suzerainty; A relation between states in which a subservient nation has its own government, but is unable to take international action independent of the superior state.

Not that, I am aware of that word. I took EN101, EN102, EN201, EN202, and EN290 in College.

It's this:



From my best guess you are trying to say:

"No, it's only the case if they are a US state or if we exercise suzerainty over them"

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Or the collapse of said state.

While that's not our problem, the effects certainly are, and we signed on for it as a policy outcome when we started to rewrite the map of large parts of the former Soviet Union to the benefit of Europe.

Thanks for questioning MY integrity. Shit, perhaps you should be Deputy INDOPACOM. What exactly is your basis?

Gaetz got very little other than the bully pulpit, because of divided government .et .al. Mostly, in my opinion Gaetz is bullying this Admiral and his deputy precisely the civilian bureaucracy has created terrible strategic conditions and no one feels much desire to fix or hold anyone in the .civ or .mil accountable.

You can take your "everyone is fucked up" security blanket right into the booth when you pull the lever for Kamala and Joe, and we can all get more adulting.

Uh...you're incorrect. The Navy pushed them for decades at the expense of other defense priorities, and now STILL building and manning them for missions its basically having to make up.

Everyone on the first page is saying "that poor Admiral, having to answer a hard question from Congress." Again, if you're missing that, don't know what to tell you, guy.

Because the tech is obsolete. We have lasers to take out any hypersonics. And no one can detect a strike if we chose to engage in one.

One would hope.

They are keeping them active after being forbidden to retire some....by Congress.
https://news.usni.org/2022/03/09/last-minute-fy-22-728-5b-defense-bill-funds-13-navy-ships-12-f-a-18s-saves-3-lcs-from-decommissioning

How many Admirals have been forced to resign over the LCS debacle?

How many Generals have been forced to resign over Afghanistan? How about meaningfully testify on who ordered what, when?

But God help the Joe who loses some NODS he can buy off the internet. We MUST HAVE ACCOUNTABILITY!

These GOFOs are fortunate that they've got SNCOs to carry water for them.

I'm sorry, do you think those questions are related to Congress forcing the Navy to keep operating them?

If you think I'm defending the program offices you're mistaken.  But to pretend that procurement problems are entirely the military's fault requires one to ignore a lot of reality.

Well, "Grifter" is defined as "a person who engages in petty or small-scale swindling."

The Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) cost about $500 Million a piece to build, there are going to be 23 of them, and each will cost about $70 Million annually to maintain.  So, I don't think that's "small scale" and I would say that the Honorable Matt Gaetz is being very generous when he refers to them as "grifters."  

We have more general and flag officers in the U.S. military today than we did at the height of WW2.  We have more civilian bureaucracy at DOD than we had during WW2 in the Dept. of War and the Dept. of the Navy combined. Combine that with the fact that Congressional appropriations are not made to DOD without the assurances that such federal funds will reach every single congressional district through DFAR contracts to large corporations, small business (i.e. those special donors), and universities alike added to the fact that DOD has NEVER successfully passed a financial audit and you've got a recipe for incredible fraud, waste, and abuse.  

If I had it my way, I'd place Erik Prince as Secretary of Defense and I feel confident he would do a lot in four to eight years to at least set DOD on a path to sanity.   We cannot keep placing as Secretary of Defense retired general or flag officers, because they are part of the problem.

Frankly the less the .mil discloses our real capabilities the better off we are. Anyone even remotely in the know has less than zero concern about "meh hypersonics."

All you military experts out there that think you need to know, don't. What are you going to do about it anyways, stock up on more extra special 556?

Agreed, but Congress has saved programs that the Services wanted to kill through short sightedness, as well.

I concur its a flawed system, but the hilarity of all these MilBros freaking out about a Congressman discussing a disclosure is unintentionally hilarious to me, in my experience.

Someday, over a beer I'll share a Ron Wyden story.

The problem is that the more the government gets to hide behind secrecy, the shitter outcomes become over time.

Sunlight disinfects. Now, I get sources and methods, actual capability assessments, etc. However, frankly, when people, especially operator GOFOs and intel types, start spouting about it, my bullshit meter goes into high gain.