Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
After the US escorted just two ships through the Strait before ending the program, insurance for shipping through the Strait went up! So what did this operation achieve? Quitting after two ships looks like giving up, not victory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIGurG3MqWw
The US is not adapting fast enough to modern drone warfare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He00DasZ2MQ
A primer on Mali.
Mali is complicated with many competing groups, cultures, and tribes. One part of the story is that Muslims got radicalized and became terrorists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkgpyAtRxY0
Israelis are having a tough time with FPV drones in Lebanon. Are Americans ready for this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhtc9COUi78
Drone-delivered graphite bombs allow Ukraine to shut down Russian electricity without permanently damaging power plants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSHZTnxm3OY
Mali’s military junta decided to make its military supporter Russia instead of France. Now it is facing a country-wide coordinated attack from terrorists and ethno-national rebels that the military was not ready for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdamyTthomc
Trump was offered Ukrainian anti-drone systems last year, and he turned it down. There would likely be less destroy American equipment and fewer dead Americans if the US had acquired these systems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GubqClU4T3A
Russians are meeting with Iranians likely to discuss, in part, how to kill American soldiers with drones. Yet, Trump still sings Putin’s praises and insults the country Putin is invading.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_6ubl08dEY
British people may have not cared if Britain negotiated away the Falkland Islands, but, because Argentina invaded, the British want the UK to hold it forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaQWgd3guy8
The Trump administration lied about the extent of the damage to US bases done by Iranian strikes.
An 80 year old plane successfully bombed a US base.
US personnel had to abandon US bases at the start of the war. Why did we leave these bases so vulnerable?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol70ZTS5zYs