Delaying the Navy’s F/A-XX Fighter Would Be a Big Mistake
Ambassador Robert C. O Brien
ByAmbassador Robert C. O BrienPublished3 days ago
 
Key Points and Summary – Delaying the US Navy’s F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter program to prioritize the Air Force’s F-47 would be a strategic mistake, ceding ground to China and undermining American sea power.

-The US aerospace industrial base is robust enough to produce both next-generation fighters simultaneously, a move that would strengthen domestic manufacturing and mirror the successful parallel programs of the 1970s (F-14, F-15, F-16).
 

-The Navy urgently needs the F/A-XX to replace its aging F/A-18s and maintain air superiority in the Indo-Pacific.

-Accelerating, not delaying, the program is critical to President Trump’s peace-through-strength agenda.

https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/delaying-the-navys-f-a-xx-fighter-would-be-a-big-mistake/

Nearly one in 10 ‘Tier 1’ subcontractors to defense primes are Chinese firms: Report

The new study of 2024 data also warns that the Pentagon remains over-reliant on a small number of traditional prime contractors and a supplier base rife with potential bottlenecks.
By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
on June 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
 

WASHINGTON — Despite a bipartisan push to disentangle the US economy from China, the military-industrial base still relies heavily on Chinese suppliers, a new study from analysis software firm Govini warns. And, the company’s leader says, that’s not the only weak link.

“Defense supply chains today are incredibly brittle. They’re not resilient. They’re very, very intricately tied to foreign suppliers,” Govini CEO Tara Murphy Dougherty told reporters Thursday. “We try to quantify that.”

Bottom line up front, Western defense firms have struggled just to meet the intense surge of demand from years of large-scale combat in Ukraine. A war with China would be much worse — and Murphy Dougherty doesn’t think that US defense production, stockpiles and supply chains are up to the task.

“The data is unequivocal: The United States is not prepared for the war that we may have to enter if China said, ‘today is the day,’” she said. “It’s not that I think we would automatically lose — by no means do I think that’s the case — but I do not believe that the industrial base is prepared to support the material demands of the Department of Defense.”

https://breakingdefense.com/2025/06/nearly-one-in-10-tier-1-subcontractors-to-defense-primes-are-chinese-firms-report/

What Happens in the Middle East Doesn’t Stay in the Middle East: Strategic Signaling in a Multipolar Age
Peter Mitchell | 06.30.25

What Happens in the Middle East Doesn’t Stay in the Middle East: Strategic Signaling in a Multipolar Age
Recent developments culminating in kinetic US military action against Iranian nuclear facilities and Iran’s retaliatory strike on Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar have radically altered America’s posture since the beginning of the year. Israeli and American air operations against Iranian targets have been extremely effective, and demonstrate impressive capabilities, but these successes should not obscure the reality that every commitment signals adversaries about opportunities and constraints. Beijing is undoubtedly keeping a weather eye on American disposition, industrial capacity, and will as the US strikes deepened American involvement in the region’s unstable security landscape.

The question is not whether Chinese aggression against Taiwan is imminent—such predictions are inherently speculative and counterproductive. Rather, the United States must soberly assess what signals its strategic choices are sending and ensure that decision-makers in Beijing understand that American capability and resolve in the Pacific remain undiminished despite its intervention in the war between Iran and Israel.

The Reality of Force Structure

The redistribution of American military assets to support Middle Eastern operations creates observable gaps that any competent adversary would analyze. A Patriot battalion was transferred from South Korea to US Central Command in April 2025—particularly significant given China’s emphasis on missile and drone capabilities in any Taiwan scenario. Similarly, the USS Nimitz‘s movement from the Indo-Pacific to the Middle East has left the USS George Washington as the sole forward-deployed carrier in the Western Pacific.

https://mwi.westpoint.edu/what-happens-in-the-middle-east-doesnt-stay-in-the-middle-east-strategic-signaling-in-a-multipolar-age/

Liz Wheeler
@Liz_Wheeler
Zohran Mandan didn’t win because he’s young & charismatic, or relates to people’s grievances, or ran a good campaign.

No.

The real reason is WAY more terrifying.

The Muslim Marxist nutcase won because of two words: indoctrinated kids.

What does that mean?

Follow along. Simple math shows you what happened.

There are 5.1M registered voters in NYC.

750k-850k are 18-29 years old.

1.6M-1.8M more are 30-49 years old.

That means 2.5M—HALF of registered voters in NYC are “indoctrinated kids.”

What do I mean by that phrase?

Ten years ago, I had a recurring weekly segment on my show called “Campus Madness.” Every week, we told the grisly stories of conservative students facing awful discrimination on campus… because they were conservative. Grades docked. Free speech infringed. Professors humiliating them. Study body denying them funding. Etc etc. The point of the recurring segment was to expose the rampant abuse of conservatives on leftist college campuses.

But honestly, we missed the point. Sure, it’s bad that conservatives students were facing discrimination. That was real & unjust. But what’s WORSE is the students who came college apolitical or lightly liberal. Those students didn’t face discrimination—obviously—because they were the real target. They were vulnerable to brainwashing because they were already lightly liberal, and so by the time they left campus after four years, they had been hardened into committed Marxists, true revolutionaries—thanks to the anti-American, anti-white, anti-God, anti-humanity indoctrination that was drummed into them by their institutions.

There was a joke at the time, “wait til these silly millennials get to the REAL world” as if they’d see the light then. Nope. Indoctrinated millennials actually EXPORTED their radical beliefs from the campus to the real world. The result is part of the woke-ifying of our culture.

So back to NYC & this nutty Muslim Marxist who just won the Democrat primary for Mayor.

Look at the voting demographic of NYC.

2.5M of 5.1M total registered voters are in the “indoctrinated kids” age bracket.

1M of those 2.5M are college graduates.

That means 20% of voters in NYC are the product of the Marxist indoctrination factories that are our colleges.

Only 11% of NYC voters of all ages are registered Republicans, so read the writing on the wall.

Zohran Mamdani wasn’t elected because voters didn’t understand his Marxism. Zohran was elected by the indoctrinated kids BECAUSE of his Marxism. The indoctrinated kids are committed radical leftist ideologues—thanks to our colleges & universities that were subverted decades ago by communists who knew exactly what they were doing. They were playing the long game, knowing they were stealing the minds of entire generations of youth who one day—today!—would be the deciding factor in our elections.

The scariest part is, this isn’t going to remain isolated to NYC. This playbook is about to be replicated faster than COVID-19 in a petrie dish in every city in America.

It must be stopped. President Trump must defund any college or university that indoctrinates youth in anti-American ideology. Even private schools accept federally subsidized student loans and research grants. Cut it all. They won’t survive a week without the federal govt’s teat. The Marxists are in it to win it. If we don’t use the just authority we have while we’re in power, the United States of America will be lost.

If you don’t believe me, listen to two mins of Zohran Mamdani speak.