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Call your reps and urge them to support the FISA extension. Our military desperately needs it. Sacrifices must be made.

It’s cultural I think, for whatever reason I think the powers that be think these platforms are beneath the prestige of the AF. Following from that they’ll present an endless stream of arguments of why giving a nickel to small programs robs big programs, it’s a prejudice that they find reasons to justify. With the long range fires being demonstrated by our foes with TBMs/cheap drones destroying HVAAs at MOBs on the ground, the justification for some amount of conventional capabilities being based in small footprint, ACE minded assets is self evident. Tactical tanker, expeditionary capable light fighter, light attack and CCA / UCAV, etc… Just my day dreaming two cents but this sounds like the bailiwicks of a new AFSOC to be relevant in GPCs.

strategic objectives were surely achieved in the last few days 😂

Are you equally critical of the Biden and Obama administrations that put us in this shitty situation?!? Ya'll keep forgetting how we got there, and while Trump ain't no General George C. Marshall he really didn't have a lot of other options, did he? I typically oversimplify things, but the truth is the US put its head in the sand when it came to Iran for four decades; and it was only going to get worse if nothing was done about it. Sure, it would make more sense to have a well-thought out plan; and I sure the big brains at CENTCOM had a concept of operations gathering dust on the shelf for years; but in the immortal words of Sheriff Bud Boomer, "There's a time to think, and there's a time to act; and this gentlemen is no time to think!" RIP, John Candy!

lol it was pretty heavily implied when not a single person acknowledged there might be downsides to choking off a major global energy supply route. “Why is the US blockading Iran to ramp up economic pressure such an insane concept to you? I’d love to here a critically thought out argument against foreign policy 101, along with how you would have dealt with Iran blocking the strait and attempting to play the one card they had left to influence war outcomes in their favor.” Well that’s the thing about starting a stupid war of choice predicated on lies with no strategic plan.. you might end up painting yourself into a corner with only bad options. Which is where we currently find ourselves. Yes I agree that blockading the straight is the best bad option we have right now. The point is that we never had to be in this situation in the first place. My comment is simply pushback against the trump sycophants in here pretending it’s some genius strategic move with no downsides. Edit: Also the onus also isn’t on me to come up with a better plan. I wasn’t elected president, didn’t start this war, and have been against it the whole time.

As for those asking about a strategy, set goals, and a plan, this has a feel like the AFG pullout. Just do it live. Well, sorta. It went from kill the boss, bomb a bunch, that'll do it, to, oh shit, they biting back, now what? Mean tweet em to death! Crazy bastards.

Why would we watch Iranian propaganda? One of you's teenagers are gonna see it on your phone and tictoc that shit. Next thing, all the Zs will be crying for poor ol Persia.

If you haven't seen them already, the Iranian Lego propaganda films are entertaining and shocking all at the same time!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZmIOg3BibU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G9DNx7xIIc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfBx6GxPw_k&list=RDgfBx6GxPw_k&start_radio=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bJO-P0V2V0

Did someone say on here that oil isn’t a global commodity? To the rest of your rant: Why is the US blockading Iran to ramp up economic pressure such an insane concept to you? I’d love to here a critically thought out argument against foreign policy 101, along with how you would have dealt with Iran blocking the strait and attempting to play the one card they had left to influence war outcomes in their favor.

Some of us do, but we can't talk about it here...

Sad there is not a single comment on this...probably why we are stuck in a do loop of our own dogma. If done properly this will change everything. Also under the radar is the fact that the Marines are integrating the same missile on their Cobras. Now small platforms can operate from austere forward dirt strips, grass fields, beaches...and have a strategic impact be striking targets at distance with very short notice and from non-traditional attack vectors. 200NM is just the start, follow-on cheap weapons have been tested out at 600NM. Add the ability to swarm and you can hold adversaries at risk at a MUCH lower exchange ratio.

Thanks! much better.

Don’t be so negative dog we uno reversed carded their blockade with our own even more dope blockade. It’s a genius move that gives us nothing but leverage and definitely isn’t gonna have a bunch of unintended consequences. I’m tired of people making this whole thing about Trump and his administration. If it feels incoherent and made up as we go that’s just because you’re too blinded by your libtard-ness to see the genius bigger picture

It's knows who the real boss is. 😃 Tough that we won't know what part cyber did play in the operation. I hope the leaders who were in while I still was saying you can win with just binary have shut up/retired. Cyber is an excellent force multiplier, but the technical burn that can occur using it offensively can be extremely high. I agree 100% it should be part of the campaign planning. If I was an RU or CN I'd have people all over Iran looking at critical infrastructure, major backbone providers, endpoints, etc., trying to find our TTPs and IOCs. I think, opinion only, China is the closest peer in that domain right now. I'm worried burning capes on this "limited operation" will be giving a lot away. I'll see if I can't muster up the time to post something about it in the dead cyber thread.

I'm sure the administration thought this through and has a plan...

Reached out the week of Easter and the guy at AFPC said the scheduler was on leave for a week. Think this week was when she'd get back so hopefully assignments start getting loaded again. Guy at AFPC made it sound like earliest would be a June PCS for a July start to training. Its kinda funny for the FY27 UFT board they pulled the language about when to expect an assignment given the train wreck this year has been.

I have zero SA on maritime law, so IDK if a ghost ship is legally treated the same as a chinese flagged oil tanker, or an Iranian flagged tanker etc. I'm more curious how we'd handle a tanker with oil purchased by China attempting to pass through the strait. We lifted sanctions for a month, chances are some countries bought oil that hasn't left port yet. If a tanker has legally purchased Chinese oil, do we have good options for dealing with that? I'm shocked you didn't point out how I assumed the gender of the aforementioned chinamen.

Getting through the strait IS a short trip...

Folks that have been to MFS in the past 30 days, have you gotten your UPT base/orders?

Hey everyone! First time applicant here. Anyone else currently rated?

CENTCOM is saying different from ship trackers

Ok now let’s take your one inch deep analysis (close trade route -> gain leverage -> everything is awesome) and ask the obvious follow up questions: We don’t use much oil from the straight.. cool. So it shouldn’t affect our prices much right? Wrong. We live with something called the global economy and when supply of a commodity drops, effects of that percolate through the whole system. American oil companies will sell to the highest bidder just like anyone else so higher international demand will cause domestic prices to spike. Sorry, we don’t get to go on military adventures around the world and then suddenly pretend our own economy is isolationist. What happens when China is cut off from a huge portion of their oil imports? I guess in the world where we don’t consider follow on effects we’re just gonna ignore that. Are they just gonna sit back and take it? Are they going to put pressure on us to open the straight again? Are they going to raise their export prices to offset increased energy costs? Hmmm I wonder what country imports the most Chinese stuff….. Or What happens when (god forbid) one of our ships, now dicking around much closer to Iran than they were before, gets hit? Or hits a mine? Iran still has a very real missile, mine, and drone threat and now we’re basically just doing the navy version of seizing Kharg island—parking a bunch of juicy targets right off their coast. Again, the escalation ladder is sitting right in front of us and you guys are completely blind to it. What happens with the civilian population when the Iranian economy is fully destroyed by our blockade? I’m sure they’ll come running happily into the open arms of the country that’s doing it to them. It’s definitely not going to cause a rally around the flag effect much like trump’s tweet about killing their whole civilization. Any minute now the populace is going to rise up and turn the country into a flowering democracy…

Chinese Seamen?