The opening and [c]losing paragraphs, leaving the longer middle to be read at the link.
[MarineCorpsCompassPoints] Perhaps the discussion of the future of the Marine Corps is a discussion that involves a conflict of visions. In one vision, the future of the Marine Corps is primarily as a sit and sense, sensor node in a joint kill chain off the coast of China. In another vision, the Marine Corps in the future is called upon as it has in the past, to be a global, combined arms, 9-1-1 crisis response force.
Which conflicting vision best represents the future of the Marine Corps? One Korea era Marine, Thomas Sowell has written about conflicting visions.
… How can the Marine Corps best serve the Nation? How can the Marine Corps be best prepared for whatever challenge the future may bring? The answer maybe to focus first, last, and always, not on any narrow, defensive mission, but on a broad, global, crisis response mission. When Marines onboard Navy amphibious ships arrive off a nation in crisis, enemies are deterred, and friends are encouraged.
A restored and enhanced Marine MAGTF can complete a variety of missions, not only missile and drone strikes, sitting, and sensing and passing on data, but also a variety of other missions including fight, strike, deter, evacuate, rescue, restore order, and more. A renewed focus on worldwide crisis response is both the best way for the Marine Corps to serve the Nation, and is the best way for the Marine Corps to unify its conflicting visions and arrive at tomorrow’s battlefield stronger than today.
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This part of the Transformation For Transformation's Sake struggle. The US Air Force and US Navy are focused on blowing up things accordingly they favor the concept that everything is a weapons system or its targeting sensors. The US Army, and usually the US Marine Corps, view that warfare is a "People Thing", Fourth Generation Warfare, and the whole purpose of the weapon systems is to empower the soldier with a bayonet-equipped rifle taking ground and more importantly forcing the enemy to do what we want.
It may be Clausewitzian of me but I feel that making the rubble bounce is not enough.
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In the olden days I used to surf and swim at Imperial Beach. The Silver Strand and Coronado are just north of Imperial Beach and I would also surf there with some of my disreputable buddies. These days people are advised not to even go near those waters because of sewage from Mexico.
I must admit I don't surf much anymore and I am aware that surfers don't count for much in a world where money, economics and politics are considered far more important.
But it pisses me off really, really bad.
What do we get from Mexico? I know. I know. There is some legitimate trade. But there are also illegal aliens, fentanyl and sewage. They are uncivilized and hostile. It seems to me like a casus belli.
If I was the POTUS, I would close that border altogether and sever all relations with Mexico until this problem is resolved. I'd put a stop to even the legitimate trade so as to hit them where it hurts. It's no good for the Mexican government to plead poverty. They certainly have enough money to treat their sewage and, until they do, they can go to hell.
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[Foreign Affairs] Success in great-power competition requires rigorous and unsentimental net assessment. Yet the American estimation of China has lurched from one extreme to the other. For decades, Americans registered blistering economic growth, dominance of international trade, and growing geopolitical ambition, and anticipated the day when China might overtake a strategically distracted and politically paralyzed United States; after the 2008 financial crisis, and then especially at the height of the COVID pandemic, many observers believed that day had come. But the pendulum swung to the other extreme only a few years later as China’s abandonment of "zero COVID" failed to restore growth.
Beijing was beset by ominous demographics, once unthinkable youth unemployment, and deepening stagnation while the United States was strengthening alliances, boasting breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and other technologies, and enjoying a booming economy with record low unemployment and record high stock markets.
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[GatewayPundit] On Sunday night AXIOS reported on a new FBI, DOJ memo obtained by Axios concludes Jeffrey Epstein did not have a client list that he used for blackmail.
The FBI earlier determined that Epstein did commit suicide in August 2019.
And the DOJ-FBI also released a 10-hour video on Sunday from outside Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell.
** The full video is posted at the DOJ website here.
But now we can confirm that an entire minute was cut from the DOJ video that was released last night. Why? What are they hiding?
If you follow the full video you can see for yourself that the video is cut off at 11:59:00. If you can believe the timestamp... The video feed then restarts exactly at 12:00:00.
BOMBSHELL: DOJ Caught Deleting 60 Seconds from Newly Released 10-Hour+ Epstein Surveillance Video — Missing Clip Raises Explosive Questions About "Suicide" Narrative
I can remember when all the cameras were said to be out of service. Pam, Patel and Boner: no one is buying this. Like Barr you have proven your complete lack of credibility.
[YouTube] Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller explains what he believes to be the Democratic Party's intentions for bringing illegal immigrants to the West on 'Jesse Watters Primetime.'
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
