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Kadena Adds More Stealth Fighters Amid ‘Increasingly Challenging Strategic Environment’
May 1, 2024 | By Unshin Lee Harpley

F-22A Raptors from the 27th Fighter Squadron at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., recently arrived at Kadena Air Base in Japan, bolstering the fifth-generation airpower at the closest U.S. military installation to Taiwan.

“Amid an increasingly challenging strategic environment, it is vital that we continue to retain modern capabilities to ensure peace and stability across the Indo-Pacific region,” a base spokesperson told Air & Space Forces Magazine on May 1.


For a year and a half now, the Air Force has rotated fighters through Kadena to replace and supplement the base’s aging fleet of 48 F-15C/D fighters, which are slated to return to the U.S.

The latest F-22s join other Raptors from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, that arrived in March. Kadena is also currently hosting F-16s from the South Dakota Air National Guard’s 114th Fighter Wing and from the Minnesota Air National Guard’s 148th Fighter Wing.

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/kadena-more-stealth-fighters-strategic-environment/
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Editorial/Opinion/Blogs / Demeaning, Diminishing, Destroying
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 01:26:45 pm »
MAY 2, 2024
Demeaning, Diminishing, Destroying
The language hurled against Jews is often similar to words used by the Nazis in the 1930s.

 
If history proves anything it shows if civil rights, human rights, equality and even the right to live are to be denied to a class of people, they must first be stripped of their inherent value as human beings.

In the case of African Americans, it was slavery and the Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court in 1857 that upheld that evil practice, justifying it by claiming Blacks were not citizens of the United States. An earlier “compromise” in 1787 declared that for purposes of representation in Congress, enslaved Blacks in a state would be counted as three-fifths of the number of white inhabitants of that state. Jim Crow laws enacted by Southern Democrats went further by preventing most Blacks from voting.

In modern times, the unborn have been denied their right to live through abortion and the claim by some that fetuses are not fully human, thus justifying the procedure.

Which brings me to the current demonstrations against Israel and Jews on many college camp uses.

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/106480-demeaning-diminishing-destroying-2024-05-02
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Politics/Government / Re: Political Graphics 2024
« Last post by Bigun on Today at 01:25:07 pm »


That's true! None of it embarrassed them!
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MILITARY / APRIL 23, 2024
Navy Missiles and the Defense of Taiwan: Part 1
There are tradeoffs to using American missiles to defend allies. Namely, there are fewer for us.

 
Missiles have been much in the news with Iran’s attacks on Israel either directly or through its proxies. Missiles have played a dominant role in this conflict. Modern missiles have phenomenal capabilities for both offense and defense. This has become increasingly self-evident against the types of attacks employed by Iran and its level of technology. Ship defense missiles will play an even more prominent role in any future conflict. While war with Russia, Iran, or even the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is possible, the more likely threat is a war with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over Taiwan, a war of missiles. The PRC alone has military forces to challenge U.S. might and the ambition and will to do it. The Chinese have been preparing for this conflict for a very long time. They consider it their destiny to rule the Pacific and then the world. Will the U.S. be ready for such a war?

Despite the future threat from the PRC, the U.S. has generously provided significant military aid to Israel, including putting our own forces and personnel in harm’s way on behalf of our ally. Understandable as those laudable efforts are, Americans must be aware that the extensive use of missiles in Israel’s defense may have a negative impact on our ability to defend our own interests in the future. One report estimated that the U.S. had already used 300 missiles in Israel’s defense. Days ago, Navy Secretary Del Toro testified before Congress that the U.S. has expended $1 billion in munitions to defend Israel since the October 7 Hamas attack. He stressed those missiles must be replaced. It takes approximately two years to build our more advanced missiles, and our industrial base is already at maximum production capacity. The more missiles we expend to help defend Israel, the lower our inventory for our own future defense.

PRC President Xi Jinping has made it a top national policy to reunify Taiwan with China as the first step in the domination of the Pacific. If that happens, 24 million free Taiwanese citizens will fall into slavery. And the world’s most advanced microchip expertise and manufacturing will be dominated by China to the detriment of the rest of the world. Taiwan dominates the world in both the science of advanced microchips and their production. The modern economy of the world increasingly depends on advanced microchips. Taiwan produces over 50% of the world’s microchips and virtually all the most advanced chips. Xi sees the conquest of Taiwan as part of his legacy. U.S. military leaders predict that a conflict could be coming as early as 2027. The threat to Taiwan is elaborated in “The Looming Taiwan Challenge For The US, Japan And The West” and “Taiwan In China’s Crosshairs.”

https://patriotpost.us/articles/106197-navy-missiles-and-the-defense-of-taiwan-part-1-2024-04-23
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DAY 10

16 minutes ago
Here's what to expect on Day 10 of Trump's 'hush money' criminal trial
By Ben Kochman

We're back inside the courtroom for day 10 of Donald Trump's criminal trial on charges of concealing $130,000 in hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election.

First up today is a 9:30 a.m. hearing on whether Trump, 77, breached the court's "gag order" again by disparaging jurors and witnesses in public statements. The judge has already fined him $9,000 for breaching the order, and prosecutors are likely to urge the court to fine Trump again.

Then we'll hear more testimony from Keith Davidson, the lawyer for both Daniels and alleged Trump lover Karen McDougal, a former Playboy Playmate.

Davidson has so far walked jurors through his negotiations with Trump's ex-fixer Michael Cohen about the payoffs in the summer and fall of 2016.

Once prosecutors are done questioning him, he'll be cross-examined by Trump's lawyers.

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It's more likely you can get money for a pro Hamas riot than for the military.
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A Rockefeller of the Seas
America Should Consider Private Funding of Its Submarine Fleet
 
 

The most survivable deterrents to war are in short supply as the U.S. Navy struggles to replenish its underwater fleet. But history suggests America’s wealthiest can make a difference in closing the nation’s submarine gap.

By Bill Rivers | April 19, 2024

Mr. Rivers served as speechwriter to U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis from 2017 to 2019.

When General Ulysses Grant floated troops down the Tennessee River in 1862 on the campaign that would eventually break the back of the confederacy, his transports did so under the protection of privately-owned gun boats. The first-of-their-kind riverboat ironclads were at that time still the property of their inventor—St. Louis entrepreneur James B. Eads.1

A wealthy businessman, Eads oversaw more than four thousand workers to build the boats from scratch in less than one hundred days, spending his own money to finish them in time. Though technically under contract with the federal government, he was not paid until well after Grant used his vessels to pry open the war’s western theater.

The acquisition pace for new naval assets was different in 2023. On submarines, for example, the Navy announced last March that the United States would not achieve a two-submarine-per-year delivery schedule until 2028.2

https://republic-journal.com/journal/articles/a-rockefeller-of-the-seas/
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WATCH: War at UCLA as Pro-Israel Vigilantes Storm Palestine ‘Encampment’ Overnight

Joel B. Pollak 1 May 2024

LOS ANGELES, California — Roughly 100 pro-Israel vigilantes stormed the “Palestine Solidarity Encampment” at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, sparking battles with activists.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TNtHk6uOVE&ab_channel=DailyBruin 


https://twitter.com/joeyneverjoe/status/1785553171353575620

much more
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2024/05/01/watch-war-at-ucla-as-pro-israel-vigilantes-storm-palestine-encampment-overnight/
Pro-Israel = "vigilantes", Pro-terrorists = "activists".
Screw you pollack...
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 Amphibious assault ship USS Boxer is out of action, and it's a problem, top Marine Corps general says
Story by insider@insider.com (Ella Sherman) • 18h

USS Boxer, an amphibious assault ship, is undergoing repairs, causing disruptions to Marine Corps operations.
 
 
"When you lose your big-deck, you lose most of your aviation assets and you lose your crisis response force," Marine Corps commandant Gen. Eric M. Smith told members of the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday.

Smith also said that Marines cannot train the same with the USS Boxer, a large flattop that resembles a medium-sized aircraft carrier, currently out of action.
 
Amphibious assault ships, or LHDs, typically have flight and hangar decks that helicopters and aircraft like the Harrier jump jet or newer F-35Bs can operate from.

 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/amphibious-assault-ship-uss-boxer-is-out-of-action-and-it-s-a-problem-top-marine-corps-general-says/ar-AA1nZKUe#:~:text=USS%20Boxer%2C%20an%20amphibious%20assault%20ship%2C%20is%20undergoing,that%20the%20USS%20Boxer%20may%20deploy%20this%20summer.
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Politics/Government / Re: Political Graphics 2024
« Last post by Slide Rule on Today at 01:12:09 pm »
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