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Top election issue: We need more carriers, and we know how to go faster to do it. Pls read. The right combo of data, #AI, sustained funding, leadership, and shipbuilders can do it. We just need more national attention on the urgent need for it. The Naval community knows what time it is. Office of Governor Tim Walz & Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan the nation needs to know the cost tomorrow if we let the PRC continue to outpace us now. This is as self-evident a truth now as all men are created equal. #BeyondGroupthink

Justin do you mean to tell us that if there is the potential for pending needs to protect our country and our allies that you are doing nothing? How about cutting 1/2 your staff and getting citizens to actually build our own planes, boats, weaponry and so forth. Nine years of doing nothing does not prepare us for what we are seeing around the world. Simply get our military up to speed as soon as possible. https://lnkd.in/etYsJzC3

Operation Prosperity Guardian - Wikipedia https://lnkd.in/exRSYZ2y Operation Prosperity Guardian is a United States-led military operation by a multinational coalition formed in December 2023 to respond to Houthi-led attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. Following the breakout of the ongoing Israel–Hamas war in October 2023, the Houthi movement in Yemen blockaded Israel. Following the breakout of the ongoing Israel–Hamas war in October 2023, the Houthi movement in Yemen blockaded Israel in the Red Sea and launched a series of attacks against commercial vessels heading or related to Israel.[7][8] On 18 December 2023, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced the formation of an international maritime security force aimed at ending the blockade[9] and countering threats by Houthi forces against international maritime commerce in the region.[10] The coalition currently has more than 20 members, of which ten are anonymously involved.[11][12] Egypt and Saudi Arabia, both economically reliant on unhindered commercial shipping in the area, are absent from the listed participants.[13] France, Italy and Spain have also declined to participate.[14] The chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, Usama Rabia, claimed that "navigation traffic in the Suez Canal was not affected by what is happening in the Red Sea".[15] Nevertheless, on 10 January, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted a resolution demanding a cessation of Houthi attacks on merchant vessels. https://lnkd.in/eHG-e-mV #CombatCamera #OperationProsperityGuardian #fightlikehell #WikiPedia

Curious about how maritime medicine is evolving beyond hospital ships or about the push to upgrade Marine Corps housing? Check out my two articles, and other interesting Navy-related stories, in the September 2024 issue of #SeapowerMagazine, published by the Navy League of the United States. View the flipbook at https://lnkd.in/eXt59F-Y.

This article is a rebuttal of an earlier piece that sought to debunk the US Navy’s case for a larger fleet. I recommend NZ readers note that as the size of the navies of the large break democracies has shrunk, lawlessness and adventurism by authoritarian states has increased. Naval fleet renewal is but one of the many challenges facing our country. Our naval capability ambitions must be realistic, but not just in relation to cost. Our country must live in the world as it is, not as some might wish it to be. We need combat capability to protect the seaborne commerce on which we depend for our existence, to deter authoritarian adventurism, and to project and support our land and special forces. We need enough ships to be able to be where we need to be with the capability to do what we need to do. Short of an economic miracle, the only affordable way to do this is with a fleet based on modularity.

Ya’ know, I’ve sometimes wondered… with the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Space Force… we should have a new military branch called the Fire Force. A huge fleet of federally owned planes of all sizes that fight wildfires or large fires in urban areas. The USA should have a large fleet of planes ready to attack these fires anywhere in the country. Like the Air Force for wildfires. Also a large contingency of men and women to assist as spotters for the air assets and people who can assist existing firefighters on the ground. The USA Fire Force. The wildfires are consuming and destroying so much every year. Time for a bold solution. JMO.

Although I have not yet formed my own opinion about this idea, I LOVE discussing possible solutions to the long term management of all natural and man-made disasters. Whatever the cause, the impact to the lives of those touched by disaster is undeniable. Everyone should be working together to find the safest, fastest, and most effective response solutions, no matter the disaster. Communication, discussion, planning and preparation must be happening before the crisis hits.

This thoughtful analysis by Jerry Hendrix and former Senator Jim Talent, two individuals who have each devoted their careers to National Security, emphasizes the urgent requirement to expand our industrial infrastructure, particularly devoted to submarine maintenance. Yes, more Navy NOW.

This article is a rebuttal of an earlier piece that sought to debunk the US Navy’s case for a larger fleet. I recommend NZ readers note that as the size of the navies of the liberal democracies has shrunk, lawlessness and adventurism by authoritarian states has increased. Naval fleet renewal is but one of the many challenges facing our country. Our naval capability ambitions must be realistic, but not just in relation to cost. Our country must live in the world as it is, not as some might wish it to be. We need combat capability to protect the seaborne commerce on which we depend for our existence, to deter authoritarian adventurism, and to project and support our land and special forces. We need enough ships to be able to be where we need to be with the capability to do what we need to do. Short of an economic miracle, the only affordable way to do this is with a fleet based on modularity.

XI Jinping Angers the West! US’s New Anti-ship Weapons Could Sink All 370 of China’s Navy Vessels As per this report analysis, the USAF and USN airpower (a combination of stealth F-35 and B-2) will likely be used to destroy 370 PLA Navy ships using 2,000 lbs. Quicksink bombs. The anti-ship, airstrikes are likely be carried out with the support of land-based Typhon missile systems based in the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan. Using AI time-on-target calculation from different launch points tied to a sensor-fusion targeting system will overwhelm the PLA Navy. The stand-off capability of the newest beyond-visual-range (BVR) AIM-174 will provide a layer of protection to these stealth strike aircrafts.