It wasn’t even so much the tech, but just overall military capability. Basically what happened was for years and years, we based our defense spending on what they were spending, and they based theirs off what they projected we would spend. So constantly we were outspending them and they would try to keep up and we’d…

Or, as one of my military buddies once said with respect to the M-16 v AK-47 debate - if I’m a soldier with American logistics and support I want the M-16, if I’m a soldier with Russian logistics and support I want the AK.

Welcome to Jalopnik Kyle!

Nice rundown. The “base issue” is missing a critical discussion, though, on domestic bases and infrastructure.  Defense officials have been clamoring for another round of BRAC for years to reduce overhead and free up resources for modernization, etc.  Not surprisingly, the vast majority of those installations are in…

But do they still have the tooling?

and nine more than than the nearest naval power (France).

Welcome, Kyle! We always look forward to having a new victim writer here!

We’re going to build this big, beautiful FA blog, and we’ll make Univision pay for it.

Compare the Russian naval fleet to the U.S. naval fleet and get back to me.

I welcome him bigly.

Man you guys went balls deep right from the get go. You’re hazing him with both the usual “what’s this going on my car website” comments and the inevitable “stick to <not politics> rageposts. Hardcore.

Yeah, he’s a weird scapegoat in this saga. Flash back a week and a half ago and there were people all over the internet (including on this family of websites) writing pieces about how he was being way too bullish about Trump’s chances. Now, we’re blaming him for not being bullish enough...

Nate Silver’s model was the only one which gave Trump a good chance of winning. Take it up with the Huffington Post and Sam Wang; they gave Clinton close to a 99% chance of winning....

Actually, any plane he’s on will be Air Force One....

Wonderful response! I was expecting “go suck a bag of dicks!”, or something to that effect. Well done sir.

our debts get called in

LOL. You think the Chinese is going to call in our debt. hahahaha.

Mandatory Gold accents.

Nice package!

A cantankerous dromedary with bad teeth talks crass about the Miata to the amusement of some. Also there’s a camel in one scene.