Liberal Talk Radio

Talk about ambition! Here we are, the military’s plans to beat Iran fresh off the planning table, and the Secretary of the US Airforce is already planning for the war with China.
[Secretary of the Air Force] Wynne directly linked the need for the F-35 to the potential threat posed by China. He rejected a [...]

First, there were the Adventures of the Seawolf, the attack submarine that gallantly defended Grand Central Station and Downtown Terre Haute from terrorists.
Now, scared shitless that Congress is going to come to its senses and realize that the Air Force budget need to go on a huge diet, the bureaucrats at the USAF have ginned [...]

Well, looks like our friend Seawolf has some competition in the workplace.*
Officers and sailors, man our ship and bring it to life,” ordered Margaret Nedzi.
Dozens of sailors, white uniforms reflecting in the sun, trotted onto the USS Michigan’s stark black deck Tuesday and stood at attention.
The 560-foot submarine’s deafening horn sounded. Its masts rose into [...]

Sorry, but the U.S. Navy’s show of force off the Iranian coast strikes me as the geopolitical equivalent of “nyah nyah-nyah nyah nyah.”
[Title reference, of course, is Monty Python's Holy Grail.]

The Navy (finally) grows a pair and reins in the troubled Littoral Combat Ship program. From Jane’s:
THE US Navy’s (USN’s) troubled Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) programme has suffered another blow, with the navy’s cancellation of Lockheed Martin’s second vessel, known as LCS 3.
According to a USN statement, the move is the result of a [...]

Gregg Easterbrook writes in Slate about how trusty old B-52 bombers have gotten really good at dropping precision bombs. Or rather, newer, more accurate bombs mean that we don’t have to fly in low with risky, expensive fighter gets to get the drop on the bad guys:
Bombers dropping JDAMs did the heavy lifting of [...]

Democrats make a lot of mistakes when talking about the military, as this article in the NYT makes clear. Sen. Clinton, like so many other silly Democrats, thinks that the way to win support from the military is to do nice thigns for the troops, like fund body armor and veterans hospitals:
In the Senate, [...]

For the first time in decades, the 82nd Airborne no longer has a brigade on ready alert:
FORT POLK, La., March 14 — For decades, the Army has kept a brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division on round-the-clock alert, poised to respond to a crisis anywhere in 18 to 72 hours.
Today, the so-called ready brigade is [...]

Maybe Princeton is closing its parapsychology lab, but the U.S. Navy’s Marine Mammals program is alive and well … and finally coming to Washington.
Dozens of dolphins and sea lions trained to detect and apprehend waterborne attackers could be sent to patrol a military base in Washington state, the Navy said Monday. In a notice published [...]

There are some things in life that are merely stupid. Then there are things that that are so stupid they make me want to run, screaming, in terror for the future of our species.
Before I post my little quote, just keep in mind two things. 1) Iran (according to our dimwit president anyway) [...]