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The way I look at it, all of the people that were fired are likely to be trustworthy people to help us put things back together after the revolution.

A few things about this: The cupboard is not totally bare. We have enormous quantities of SDBs (Small Diameter Bombs) and JDAMs, both of which are aircraft-delivered precision weapons. The critical shortage is in standoff weapons (like JASSMs) that we'd use against air defense sites...

https://www.csis.org/analysis/rebuilding-us-missile-inventory-multiyear-project Look at Table 1, it spells it out clearly. I'd point out that none of those numbers are reassuring from any practical standpoint. I find it unlikely that Iran is going to agree to pause operations until 2029, but...

Yes, so you are apparently expecting this stupid war to last seven years? And the critical shortages aren't in Tomahawks anyway. We need THAAD and Patriot missiles yesterday. And probably SM missiles but the Navy isn't telling us that yet. None of which we ever had very many because they are...

It kind of stands to reason. The nearest base to the operating carrier squadrons in the Indian Ocean was in Bahrain. That base has now been abandoned due to Iranian missile and drone attacks. Most of the supplies for the carrier groups came from stockpiles at that base. The next accessible...

This is just too damned easy...

If you are driving in areas with active wildfires you are in a Difficult Situation whether you have a gas-powered or an electric vehicle. In 2014 during the Carlton Complex Fire I lost power for 12 days. As did all of the nearby towns. Gas stations cannot pump gas without power, and payment...

The irony is that that green infrastructure is getting built out whether the Gray Eminences in charge want it or not. Because it works and it makes economic sense. Wal-Mart is aggressively building out its own EV charging network at its stores and plans to eventually have them at all of their...

I had this portable shower thing that you'd pressurize with a floor pump. And I had five five-gallon water jugs. Let's just say that made me a very popular individual with the ladies...

I'd make a few observations here: Even if an ICE driver doesn't perceive a charger, they might well exist. Not all chargers are at gas stations, and often the very best charging locations are not at gas stations. Usually you use an app like plugshare or Google Maps to figure out where to...

Well c'mon, it isn't like they are up against the varsity here.

Also we need to clearly define what "self interest" is in this case. And I can make the argument that it is in all decent countries self interest to not touch this mess with a ten foot pole.

Nah, we'll just join Canada. Hopefully if they'll take us.

You'll need both balls and brains for that job.

As the saying goes, "when you kick over a hornet's nest, the hornets decide when it is over."

From NATO's standpoint, a United States trapped in a tarpit in the Middle East is a United States that can't invade Greenland or Canada. And by the way, a United States trapped in a tarpit in the Middle East is also a United States in a poor position to object meaningfully when parts of the...

Don Tzu has something to say about that, too:

I don't know how we are supposed to manage your solution to #2 when we've spent the last year and a half pissing off everyone who would normally help us. What would the gulf states do, exactly? At this point in time there is no solution to defending complex and fragile infrastructure against...

I guess I just have to laugh because apparently you are now advocating that people should drive electric vehicles and get off of fossil fuels. And if not what exactly are you advocating?

That may be true. It is also irrelevant if Iran doesn't care what it costs them. Because we know a lot of people in the Untied States care very much what it is costing them.