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The Blob is coming for SecDef Hegseth.
The ‘Op’ is being run reportedly by Senator Tom Cotton, who wants the job.
CDM/AFP reported on Senator Cotton’s massive criminal money laundering into his campaign earlier this year.
Cotton is reported to be assisted by Chinese-linked NSC staffer Alex Wong.
There is trouble in MAGA paradise.
Greg Sheridan, WSJ
Putin and Xi are wooing the world’s fourth-largest nation with military and economic promises
Stephen Bryen, Asia Times
Defending America and America’s friends and allies is expensive
CDR Salamander
the Annapolis numbers are worse than you think
Keegan McBride & Adam Thierer, RealClearDefense
the U.S.
In every war, there are casualties and there are costs, and that’s true even for trade wars.
President Trump’s justified trade war with China – and with other countries who have taken advantage of the US – will, eventually, be successful and will usher in a new Golden Age of Made in America.
However, victory will not come overnight and there will be casualties and a cost associated with this effort.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is making adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities a primary focus in 2025 by integrating new technologies into its workflows.
As a combined intelligence and combat support agency, NGA is tasked with collecting geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) from satellites and other sources and turning it into actionable data for military operators and decision makers.
In 2015, intense method actor and Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman Jared Leto became the proud new owner of Lookout Mountain Air Force Station, a 100,000 square foot installation built in 1941 as a World War II air defense center intended to coordinate radar installations in the Los Angeles area. Yes, for a cool $5 million, you too could dream of owning a facility once used by the United States Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission.
The Army has been on a push to gain what it calls agile or flexible funding for a small portfolio of capabilities as a pilot effort to be more adaptive to the battlefield.
Those initial areas include drones, counter-unmanned aerial systems and electronic warfare. The commercial drone sector is pretty well established, however, what is less clear is how such flexible funding would look for electronic warfare, where to date, most systems have been exquisitely designed and purpose-built for the military.