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Sunday, February 16, 2025

Maritime, Naval 2025

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Baltic, Nordic, Arctic 2025 ..
Conflicts, Tensions, Folly 2025 ..
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Thursday, February 13, 2025

PLANning War 2025

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24-3-12 Military Strategist: How Xina Would Likely Invade Taiwan | WSJ > .25-2-5 Xina's Plan to Militarize the Belt and Road - Aaron > .
Dragon's Claw - Guy >> .
Eagle vs Dragon - Oriēns >> .Imperialist Threat - Γαῖα >> .
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Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Rubble Krumblin 2025

> > Krumblin > >    > Krumblin 2025 >>   Krumblin 2025 - αλλο >> .
25-2-20 Why Ruscia will Lose the 21st Century - Aaron Watson > .
25-2-18 Ruscia’s Oil Problem - Damaged Refineries, Storage, Shadow Fleet - PW > . 
25-2-17 Ruscia's Economy Starting to Crack - Warfronts > .
25-1-30 [DUH/Poo: Poo’s imperial dreams losing power] | Mark Galeotti > .
25-1-29 Konstantin Samoilov: Early Signs of Ruscian Collapse [Blood & Chaos] Si > .
25-1-27 Investment Dilemmas: Krumblin & Ruscian Oligarchs at Odds - LoME > .
25-1-24 Iran~Russia: History of Conflict; Alliance against West - J K-L >> .
25-1-25 Is Ruscia on the Verge of a Banking Crisis? - Spaniel > .
25-1-21 Ruscia’s War Economy on the Brink of Collapse - Icarus > .  
25-1-20  Pooti Finished: Long-Term Systemic Damage to Ruscsia - SiCu > .
25-1-16 Ruscia's Banking Crisis Will Destroy Everything - Jake Broe > .
25-1-14 Economic Dilemmas: Krumblin Scared of Post-War [Anger] - Spaniel > .
>> Competition, Economic Warfare >>>
24-12-31 How ‘Dutch Disease’ is Destroying Russia’s Economy - Icarus > . skip > .
Energy as Weapon   > ρ - Energy >>
Military 
25-1-28 [End is Nigh]! Unprecidented Vehicle Shortage in R Army - Ukraine M > .
Pathetic Fridman Interview
25-1-6 Fridman-Zelensky interview, in under 10 minutes - Kyiv Independent > .
Ruscist Arms Industry 
24-12-17 Russia’s Arms Industry Experiencing a Stunning Collapse - Icarus > .
24-12-8 Ruscian Equipment Reserves (2024) | +/- & Storage Depletion | Perun > .
Sociopolitical Weakness   > Civil Wars >>
UvXIR

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Sunday, December 1, 2024

Black Sea Front 2024

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23-12-25 Feodosia: AFU Destroys Explosive Packed Russian Ropucha-Class Ship > .
25-1-3 How Ukraine Sea Drone Shot Russian Helicopter - AiTelly > .
24-12-24 Russian Cargo Ship Ursa Major Sinks | Fifth Lost - wgows > .
24-12-24 Russian Cargo Ship Ursa Major Sinks en route to Tartus, Syria? - Such > .
24-12-22 [Black Sea Front] Ukrainian Naval War (2024) - Perun > .
24-12-16 Black Sea: Another Ruscian Oil Tanker in Difficulty - Suchomimus > .
24-12-16 2 Ruscian Tankers Sink in Black Sea | Volgoneft 212 & 239 | wgows > .
24-12-15 3 Ruscian Ships Sink in Black Sea -- 2 Tankers, Floating Crane - Such > .
24-12-11 Kerch Bridge Targeted: Ukrainian Tactics & Strategic Implications - KI > .
24-9-28 Ruscia's Frontline Tradeoffs: Strategy of Every R-U Front - Spaniel > .
24-9-16 [AFU Seizes Black Sea Oil Rig, Downs Ruscian Su-30] - Reporting > .
24-7-22 Russia's Navy = Serious Crisis | Icarus > . skip > .
24-7-22 Red Sea & Black Sea - Shipping > .
24-6-2 Black Sea Domination: Bridge, Drones - Budanov, Maliuk, Federov - U24 > .
24-5-19 Natya-class Minesweeper & Karakurt-class ship Tsikolon ATACM'd - Such > . 
24-5-6 Ukrainian Marine Drones Sink R Boat in Vuzka Bay, Crimea - Such > .
24-4-16 Orcs Advance Despite Heavy Losses - P00's [Doomed] Invasion - K&G > .
24-4-15 New Weapon Of War: Armed Underwater Drones - UUV/AUV - HI Sutton > .
24-4-3 SatIm: Sevastopol & Novorossiysk Naval Bases - Ivan Khurs Missing - Such > .
24-3-30 Ben Hodges - Siege of Crimea Begins: Black Sea and Coastline - Silicon > .
23-3-25 SatIm: Damaged Ropucha Ship Damaged Heading to Dry Dock - Such > .
24-3-24 Ukraine Claims to Have Hit 2 Ropucha-Class: Azov & Yamal -Such > .
24-3-24 Two more russian ships wasted in Crimea | Starsky > .
24-3-21 Ruscia’s New Black Sea Base in Ochamchire, Abkhazia, Georgia - Such > .
24-3-20 [Naval Drones: Ruscia losing to country without a navy] - Real > .
24-3-8 Group 13: Ukraine's ship killer specialists vs R's Black Sea Fleet - Forces > .
24-3-5 Project 22160 Sergey Kotov Sunk By 3 Marine Drones - Such > .
24-3-3 Ukraine War 2024: Military & Economic Balance of the Long War - Perun > .
24-2-17 P00ti loses ‘untenable’ Black Sea | Dr Sidartb Kuashal - Times > .
24-2-16 Naval Drones Not Yet Dominant (Who Might Win?) - nwyt > .
24-2-14 [Tsezar Kunikov sunk by Magura V5 maritime strike drones] - Forces > .
24-2-12 Top hits of Ukraine’s campaign against Russia’s Black Sea Fleet - Kyiv Ind > .
24-1-26 Battle for Crimea: RuM Bases on Fire, Planes Crashing, Ships Sinking - U24 > .

Black Sea exports (MoD report, 24-5-22)


   Air Front 2024 ..
   Black Sea Front 2024 ..
   Dnipro Front 2024 ..
   Economic Front 2024 ..   
   Kharkiv Front 2024 ..
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Drone Front 2024

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24-7-17 Compared: New Ukrainian And Houthi Weapons in Naval Warfare - HI S > .
24-5-8 Sea drones and AI are reshaping naval warfare - CBC > .24-4-16 How Ukraine's Cheap Drones Hit Targets Deep Inside Ruscia - HI S > .24-4-15 New Weapon Of War: Armed Underwater Drones - UUV/AUV - HI Sutton > .
NATO Drones 
24-9-21 How drones change America's future war in the Pacific - Kamome > .24-1-2 Inside US Military’s New Drone Warfare School | WSJ > .
24-9-21 How drones change America's future war in the Pacific - Kamome > .
Military Robotics - Talus Gort >> .

   Drone Front 2024 ..
   Eastern Front 2024 ..
   Economic Front 2024 ..   
   Kharkiv Front 2024 ..
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Saturday, November 2, 2024

Taiwan 2024

24-6-9 Kevin Rudd: Xina, USA, Taiwan: Deterrence in Scenarios Short of War > .
24-5-17 Tsai Ing-wen: legacy, Xina, future - BBC > .
24-5-8 [TikTok chaos as XiPaganda tool; microchips & Taiwan] - Feriss > .
24-4-28 Taiwan's Tale of Resilience - Living Free in the Face of Conflict - WELT > .24-4-3 Taiwan Crisis: G7-XiXiP Sanctions & Tools - Update > .
24-4-3 M7.4 Taiwan Quake: Simulation in real time - EarthquakeSim > .
24-3-8 Taiwan v China: A Fragile Democracy - Free Doc > .
24-2-17 Taiwan Question & World Order | X Economy - Update > .24-1-22 Taiwan Strait: Ocean’s Most Contested Place - U.S. Naval Institute > .
24-1-12 How Xina Is Trying to Sabotage Taiwan’s Elections | WSJ > .

24-5-1 Aquilino - urges more action to counter Xina's military power - PBS > .
24-4-9 Aquilino - USN, Philippines, AUKUS, SXS, Indo-Pacific Security - Lowy > .
24-4-3 Taiwan Crisis: G7-XiXiP Sanctions & Tools - Update > .
24-3-27 Deterrence in Defense of Taiwan | Acheson (50-1-12) | Hoover > .
24-1-10 Global Cost of War Over Taiwan - 40% of GDP - Update > .
23-12-2 Xina's Modern Military - Big, Imperialistic, Unproven - Armchair > .
US vs X~T 
24-8-23 [Taiwan Foreign Policy Officials in Washington DC] - Update > .
24-6-17 [Xi's Weasel Accusation: "USA Goading Xina to Attack Taiwan"] | Update > .
24-5-29 Xi's Taiwan Conundrum: Yasuhiro Matsuda's Analysis, Predictions - Dig > .
24-5-23 USAF (bases) vs Xina: Preparing for Day Zero - mah > .
24-5-1 Aquilino - urges more action to counter Xina's military power - PBS > .
24-4-9 Aquilino - USN, Philippines, AUKUS, SXS, Indo-Pacific Security - Lowy > .
24-3-12 Wargaming likeliest PLA attack on Taiwan - WSJ > .
24-1-30 2030 what if? US Marines Eschew Tanks to Defeat Xina - T&P > .
24-9-6 Wargaming in NATO 2024 - NATO ACT > .
> XIR - NoXious - Axis of Evil >>

24-10-11 Former [Taiwanese] President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) is set to visit Europe, marking her first international trip since leaving office, according to multiple news reports. The visit will include stops in the Czech Republic, France, and Belgium, where she is expected to engage with both local and European Union (EU) politicians.


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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

British Forces - 21st C

21-3-23 RADICAL RESHAPE For The UK Military - Forces > .
24-2-6 Exclusive: Head of UK Strategic Command's full in-depth interview - Forces > .
24-2-1 Could National Service fix British forces recruitment crisis? | Sitrep > .
24-1-20 Can Ruscia win the military production race? - Anders > .
Future - British Forces - Fyrd Færeld >> .
Manpower, Training 

Geostrategic Projection
European Geostrategic Projection ..

Logistics, Modeling, Strategy
Mahan & Naval Strategy .. 


22-6-27 Defence Secretary Ben Wallace to call for more military spending over Russian threat: Defence Secretary Ben Wallace is set to issue a call for more spending on the UK's armed forces in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He will give a speech on Tuesday - but has reportedly already asked the prime minister to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2028.

The UK is currently spending around 2% of GDP on defence, matching the target set by the NATO for member nations. The government announced an increase in military spending in 2020.

Wallace told a conference organised by the Royal United Services Institute think tank that, in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the threat has changed and governments must be prepared to invest more to keep people safe.

21-3-13 Ageing equipment puts [British] Army 'at risk' - [CDC] report: 

The British Army is likely to find itself "outgunned" in any conflict with Russian forces, MPs have warned. In a damning report, the Commons Defence Committee described efforts to modernise the Army's fleet of Armoured Fighting Vehicles (AFV) as "woeful". In the report - entitled 'Obsolescent and outgunned' - the committee highlighted the "bureaucratic procrastination" and "general ineptitude" which had "bedevilled" attempts to re-equip the Army over the past two decades. The ageing and depleted fleet puts the Army at "serious risk" of being outmatched by adversaries, it states. The Ministry of Defence has promised "an upgraded, digitised and networked armoured force to meet future threats".

In 1990, the UK had around 1,200 main battle tanks in its inventory, today it has 227 - the report states. It said armoured vehicle capability had reached "a point of batch obsolescence, falling behind that of our allies and potential adversaries".

The report comes ahead of publication of the government's Integrated Review of foreign, defence, security and development policy, which will be set out by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 21-3-16. Described as the most important defence review since the end of the Cold War, it is expected to focus on developing new technology such as robots, autonomous systems and meeting new threats in the domains of space and cyber.

A Ministry of Defence spokesperson said: "We thank the Defence Committee for their report and acknowledge their recommendations as we look to improve the management of our large and complex equipment programmes.

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23-3-22 Defence review: British army to be cut to 72,500 troops by 2025 [=4K fewer]: 

Following the publication last week of the separate so-called integrated review [above] of foreign and defence policy, ministers have said big changes are necessary to create a more agile military. As part of that review, the government increased the cap on UK nuclear warheads from 180 to 260.

"The size of the Army is to be reduced to 72,500 soldiers by 2025 as part of a move towards drones and cyber warfare. The Army currently has 76,500 personnel and has not been at its "established strength" of 82,000 troops since the middle of the last decade.

A cut to the size of the Army - with a reduction of 10,000 - had been anticipated. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace announced a cut to the target for the number of fully-trained people in the Army, from 82,040 today to 72,500 in 2025. "Full-time trained strength" is the number of soldiers who have completed both their general, basic training and a second phase of specialised training for a specific role. 

However, the Army is not currently meeting its target - there are actually 76,350 such soldiers in the Army, which is almost 6,000 short [of prior target]. So the Ministry of Defence is already well on the way to getting down to its new target.

The changes set out in the paper - titled Defence in a Competitive Age - include £3bn for new vehicles, long-range rocket systems, drones, electronic warfare and cyber capabilities. The government plans to increase the UK defence budget by £24bn over the next four years. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace set out plans for new capabilities such as electronic warfare and drones in a command paper in the Commons. He said "increased deployability and technological advantage" meant greater effect could be delivered by fewer people. "These changes will not require redundancies and we wish to build on the work already done on utilising our reserves to make sure the whole force is better integrated and more productive."

Announcing the major overhaul of the armed forces, Wallace said it marked a shift from "mass mobilisation to information age speed", insisting they must be able to "seek out and understand" new threats to the country's security.

The plan sets out how forces will spend more time overseas to support allies and deter hostile powers, such as Russia. Wallace said previous reviews had been "overambitious and underfunded leaving forces that were overstretched and underequipped".

As part of the military restructure, the Royal Marines will be transformed into a new Future Commando Force, taking on many of the traditional tasks of the special forces - the SAS and SBS (Special Air Service and Special Boat Service).

The force will receive more than £200m of direct investment over the next decade to carry out maritime security operations and to "pre-empt and deter sub-threshold activity, and counter state threats".

Other changes announced include:
Protector: UK's New American-made Drone > .

Boris Johnson spoke to NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg ahead of the announcement and gave reassurances that increased investment would take the UK's total defence spending to 2.2% of GDP - above the NATO target

"Throughout the last year and a half the issue of recruiting has become increasingly public, resulting in the Chief of the General Staff and the Chief of the Defence Staff having to defend the Army and explain the situation openly. In April 2018 the National Audit Office reported that regular personnel across the military were down by 5.7% or 8200 people, with the Army being down by 4000 troops. Meg Hillier MP, chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee has branded this ‘unsustainable’.

However, it is not just recruitment that is the issue; the British Army has a less well reported, but unsustainable problem with retention. After all, recruitment would be far less of an issue if soldiers were not leaving the Army at such a rapid rate. This speed of this exodus means that currently the Army cannot recruit in anything like the numbers required to fill the gaps of those leaving, resulting in an ever shrinking army and serious pinch points developing in key areas such as Engineering and Intelligence. Retention is a huge problem and something must be done to address it.

Many regiments are seriously affected by this, The Scots Guards, for example, has only 469 soldiers, a deficit of 260 or 37%. This leaves them, as well as other units in a similar position, frankly unable to deploy in their primary warfighting role without ‘borrowing’ companies from elsewhere, affecting the combat effectiveness of the Army as a whole."

Mutual Support: Maximising the Army Reserve:

Battlefields of Future? ..
Bionic Troops? ..
British Forces - 21st C ..
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