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The U.S. Navy’s last successful comparable surface shipbuilding program was the Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate. The final ship of that class, the USS Ingraham, was commissioned in 1989.
Herein lies the danger inherent with unrealistic acquisition programs. When service leaders convince themselves that a radical design will work before the concept is actually demonstrated in the real world, they commit themselves, potentially for decades, to a program that may fail. By spending so much time and money on the Littoral Combat Ship program, the U.S. Navy squandered 40 years of shipbuilding time. That is an enormous lost opportunity cost and now our hard-pressed sailors enduring extended deployments are paying the price.
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Advocates for Artemis insist that the program is more than Apollo 2.0. But as we’ll see, Artemis can't even measure up to Apollo 1.0. It costs more, does less, flies less frequently, and exposes crews to risks that the steely-eyed missile men of the Apollo era found unacceptable. It's as if Ford in 2024 released a new model car that was slower, more accident-prone, and ten times more expensive than the Model T.
When a next-generation lunar program can’t meet the cost, performance, or safety standards set three generations earlier, something has gone seriously awry.
www.kenklippenstein.com
Israel lobbied the United States for greater access to PGMs in the wake of its 2014 assault on Gaza that left some 2,200 Palestinians dead. The Israeli government argued that it needed more smart bombs to use against Hamas and Hezbollah in case of emergency. Section 1275 of the 2021 NDAA was seemingly meant to fulfill that request, enabling the president to bypass normal weapons spending caps on transfers of PGMs already stored in U.S. reserves.
“Although it is almost impossible for independent experts to trace due to a lack of basic transparency, there is little doubt that Israel and the U.S. took advantage of the provision,” says William Hartung, senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. “The whole purpose of doing it in this fashion is to hide the extent of these deadly transfers — and the mechanisms used to carry them out — from public view.”
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Australia ‘Gone Missing’ on Preventing Genocide
Newly declassified documents show what Canberra knew about events unfolding on the ground in Gaza after Oct. 7, Kellie Tranter reports. By Kellie Tranter Declassified Australia Australia has a duty, under Article 1 of the Genocide Convention, to “undertake to prevent and punish” the crime
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Now, ICC Must Investigate British Ministers Too
Arms, training and spying: As the International Criminal Court targets Netanyahu for war crimes, Mark Curtis flags seven U.K. officials for assisting the Israeli prime minister in three areas. By Mark Curtis Declassified U.K. Seven British ministers – including Rishi Sunak, David
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The world's largest chipmaker could flip a kill switch and remotely disable its machines in the event of an invasion
That's one helluva kill switch.
Netanyahu’s response to the ICC invokes another genocidal biblical reference
Netanyahu’s rant against the ICC quoted a biblical verse that warns against the dangers of not completely wiping out your enemy’s society. It doesn’t take much to figure out what this means for Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
mondoweiss.net
Official Jewish blinders to genocide are a danger to Jews
The leading American Jewish groups are stoking anti-Jewish feeling by their demonstration of anti-Palestinian bigotry: ignoring the famine and massacres in Gaza that have horrified the world.
mondoweiss.net
'Four blind mice': Biden, Blinken, McGurk & Sullivan
The president and his top three advisers continue to push the Abraham Accords while denying the realities of the Gaza war
responsiblestatecraft.org
The U.S. Navy’s last successful comparable surface shipbuilding program was the Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate. The final ship of that class, the USS Ingraham, was commissioned in 1989.
Herein lies the danger inherent with unrealistic acquisition programs. When service leaders convince themselves that a radical design will work before the concept is actually demonstrated in the real world, they commit themselves, potentially for decades, to a program that may fail. By spending so much time and money on the Littoral Combat Ship program, the U.S. Navy squandered 40 years of shipbuilding time. That is an enormous lost opportunity cost and now our hard-pressed sailors enduring extended deployments are paying the price.
In Red Sea, US Navy paying the price of shipbuilding failures
The Littoral Combat Ship was designed with the current crisis in mind, instead it turned into a boondoggle. Here's why.
responsiblestatecraft.org
Lockheed Martin Running Out of Space to Store F-35s Rejected By Pentagon
The number of F-35s in storage at Lockheed Martin’s facilities is within months expected to reach over 100, fuelling calls on Capitol Hill to reduce acquisitions of the
militarywatchmagazine.com
Advocates for Artemis insist that the program is more than Apollo 2.0. But as we’ll see, Artemis can't even measure up to Apollo 1.0. It costs more, does less, flies less frequently, and exposes crews to risks that the steely-eyed missile men of the Apollo era found unacceptable. It's as if Ford in 2024 released a new model car that was slower, more accident-prone, and ten times more expensive than the Model T.
When a next-generation lunar program can’t meet the cost, performance, or safety standards set three generations earlier, something has gone seriously awry.
Homeland Security Doesn't Want You to Know Who Its New University Intelligence Advisors Are
Hey all, please become a paid subscriber so I can keep doing this work — Ken In a little-noticed disclosure this past week, Homeland Security announced the creation of a new intelligence advisory board composed of up to 40 members whose discussions (and even identities) will be withheld due to...
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Israel lobbied the United States for greater access to PGMs in the wake of its 2014 assault on Gaza that left some 2,200 Palestinians dead. The Israeli government argued that it needed more smart bombs to use against Hamas and Hezbollah in case of emergency. Section 1275 of the 2021 NDAA was seemingly meant to fulfill that request, enabling the president to bypass normal weapons spending caps on transfers of PGMs already stored in U.S. reserves.
“Although it is almost impossible for independent experts to trace due to a lack of basic transparency, there is little doubt that Israel and the U.S. took advantage of the provision,” says William Hartung, senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. “The whole purpose of doing it in this fashion is to hide the extent of these deadly transfers — and the mechanisms used to carry them out — from public view.”
How Israel Got an Endless Supply of U.S.-Made Smart Bombs
Nearly three years ago, Congress gave Israel a pass to stockpile precision-guided bombs “without regard to annual limits.” An inside source confirms that even more have been transferred since October 7.
inthesetimes.com
Meet the Shadowy Global Network Vilifying Climate Protesters
For decades, the Atlas Network has used its reach and influence to spread conservative philosophy—and criminalize climate protest.
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