In ‘America’s Infantry has a Drone Problem’ Mushkelji, of the formidably-named Tales of the Companion Cavalry, sings a paean to the bureaucracy-busting power of nomenclature.
In ‘Did America’s Biggest Bomb Just Bounce off a Mountain?’, Wes O’Donnell treats his readers to a lesson in geology.
In ‘Why Won’t Iran Close the Strait of Hormuz?’, The People’s Art of War reminds us that the last thing you want to do with a crossbow is shoot it.
In ‘Russia Hid a Munitions Plant by Blurring Images. Ukraine’s Drones Blew it up Anyway’, David Axe, of Trench Art puts the ‘bottom line up front’. (If, however, I were asked to write the headline, it would say ‘Drones Allow Spooks to Conduct Strategic Bombing without the Help of an Air Force’.)
In ‘Drones Will Realize the Promise of Suicide Terrorism’, Bennett’s Phylactery, of the Exit Newsletter, suggests that, in a world where folks fight with cheap drones, more of us will enjoy home-grown tomatoes (but only in season).
Drones are the new Ammunition and Reconnaissance to the squad level and should be treated as Class V supply- munitions.
Because they are and we need as many drones as we have mortar and artillery shells.
That was the critical and Brilliant insight of @Mushkeji in the Drone problem post.
The next day Hegseth tossed the 2009/2011 regulations and said Group 1 and group 2 Drones are on free rein mass production, and he’s looking at Group 3.
The existing Drone regulations were crippling the American drone industry never mind setting the US Military up to be the laughing stock of the world had we engaged in near peer conflict.
In fact even today Burmese Christian rebels are ahead of us, never mind every other nation on earth. Until Hegseth laid that down yesterday, we had fallen lower than Burmese rebels, and are still muttering about doctrine…
Let’s get the means then we’ll convene the great Council on ways. Ahem.