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Incorrect. "Japan lies beyond the effective reach of China’s A2/AD capabilities and could thus be supplied from its eastern ports."https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/asia/2021-04-28/washington-avoiding-tough-questions-taiwa

Forrest, trees:"The 30-year shipbuilding plan would average $34.1 billion per year—an amount that would be 'unprecedented since World War II,' the CBO said in its analysis on Thursday."https://about.bgov.com/news/biden-c

State approves sale of a ton of anti-ship cruise missile coastal batteries to Taiwan. That would complicate an amphibious landing... These are road mobile launchers. Range of Harpoon Block II

Programming note for later, never had this one before: It is time: Port Charlotte 10 by Bruichladdich in Islay.Aged mostly in American Oak, finished in wine casks. Pours real pale.

Everyone goes to f***ing General Quarters when Russia sends a spy ship to the East Coast or China shows up to RIMPAC uninvited, but yet I feel like smart people

A thread from one of the officers aboard Cole. Also a two-time Normandy sailor (once as CO). Remember this Monday is the 20th Anniversary. Spare a thought from the wardroom

Never thought I'd hear Esper reference Mahan in a speech, but here we are. Perhaps it was a reading assignment from Robert O'Brien.But on to a wee thread about this

Happy birthday to this genius album about the creeping depression and anxiety caused by overexposure in a tech-bubble, media-saturated world.https://twitter.com/stereogum/status/1312015378097278978 Thom Yorke is easily the most insightful r

There is a persistent belief in the self-financed miracle inside DoD. Generally the thinking goes: "This place used to run differently, we used to have fewer people in WWII, we

Grand Strategists: We will bake a cake and serve it with dinner.Me: Uh, well, so we don't have flour or sugar, a pan or anything to make icing with, and

The idea that there is a straight line between Versailles and Hitler, its a tidy narrative. But do we believe that Hitler wouldn't have tried to gain power anyway? He

As the F-35 Program Office intimated in Val's and my original report, they've decided the issues caused by sustained supersonic flight in the carrier and STOVL versions aren't worth fixing.https://www.defensenews.com/air/2020/04/24/the-pe