The largely-Pashtun Taliban is bankrolled by Pakistan.

The reason Pakistan did little but complain about years of Obama drone strikes violating their sovereignty is their dog got off the leash, planned 9/11 on Afghan soil whilst in charge of Afghanistan, and later turned on the owner with a wave of violence in…

Just for frame of reference, here’s 500 tons of TNT:

I see the MOAB strike and instantly divined that it’s the kind of thing most-likely long thought of being done by theater commanders, but wouldn’t pass Obama’s ROE dragnet.

SHORT VERSION: New President, relaxed ROE.
This is all that really needs to be said.

Longer version:
Maybe also: Pentagon won’t ever admit it, but…

The Norks have had all these many years already a deterrent: in the event of any conflict, the artillery starts raining on Seoul & it doesn’t stop until the US, RoK & Japan forcibly silence them, or they run out of ammo.

The overwhelming conventional threat & Seoul’s proximity to the North have been hostage all this…

Megaton?

Echo chamber hot takes like this do nothing good for the American body politic.

... that’s strange. I could have sworn the Syrians just gassed a town ‘bout 4 days ago. It is almost as if not enforcing a red line emboldened Assad to wipe his ass with that UN inspection & disarmament.

If President Obama wanted to act, he could have acted.

Obama is a superior orator to Trump; let the record also show he also didn’t lift a finger in recompense for Syria’s 2013 gas attack.

Irresponsible hot take: we didn’t bleed for Ukraine.
Russia won’t bleed for Syria.

LOL, FFS “crumbles?”
I know the USMC historically got hand me downs but that’s still a sad thing to hear.

GOOD.
The motorcycle driver was in the wrong for crossing a double line but that dude isn’t a cop, and even a cop would be wrong as hell to do that.

The Super Hornet is what the Hornet always should have been.
The A-D’s just don’t have the kind of range you want from a carrier plane, but it was a decent plane, with a diverse payload & didn’t break the bank.

As for Naval F-22, it’s like so many armchair ideas: it would be a brand-new plane; the reality is, we…

Boeing just wants more money at the government’s trough — but if they or anyone wants in on Navy contracts, what we so desperately need again is something with some LEGS.
Even without stealth, the lack of something with some real range has been a very sore capability gap since the F-14's & the A-6 before it were…

I’m sure Congressional deals are what’s getting that Gulfstream a no-bid contract.

Common sense says just get more C-130's to do the mission, if the old ones are wearing out; the Juliet model is still in production. (easiest way to recognize those is they’re longer, and if not moving, 6 propellers vs 4 of legacy 130's)

Yeaaaah, not gonna lie, not a good look, even if it’s innocuous by dint of her income (not insubstantial) & obvious familiarity with the industry.

There are types of disagreement that aren’t trolling, but go ahead and throw that softball for the peanut gallery.

Those topics had an undeniable political aspect, but articles written about them were not part-and-parcel partisan hatchet jobs.