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The Trump Effect https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/21/how-return-british-tactical-nuclear-weapons-save-europe/ I would also add this to the mix.... http://www.hisutton.com/Ukraine-Banshee-Drone.html...

https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2025/01/31/is_upgrading_the_canadian_army_a_mission_impossible_1088453.html Andrew Latham, Ph.D., a tenured professor at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is also a Senior Washington Fellow with the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy in...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/31/give-us-youth-movement-block-defence-deal-eu-starmer/ Europe is facing the end of the world. Putin is rampaging on its border. Populists at large in their parliaments. Boris's Britain signed up with JEF and the Easterners. Starmer's Britain...

https://www.forcesnews.com/usa/will-not-stand-us-defence-secretary-reinstates-tuskegee-airmen-history-usaf-training

https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2025/01/time-new-key-west-agreement/402489/?oref=d1-featured-river-top I think it is fair to say that this is a relevant discussion. .... I also think these articles, emphasizing the defence, also frame the current debate. Ukraine proves that Clausewitz was...

Stop me if you have heard this one.... https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2024/12/army-too-top-heavy/401571/?oref=d1-hp-voices-module

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/01/05/party-animal/ I found the piece interesting but the flaw I detect in it is that the Van Buren - Jackson era described is the same era as that described by de Tocqueville as an era of "small platoons". The US society was not so much fractured as...

This thread came out of this comment - https://www.defensenews.com/land/2024/05/22/pacific-exercises-help-to-shape-us-armys-watercraft-strategy/ The US Navy, Marines and Army are all chasing the same defence dollars. They all have different senses of what the 80% solution looks like. Even...

I hold that Toynbee was more wrong than right. There may be rational threads to history but the net effect is so complex as to be random. This author holds that European liberals, and I will suggest liberals at large, are too invested in progress. Progress suggests movement towards some...

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-navy/2024/12/11/navy-to-cut-boot-camp-from-10-weeks-to-nine/ Is Army training the best standard for the modern forces? Or do the technical services, the Navy, Air Force, Space, Cyber, Log, offer a better standard? Are we assuming that everybody needs to...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canadian-border-agents-patrol-powers/ A bit of a change from the days of trying to convince the Border Agents to accept guns. Now they want to patrol the entire border.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/15/us-royal-navy-warships-subs-russia-gugi-spy-ship/

Seeing as how I brought it up --- What is an MDTF or Multi Domain Task Force? Per the Congressional Research Service https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/IF11797.html And what can it do? - From a pilot exercise during RIMPAC 2018...

https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/10/21/national_defense_strategy_commission_we_are_not_prepared_1066457.html Oh, and make lots more stuff of all sorts. But... If the West wants an American style defence then it is going to have to dig deeper and toss a few more shekels in...

https://newcriterion.com/article/the-washington-octopus/ The article is about the rise of modern Washington, but it references the London antecedents, which never went away and which cast as shadow over Ottawa and Canberra. The symptoms described, in my opinion, are endemic in all capital...

A lot of electrons buzzing around devoted to information wars, misinformation, disinformation and such. Loads of people concerned about the truth and where to find it. The concern seems to afflict politicians and journalists and other clerical types - men of the cloth and Philadelphia...

Oceania awakes and Eurasia takes notice. https://mwi.westpoint.edu/on-protracted-war-the-challenge-of-sustained-large-scale-combat-operations/ The authors' sense is that from the Chinese perspective the match has already started and that delay only really serves Oceania. In other words...

https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-short-war-illusion-the-real-us Noteworthy substack article from O'Brien on Short Wars. Everybody loves a short war. No war was ever touted as a long grind. In fact I don't think anybody actually declares war unless they think it will all be over by...

Ireland is taking some of the load of the RAF and the RN? https://breakingdefense.com/2024/10/ireland-draws-up-record-1-5-billion-defense-budget/ The RN also patrols the seas around Ireland.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/03/dutch-navy-to-replace-opv-and-lpd-with-a-single-class-of-ships/ In 2012 the Dutch commissioned 4 Holland class OPVs for service in the North Sea, the Caribbean and the South China Seas. The contract was let with Damen in 2007 - the same year Harper...