It is a dark little secret in the Pentagon that nobody wants to admit, let alone deal with right now. The U.S. is woefully incapable of countering the sea mine threat from a Iran, which could virtually paralyze the flow of oil from the Strait of Hormuz for weeks if not months at a cost of […]
USS Vella Gulf ordered into the Black Sea amid heightened tensions with Russia over Ukraine
The US missile cruiser Vella Gulf is expected to arrive in the Black Sea on May 23, 2014 a military source told a Russian news agency RT news. The nick name of the Vella Gulf (CG-72) is “Move Swiftly, Strike Vigorously!” This comes as part of a much wider military buildup of NATO forces pushing up […]
How Things Appear to be Going — You Know, Globally
by Donald Croft Brickner I really want to write something much longer than I am here and now — but it’s just still too soon to do so. It’s really hard to discuss much of anything sophisticated (much less substantial) when both the Facts and the Truth are typically shunned, both here in America and […]
“US Navy is only able to meet about half of combatant commander requests for attack submarines”, warns Senator Ayotte
Contained within the pages of Senate report 113-044 NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2014 is reference to comments made by Senator Kelly Ayotte which discuss certain US Navy attack submarine fleet vulnerabilities and shortcomings. Those shortcomings and vulnerabilities include those posed by anti-access/area denial threats, which could pose very serious problems in the […]
Russians go on full nuclear alert as USS Donald Cook enters Black Sea
Russian media is reporting that the USS Donald Cook, a destroyer equipped with the powerful Aegis missile defense system, has crossed through the Bosphorus and entered the Black Sea. This comes amid concerns that the United States is assembling a battle force to attack Russia. Intelligence sources report that the Russian Ministry of Defense has […]
We live in a very dangerous world!
We live in a very dangerous world! Having served in the United States Army during the end of the Cold War in the mid 1980’s, as an infantryman with the 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, N.C. I can personally attest to that fact. To help underscore that point on January 25, 1995 then Russian […]
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