After reviewing a comprehensive set of reports about the F-35, Eliot Wilson, of The Ideas Lab, characterizes the aircraft as ‘an avatar for the long-standing, thoroughgoing, vastly expensive catastrophe which is the MoD’s procurement régime.’ (‘MoD’ means ‘Ministry of Defense’. ‘Avatar for the long-standing, thoroughgoing, vastly expensive catastrophe’ translates into the American vernacular as ‘lemon’.)
After reflecting on Clausewitz and the Infantry Problem, Secretary of Defense Rock concludes that some of the most important parts of On War are those that many readers have been skipping over for the past century or so.
After sharing stories of Armed Guards on Ships in the Red Sea, Claude Berube argues that measures that protected merchantmen from Somali pirates do little to deter drone-wielding Houthis.
After telling us how an All-Robot Ukrainian Assault Team Terrorized Russian Troops into Surrendering, David Axe complements his paean to crew-free fighting machines by explaining how it took 70 Drone Strikes to Kill 1 ‘Difficult’ Porcupine Tank.
After reviewing recently events in the Gulf of Aden and the skies over Iran, Richard Morchoe concludes that The Navy is So Over.
