Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

12 HOURS ISN’T EVEN INTERMITTENT FASTING:

WELL, GOOD: U.S. missile-defense satellites headed for low-Earth orbit. “The U.S. military partnered with SpaceX to launch a half dozen missile-defense satellites into orbit Wednesday in an effort to protect the United States against hypersonic missile attacks.”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: The PRC Peacetime Island Hopping Continues: …who is paying who? “Remember all those island groups we had to fight through in WWII? The planet still looks the same and the importance of geography has not changed. Cleo Paskal posted on X a Letter from President of Palau, Surangel Whipps, Jr. about the huge problem we have because the USA has not passed Compacts of Free Association. From this seat, this obtuse strategic malpractice by DC is almost as if executed on behalf of the People’s Republic of China. Read the letter and then ponder what is going on in DC that we are giving this gift to the PRC.”

When you understand that much of our leadership is on the payroll it all makes sense.

CDR SALAMANDER: War in the West Pacific? Really? You & What PGM Inventory? “We’ve talked for years about our shallow magazines; filled via the unholy coupling of peacetime accountants and pliable war planners selling the 72-hour war & Deterrence by Punishment snake-oil. No one goes to opening day of dove season with only a half-dozen shells, and no one should plan for a Great Pacific War like we have.”

TOOLS OF THE REGIME ARE EXEMPT FROM SCRUTINY:

OPEN THREAD: Party on.