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Air Defense: Missiles Over Ukraine - strategypage.com
January 17, 2025: As of early 2025 Ukraine has seven Patriot batteries and NATO nations have assured Ukraine that additional supplies of missiles will arrive as quickly as they can be taken from existing stockpiles or manufactured in the United States. Japan is the only other nation to manufacture Patriot missiles and they are increasing production to …
Special Operations: Hybrid Warfare
January 15, 2025: NATO countries are alarmed at the recent spate of so-called accidental severing of underwater power and communications cables. The culprits were Chinese and Russian ships that were in the areas when the cables were cut. One of these ships was boarded and searched. Evidence of cable ...
Attrition: Weaponizing Starvation By Bombing Chemical Plants
January 4, 2025: Attack an opponent's food supplies and weaken your foe substantially. Since the 19th Century, use of chemical fertilizers, and the ability to mass produce ammonia and nitrogen based fertilizers, has more than doubled food production. This has also created a potential vulnerability because there are only about 500 ammonia production facilities …
Attrition: Israeli Devastation of Lebanon
December 29, 2024: In September Israel launched a record number of airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. This was to disrupt and possibly destroy the ability of Hezbollah to fire rockets into northern Israel. For over a decade one Lebanese group or …
Military Book Review Storming Vicksburg: Grant, Pemberton, and …
Grant Tries to Take Vicksburg by Storm. Prof. Hess (Lincoln Memorial), author of Civil War Logistics, Civil War Field Artillery, and many other valuable works, gives a thought-provoking, insightful look at U.S. Grant’s two unsuccessful attempts to storm Vicksburg before settling down for a protracted siege. Hess’s treatment is based upon an impressive number of eye-witness accounts found ...
Morale: Paid To Die In Ukraine - strategypage.com
January 23, 2025: Russian soldiers in Ukraine are largely higher paid long-term contract soldiers. These men tend to come from rural areas where jobs are scarce and poverty is increasing. Many of the military-age men had already served one or two years as conscripts. In the last year, military recruiters have been offering these veterans well-paid jobs as contract soldiers if …
Austin Bay's On PointThe Next Pearl Harbor: Close-In Drone …
by Austin Bay December 24, 2024 The Great Drone Hysteria first afflicted New Jersey and New York -- with maybes from Maryland and Virginia. Then California and Nevada residents reported odd airborne night lights -- flickering, hovering, then disappearing. Airplanes, helicopters and/or authorized drones flying in the night sky? The WhatEverTheyAre -- …
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Book Review: Midway: The Pacific War’s Most Famous Battle
A Meticulous, Comprehensive Study of the Battle of Midway Mark Stille, the veteran author of numerous books on naval history, among them Pacific Carrier War and, Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle, has produced a meticulous, comprehensive study of the battle of Midway, the most famous carrier battle of World War II. He has covered every aspect of the battle, from the ...