Podcasts, videos, books and articles of the week 99
Out with the old and in with the new
In news - we will drop a new podcast this week!
Subjects might include Putin, Stauffenberg and other thrilling and not depressing subjects.
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A fine podcast episode on Ukraine I enjoyed.
If you only want to click on one thing this week, click on this
Soldiers at the front
Maybe they lack weapons… whose fault is that. I know, we’ve talked about it.
An overview of Soviet and Russian core weaponry
The Russian Navy Sucks
TL:DR They build expensive ships, then don’t maintain them. Admirals steal everything and are drunk. Face-saving kills sailors.
Frank Dux sucks less than John Spencer, the man who ‘saved Ukraine’
Dux’s stolen valor is less offensive.
Mad Max in South America - War Rigs
Step one - have complete air supremacy
And it was tanks that won the war, not planes.
American intelligence incompetence
I’m still reading
American incompetence, hubris and arrogance (see John Spencer)
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Pakistani duplicity and rabid intelligence service insanity trying to cook a steak of a friendly Afghanistan by throwing a million ingredients into a pot and ending up with domestic insurgency
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Karzai and pals corruption, incompetence, and rentiering
Our book is still out
Phil has a new book coming out soon
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