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It is a complex relationship. Israel's defense budget will be around 45 billion USD this year. The US provides 3.8 billion of that annually through a 10-year memorandum of understanding initiated in 2019. As you note, there has been additional emergency funding though the totals I have seen...

Should anyone be interested in following daily detailed updates on the situation in the Middle East that are devoid of political spin, I can highly recommend the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) which is chaired by Jack Keane. Some of you may recall I have highly recommended their thorough...

Pretty funny. Of course here in the States he and his family are forced to live among such arrogant intellectual rubes.

It is never mentioned in this country, but one can argue that the regime change experiment in Iraq was actually successful. I am not defending Bremer who made some of the most brainless post conflict decisions ever in our history, but, after all, neither the despotic Hussein nor the murderous...

The worst politician to emerge from under a rock in Texas since the Bugman, Tom Delay.

I believe this is the least sensible argument that the liberal elite, and tools of HAMAS, and now Iranian propogandists make in response to the October 17 atrocities. That Hosea fellow once noted that to sow the wind is to reap the whirlwind. Certainly Hamas did that when it killed, raped and...

I can also recommend the M4A2 garden hoe. Generates both speed and kinetic energy.

I believe the correct way to describe the intent of US actions is to inflict such a level of destruction on the Regime, its coercive foundation of power and its potential to export that power that any Iranian regional ambitions are set back a meaningful period of time. That intent has as...

I have been following your diatribe, but will interject here. I do not know a serious commentator that does not believe that Iran has the ability and intent to create a nuclear weapon. The only actual debate is the timeline. If the US is successful in preventing that from happening, then it...

Not like Hamas. Hamas had a primitive, though extensive, rabbit warren underneath Gaza. Iran's network is far more sophisticated. Their weapons storage facilities, launchers, even much of the production is buried in Iran's very mountainous terrain. Their doctrinal battle rhythm is to mate...

Exactly

They did a brilliant job. However, I do not see an analogy with respect to Iran. Who within that country represents the Northern Alliance, and what province of Iran do they occupy that makes insertion of special forces or weaponry remotely possible? I am all for arming an Iranian...

As long as it is not Chinese, is reasonably bright, easily fits a pocket, and is rechargeable you will be fine.

That is all I ever do. One rifle that will handle the most critical animal on the list and use it and the same load for everything else. My four buffalo were taken with either 300 gr TSX or A Frame and they worked perfectly on everything else from Suni to Eland.

Absolutely here for you Steve.

You and I have two very different understandings of Islamic culture generally or Persian and Arab culture specifically. I see nothing in Islamic history, Suni or Shia, that illustrates a cultural tendency to practice long term strategy. Indeed, it has been my observation that the people of the...

We can't send them back. The only group that could would be new, largely secular leadership. If that does not emerge, then defanging them for a number of years will have to suffice until we have to do it again. Mark Halperin (far from a right winger) had a very astute observation on Two-Way...

Unfortunately, one has to have an organized resistance and reasonable safe area in which to arm such a force. Such a movement obviously does not exist yet, or what did exist may have had the guts ripped out of it six weeks ago. The Crown Prince will continue to safely offer his services as an...

I am stunned no one has jumped at this. Takeri is one of the truly great places on the continent and Mike is the best of hosts. On what South African game farm will you have the opportunity to take a Kafue Lechwe, Crawshay Defassa Waterbuck, or Chobe Bushbuck?

Magazine full of TSX or A Frame. For me, it is 300 gr .375.

Meanwhile back in Ukraine, I always admire competent indirect fire. In the short clip above a Russian column, apparently preparing for an assault - four years ago these would have been BMP armored fighting vehicles rather than a couple of trucks and a bunch of Chinese ATVs and motorbikes. They...

I would be stunned if this were true. Particularly the part where Iran retains 80-90% of the small boats that could lay them. I would have thought that capability would have been an early and important target for CENTCOM. If they still exist, I have to assume it was because the political...

Nope. Sadly not only has he joined the clicking banana fringe with Candice Owens, but so has Meghan Kelly. She also is dug in with the Americans dying for Israel nonsense. I think what we see is one of the real problems with YouTube and X popularity. There are bias confirmation communities...

I have hunted a great deal in Europe, particularly Germany and Austria. I think the discussion is missing the point of much of the non-trophy take in both countries. Traditionally, hunting is not considered "sport" in the English sense of the word. Hunting is a form of management. Thus, on a...

Well done! You took a great bull.

Latest oil futures must be dismaying for both the Iranian/Russian/Chinese propagandists all over social media and their fellow travelers in the Democrat Party. https://www.google.com/finance/beta/quote/CLW00:NYMEX?sa=X&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwiG6sXt45OTAxWKmmoFHWOEIzUQ3ecFegQIJhAT

Do you even realize that was spoken like a Marxist? Corporations succeed or fail because of their perceived value to the shareholder. No shareholders, no corporation, and no jobs for all those noble selfless employees - middle class or blue collar. Also, do you honestly believe a corporate...

The navy always secured boarders when captured.

A bold option now open to the administration that would be unthinkable just a year ago due to Iranian defensive and retaliatory capabilities is the seizure of Kharg Island. I am not sure the exact totals, but believe about 90% of Iranian export leaves from Kharg. Unlike a mainland incursion...

Not exactly. Almost everywhere in Europe you will book for either a certain class of trophy (Bronze, Silver, Gold) or an "up to" weight or measurement. Let's say it is a bronze Gredos Ibex in Spain. The contract will be for a baseline bronze animal. Your typical guide or PH will try to get...

I have the 18x by Sig. For 10x and below image stabilization is not needed - above 10 physical (tripod) or electronic is a necessity. I use them for hunting whitetails from a blind. The typical target area on my place is around 250 yards. With stabilized optics at 18 power, I can very...

As I have noted several times here one of the more ridiculous arguments by the legions of critics who have zero joint military operational experience has been the supposed failing zero sum game between US and Israeli air defense interceptor systems and Iranian missiles. Whenever the latest...

Apparently we have initially funded this insurance program to the tune of $20 billion.

Of course I did. I have no "feelings" about Trump at all. When his policies make sense, I will be the first to applaud them, and when he acts like a buffoon, I'll absolutely criticize him. For instance, I think his tariff policies are at best incomprehensible, and his position with respect to...

This is called making chicken salad out of chicken shite. They are running out of munitions to attack anyone. Might as well try to appear brotherly and promise no more strikes on their fellow Muslims while threatening everyone else with mysterious capabilities that have been threatened daily...

They aren't buffoons, but I believe it is worth noting the position of the government with respect to this conflict under whose largesse they practice their trade. I have never sat in a Lloyds board of directors meeting, but it is an international syndicate where major revenue and risk...

I'll try to ignore the angry bitterness, but you do make two excellent points. One is the cacophony of "why haven't we won yet," which plays directly into the hands of the Iranian propagandists, anti-administration left, and isolationist Israel hating right, may be the most blatant public...

The barrier to shipping going through the Strait of Hormuz is Lloyd's of London and its Joint War Committee not Iran. CENTCOM declared the Strait open to commercial traffic three days ago. Iran has no capability to lay mines, its fast boat fleet has been destroyed, and whatever real threat its...

Concur.

Have you had a bad camera experience?

The one precludes the other. It is why that demand of Germany and Japan was the main reason they fought to the bloody end.

The sad thing is that not only do many of the Iranians apparently believe their own propaganda, so apparently do many of the idiots in this country who oppose the war.

We will not do a major land incursion into Iran. It is a country the size of Alaska with a population of nearly 100,000 million. Based on the Balkans (successful) and Iraq (barely so) just a peace enforcement mission would require four or five divisions. We already have a 12 division mission...

Thinking about this operation a bit, it must be presenting huge implications to the Chinese with respect to Taiwan. For instance, the power and simultaneity of the joint force attack is pretty staggering. Those initial fires included ground launched ATACMs missiles; air, ground, and sea...

We can, and I am sure already have, blockaded anything leaving by sea.

Always liked and respected Marines, and always been really glad we had them - well except when as an institution they periodically thought they were the Army. :cool:

Yes, I have. With respect to my comments, it was simply to suggest from one old soldier to another, to know the room. We have fellow veterans reading these posts who would have six-inches of combat deployment bars on the sleeves of their uniforms. It is not something any would use to make a...

You have a lot of combat veterans in this dialogue, most of whom, particularly our SOF members, did at least as much as drive a Chinook. Not many either flaunt it or try to use it to shut down conversation. All of us honor your service.

Beat me to it. At least my dog is safe, and I don't have to look at that hair any longer. Mullin will do a great job, and is likely from as safe a state as the party has. Implying your boss approved your inside contract award in congressional testimony was not a wise strategy.

One of these short clips I love so much that speak volumes. This is the seminary schooled James Talarico running for senate in Texas. In a normal cycle, he would lose by twenty points. But this year, should a nasty runoff occur between John Cornyn and the odious and not easily excretable Ken...