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Bob Smith, RCDefense
As a former member of the U.S. Senate and the Armed Services Committee, I advocated for taking a long view on military preparedness.

Compass Points
The range of the LRASM has increased from roughly 600 miles to over 1,000 miles.

Ukrainian forces have also regularly complained that training delivered by NATO allies is not reflective of the realities on the battlefield.

When NATO leaders gather in Washington on 10-11 July, the war in Ukraine will likely dominate conversations. But the war can no longer be seen exclusively as a Euro-Atlantic affair – if it ever really was. North and South Korea have, directly and indirectly, given Russia and Ukraine more munitions than any other country except the United States. China has helped Russia cushion Western economic and political pressure from day one, and continues to enable Moscow’s defense-industrial and battlefield effort through the transfer of dual-use goods.

During the height of the Vietnam War, Army Spc. Doris Allen studied signs of a build-up of Vietcong and North Vietnamese troops in late 1967 within the flow of reports she monitored as an Army intelligence analyst. She told her bosses an attack was coming. She was right, and — almost to the day she predicted it — the Tết Offensive sent shockwaves through South Vietnam and the American war effort.
But Doris Allen’s reports mostly fell on deaf ears, as the almost universally white men who made up the officers above her ignored the warnings from the black enlisted woman.
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It’s a bit humbling to see clear mock ups of American aircraft lined up so neatly at a target field in China.
The photo ops might be impressive at U.S. airfields, but too often the reality is that is how American bases look.
Dispersing aircraft or ships in a base environment greatly complicates the security, provisioning, and maintenance. The cranky old O-6s that are normally base commanders are pulling their hair out to make ends meet. If your resources are dispersed across the base and to satellite fields, it makes things more complicated.

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Football coaches who lose are fired.
Basketball coaches who lose are fired.
Baseball coaches who lose are fired.
CEOs of corporations that preside over losing quarters are fired.
But…
US generals who lose wars and lack integrity are promoted and 80% of 4-star generals are rewarded with lucrative executive positions at military industrial complex corporations.
This clearly defies the logic of the prior examples. So, how exactly does this happen?
One plausible explanation may be ‘Toxic Loyalty’
So, what exactly is ‘Toxic Loyalty?’
Fastcompany.

(Press Release) A year-long examination of DEI training in the military identifies millions of wasted taxpayer dollars are being spent to create a culture of “race and sex-based scapegoating and stereotyping.”
The report calls for an immediate end to the Pentagon’s multimillion-dollar DEI bureaucracy.

Stuart Scheller, RealClearDefense
The American military tolerates failure, bleeds talent, and wastes resources at an unsustainable rate.

RCDefense
The United States Marine Corps’ capability to respond quickly and effectively to a full range of worldwide crises and contingencies is at its lowest ebb in more than 50 years.