Recent content by Kirkhill

https://defence-industry.eu/germany-turns-to-e3-4-billion-typhon-and-tomahawk-purchase-to-field-2500-kilometer-strike-capability-after-u-s-cancels-deployment/ Reagan donated ground launched cruise missiles and crews to defend Germany. Trump is selling ground launched cruise missiles for German...

Many more Leidos Havoc Spears - 200 lb launch weight to 400 NM. https://breakingdefense.com/2026/09/after-combat-success-afsoc-wants-new-leidos-cruise-missile-on-every-type-of-platform/

Multi-Domain Comms - Air, Land, Sea and Sub-Sea. https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2026/09/quantum-systems-launches-maritime-domain-introducing-seavex-and-subvex/

In my case I started to learn my job pre-Commodore 64. I ended up double-checking everything that a screen told me with a quick hand-sketch and a bit of mental arithmetic. I figure that if I could handle that today's kids should be able to as well.

If we need an air force and a navy we need modern artillery. We are not talking about 11 km C1s anymore. We are talking about 1000 km LRASMs and THAADs. Artillery. And I would add 5600 km UAV/CCA. Artillery.

Some things that have value on expeditionary ops have little to no value against the threats likely to be encountered in domestic ops. Buying those things deprives domestic ops of useful resources. I have no problem with buying systems that have utility on both domestic and expeditionary ops...

How about tiering the training spaces so that varying levels of security are possible? Unclas, Restricted, Classified, Secret and Top secret might be a place to start. Unclassified training Restricted Training....

The next step would be to replace the howitzers with SAMs, SSMs, BMAs and CPs. A lot of Sgt Stout troops.

This one makes sense. All under arty command. Sgt Stout M-SHORADs integrated with Howitzers to keep the Howitzers in the fight. https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/2026/u-s-army-deploys-sgt-stout-air-defense-vehicle-to-shield-howitzers-from-drone-strikes Essentially the howitzers...

As much as you keep relating everything to the Expeditionary Force a lot of domestic operations and thus 2nd Div's operations wil be based on protecting fixed infrastructure in exactly the same manner as the Ukrainian's and European's. Domestic IAMD could end up looking a lot more like BOMARCs...

A lot of those flights were chartered with the companies picking up the cost, and controlling personnnel movements.

If you execute you may not meet your KPIs and that would be a career killer. ....

Why does the transatlantic cable come ashore in Kerry? Because the Brits put it there. They laid it to connect with Newfoundland.

Have the Ukrainians managed to net in their AD effectors to their web of passive sensors? I understand that web to include microphones posted around the country (like the Chicago Shot Spotter system but tuned to UAS engines - originally just cell phones) and even using human observers calling...

The government can subsidize a railway or it can subsidize air fares....just the way they did in the days of Trans Canada Airways.