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An occasional navalist, maritime geek and national security gadfly. Paying attention to overlooked things.

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This is true—the videos of understaffed Bradley’s holding off full-up tanks were impressive. Would be neat to know how they are doing vs drones tho’

13.03.2026 18:16 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The San Diego waterfront RN:

11.03.2026 18:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Live look at current U.S. Navy mine-detection capabilities:

11.03.2026 00:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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11.03.2026 00:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please note that the average Boston Whaler, supported by some basic welding work, can be a pretty good minelayer.

10.03.2026 23:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What if we mined the Iranian mines with little tiny mines of our own? Really get into this mine warfare stuff!

10.03.2026 23:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

Again, a curse of not allowing members of “marginal” Navy communities to promote into somewhere where they can influence the organization.

10.03.2026 20:16 👍 30 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The cigarettes must flow

10.03.2026 20:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Everybody involved in shooting up drug boats is probably on a plane right now, headed to go shoot up mine boats.

10.03.2026 20:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Iranian Tomahawks?

09.03.2026 22:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This news conference….is…um…

09.03.2026 21:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A war that is almost “complete“ could also mean almost “total”, and that, my friends, is a very different thing.

09.03.2026 20:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

everyday is the "lemon, it's tuesday" meme huh

09.03.2026 08:28 👍 35 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
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Live Look at bike companies that overbuilt in the COVID days:

09.03.2026 03:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Anybody remember the human wave attacks? Back in 1981 through '86-87 or so?

09.03.2026 01:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How does energy gobbling AI continue gobbling energy in an energy crisis?

08.03.2026 08:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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MARAD: 27-40% U.S. Waterfront Industrial Facilities Gone In 20 Years In a sloppy, incomplete and scary report, the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) released the first annual report card on America's industrial waterfront since 2004.

As we spin up the Navy for a dangerous assignment, it's worth looking at this dumpster-fire report from MARAD--that if you dig through the dross and mistakes--that America's waterfront is not up to the Navy it has.

www.forbes.com/sites/craigh...

03.03.2026 23:45 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

All you sickos know you want to know more about big LNG pool fires

03.03.2026 11:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The U.S. prohibition on the use of nuclear weapons is just a norm.

And to a whole lot of people in DC these days, a Norm is just a barfly in an old U.S. sitcom.

03.03.2026 09:34 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Remember, real estate guys—the guys who really have the itch for it—have a terminal weakness.

Whenever they find something that works, they will keep doubling down… until it doesn’t.

03.03.2026 09:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am so I’d I remember just how hard d SCUD-hunting was, and there were only like 50 of them to suppress, find and destroy.

Now they’re smaller, cheaper and more numerous.

03.03.2026 09:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Apparently“ and “mistakenly“ are two VERY different words.

02.03.2026 14:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Always interesting when the word “apparent“ is forced to do a lot of heavy lifting.

02.03.2026 13:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Never mind the tertiary effects, always go straight at them“ is great strategy…right up until you go winchester.

01.03.2026 16:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If I was running a country in the Gulf, I’d take this moment to grab every remote and pesky Iranian island.

01.03.2026 00:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I guess it’s a good time to point out that Fleet Admiral Nimitz taught ROTC at University of California, Berkeley.

28.02.2026 00:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ahh, there’s always a good time to roll out a ”Remember the Maine“ moment.

25.02.2026 21:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh god no not the blue books noooo

24.02.2026 02:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

for the life of me I do not know why the MST 3K template hasn’t been adopted for all kinds of political discourse. I’d watch the heck out of it!

24.02.2026 02:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

yuck. sorry amigo.

22.02.2026 00:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0