PALUBA

To je demokratija, mozes cak i da biras cime da te ubiju...

kakvo licemerje!!
najveca vrednost je sto je konacno sve nas OSLOBODIO svog prisustva.

pirlikom napada na američki nosač UŠ Kol u Jemenu 2000.godine.

Potpredsednički bunker postao je ozloglašen posle izveštaja da se potpredsednik Dik Čejni sklonio u njega u vreme terorističkih napada 11. septembra 2001. na Svetski trgovinski centar u Njujorku i Pentagon u Vašingtonu.

Word on Capitol Hill is that the Quadrennial Defense Review should result in the demise of two Navy carrier groups and the Marines’ Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle. On top of that, the Joint Strike Fighter program is likely to lose a so-​​far uncertain number of planes and the Air Force looks to lose two air wings.

Kako to? Zar oni nisu imuni na sva pravosudja osim na US sudstvo?

Za doticnu damu (Kelley), americka stampa/tiskovine kazu da izuzetno razorno djeluje na muskarce......

Nije Rusija molila Amerikance da eventualno spašavaju ruske pilote, već su u sklopu dogovora o bezbednosti i kordinaciji letova iznad Sirije trebali na predlog Rusije da potpišu specijalnu klauzulu o obostranoj saradnji u eventualnim akcijama spašavanja. Ne znam iz kog razloga obramba tek sad piše o tome kad su Ameri odbili da potpišu tu klauzulu još sredinom novembra prošle godine.
Ono što Putinu nije jasno , to je odbijanje američke strane da sarađuje u evakuaciji pilota kao što je to svojevremeno Amerika tražila od Rusije tokom akcija u Afganistanu , gde Rusija uopšte nije učestvovala na primer.Rusija je tada prihvatia poziv da će pomagati u spašavanju američkih pilota ako bude potrebno.

Нешто нема оног "сви смо ми Орландо" и сл...

Američki ambasador Danijel Kritenbrink je rekao da je Mekkejn bio “veliki vođa i pravi heroj” koji je pomogao u normalizaciji odnosa bivših neprijatelja.

Biznismen Pham Gia Minh (62) rekao je da je vidio kako vijetnamski civili ginu u američkom bombardovanju, ali da se divio Mekkejnu zbog prevazilaženja teške prošlosti radi boljih odnosa obje zemlje.

Nisam ni znao da je bio celebrity u Vijetnamu :)

McCain was eager to make up for lost time — and the times were favorable to a high-profile veteran willing to speak out in favor of the war. With the Senate moving to cut off funds for the Nixon administration’s illegal bombing of Cambodia, the president needed all the help he could get. Two months after his release, McCain related his harrowing story of survival in a 13-page narrative in U.S. News & World Report, at the end of which he launched into an energetic defense of Nixon’s discredited foreign policy. “I admire President Nixon’s courage,” he wrote. “It is difficult for me to understand . . . why people are still criticizing his foreign policy — for example, the bombing in Cambodia.”


In the years to come, McCain would continue to fight the war his father had lost. In his meetings with Nixon, Junior was known for chomping on an unlit cigar, complaining about the “goddamn gooks” and pushing to bomb enemy sanctuaries in Cambodia.

A 1980 CIA report calculated that 600,000 to 700,000 Cambodians lost their lives between 1970 and 1975.  But that would include the deaths of soldiers as well as civilians, from all causes, and the time period extended beyond the American bombing.

Bruce Sharp, an independent researcher in Chicago, runs Mekong.net, a website focused on Cambodia before and after the war. Sharp said he thinks 50,000 is a safe minimum estimate. A University of Hawaii political scientist compiled a number of demographic studies and arrived at a minimum estimate of 30,000.

Pravili nemci baze sutra ili za 100 godina uvek će im se prebacivati za ww2. Međutim ako se pokažu kao odgovorna zemlja vrlo brzo to više niko neće potezati, osim iz očaja.

Možda im bude jeftinije da ih nekom poklone nego da ih transportuju negde drugde :)

- Kina i Rusija teže regionalnoj hegemoniji i načinima globalne projekcije moći. One odlučno razvijaju vojsku kako bi neutralisale američku snagu - zaključuje se u izveštaju.

А чему ли теже САД и савезници?

Matis zaposlenima u Pentagonu: Štitite zemlju
Tanjug  01.01.2019.

Odlazeći američki ministar odbrane Džejms Matis pozvao je danas sve zaposlene u Pentagonu da štite zemlju i čvrsto ostanu pri svojim principima.

Matis, koji je 20. decembra podneo ostavku zbog neslaganja sa predsednikom Donaldom Trampom, proveo je današnji dan u Pentagonu gde se pripremao za primopredaju dužnosti svom nasledniku Patriku Šenehenu, prenosi AP. U pisanoj poruci zaposlenima u Pentagonu on je poručio da treba da se drže saveznika u borbi protiv neprijatelja. Matis, koji je inače penzionisani general, još nije objavio čime planira da se bavi u budućnosti.

Izvor: www.blic.rs

Kada se Amerika povuče, sledi haos - rekao je Pompeo u govoru pod nazivom "Sila dobra: Obnovljena uloga Amerike na Bliskom istoku", koji je održao na Američkom univerzitetu u Kairu, a istovremeno je pozvao bliskoistočne zemlje da učine više u borbi protiv ekstremista Islamske države, prenosi Rojters. Poručio je i da će SAD nastaviti vazdušne napade na istoku Bliskog istoka "kako se mete budu pojavljivale", ali je istakao da je Amerika uvek bila "oslobađajuća, a ne okupatorska sila na Bliskom istoku".

Major Airfield Expansion On Wake Island Seen By Satellite As U.S. Preps For Pacific Fight
America's remote island outpost in the Pacific is an essential fallback point for pushing airpower west during a major conflict.
BY TYLER ROGOWAY JULY 3, 2020

America's remote outpost deep in the Pacific, situated roughly between Japan and Hawaii, Wake Island serves as a reserve airfield should American airpower have to fallback from the far reaches of Western Pacific during a peer state conflict. It also provides a reverse utility, working as a staging ground in a crisis for air combat missions heading west, into Russia's and especially China's highly-defended anti-access and area-denial (A2/AD) bubbles that emanate far from their shores. With the ongoing 'pivot towards the Pacific' and with adversary A2/AD capabilities creeping farther east, Wake Island is more important than it has been in decades, possibly since World War II.

The restricted access island—which is one of the most remote on Earth—is an unincorporated territory of the United States that is also claimed by the Marshall Islands. The vast majority of the atoll is taken up by a 9,800-foot runway—long enough to accommodate anything in the Pentagon's inventory—and the airfield infrastructure and staging areas that surround it. Although it supports some missile defense tests with launchpads scattered around its southernmost tip, it is best known for being an emergency divert point for aircraft crossing the Pacific and as a stopping point for U.S. military aircraft moving from the U.S. to Asia.

New satellite imagery that The War Zone obtained from Planet Labs dated June 25th, 2020 shows that substantial improvements to the base have occurred recently. Based on archival satellite imagery, the major expansions to the airfield began early this year and are still underway today. The new satellite image is posted below and you can see a full-resolution version of here. It shows the large eastern apron area's big expansion, as well as an enlarged secondary apron area on the west end on the runway. The runway itself has been completely rebuilt.

The Pentagon has been pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the secretive strategic stronghold in recent years. These expenditures have included the apron and runway improvements, as well as a large solar farm that can be seen in the western area of the island in the recent satellite photo. It's more likely than not that even more investment into the island's infrastructure will be made in the near term as rising tensions with China, North Korea, and Russia have reinvigorated the strategic importance of the remote base.

Beyond its clear logistical utility, acting as a major hub where there isn't another for thousands of miles, it sits outside the range of China's and North Korea's medium-range ballistic missiles, and largely at the end, if not entirely out of range, of their intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs). Guam, which is situated about 1,500 miles further west, is well within the range of these weapons.

During the opening stages of a major conflict with China, America's bases that are within range of these missiles would be overwhelmed by them, at the very least knocking bases like Kadena in Okinawa out of commission for a substantial period of time. These strikes would likely be layered with cruise missile attacks, making them harder to defend against and upping the odds that Beijing could neuter American airpower throughout the region in the opening exchanges of a conflict.

Guam, which hosts a key U.S. naval base and the sprawling Andersen Air Force Base, would be targeted as well, although at greater range. This island has a THAAD missile battery that has been in place for years to fend-off ballistic missile attacks specifically, but the sheer numbers a foe like China can fire at the island makes defending it a highly dubious exercise. Rebuffing more limited attacks from a foe like North Korea is far more relevant to the island's defenses. Other airfields in the Marianas Island Chain, or within the MRBM and IRBM range in general, are even more vulnerable. 

So, you can see how Wake Island quickly becomes a key fallback position during what could be an incredibly violent and fast-moving conflict, at least at first. The island itself can be quickly fortified with its own air defenses and those based on forward-deployed U.S. Navy surface combatants sailing between the Chinese mainland and the island. Wake Island is also thought to be within the outer engagement umbrella of the ground-based midcourse defense (GMD) interceptors based in Fort Greely, Alaska, which are designed to counter low-volumes of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) threats.

The idea of making Wake Island becoming a hub of airpower activity that looks to overcome the 'tyranny of distance' that is so closely associated with conflict in the Pacific Theater is already being trialed. Just last year, B-2 Spirits used the airfield for the first time as a forward re-arming and refueling point (FARP), with their sorties beginning at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, not Guam. This would be the likely arrangement if U.S. installations to the east were threatened or destroyed during a conflict.

Heavy bomber sorties against an enemy such as China will be absolutely essential to slowly degrade its A2/AD bubble so that less capable and shorter-ranged assets can push close enough towards that country's shores to be useful at all. This will be a very high-stakes and laborious process during the early days and possibly weeks of a conflict. Bombers will also be critical when it comes to taking on China's growing fleet of advanced warships that will stand between U.S. territory and targets in and around the Chinese mainland.

As a conflict carries on, stealthy B-2 bombers and penetrating tactical airpower will be essential to making major progress in an air war against China via their ability to make the necessary volume of direct attacks required to prosecute such a conflict. There is an absurd notion that standoff weapons alone can win a war against a peer state, even a relatively limited one. This is impossible as we are talking about target sets that number in the tens of thousands or more.

There will not be enough highly expensive standoff weapons, such as cruise missiles and hypersonic weapons, to come even near to satisfying these requirements. As such, those standoff weapons will be used to break down the enemy's defenses and to strike strategic sensors and nerve centers, in order to blind the enemy and negate force-multiplying capabilities and some key kinetic ones, as well. In effect, this will open the door to broader follow-on strikes made by platforms that can get close enough to their targets to be employed en masse. 

Of course, even with Wake Island, any operation like this will rely very heavily on America's rapidly aging aerial refueling tanker fleet. This includes refueling the bombers, yes, but especially when it comes to short-ranged tactical airpower once they can get close enough to their targets to be relevant in a peer state conflict in the Pacific at all.

Remember, an F-35A has a combat radius of around 650 miles, and this is generous compared to most fighter designs. This means a tanker will be at risk within 650 miles of the aircraft's target area when making a direct attack. It is roughly 3,000 miles from Wake Island to Chinese shores. So, you can see just how heavily the tanker fleet will be taxed to sustain even a limited tanker bridge for tactical aircraft to be useful along the leading edge of such a conflict. We have talked about these issues in depth many times before, which you can read about here, here, and here.

This brings us back to just how important Wake Island is. America's tankers and fighters would be pushed back to Hawaii, positioned 2,300 miles from Wake Island, or even Alaska, if it were not for the island outpost, at least initially, during a major conflict. Midway, which sits 1,200 miles to the east of Wake Island, is another option, but it has limited capacity and a shorter runway. So, the idea is that Wake Island would be packed with aircraft moving to and fro across the Pacific during such a major crisis, at least until the enemy's A2/AD bubble can be degraded significantly and austere airfields farther east can be developed and activated. Even then, those forward bases would have limited capacity for prolonged operations and would be more vulnerable to enemy attacks.

With all this in mind, the upgrades to Wake Island are absolutely necessary and couldn't have come soon enough.

Donald Trump's lashed out at military top brass for making 'weapons manufacturers' quote "happy". That's despite HIM approving the 'largest-ever Pentagon budget' and brokering billion-dollar arms sales.

His presidential rival, Joe Biden is promising to 'bring change' on the issue, but his record shows that he's unlikely to take a radically different approach.

Biden želi Lloyda Austina na čelu Pentagona

Joe Biden nastavlja sa pripremama za preuzimanje Bijele kuće. Za ministra odbrane nominirao je Lloyda Austina, koji bi time postao prvi Afroamerikanac na čelu Pentagona. Ipak, postoje naznake da bi taj proces već u startu mogao naići na prepreke.

А на нашим војним школама је малте не будала онај ко не преписује :(... И не само у војним, него од основне до докторских студија ми подстичемо ђаке, студенте да се "снађу". Те квалифукујемо као "способне", "веште", сналажљиве, уместо да их карактеришемо, најблаже речено као преваранте.

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