I’m sure by now that everyone has read about/been bombarded with the news of a junior enlisted Air Force National Guard member leaking classified documents. In case yo haven’t, Fox News has the tale. Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused of leaking documents the
Normally, major powers conduct planning against actual or would be hostile countries, and put those plans on the shelf. They revisit them if there are major changes, or if they need to brush one off and put it to use. This looks more detailed than
Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, sits in Southeast Asia, surrounded by worldwide influencers like China and India. On February 1st of this year the civilian government was overthrown in a coup by the nation’s military. This is not overly unusual for Myanmar, it was under
The Democrats and the federal government (I know, the same) have been talking about “extremism in the ranks” of the military and police forces in the country since January 6th. So far, they haven’t found much to hang their hat on. The young lady that
What a difference a change in the administration makes. It is definitely felt in the defense world. I remember early on in my navy career going from ship to ship in the Mayport Basin looking for paper to make copies. If you found one that
We are winding down our presence in Afghanistan. Bases are being emptied and a lot of the stuff that we took over there is just going into dump heaps after it is rendered useless. We will be guaranteed that legacy at least. So what did
This may look like a huge departure from normal operations, but it is actually pretty common. I have been through the Straits of Hormuz a couple of times and on both occasions we were overflown by Iranian aircraft. One aircraft was even a P-3 that
The Military Times published a piece yesterday in their “Observation Post” section that celebrates the legalization of marijuana in New York. On Wednesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo acknowledged the plant’s sanative advantages by signing legislation legalizing marijuana’s recreational use among the state’s adult population. Cannabis fans
The mission creep of the US military into political operations has been slowly infecting the ranks for years, but only recently fully metastasized. It is a spillover from the early Trump administration that saw Acting Attorney General Sally Yates “refusing to defend his executive order
Tucker Carlson has unloaded on the military a couple of times in the last few days. The latest salvo from Tucker was in response to the military’s freak out of being under the microscope. They know they are off script. I have written a little