
get Rare Earths to build critical armaments? They will then typically
declare Nobody foresaw it.
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Who knew? All male combat units better
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September 11, 2015, 11:31:06 AM »
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$500 MILLION in US arms missing in Yemen
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Be careful what you wish for: Women in Infantry units
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September 15, 2015, 10:11:54 AM »
Julie Pulley
Sept. 14, 2015 7:03 p.m. ET
With Capt. Kristen Griest and First Lt. Shaye Haver recently becoming the first female soldiers to complete Army Ranger School, demands for the complete integration of women in the U.S. military are growing. In 2013 then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta officially lifted the ban on women serving in ground-combat roles. On Jan. 1, 2016, all branches of the military must either open all positions to women or request exceptions.
As a former captain and airborne soldier in the Armys Second Infantry Division Support Command, I say be careful what you wish for. Overturning a long-standing tradition in a martial organization like the U.S. military will undoubtedly have unintended consequences. I am particularly concerned with demands that the Army permit women to join its Infantry Branch.
Dont misunderstand, I was thrilled when Capt. Griest and First Lt. Haver earned their Ranger tabs. I was especially pleased when Army cadre and peers assured me that the Ranger Schools high standards were maintained. As a woman, I support equal rights to a sensible point. At the same time, women must acknowledge that equality does not mean selective equality. I wish it did. I want to see those hard-charging, superwomen sisters of mine pursue every career opportunity the military offers men. No doubt they can do itand do it well. But Ranger School for these two exceptional individuals is not the same as allowing women to serve in the infantry.
First, opening the infantry to women necessitates revisiting Rostker v. Goldberg, the 1981 Supreme Court ruling that only men are required to register for the draft. If the infantry is compelled to include women, the argument against women registering for the draft will be invalidated. If women are to be treated equally and serve in the infantry, shouldnt they be drafted into the infantry at an equal rate?
The unlikely event of a draft aside, should women in an all-volunteer Army serve in infantry positions in equal numbers alongside men? If so, how would this affect American military families and morale? Would such changes dissuade women from voluntarily joining the Army? And most important, would significant numbers of women in the infantry serve to strengthen or weaken national defense?
From a practical standpoint, I believe the impact would be negative. Many civilians, veterans and active-duty service members will disagree. Many will view me as disloyal to women in arms. I respect and understand opposing perspectives. I also appreciate the sacrifices of women before me who suffered and overcame countless barriers so that I could live big dreams, choose to attend the United States Military Academy at West Point, and serve my country without feeling professionally inhibited, marginalized or disrespected.
But questions persist. Can the general population of fighting-age American women be expected to perform equally with their male counterparts? According to a U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center study released in 2004, the average fighting load carried by an infantry rifleman operating in Afghanistan was 63 pounds before adding a rucksack. The average approach-march load in combat, which includes a light rucksack, was 96 pounds. The average emergency-approach-march load, which includes a larger rucksack, was 127 pounds.
Would the infantry have performed as well in past wars had half the billets been filled by women instead of men?
Can fighting-age American women be counted upon to fulfill their duties without causing an increased administrative burden in time of national emergency? Around the time my company received orders to deploy to Afghanistan in 2002, a number of women in my unit became pregnant. My company, stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., attached soldiers from two other Army posts to fill the vacancies caused by the inability of these female service members to deploy.
Will women serving in the infantry be injured more frequently or more seriously? In a 2011 article, the Seattle Times estimated the Department of Veterans Affairs paid over $500 million in benefits annually for degenerative arthritis, cervical strains and other musculoskeletal injuries. Will disability payouts increase with women serving in the infantry? I believe the defense leadership must conduct an objective study of basic training and military-school injury rates by gender to more accurately predict answers to such questions.
I dont raise these questions because I am a hater or a naysayer. I ask because I am a mother of both a son and a daughter. As a former service member, I wouldnt have wanted to be forced into a job in which I was severely disadvantaged. I do not want my daughter mandated to fill a position in which she will have to put forth significantly greater effort than her peers just to survive in a time of war. I do not want my son forced into a job where he is at greater risk because those serving alongside him are disproportionately taxed physically.
My hope is that the dialogue regarding the opening of all military branches will be thoughtful and realistic, unclouded by agenda and emotion.
Ms. Pulley, a 2000 graduate of West Point, is a former captain in the U.S. Army.
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It is amazing that in these forums when you ask a specific question as part of a post or response, what you get back are usually opinions all over the place that are not even close to the specific response that you were looking for. It seems that few responders bother to read or comprehend what you are asking or talking about. It is as if they are so desperate to show the world their knowledge or opinion, that the subject matter be damned.
You ask why 2+2=4 and you are going to get back responses that go from; you are too dumb to figure it out, you are using the wrong formula, because the sun rises in the east, to it is Obamas fault. Needless to say, frustrating but also revealing to the current state of affairs.
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Ms Pulley says what 100% of people who have been in Infantry combat say and believe. However, it is so Politically Incorrect, it goes unsaid and unheard! You go girl!!!
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Doug Schomberg
Doug Schomberg 5 minutes ago
There is a reason why women do not play football with men nor make the men's basketball team.
If you want a winning team, you need the best players on it...the infantry is no different.
If women can make the cut, put them on the field. But if they cannot, keep them off of it.
When the infantry team loses, people die.
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Charles Pierce
Charles Pierce 5 minutes ago
We have women in combat today and have always had women in combat. But putting women into combat positions, Armor, Infantry, Cavalry is a mistake. Do we need women in combat units, do we have a shortage of people wanting to serve in combat units? The answer is no we do not. The Marines have looked at mix infantry squads and found them to be lacking and less efficient than all male squads. Has anyone looked at the logistics of having women in combat units. If I go three or four weeks with out a shower or bath I do not have a problem, women do. We need to stop using the military in social experiments that do not increase the efficient of the force. I am a Retired Armor officer who was an Airborne/Ranger qualified individual.
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Julie Keene
Julie Keene 5 minutes ago
The Israeli military has had women in its infantry divisions for decades--since 1948--and it seems to work out.
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Charles Pierce
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@Julie Keene but not in direct combat roles since the war for independence in 1947/1948.
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@Charles Pierce @Julie Keene
According to Wikipedia (I know, I know) "The 2000 Equality amendment to the Military Service law states that "The right of women to serve in any role in the IDF is equal to the right of men.""
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Skobelev's Principle - Why Is The West Not Heeding Its Obvious Truth?
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September 16, 2015, 10:53:53 AM »
Skobelevs Principle
I hold it as a principle that the duration of peace is in direct proportion to the slaughter you inflict on the enemy. Gen. Mikhail Skobelev, 1881
General Mikhail Skobelevs words above were in reference to his defeat of the walled citadel of Geok-Tepe and his armys complete depredation of the Tekke Turkmen, a fierce, slave-taking people of Central Asia. The Emperors orders were explicit, writes Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac in their book Tournament of Shadows: Under no circumstances was Skobelev to take a single step backwards, for this would be for Europe and Asia a sign of our weakness, would inspire still greater boldness on the part of our adversaries.
The Russians have always been known to upstage the West in regards to dealing with enemies. There is the story of two KGB agents kidnapped by a gang of quite imprudent Islamic Liberation Organization (ILO) operatives in Beirut. The story goes that the ILO kidnappers, after hiding the hostages away, then sent a message to the Russian embassy in Beirut demanding the release of certain ILO members (if I remember correctly) at that time incarcerated by the Lebanese government of the day.
Unbeknownst to the impulsive terrorists was the fact that the KGB was aware not only of where the two Russian citizens were being held captive, but also of the identities of the kidnappers. As a response to their demands the Russians sent to the safe house a box with the head of the leader of that particular ILO unit inside and the warning that if the two KGB agents were not released in a matter of hours, the next box they received would contain the heads of the kidnappers mothers. Needless to say, the KGB agents were released posthaste and the ILO never again harmed or threatened Soviet citizens anywhere.
There are also recent accounts about the Russian Navy mercilessly dispatching Somali pirates on the high seas. As a result, Somali pirates steer clear of all vessels flying the Russian flag. The lesson is obvious: deal harshly with your enemies and they will avoid you like the plague. An angry countenance turns away a back-biting tongue.
My point here is about dispassionate Russian wisdom being so broadly and ultimately contrary to Western liberalism and the insane and constrictive notion that we have no choice but to lay down our weapons, suspend punitive sanctions, and propose peace initiatives to enemies whose religiously cultivated arrogance has continually induced their leaders to mock Western peace initiatives, no matter how compromising.
The contradistinction between the two extremesthe wisdom of the former and the foolishness of the latterseems to go unnoticed these days. President Obama plays nice with the Republic of Iran; Justin Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and vying to become the next Prime Minister of Canada promises that, if elected, he will call off Canadas participation in air strikes against ISIS targets and restore diplomatic relations with Iran. Tom Mulcair, leader of the NDP Party of Canada, promises near the same.
There seems to be an extremely imprudent, oscillating duality infecting Western political leaders these days (with the notable exception of Canadas Prime Minister Stephen Harper). I see traditional political partiesLiberal, NDP, and Conservative in Canada, Republican and Democrats in the United Statesexhibiting harmful traits eerily similar to those that brought down the mighty Spartans long ago; a duality, as pointed out in Paul Cartledges historical work The Spartans, that led inevitably to divided counselsdynastic rivalries, succession anxieties, faction fighting. Three paragraphs later Cartledge writes, The adage of Lord Actonabsolute power corrupts absolutelyapplied vigorously in this case. And isnt this so in the case of Western democracies?
We have the leaders of European democracies condoning the influx of tens of thousands of Syrian refugees, many of whom leave a trail of trash and excrement (and damaged iPads) in their wake; many of whom have probably little or no interest in assimilating the traditions of their host countries; some of whom may likely turn out to be ISIS operatives. The so-called opposition parties applaud this gross imprudence from the other side of their respective parliament floors like a hired audience for a game show.
Compare these flabbergasted political sycophants with Putin and his answer to a question posed him by a Le Monde reporter about the war in Chechnya, If you are a Christian, you are in danger. Even if you are an atheist, you are in danger, and if you decide to convert to Islam, this will not save you, either, because traditional Islam is inimical to the conditions and objectives set by the terrorists. If you are prepared to become a most radical Islamist and are prepared to circumcise yourself, I invite you to come to Moscow. I will recommend having the operation done in such a way that nothing will grow for you there anymore.
When another reporter suggested that Putin negotiate with Chechen terrorist leaders following the Beslan massacre, he replied, Why dont you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace? You find it possible to set some limitations in your dealings with these bastards, so why should we talk to people who are child-killers? No one has a moral right to tell us to talk to childkillers.
I am in no way espousing Russias expansionist behaviour of late. I am suggesting that the West begin dealing with our terrorist enemies in similar fashion as the Russians have been dealing with theirs. Justin Trudeaus suggestion that the refugee problem would be mitigated by calling off airstrikes against ISIS is a prime example of a tendentious Leftist politician choosing the exact opposite course of action as that which mere reason would implore, regardless the injurious ingredients those choices (like allowing Syrian refugees into Canada without security restrictions) would obtrude upon what would become by then a victimized, albeit self-deceived, Canadian populace.
The refugee problem facing Western democracies in Europe and North America is a catastrophe that should be dealt with by Middle Eastern Islamic countries instead of Western democracies.
That these Muslim refugees are seeking safe haven in an infidel-ruled Western Europe instead of the oil-rich countries of their fellow religious says everything about the finer points of Islam and those nation-states where it has long ago gained preponderance. Where is the love? The one sure waythe stratagem invoked by mere reasonto obviate this refugee crisis emanating out of Syria and beyond is the total elimination, from the air and on the ground, of ISIS and their supporters.
The fact that ISIS has, by violently brutal conquest, been continually gaining new territory should be profiled by so-called experts not as a failure of Western military forces in halting their advance but rather a failure on the part of Middle Eastern Islamic states and their armed forces to deal with a danger that has, from the very beginning of this human tragedy, been far more approximate to their existence, both politically and religiously, than it has ever been to Western democracies.
So why are we fighting their war? And if we are forced to fight their war simply because they refuse to fight it themselves, let us be efficient and militarily laconic in disposing of this enemy.
Let us acquire a duration of peace, its anticipated longevity measured only by the level of destruction we inflict upon this enemy of all humanity. And afterward, after we dispose of ISIS, let us hold these Islamic nations to account for turning their backs on their fellow Muslims, on a humanitarian crisis that was always theirs, not ours; that was spawned out of the bowels of the religion of Islam and the imperialism it advocates and from nowhere else.
Let us point this out to them, just as they are so ever wont to point out our sins. Let us apply Skobelevs principle to our enemies in the same way they apply Islamic jihad to us.
"You have enemies? Good. That means that you have stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill.
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POTH: Marines vs. civilian weanies on gender integration
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Gender Integration of Marines Brings Out Unusually Public Discord
By DAVE PHILIPPSSEPT. 18, 2015
The Marine Corps and its civilian leadership at the Pentagon are squaring off in an unusually public dispute over whether integrating women into the corpss all-male combat units will undermine the units effectiveness, or whether the male-dominated Marine leadership is cherry-picking justifications to keep women out.
The military is facing a deadline set by the Obama administration to integrate women into all combat jobs by 2016 or ask for specific exemptions. The Marines, with a 93 percent male force dominated by infantry, are widely seen as the branch with the hardest integration task. The Marine Corps has the most units closed to women and still trains male and female recruits separately.
The tension began last week when the Marine Corps released a summary of a nine-month, $36 million study that found that integrated combat units were slower, had more injuries and were less accurate when firing weapons.
The commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., submitted the corpss recommendation on gender integration to the secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus, on Thursday. Pentagon officials said the corps was expected to request an exemption for at least some front-line combat units.
Mr. Mabus, the civilian head of the Marine Corps, has steadfastly said in public statements that the Marine Corps study is flawed and that its summary findings were picked from a much larger study in a manner that was biased toward keeping women out of combat roles.
In an interview Thursday, Mr. Mabus said he planned to push ahead with integration despite the study. My belief is you set gender-neutral standards related to the job Marines have to do, and you adhere to them, he said. It doesnt matter whether the Marines who meet those standards are male or female.
Further complicating the dispute is the fact that General Dunford, who will take over next week as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will be responsible for submitting recommendations to the secretary of defense for all the armed services, including the United States Special Operations Command. Officials in the Army, Navy and Air Force have suggested they are not likely to seek exemptions on integration.
On the surface, the debate within the Marine Corps has centered on the physical abilities of men and women. But critics say the dispute is also driven by a male-dominated culture that encourages Marines to believe that their esprit de corps will be undermined by the presence of women.
The Marines have a climate of non-inclusivity and justify it by talking about combat effectiveness, but a lot of it is based on emotion and not fact, said Lt. Col. Kate Germano, who was removed as the commander of female Marine recruits this summer after she pushed for integration and clashed with male superiors. A lot of them, especially the older generation, believe integrating women will be disastrous in war.
A recent op-ed by retired Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold of the Marines laid out the concerns about integration, saying women posed a threat to the alchemy that produces an effective infantry unit.
The characteristics that produce uncommon valor as a common virtue are not physical at all, Mr. Newbold wrote in the piece, published in the online magazine War on the Rocks, but are derived from the mysterious chemistry that forms in an infantry unit that revels in the most crude and profane existence so that they may be more effective killers than their foe.
He asked rhetorically how mixing men and women of the most libido-laden age cohort in humans, in the basest of environs, will not degrade the nearly spiritual glue that enables the infantry to achieve the illogical and endure the unendurable.
Mr. Newbold could not be reached for comment.
Mr. Mabus dismissed the idea that women would erode unit cohesion and lower morale.
That is almost exactly the same argument made against ending racial segregation in the military, and the ban on gays that it will ruin morale, he said in the interview. And it just isnt true. Weve seen that.
A senior Pentagon official briefed on the Marine Corps study, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said a separate, unreleased study on the same group of Marines, by the Naval Health Research Center, showed that while women scored lower in many physical tasks and had higher injury rates, they scored higher in mental resilience and had fewer mental health problems. The study also found that integrated units rated their unit cohesion at the same levels as all-male units and outperformed male units at making complex decisions, the official said.
The disagreement between the Marine Corps and the Pentagon is a rare public display of tension in a culture that generally values silent professionals.
Im struck by how much they aired their dirty laundry in public, said Michael E. OHanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution specializing in defense issues. The Marine leadership is definitely dubious and reluctant about this. I think they know they will have to integrate, but they have real concerns about what it will mean to the force.
Mr. Mabus will make his recommendation to Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter by January. Mr. Carter recently echoed Mr. Mabuss belief that women should be able to enter all military careers if they can meet standards set for their tasks.
Some Marines familiar with the corpss integration study are concerned that changes to current operations could threaten lives. Sgt. Maj. Justin D. LeHew, a decorated Iraq war veteran who oversaw the integration tests, said in a post on his personal Facebook page this week that lowering standards to allow women into combat teams would endanger other Marines. The post was soon taken down, but was published by Marine Corps Times.
In regards to the infantry... there is no trophy for second place. You perform or die, Sergeant LeHew wrote. Make no mistake. In this realm, you want your fastest, most fit, most physical and most lethal person you can possibly put on the battlefield to overwhelm the enemys ability to counter what you are throwing at them, and in every test case, that person has turned out to be a man. There is nothing gender biased about this; it is what it is.
The Pentagon will announce final decisions on integrating the remaining closed positions and occupations and on any approved exceptions around Jan. 1, Capt. Jeff Davis, a spokesman, said.
Captain Davis said that since 2013, some 111,000 jobs that women were previously excluded from had opened up to them, with 220,000 still closed. Presumably, the bulk of those will open come January.
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German Laser Gun
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The fix was in for women Rangers
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Re: The fix was in for women Rangers
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Re: Military Science and Military Issues
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October 02, 2015, 07:51:23 PM »
I remember reading long ago Lt Gen McMasters when he was a major. What I read was about what he did in Desert Storm. He had very interesting insights into military matters then. The last I heard of him was probably around 1998, when he was a Lt Col. He is now head of Training Doctrine and Command (TRADOC) when seeks to plot the needs and strategy of future wars.
(Gen Fred Franks ran TRADOC after Desert Storm. He commanded the Ground Forces in Desert Storm. Interestingly, he lost a leg below the knee in Vietnam, and was eventually allowed to return to duty then, an unheard of event. Worth reading his book on Desert Storm done with Tom Clancy.)
See, I do know a bit about a bit of different things.....
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Re: Military Science and Military Issues
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Damn...forgot to link....
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Re: Military Science and Military Issues
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This would be fun in a fire fight......
25mm grenade launcher with airburst capacity. Puts my old M201a - M16 with 4omm grenade launcher to shame. (First time I ever fired the 40mm, it went about 50 yards before hitting the ground and exploding. Range Instructor was not happy with me.)
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Baraq takes the military hostage
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US BMD system tested successfully
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Separated from Army for kicking child rapist's ass
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Re: Military Gender Wars
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November 06, 2015, 10:45:26 AM »
This is a rather lengthy read about the USAF gender actions and harassment. This Tech Sgt appears to being railroaded in the military quest to eliminate any "gender bias" or harassment. He could face 130 years in prison. In fact, he is facing charges far greater that the traitor Bergdahl. Even the level at which the trial will occur is greater than that of the traitor. His crime, touching a female airman, being crass, etc.
Hell, when I was in the AF, the worst offense would have been an Article 15, and more likely, a letter of reprimand.
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Re: Military Science and Military Issues
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November 06, 2015, 10:56:05 PM »
It is like there has been a fundamental transformation of this country.
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New US Bomber
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November 07, 2015, 10:11:23 AM »
How a New Bomber Will Shape U.S. Military Strategy
November 5, 2015 | 09:15 GMT Print
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A concept drawing of the next-generation long-range strike bomber. (Northrop Grumman)
The United States' new long-range strike bomber aircraft will combine existing technologies in one model to make the U.S. bomber fleet more effective and versatile.
The move to bring all U.S. bombers under a single, separate command will raise their status and make them a key component of the U.S. strategy to project power worldwide.
The networking technology used in contemporary fighter aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles will ease the integration of the latest bombers with the rest of the U.S. Air Force's network-centric warfare capabilities.
The U.S. Air Force is developing a new bomber that promises to secure the U.S. advantage in modern warfare. The next-generation long-range strike bomber, recently awarded to Northrop Grumman Corp. for development, will not be designed to rely on as yet undeveloped technologies, as is so often the case with new aircraft and weaponry. Instead, the aircraft will combine and fully exploit existing advanced stealth technology, integrated software, ordnance and countermeasures. In effect, the military is consolidating the best of its technology in one package. At the same time, the U.S. Air Force has decided to aggregate all of its bombers under a single, unified command, clearing the way to making bombers a more central part of its operations. Thus the new long-range strike bomber is poised to become a central pillar of the U.S. strategy to project its power throughout the globe.
Maintaining an Edge in Conventional Warfare
The B-2, the latest bomber model currently in use by the U.S. Air Force, was developed nearly 20 years ago. Since that time, newer aircraft have incorporated the significant technological advancements that have been made since the B-2's inception. Some of this technology has made its way into the United States' B-52, B-1B and B-2 bomber fleets, but the new bomber model will bring all of these technologies together in one comprehensive design, making fuller use of each to better meet modern strategic and tactical needs. At the same time, the new bomber is designed to be especially easy to upgrade as more advanced technology emerges.
The next-generation bomber comes not a moment too soon. Although the United States' current bombers will last for some time, they are rapidly losing their competitive edge against the aircraft developed by rapidly strengthening military powers such as China and Russia. And while the bulk of the current U.S. bomber force will have to be replaced by 2037, the U.S. Air Force expects Chinese technological advances to overtake the most modern B-2 bomber much sooner, perhaps as early as 2020. The introduction of the new long-range strike bomber and in particular, its more advanced stealth technology will therefore be critical to maintaining the U.S. advantage in conventional combat operations.
The Network-Centric Approach
Apart from stealth technology, the new bomber also features modern sensor packages that provide a clearer picture of the battlefield. Sensors of this type have already been installed in several other U.S. military aircraft, and a range of tests by the U.S. Air Force have shown they can help accurately and independently identify and engage targets. During Operation Resultant Fury in 2004, perhaps one of the most significant of these tests, B-52 and B-1 bombers were able to sink multiple moving maritime targets. These demonstrations suggest that in an actual combat situation, aircraft could detect, engage and destroy enemy vessels with precision-guided munitions. And the advanced sensor packages that make this possible are an important part of the design for the new U.S. long-range strike bomber. They give the United States a technological edge that could become even more important in future conflicts. If, for instance, conflict arises with China in the Pacific someday, technology that allows the U.S. military to effectively strike maritime targets will become a powerful tool for the United States.
Operation Resultant Fury also publicly tested the U.S. ability to conduct "network-centric warfare," an important concept in modern warfare dictating that countries should attempt to translate their information advantage into a competitive edge on the battlefield. To do so often requires broad task forces comprising several different moving parts that work in concert with each other, connected by an advanced and reliable network. The new bomber's sensor packages could help make that happen. In the 2004 test, bombers coordinated with intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance planes, command and control aircraft, refueling tankers and fighter jets. Though it was the bombers that ultimately delivered the decisive blow that completed the mission, the real feat of the exercise was the fact that the military was able to successfully integrate information collected from sensors on such a broad array of platforms. Pulling all this information together allowed surveillance and command platforms to identify and track numerous mobile maritime targets and lead the striking aircraft directly to them.
The advanced sensor packages on the new long-range strike bomber, then, will likely enable effective coordination with other vehicles during joint operations. The new bomber's network will be integrated with already existing platforms, including a wide variety of unmanned aerial vehicles, which will make cooperation even smoother. Meanwhile, the U.S. Air Force's broader objective is to develop its network-centric warfare capabilities in its other aircraft, including the F-35 fighter jet, effectively creating a wider web of sensors for the new bomber to integrate into. The easier it is for all these platforms to interact, the more effective each one becomes in the long run.
An Asymmetric Advantage
The latest bomber model could also create significant gains for the United States in asymmetric warfare. Bombers can spend a great deal of time flying over potential targets while carrying substantial amounts of ordnance. This offers a distinct advantage in conflicts against insurgencies and actors such as the Islamic State, which are often weaker than states in terms of traditional military power. For example, in the final months of 2014 and at the start of 2015, U.S. B-1B bombers played an important role in the battle to retake the Syrian city of Kobani from the Islamic State. With the help of refueling tankers, the bombers spent eight hours over the city expending their munitions in individual, precision-guided strikes against Islamic State fighters as they emerged. The long-range strike bomber will seek to improve upon these capabilities, both with its advanced sensor packages and with its potential to develop further into an unmanned platform. The aircraft would essentially be able to go anywhere in the world and remain in the air for as long as its ample ordnance lasts.
With its various advantages in assymetric and maritime warfare, the new long-range srike bomber will play a central role in the United States' projection of power abroad. Indeed, this has already been partially reflected in the recent restructuring of the U.S. Air Force. Since April, the United States has drawn all of its bomber aircraft under a single umbrella: the Global Strike Command. Prior to the reorganization, the Global Strike Command controlled nuclear-armed bomber aircraft and nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles. The remaining bombers reported to the Air Combat Command. Now, the Global Strike Command will be able to move beyond its nuclear role by assuming control over all long-range striking capability. The move to place all strategic bombers under their own separate command will likely raise the profile of the U.S. bomber force, paving the way for it to emerge as a distinct pillar of U.S. military might.
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Atlantic: US Military Brain Drain
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Predictions on the Evolution of War
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November 21, 2015, 11:08:31 PM »
Here's some thinking on how warfare will change over the next twenty years.
Fast forward 20 years (about the age of the WWW). An aging, schlerotic EU has become the destination for over a hundred million refugees and migrants fleeing the densely populated killing fields of Africa and SW Asia.
The rapidity of influx has led the EU to take extreme measures. Tens of millions of these migrants/refugees are roughly housed in relocation camps all across Europe.
Violence within these camps has risen steadily, leading to an EU-wide Islamic insurgency.
The soldiers sent to counter this insurgency are outfitted with autonomous weapons. These weapons combine deep learning (making them very smart) and cloud robotics (allowing the military to rapidly share advances in training and technique) to provide these soldiers with capabilities far beyond what we've seen in previous wars.
Here's an idealized example so you can get the idea. A human/robot team advances down a street in an urban environment.
Big Data: The autonomous weapons used by the team continuously scans the street in all directions. These weapons can visually ID everyone on the street from a database of 3.5 billion people in under a second. It also continuously analyzes the people, windows, etc. down the street looking for the visual signatures of concealed weapons and IEDs. i.e. A car at the end of the street is resting a bit too heavily on its springs, indicating there may be explosives in it. These weapons learned to do this based on billions of hours of combat and police training images/footage (aka Big Data).
Customized Training: The human members of the team have trained the weapons to alert the team when it sees any electric vehicles demonstrating even the slightest bit of irregular behavior -- the rapid acceleration possible with autonomously driven electric vehicles can make them dangerous kinetic threats in three seconds.
Cloud training: The autonomous weapons with the soldiers with connections to military's cloud. Fortunately, this connection to the cloud gave these weapons access to the certified methodologies for identifying and neutralizing a new DIED (drone IED) used by Islamic insurgents only yesterday. This paid off. The new DIED entered the street behind the team, and the systems new how to ID it, engage it, and neutralize its countermeasures flawlessly. During the engagement, the human team member noticed a slight change in the behavior of the DIED -- it released its homemade cluster bomblets earlier than anticipated. The data/footage of the engagement is tagged with a note to this effect and it is uploaded to the cloud in order to add to the approved methods for countering it.
Of course, much of this capability might become open source and available to anyone smart enough to employ it.
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Re: Military Science, Military Issues, and the Nature of War
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Europe existing in 20 years is quite optimistic.
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Allen West: Records of female army rangers have been shredded?
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Re: Allen West: Records of female army rangers have been shredded?
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Quote from: Crafty_Dog on December 04, 2015, 05:06:39 PM
Wow.... three cases proving the Left's agenda of equality and the competence of women, and they shred the records?
Why on earth would they do that, unless those three "Ranger" women had the standards lowered?
It's all a matter of perspective.
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Good thing we live in a new era of peace cause we are running out of bombs
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Nothing to worry about.
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Re: Good thing we live in a new era of peace!
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Quote from: G M on December 06, 2015, 02:19:48 AM
Nothing to worry about.
Running on empty.
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Pentagon proposes string of bases world wide to fight Islamo Fascism
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WASHINGTON As American intelligence agencies grapple with the expansion of the Islamic State beyond its headquarters in Syria, the Pentagon has proposed a new plan to the White House to build up a string of military bases in Africa, Southwest Asia and the Middle East.
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The bases could be used for collecting intelligence and carrying out strikes against the terrorist groups far-flung affiliates.
The growth of the Islamic States franchises at least eight militant groups have pledged loyalty to the networks leaders so far has forced a debate within the Obama administration about how to distinguish between the affiliates that pose the most immediate threat to the United States and Europe and others that are more regionally focused. The regional groups, some officials say, may have opportunistically adopted the Islamic States brand to bolster their local clout and global stature.
In the midst of that debate, senior military officials have told the White House that the network of bases would serve as hubs for Special Operations troops and intelligence operatives who would conduct counterterrorism missions for the foreseeable future. The plan would all but ensure what Pentagon officials call an enduring American military presence in some of the worlds most volatile regions.
Administration officials said that the proposal for the new basing system, presented to the White House this fall by Gen. Martin E. Dempsey during his final days as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was not intended to be a specific Pentagon proposal to combat the affiliates of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL. The officials said that it was meant primarily as a re-examination of how the military positions itself for future counterterrorism missions, but that the growing concern about a metastasizing Islamic State threat has lent new urgency to the discussions.
The White House declined to comment about continuing internal deliberations. The plan has met with some resistance from State Department officials concerned about a more permanent military presence across Africa and the Middle East, according to American officials familiar with the discussion. Career diplomats have long warned about the creeping militarization of American foreign policy as the Pentagon has forged new relationships with foreign governments eager for military aid.
Officials said the proposal has been under discussion for some time, including this week during a White House meeting with some members of President Obamas cabinet. Shortly after General Dempsey retired in September, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter referred to the plan in a little-noticed speech in Washington. Because we cannot predict the future, these regional nodes from Morón, Spain, to Jalalabad, Afghanistan will provide forward presence to respond to a range of crises, terrorist and other kinds, Mr. Carter said. These will enable unilateral crisis response, counterterror operations, or strikes on high-value targets.
Pentagon planners do not see the new approach as particularly costly by military standards. One official estimated it could be in the low millions of dollars, mainly to pay for military personnel, equipment and some base improvements.
For the approach to have any chance of success, analysts said, regional American commanders, diplomats and spies will have to work closely together and with Washington something that does not always happen now to combat threats that honor no borders. You cant just leave this on cruise control, said Vikram J. Singh, a former official at the Pentagon and State Department who is now vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress.
Officials said that the Pentagons proposed new architecture of bases would include four hubs including expanding existing bases in Djibouti and Afghanistan and smaller spokes, or more basic installations, in countries that could include Niger and Cameroon, where the United States now carries out unarmed surveillance drone missions, or will soon.
The hubs would range in size from about 500 American troops to 5,000 personnel, and the likely cost would be several million dollars a year, mostly in personnel expenses, Pentagon officials said. They would also require the approval of the host nation.
The military already has much of the basing in place to carry out an expansion. Over the past dozen years, the Pentagon has turned what was once a decrepit French Foreign Legion base in Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa, into a sprawling headquarters housing 2,000 American troops for military operations in East Africa and Yemen.
Similarly, the American military has been using a constellation of airstrips in Africa, including Ethiopia and Burkina Faso, for surveillance missions flown by drones or turboprop planes designed to look like civilian aircraft, to collect intelligence about militant groups across the northern part of the continent.
The Pentagon plan also calls for a hub in the Middle East, possibly Erbil, in northern Iraq, where many of the 3,500 American troops in Iraq are based.
The Islamic State emerged from a group of militants in Iraq to take over large portions of Iraq and Syria, and now threatens other countries in Europe and elsewhere.
The new approach would try to bring an ad hoc series of existing bases into one coherent system that would be able to confront regional threats from the Islamic State, Al Qaeda or other terrorist groups including possible attacks against American embassies, like the assault on the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012. It would also ensure that the bases would receive regular financing in the annual Pentagon budget and it could lengthen and make more predictable troop deployments, especially among Special Operations forces who often rotate assignments every several months.
A senior Pentagon official said the proposal was still very much in its early stages, with some officials advocating a larger string of new bases in West Africa, and others, mindful of African fears about a large American military footprint on the continent, saying the main hub for West Africa would actually be located in southern Europe. Any American bases in Africa, American officials said, might have approximately 500 soldiers.
For instance, American officials said that the intelligence agencies were generally unanimous in their view that the Islamic State affiliate in Libya and some of the other franchises had strong ties to the groups leaders in the Islamic States self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq, and that they had a desire to carry out its agenda of attacking the West.
But there is greater uncertainty about groups like Boko Haram, a Nigerian-based Islamic militancy responsible for years of destruction in north-central Africa. The group announced its allegiance to the Islamic State this year, but American officials have given conflicting statements about the strength of Boko Harams bonds to the Islamic States top leadership.
Gen. Joseph E. Dunford Jr., who took over in October from General Dempsey as chairman of the Joint Chiefs, told Congress this month that he saw little to distinguish among the Islamic State affiliates. He said that the Islamic States inclusion of Boko Haram and other militant groups into its fold was part of a global dynamic.
These threats are difficult to confine to one place, he said, adding that was why the United States needed to strike at the Islamic State not only in Iraq and Syria but also in other places where it is.
But Gen. David M. Rodriguez, commander of the Pentagons Africa Command, said around the same time that he did not see strong ties between the Islamic State and Boko Haram, which he indicated still saw itself as a regionally focused group.
One American intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was discussing classified assessments about the various groups, said that the Islamic State does not vet the new affiliates with the same scrutiny that Al Qaeda does, and generally welcomes any opportunities to build its global brand.
The affiliates, the official said, are a mélange of different identities and agendas and some might not be completely subsumed into the Islamic State.
While he said that some groups were the result of active efforts by the Islamic State to expand its global presence, others like Boko Haram and the Islamic State branch in the Sinai Peninsula were products of local circumstances and were seeking to exploit the groups resources and prominence.
They are flying the Islamic State flag, he said, in an attempt to elevate their cause.
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Roman tactics
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A good video on the Roman legion and how it is believed to have been used at least for a time in Roman history. Includes the scene out of the Douglas/Kubrick Spartacus' movie showing the approaching Roman juggernaut.
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Big $ to harden mountain bunker against EMP attack
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A few big ships or lots of small ships?
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Hat tip to our Doug:
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Retiring USMC General worried about a lunatic drive for "fairness
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America's fading air supremacy
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Fundamental change.
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Re: Military Science, Military Issues, and the Nature of War
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Re: Military Science, Military Issues, and the Nature of War
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Skunk works
Russia and China may be giving the U.S. a run for its money in the military modernization race, but the head of Lockheed Martin's famed Skunk Works is still pretty confident in America's edge in fifth generation fighter jets. Skunk Works has been home to some of the world's most innovative -- and classified -- development of military aviation projects, like the iconic SR-71 Blackbird and the F-117, America's first stealth fighter jet. Rob Weiss, Lockheed's Skunk Works boss, tells Defense One that the U.S. F-22 and F-35 have little to sweat from rivals and that the U.S. may not need to replace them for another 30 years. Rivals have nonetheless tried to catch up to America's lead in fifth generation jets, with China working hard on the Chengdu J-20 and Russia developing the Sukhoi PAK-FA.
Air Force
The U.S. Air Force has taken a look at the way the Navy wants to fund its submarine modernization program, and wants a piece of the action. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James told a congressional panel Wednesday they should really think about funding a joint service "strategic deterrence" account that would pay for the Air Forces B-21 bomber as well as refitting the Navys Ohio-class ballistic submarines. "If [there] is a strategic deterrence fund that would help or benefit one leg of the triad, I would ask for consideration that all legs of the triad be included in such an approach."
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday that he'd have "grave concerns about the readiness of our force" in a major conventional throwdown with a country like China, Russia, Iran or North Korea. Milley told the lawmakers that the past decade or so of focus on wars like Iraq and Afghanistan have prepared the service well for combat in counterinsurgencies and small wars, but at the expense of preparedness against larger conventional adversaries
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Hypersonic missiles are coming
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What the Next Arms Race Will Look Like
March 21, 2016 | 09:30 GMT Print
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An artist's illustration of DARPA's Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2. (DARPA)
The design, production and fielding of hypersonic missiles though expensive and technologically complicated is becoming more feasible.
The United States and China will likely incorporate the first operational long-range hypersonic missiles into their arsenals by 2025, with Russia lagging a few years behind.
Once they are deployed, hypersonic missiles will revolutionize warfighting in certain conventional and nuclear settings.
A new arms race is unfolding between the world's great powers. Hypersonic missiles, which are both accurate and extremely fast, stand to change the face of modern warfare by rendering the current generation of missile defense systems ineffective. As competition heats up among Russia, China and the United States to be the first to deploy hypersonic missiles, each will become more vulnerable to attack by the others. If tensions rise, so will the risk of pre-emptive strikes among the longtime rivals.
Hypersonic missiles travel at least five times the speed of sound. Only a few other manmade devices are capable of reaching hypersonic speeds, including ballistic missiles, space launch vehicles and unmanned spacecraft such as the Boeing X-37. The only manned aircraft to achieve hypersonic speed is the rocket-powered North American X-15, which broke speed and altitude records when it was introduced in the 1960s.
The rocket-powered North American X-15 in flight. (NASA/Wikimedia Commons)
Recently, the focus of research in hypersonic technologies has shifted toward missile development, but several challenges must be overcome to make hypersonic missiles a reality. First, it is difficult to create a weapon that can reach hypersonic speeds while enduring the stress and extreme temperatures of hypersonic flight. It is harder still to ensure that the weapon can maintain those speeds for an extended period enough time to reach its target. Second, high velocities can make a hypersonic vehicle sensitive to changes in flight conditions, resulting in instability in the missile's airframe during flight. Coupled with the fact that high speeds leave less time to course correct, this instability can make guidance of hypersonic missiles problematic. Finally, hypersonic vehicles' actual flight paths often do not match the predictions researchers derive from ground tests and theoretical models, lengthening the process of development.
Despite these obstacles, hypersonic missiles have some considerable advantages. Their speed enables them to reach their targets much more quickly than other missiles and to better penetrate enemy defense systems. Those with gliding capabilities can also cover great distances, enabling one country to strike at another from farther away. Guided hypersonic missiles would be more accurate than traditional ballistic missiles, and they could conceivably be armed with nuclear warheads, becoming a strike asset or a deterrent in nuclear warfare.
From Theory to Reality
It will not be long before hypersonic missiles find their way out of the lab and onto the battlefield. In late February, U.S. Maj. Gen. Thomas Masiello announced that the U.S. Air Force plans to have operational prototypes ready for testing by 2020. The U.S. Air Force already conducted four flights of the experimental X-51 hypersonic cruise missile from 2010 to 2013, two of which were considered successes. Meanwhile, Lockheed Martin has made substantial progress on its Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept and Tactical Boost Glide vehicle.
The X-51 WaveRider hypersonic flight test vehicle uploaded onto a B-52 bomber. (U.S. Air Force/Wikimedia Commons)
China is close behind, and it appears to be on track for deployment by 2020 as well. In 2014, China conducted three tests of its DF-ZF hypersonic strike vehicle, followed by three more in 2015. The U.S. military deemed all but one of the tests successful. Russia is developing its own hypersonic glide vehicle, the Yu-71, though its ambitions of fielding the vehicle in the next four years may be overly optimistic. (Moscow's sole test of the Yu-71, in 2015, was a failure.) But one of Russia's relatively short-range hypersonic missiles, the 3M22 Zircon, underwent its first test on March 18, and a second model (the BrahMos-II) will be ready for testing around 2017.
A scaled down model of the BrahMos-II hypersonic missile. (Wikimedia Commons)
As the world's biggest powers race to build up their hypersonic arsenals, the nature of battle will fundamentally change. Missile defense systems will struggle to counter hypersonic flight, making targets especially large naval warships more vulnerable to attack. In time, this could drive the development of directed-energy weapons (such as high-powered lasers or microwaves) as a possible way of countering hypersonic missiles. But as has been the case for revolutionary military technologies in the past, the best defense will be to destroy the missiles before they can launch, increasing war planners' emphasis on offensive action.
Countries will have an incentive to launch pre-emptive strikes against their enemies to knock out hypersonic missile caches before the missiles can be deployed. Moreover, guidance systems, along with command, control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance networks the weakest components of hypersonic missile capabilities will become critical targets. At the same time, states with hypersonic missiles (and the bigger offensive advantage they bring) will have less need for stealth technology to penetrate enemy defenses.
Nuclear warfare and strategies to deter nuclear conflict will be altered as well. Though increasingly effective anti-ballistic missile technologies will continue to be important against opponents that lack hypersonic weapons, they will be of little use in countering hypersonic missiles equipped with nuclear warheads. Because hypersonic missiles are so difficult to detect and counter, countries could be motivated to pre-emptively strike at an enemy developing a hypersonic capability. As hypersonic missiles undermine the fragile balance among global nuclear powers more and more, many countries will be forced to re-examine their deterrence and national security strategies, potentially contributing to greater uncertainty and instability in the long run.
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Marines trying to scavenge spare parts from a museum
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Got to love the Obama era.
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New Aircraft Carrier
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New Russian Destroyer planned
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illegals in military service
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Like it's name sake, not so hot after all ??
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1 AnswerDr. Michael Roizen, MD , Internal Medicine, answeredIf you have early age-related macular degeneration (AMD), doctors recommend frequently grazing at the salad bar to protect your sight. AMD is a leading cause of blindness but good nutrition can help hold it off. Make a beeline for the carrots, spinach and other dark leafy greens. You want their lutein, zeaxanthin and betacarotene; all fight AMD. Omega-3 fatty acids are also vision savers. Find them in wild or canned salmon, trout, canned tuna, some nuts (particularly walnuts) and supplements. We recommend 900 mg a day of algae-based omega-3s in their DHA form (the form your body likes best).
There's good evidence that taking specific amounts of vitamins C, E and A (or beta carotene), as well as copper and zinc, can help prevent intermediate AMD in one or both eyes -- or advanced AMD in one eye -- from worsening. This powerful combo is called the AREDS formula (for Age-Related Eye Disease Study). Just "don't try this at home." Talk to your ophthalmologist about it. By the way, there's no evidence that AREDS helps early AMD. Only lutein (10 mg twice a day) and those omega-3s (900 mg a day) do that.
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Emerging research suggests that getting eye-supporting nutrients in combination -- in the context of a low-glycemic-index diet -- may have a profound effect on slowing age-related macular degeneration (AMD). So do your eyes a favor: Don't focus on a single nutrient. Instead, eat a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, choose healthy fats and high-fiber carbs, and reduce your intake of red meat, sugars, and refined flours.
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2 AnswersHonor Society of Nursing (STTI) answeredMacular degeneration can have complications. Legal blindness can result from advanced macular degeneration, and wet macular degeneration can lead to a detached or scarred retina. This retinal detachment is called subretinal neovascularization and it affects about 20 percent of people who have macular degeneration; it is very damaging to your central vision. Treatment can help prevent complications.

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Plosser Calls for More Fed Openness to Boost Policy Impact
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Charles Plosser said the U.S. central bank should be more transparent to increase "the effectiveness of monetary policy" and "accountability with the public."
"We can and should provide more details about the interplay between economic conditions and policy," Plosser said in the text of remarks he gave in New York today. "We can also better define our reaction function, to enable the public to better understand and anticipate future policy actions."
Plosser said the Fed's adoption in January of an explicit inflation target and release of policy makers' projections for the appropriate path of interest rates were "important steps forward," and helped clarify the central bank's goals. The measures were the latest by Ben S. Bernanke to increase openness and public understanding of the Fed since he became chairman in 2006.
Bernanke has begun holding regular press conferences and voiced his views in television interviews and at town hall meetings. He's also announced forecasts on economic growth, unemployment and inflation four times a year, up from twice annually under his predecessor, Alan Greenspan.
Plosser said the Fed should go further and give "more information about the linkages among the economic variables and associated policy paths." That would make it easier for the public to understand the ties between changes in economic conditions and monetary policy, he said.
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"A natural next step would be to include a matrix of output, inflation, and unemployment, and the associated policy path assumptions that each policy maker submitted," Plosser said. Currently, it's "only possible" to tie forecasts together "when individual policy makers choose to reveal such information in their speeches and other public communications."
Plosser said in response to questions from reporters that his policy-path projection called for the central bank to raise its benchmark interest rate by the end of this year. The Fed has kept the rate near zero since December 2008.
He forecast a 2 percent rate of inflation this year and next, and said that if "inflation keeps drifting up it should be cause for some watchful monitoring." The personal consumption expenditures price index rose 2.4 percent for the 12 months ending in December, near the Fed's goal.
"I'm cautiously optimistic," Plosser said. The drop in the unemployment rate over the past year is "really significant."
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The jobless rate fell to 8.3 percent in January, its lowest level since February 2009, and down from 9.1 percent in January 2011. Plosser predicted that the unemployment rate would decline to 7.8 percent in 2012.
The policy path projections "over time will prove to be a far better way to provide information about the path of policy than using calendar dates, as we are currently doing," Plosser said. "Policy should be conditioned on the state of the economy, not the calendar."
The policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee said last month its benchmark interest rate will probably stay "exceptionally low" through at least late 2014 to help the recovery gain traction, extending an earlier date of mid-2013.
The Fed should also "do a more comprehensive monetary policy report four times a year," as "most central banks that have adopted an inflation target have also sought to improve communication and transparency through the publication of a regular policy report," Plosser said, citing the Bank of England. Bernanke gives Congress a monetary-policy report twice a year, including today.
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"The Fed should consider producing a similar report to elaborate and reinforce its policy framework and how it relates to economic conditions," Plosser said. "These reports will help improve the public's understanding of policy, which will help make policy more effective and the central bank more accountable."
Bernanke said today in prepared testimony to the House Financial Services Committee in Washington that keeping monetary stimulus is warranted even as the unemployment rate falls and rising oil prices may cause inflation to rise temporarily.
"At present, with the unemployment rate elevated and the inflation outlook subdued, the committee judges that sustaining a highly accommodative stance for monetary policy is consistent" with promoting the Fed's two objectives of stable prices and maximum employment, Bernanke said today.
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Bernanke said the FOMC's announcement of a 2 percent inflation target in January was aimed at providing "additional transparency" and did "not imply a change in how the committee conducts policy." The Fed chairman said at times when the inflation and full employment goals are not complementary, the FOMC "follows a balanced approach in promoting them."
While stating its 2 percent inflation target was a positive step, Plosser said "it is not appropriate for the central bank to set an explicit numerical goal for the maximum employment part of our mandate," because that rate is determined by factors that are beyond the Fed's control, such as demographics and productivity.
Plosser said if the Fed gave more details on how it reacts to changing economic indicators, it would make monetary policy more "systematic" and impose "an important discipline" on central bankers.
"If we choose a consistent set of variables and systematically use them to describe our policy choices, the public will have a greater ability to form judgments about the likely course of policy," Plosser said. "This would reduce uncertainty about policy and promote stability."
He also reiterated his view that the Fed must protect its independence, which is "now under attack" because of fiscal imbalances and because the central bank engaged "in credit allocations to particular sectors, such as housing, and bailouts to particular firms" like Bear Stearns Cos.


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Below is a snapshot of events in the Central African Republic from the coup which ousted president Francois Bozize in March 2013 to the resignation of interim leader Michel Djotodia on Friday:
March 24
- Rebels from the Muslim-dominated group Seleka seize the presidential palace in Bangui. Bozize, who has been in power for ten years, flees.
March 25
- Seleka leader Djotodia suspends the constitution and says he will rule by decree until elections are held.
- The African Union suspends the Central African Republic and slaps sanctions on Djotodia and six other officials.
May 31
- The country issues an international arrest warrant for Bozize.
August 10
- Bozize surfaces in France and says he will try to regain power "if the opportunity presents itself."
August 15
- The UN Security Council warns that turmoil in the Central African Republic poses a "serious threat" to the country and the region, and urges new measures to restore stability.
August 18
- Djotodia is sworn in as president, vowing to "preserve the peace, to consolidate national unity (and) to ensure the well-being of the Central African people".
September 8-9
- Around 100 are killed in two days in fighting between ex-Seleka rebels and Christians loyal to Bozize around Bossangoa, 250 kilometres (155 miles) northwest of the capital.
September 13
- Djotodia says he is dissolving Seleka.
November 19
- The US envoy to the United Nations visits the Central African Republic and warns its people are "in profound danger".
December 5
- France orders another 600 troops into the Central African Republic, doubling the force it already has in and around Bangui, shortly after the UN Security Council issues a green light for the military intervention.
A curfew is extended.
December 7
- French troops increase to 1,600, with a mission to disarm the militias and other groups blamed for a spiral of violence.
January 10
- Djotodia resigns under intense pressure over his failure to stem the sectarian unrest that has seen more than 1,000 people killed in the previous month alone.


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For the past 19 days, activist Kristin Henry has been participating in a hunger strike against the Site C Dam in front of BC Hydro building in #downtown #Vancouver. As of last night, she's been hospitalized.
This morning, Elizabeth May, the leader of the Green Party of Canada - Parti vert du Canada went to the site of the protest to show support for the hunger striker.
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