RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 5, 2024

As Navies Focus On Red Sea Houthis, Somali Pirates Are Making A Comeback

How Tehran is Changing the Nature of Asymmetric Warfare

The additional details about how Saudi Patriots responded to the 2019 attack show the level of strain that a larger number of even lower-end ballistic missiles can place on friendly air and missile defenses. As is the case in the U.S. military and many other armed forces around the world, the standard operating procedure for RSAF Patriot batteries is reportedly to fire at least two missiles at each incoming threat. So if six Houthi missiles were downed in 2019, the Saudis likely fired at least 12 Patriots. The current cost of a single PAC-3 MSE missile, the most advanced interceptor for the Patriot system currently, is nearly $5.3 million

In the year since a major earthquake hit Syria, the situation has deteriorated. and A year on from Turkey’s earthquake, devastation continues

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Preach it 🙂 New Study Links Optimism To Lower Cognitive Abilities The flip side that we don’t like to talk about is that intelligence is linked to higher rates of mental illness. To put it bluntly, dumb people might be optimists but smart people are crazy.

This is the guy I listen to when working out or folding laundry or whatever. He is what I would consider him a centrist but by media standards he is right wing. Nothing earth shattering in his reports but he takes great pains to be old school things like reliable and as impartial as he can. Not many people on any part of the political spectrum who are trying to be that and also not egghead covering obscure topics. The one downside is that he only covers security topics albeit at the level of the everyday man. Think of him as what CNN foreign news would be like in a better world.