Empire Woes Empire’s Navy Wants 530 Ships, but Has No Strategy on What to Build "The United States could instead expand its inventory of A2/AD weapons and encourage its allies in Asia to do the same" Brandon Valeriano 7 Oct 20 872 13
Empire WoesThose Pesky Chinese No Decoupling for the EU. China and EU Concluding a Deal to Build MORE Economic Ties A 'Comprehensive Investment Agreement' by year-end then even more German Foreign Policy 17 Sep 20 766 4
Empire WoesPersia Under Siege Russia to Defy ‘Maximum Pressure’, Link Its Power Grid to Iran’s Via Azerbaijan which is also participating Tsvetana Paraskova 13 Sep 20 1648 11
Empire WoesThose Pesky Chinese Pentagon: China May Be First to Arm Warships With Ballistic Anti-Ship Missiles H.I. Sutton 8 Sep 20 1370 0
Empire WoesOrange Man Trump Picks Another Great Ambassador. Should Have Done It 4 Years Ago Too late? After a great pick for Germany, reaches for another pro-withdrawal realist for Afghanistan. Dan Spinelli 6 Sep 20 853 0
Empire WoesThose Pesky Chinese Laughably Pentagon Says China Achieving Military Parity Will Be ‘the Most Destabilizing Event in the 21st Century’ We thought balance was good for stability and peace? Paul McLeary 4 Sep 20 1036 0
Empire Woes China’s Missile Might Is Forcing a US Switch From Aircraft Carriers to Bombers Taking Off From US Mainland The other factor is the Air Force wanting in on the action and budget pie David Lague 3 Sep 20 1837 1
Empire WoesHappy Corporatism Pentagon Admirals Shovel so Much Navy Money to Defense Corporations There Isn’t Enough Left for Basic Ship Repair Nuclear submarines spend an astounding 1019 days in "idle time" on average before repairs can even begin Paul McLeary 25 Aug 20 1263 11
Empire WoesWar in Syria Pair of US Reaper Drones Goes Down Over Syria After Collision Turkish-backed al-Qaeda rebels claimed them as shot down Howard Altman 19 Aug 20 951 12
Empire Woes America’s Budget Revenue Covered Just 173 Days of Its 2020 Spending The other 193 days of federal spending accrues directly to debt Schiff Gold 7 Jul 20 593 0
Empire Woes Boeing Makes Simple Jets for the Military Needlessly Complex so It Can Rip Off the Taxpayer on Maintenence Contracts But has gone and made the new KC-46 tanker so needlessly complicated it can't deliver the product Dan Grazier 21 Jun 20 1714 8
Empire Woes US Navy Lacks ‘Clear Theory of Victory’ Needed to Build New Fleet “We don’t really have that clear theory of victory or operational concept today” Sam LaGrone 19 Jun 20 668 5
Empire Woes EU Won’t Ally With US Against China, Foreign Policy Chief Says Before Pompeo Meeting Europeans should pursue their own interests?? What a novel idea Stuart Lau 15 Jun 20 876 9
Empire Woes US Bombers Are So Ridiculously Expensive Air Force Forced to Make Up for Low Numbers by Planning Cargo Planes for Combat Even the massive Air Force budget is still not enough when what you're buying is as dear as the B-2/B-21 Kyle Mizokami 12 Jun 20 1797 5
Empire Woes Fixed or Swept Under the Rug? Five ‘Critical’ F-35 Issues Have Been Downgraded, but Remain Unsolved “Cannot disclose any information about how these deficiencies were resolved or downgraded due to their security classification” Aaron Mehta 19 May 20 764 0
Empire Woes US Hegemony Is Already on Its Way Out; What’s Left Is for America to Decide What Its Role in the World Will Be After US dominance in the world is in the rear view but the Imperial City refuses to make peace with it Daniel Larison 25 Apr 20 1707 26
Empire Woes US-Taliban Peace Deal Was Secured With a Last-Minute Concession That Pompeo Told Congress Would Never Happen Goes to show who really holds the strong cards here Michael Hirsh 19 Mar 20 982 3
Empire Woes Baghdad Is Blocking US Deployment of Patriot Air Defense Systems to Iraq The Pentagon is trying to move one battery from Saudi Arabia but it's stuck in Kuwait as Iraqis won't let it in Joseph Trevithick 20 Feb 20 2365 16
Empire Woes The F-35 Can’t Fire Its Cannon Without Committing Suicide Good thing then the cannon can't fire straight anyway so there's no reason to fire it Michael Peck 19 Feb 20 2376 18
Empire Woes US-Europe Conflict Erupts at Munich Europeans who are themselves targets of tarrifs and sanctions are failing to fall in line on China Andre Damon 19 Feb 20 1347 7
Empire Woes US Upset Its Spy Satellite Is Itself Being Stalked. Allegedly All of fifteen minutes old the US Space Force is already fearmongering about Russia and fighting the budget wars Chelsea Gohd 18 Feb 20 699 6
Empire Woes Philippines’ Duterte Terminates US Troops Agreement Washington's virtue signaling backfires The Philippine Star 11 Feb 20 2185 9
Empire Woes Who Is Going to Risk a $13 Billion Aircraft Carrier in Combat? The pricetag makes the carrier useless in peer-to-peer combat Joseph McGraw 7 Feb 20 4025 32
Empire Woes DoD Tester’s Report: F-35 Is Still a Lemon Now revealed its cannon can not hit anything Sean Gallagher 31 Jan 20 1781 10
Empire Woes The USA Was the Kingmaker in Iraq, but Now Its Withdrawal Is Inevitable This is what happens when you attack and kill troops and officials of the host country, even one as dysfunctional and reliant on the US as Iraq Elijah J Magnier 29 Jan 20 1051 2
Empire Woes Iran’s Pinpoint Missile Accuracy Scores a Direct Against Hit Against US Warplans With six direct hits Iran demonstrated if pushed it can hit back in ways Saddam could not The Economist 22 Jan 20 2814 1
Empire Woes US Air Force Explains Why the US Navy Will Lose on China’s Shore Every Time It's a salvo fired in the budget wars, which doesn't mean it's wrong David A. Deptula 28 Dec 19 2471 15
Empire Woes China, Japan and South Korea Are Working on a Trilateral Free-Trade Deal As Washington wages trade wars on clients and erects barriers to entry, China seeks to economically integrate them instead Orange Wang 23 Dec 19 1081 3
Empire Woes US Navy Can’t Take Down China’s A2/AD Bubble With Submarines Without Bankrupting Itself in the Process The right idea but at $3.5bn per sub the US will never have the numbers it would take David B. Larter 10 Dec 19 1637 8
Empire Woes How the Federal Reserve Denuded America of Its Industrial Base and Crippled It Militarily America's defense industrial base is gone Matt Stoller 8 Dec 19 1835 4