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You're absolutely right, by my personal experience and witness. Corruption was ingrained in the Soviet system, and continues to be business-as-usual in Russia and many of the post-Soviet, non-NATO nations. My team and I set up a US State Department-sponsored, computer-based combat simulation...

"An Army Fights as it Trains." --US Army Training and Doctrine Command __________ This is how Putin's army trains... ...and this is how it fights. Any questions?

"They poured him from his helmet and they poured him from his boots, and he ain't gonna jump no more!" --WW II US Airborne Jody Call "Blood on the Risers" Reports: Russian Airborne Forces Commander Killed by Sniper in Hostomel Reports surfacing from Ukraine say that a Ukrainian sniper has...

A close-in, oblique shot from an IR-guided AA missile. Now there's a low Probability of Hit engagement that beat the odds. Nicely done. Despite their obvious amateurism, clumsiness, and incredibly-poor campaign planning in every category, Putin's invasion force still won't be beaten by the...

Romeo Tango goes Tango Uniform The plug's been pulled on RT (Russian Television) America...by RT America. Putin's State-funded North American cable news operation (read, disinformation outlet) today announced it will immediately cease US market operations. Earlier DirecTV announced its...

I added a link to the full interview. I listened to it, and am convinced that what I transcribed is a continuous and authentic quote from the Vice President (sans one line I missed, now added). It is not a doctored, cherry-picked string of quotes that were edited together to mislead the...

"Layman's terms" is noted in the text. The post contains no editorializing, no lack of context, or inaccuracies. Her own words, word-for-word, from a public broadcast.

Sorry, bud. Respectfully, you're wrong (again) on both counts. The US achieved net energy exporter status for the first time since 1952 in 2019, (see Source 1) and it was announced even earlier, Dec 2018 (see Source 2). The COVID-19 pandemic did not catch fire in the US until March of 2020...

For the record, it was “poorly-informed friend”, and the post offered you respected, objective documentation (Forbes) to point out its basis. But if your sensitivities were offended, I apologize.

I prefer to let both the sages and simpletons here full freedom to argue intelligently or regurgitate the silly, simplistic talking points they embrace. If I disagree, I try to present them with objective, dispassionate documentation to the contrary, Then let the reader decide. As long as...

When we in the West boast of our qualitative edge in professionalism, equipment, and training, the Russian retort is always the same, and usually makes a pretty strong case for their approach—“Quantity has a quality all its own.”

Vladimir Putin Increasingly 'Erratic' and 'Delusional': Condoleezza Rice --Taken from Newsweek, 27 February 2022 She went on to say she met directly with the Russian leader "many times," saying that "this is a different Putin" now. "He had that tough veneer, he was always calculating and cold...

I can't speak for Russian doctrine, but US graves registration processes US military remains, not civilian. Under extraordinary circumstances, the local commander could modify the approach to help deal with mass civilian casualties as the situation dictates, but the priority would always be to...

According to the article originally published in The Telegraph, that is the assessment of the current UK Secretary of State for Defence, Ben Wallace. Ben Wallace From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Ben Lobban Wallace (born 15 May 1970) is a British Conservative Party politician...

Clever Vlad allegedly has an answer to that problem that only a psychopathic Russian like him could dream up for its soldiers. https://www.the-sun.com/news/4772273/russias-mobile-crematoriums-incinerate-dead-soldiers-ukraine/

Hollywood Goes to War--Again? Actor Sean Penn wants U.S. to help rescue Ukraine from Russian invasion Actor Sean Penn, who is in Ukraine working on a film documentary, is encouraging the U.S. to come to the rescue of the embattled country, which is fighting to preserve its democracy amid a...

I know from my own years of military service that the initial reports are always, ALWAYS wrong...but this is encouraging news nonetheless. But even if Ukraine's military successes are inflated at this point, it's obvious that Putin's offensive has already been soundly defeated by Ukraine...

It's good when one acknowledges his limitations. That's quite rare for some on these pages--and admirable. Read The Washington Post, June 2017 NATO allies boost defense spending in the wake of Trump criticism BRUSSELS — NATO allies of the United States plan to boost their defense spending by...

You're right. The Ukrainians would be wise to prioritize their domestic ATGMs against the BMP-3s and BTRs that threaten them, especially those on the march, while Russian infantry squads are still aboard them.

The New York subway system could be better maintained and secured if so many of its users didn't jump the turnstiles. A New Yorker who became president apparently understood what you do not.