Trump administration 2024-2028

[Halifax Tar]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2004759817353895988

I wonder how port visits will go now..

 

[dapaterson]

With no requirements for precision or even tested airworthiness, and hence dramatically cheaper. It is like comparing a Lambo to a 1976 K5 Blazer.

Fair. But, quantity has a quality all its own.

 

[brihard]

It seems pretty clear that there’s a place for exquisite systems, but that they need to be in conjunction with the ability to mass fires with lots of ‘good enough’ so that worthy targets aren’t neglected.

 

[Retired AF Guy]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2004759817353895988

I wonder how port visits will go now..

Well the article states "Canadian travelers and diplomats."

 

[Altair]

It seems pretty clear that there’s a place for exquisite systems, but that they need to be in conjunction with the ability to mass fires with lots of ‘good enough’ so that worthy targets aren’t neglected.

Shermans versus Tigers and the west learned the wrong lessons from WW2.

China seemed to learn that quantity is a quality of its own.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Shermans versus Tigers and the west learned the wrong lessons from WW2.

What lessons, one wonders. That having a lot of armoured formations based on a handful of organization templates and with a few equipment types and a lavish logistical tail is better than having fewer formations with bewildering assortments of domestic and captured equipment that are constrained by fuel and ammo shortages?

 

[Halifax Tar]

I thought this was funny

 

[OldSolduer]

I thought this was funny

It is but so true.
I watched an episode about the Yamato and Musashi. With out air cover they were targets.

 

[The Bread Guy]

From the administration complaining about the taking down of monuments & erasing history ...

U.S. removal of panels on Black WWII soldiers in Netherlands draws backlash - National | Globalnews.ca

The removal, carried out without public explanation, has angered Dutch officials, families of U.S. soldiers and the local residents who care for the graves.

globalnews.ca

Display about Black soldiers removed from World War II US military cemetery

The information panels were removed following ‘an internal review of interpretive content,’ according to the American Battle Monuments Commission

ca.news.yahoo.com

... with a touch of earlier coverage here:

A Dutch war cemetery added displays showing black US soldiers. Then they were quietly removed

Relatives fear the move is part of ‘the same virus affecting the US’, as historians and politicians say it coincided with Trump’s DEI purge

www.theguardian.com

 

[Altair]

From the administration complaining about the taking down of monuments & erasing history ...

U.S. removal of panels on Black WWII soldiers in Netherlands draws backlash - National | Globalnews.ca

The removal, carried out without public explanation, has angered Dutch officials, families of U.S. soldiers and the local residents who care for the graves.

globalnews.ca

Display about Black soldiers removed from World War II US military cemetery

The information panels were removed following ‘an internal review of interpretive content,’ according to the American Battle Monuments Commission

ca.news.yahoo.com

... with a touch of earlier coverage here:

A Dutch war cemetery added displays showing black US soldiers. Then they were quietly removed

Relatives fear the move is part of ‘the same virus affecting the US’, as historians and politicians say it coincided with Trump’s DEI purge

www.theguardian.com

To be fair, they have been remarkably consistent.

They only complained about taking down white monuments and erasing white history.

This is just par for the course.