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Europe under extreme duress
- Thread starter Randy Daytona
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Will be curious to see which tariffs Europe applies on Chinese imports and how high the tariffs will be:
finance.yahoo.com
A new trade war may be brewing. This time, Europe is taking a page from Trump’s playbook — ‘We no longer live in a world of pink ponies and rainbows’
China's goods trade surplus with the EU hit 360.6 billion euros in 2025, up 15% from 2024. And in the first four months of this year, the gap has expanded by 10%.
finance.yahoo.com
Excellent article in the WSJ. One can see, more easily in a Parliamentary system, the same issues that precipitated the rise of both President Trump and Senator Sanders:
And an interesting article from Foreign Affairs, of mote that there was not a single mention of the Visegrad group of nations, especially as Poland is building one of the strongest armies in Europe.
And an interesting article from Foreign Affairs, of mote that there was not a single mention of the Visegrad group of nations, especially as Poland is building one of the strongest armies in Europe.
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Looks like the Russians are building quite a few aircraft shelters:
www.twz.com
Russia Is Building Huge Protective Shelters For Its Strategic Bombers
In a break in decades of doctrine that left its prized bombers exposed, Russia is building shelters for them at a highly-targeted air base. Satellite imagery shows multiple large shelters under construction, underscoring Moscow’s efforts to harden its most valuable aviation assets against...
www.twz.com
It appears to have parallels with WW1, with drones now taking the place of machine guns. How ready is our military?
“According to sources, the average Russian life expectancy once on the battlefield is between 20 and 35 minutes.”
foreignpolicy.com
“According to sources, the average Russian life expectancy once on the battlefield is between 20 and 35 minutes.”
As the Tide Turns Against Putin, Beware the Drowning Man
Like a struggling swimmer, he may take desperate measures to stay afloat.
foreignpolicy.com
The article is paywalled, does it talk about Putin potentially considering nukes?It appears to have parallels with WW1, with drones now taking the place of machine guns. How ready is our military?
“According to sources, the average Russian life expectancy once on the battlefield is between 20 and 35 minutes.”
As the Tide Turns Against Putin, Beware the Drowning Man
Like a struggling swimmer, he may take desperate measures to stay afloat.
My bad, it is free on Apple News. It mentions Putin lowered the threshold for nuclear weapon use in late 2024, but it wasn’t the primary focus of the article.
Not looking good for German industry:
Germany is losing 10,000 industrial jobs per month and has seen a 10% decline in industrial output since 2022, 15% in energy intensive industries (who remembers what happened in September 2022?)
If link doesn’t work, article is in Apple News.
Germany is losing 10,000 industrial jobs per month and has seen a 10% decline in industrial output since 2022, 15% in energy intensive industries (who remembers what happened in September 2022?)
If link doesn’t work, article is in Apple News.
From The Atlantic: the prospect of fighting Russia and China simultaneously.
dnyuz.com
NATO’s Nightmare
Western military planners do not seem eager to talk about their nightmare scenario, much less prepare for it. But they
dnyuz.com
Nigel Farage, leader of Britain's Reform Party, won his by-election for his seat in Parliament beating Count Binface 63% to 27%. The other major parties refused to put forth candidates as they claimed it was a stunt to distract from a likely inquiry into his failure to report a £5 million gift from a British cryptocurrency investor based in Thailand among others. The inquiry has apparently restarted now that Farage is back in Parliament.
In a surprisingly idiotic turn of events the Army Chief of Staff closed down the drone test battalion in a fit of revenge against General Randy George, who stood it up, because years ago George “soft relieved” Gen. LaNeve (the new Chief of Staff) from the 82nd Airborne. Guess they should have “hard relieved” him!
www.wcbi.com
U.S. Army moves to end drone battalion set up to absorb lessons from Ukraine war
Sources from CBS News say that the U.S. Army is planning to phase out a drone battalion tasked just last year with studying and taking on board lessons on drone warfare, including from the ongoing Ukraine war, an Army official confirmed to CBS News on Thursday...
Lol it keeps going. Reports are Driscoll is on the way out too.In a surprisingly idiotic turn of events the Army Chief of Staff closed down the drone test battalion in a fit of revenge against General Randy George, who stood it up, because years ago George “soft relieved” Gen. LaNeve (the new Chief of Staff) from the 82nd Airborne. Guess they should have “hard relieved” him!
U.S. Army moves to end drone battalion set up to absorb lessons from Ukraine war
Sources from CBS News say that the U.S. Army is planning to phase out a drone battalion tasked just last year with studying and taking on board lessons on drone warfare, including from the ongoing Ukraine war, an Army official confirmed to CBS News on Thursday...
In a surprisingly idiotic turn of events the Army Chief of Staff closed down the drone test battalion in a fit of revenge against General Randy George, who stood it up, because years ago George “soft relieved” Gen. LaNeve (the new Chief of Staff) from the 82nd Airborne. Guess they should have “hard relieved” him!
U.S. Army moves to end drone battalion set up to absorb lessons from Ukraine war
Sources from CBS News say that the U.S. Army is planning to phase out a drone battalion tasked just last year with studying and taking on board lessons on drone warfare, including from the ongoing Ukraine war, an Army official confirmed to CBS News on Thursday...
The most frustrating and disappointing part of my career has been related to how poorly our senior leadership across the services has treated SUAS training and tactics. MAWTS-1 had zero interest- they weren't group 4 or 5 RPAs and grunts used them. The Army was all in on group 3 and had the same mentality as the USMC. The Schools of Infantry had zero interest- they had rotors and wings and propellers so therefore they were airplanes. Big leadership are luddites who thing of SUAS as toys their grandkids play with on Christmas morning, and require just as much training to use.
For a few months in 2018-2019 we tried to stand up a weapons instructor type school/center of excellence through the MAGTFTC at 29 Palms. They trained one class to prove it worked and then could never get funding for a second class. There was a second push in 2020, I wrote the Training Systems Requirements Analysis for everything from the entry level basic requirements, through a weapons instructor type qualification with the civilian company I was working for in the year between the USMC and being on AD orders for the ANG. We submitted it before the deadline, but by then everyone carrying the torches either retired or left the service and it died on the vine.
The TALSA training is a joke. It's non-tactical and focused on how to fly UAS in the national airspace. It's like getting your Part 107 rating. There was no place that developed or captured TTPs, lessons learned, and created standardization. As a result the battalions were reinventing the wheel every 2-3 years.
It sounds like 2MARDIV has a SUAS Center of Excellence stood up over this summer, but I can't find anything out about it other than it's ran by an LAR Maj.
We're so far behind when it comes to SUAS in ground combat it's not even funny. But it didn't have to be this way.