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Ukraine is hurting, but so is Russia. Russia is offering higher and higher pay for fighters, and will soon have to force more people into the military. They will also run low on equipment. If Ukraine had consistent support from partners, Russia would soon be in a tough position.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzEzo8Nwh1A
“While trying to escape from a Yemeni missile and drone attack, the U.S.S. Harry Truman veered so hard that a F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet fell from the aircraft carrier into the Red Sea, the U.S. Navy informed CNN. None of the crew were harmed, except for a sailor who suffered “minor injuries,” according to the Navy’s statement.”
https://reason.com/2025/04/29/u-s-navy-accidentally-throws-64-million-jet-overboard-off-the-coast-of-yemen/
U.S. air superiority is under threat. The country needs to invest in a new air superiority fighter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzXQqakQFjE
Ships are painted and covered in such ways as to camouflage them and make them hard to identify.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijdb9BYe18Q
EU-UK defense deal in sight at May summit
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-uk-defense-deal-in-sight-at-may-summit/
“The Defense Digital Service was created in 2015 to help the Pentagon adopt fast tech fixes during national security crises and push Silicon Valley-style innovation inside the Pentagon. It built rapid response tools for the military during the Afghanistan withdrawal, databases to transfer Ukrainian military and humanitarian aid, drone detection technologies and more.
Without the program, some key efforts to streamline the DOD’s tech talent pipeline and counter adversarial drones will be sunsetted, one soon-to-be former employee said.
Once dubbed the Pentagon’s “SWAT team of nerds,” DDS was one of the department’s earliest efforts to inject Silicon Valley ethos into its massive bureaucracy.”
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“every employee interviewed said they wouldn’t have left if it wasn’t for DOGE.
One former senior Pentagon official, who asked not to be named because of possible retaliation, described DOGE’s wider incursion into the Defense Department as damaging and unproductive
“They’re not really using AI, they’re not really driving efficiency. What they’re doing is smashing everything,” the former official said.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/15/pentagons-digital-resignations-00290930
“A long sliver of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border that President Donald Trump is turning over to the Department of Defense would be controlled by the Army as part of a base, which could allow troops to detain any trespassers, including migrants, U.S. officials told The Associated Press.
The transfer of that border zone to military control — and making it part of an Army installation — is an attempt by the Trump administration to get around a federal law that prohibits U.S. troops from being used in domestic law enforcement on American soil.
But if the troops are providing security for land that is part of an Army base, they can perform that function. However, at least one presidential powers expert said the move is likely to be challenged in the courts.”
The military should be focused on fighting and winning wars, not enforcing immigration policy.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-army-control-land-mexico-194152492.html
In purchasing power parity terms, Russia’s military spending is higher than Europe’s.
https://www.politico.eu/article/russian-defense-spending-overtakes-europe-study-finds/
In some ways, the U.S. has fallen behind in air-to-air missiles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FnVJ0ziRTE
How China Is Preparing for “Major-Power War”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDcWLm_ltIk