Good summary here: [image] Red Sea Shipping Crisis: Here's Everything You May Have Missed Escalation of attacks against Red Sea shipping by the Iran-backed Houthi militant group in Yemen has led to shipping giants pausing Red Sea voyages, changes in marine insurance, and calls for an in…

That won’t fix it either. Might send gas to $8 a gallon though.

That’ll dovetail nicely with the gubmint’s single minded push for people to get rid of their gas burners and buy electric cars.

That worked well :roll_eyes: [image] Houthis launch sea drone to attack ships hours after US, allies issue 'final... An armed unmanned surface vessel launched from Houthi-controlled Yemen got within a “couple of miles” of U.S.

Blew a big hole in that evil sea

[image] U.S. Reiterates 'Defensive Presence' in Red Sea After Warning The United States has reiterated its commitment to maintaining a "defensive presence" in the Red Sea as the Houthi rebel group shows no signs of stopping their attacks even after a formal warning. Est. reading…

This is an unfortunate time for the US to be doubling down on its addiction to military adventurism. Successive administrations have frittered away a significant amount of treasury, influence and credibility with politically engineered military blunders. The botched withdrawal from Afghanistan is a …

The withdrawal from Afghanistan may have been botched but at least we are out of there, something that had been promised for years. I remember the botched withdrawal from Vietnam, also promised for many years. The trick seems to be not beginning wars as wars are money making machines and difficult t…

UK is not sending more ships to the Red Sea: [image] No plans to send additional assets to patrol Red Sea, UK Government says In December, Britain joined a US-led international coalition to protect commercial shipping sailing through the region.

Typical. Prosperity Guardian just about sums it up, guarding prosperity instead of Seafarers.

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Kennebec_Captain January 5, 2024, 1:03pm 103

I’ve mentioned Col John Boyd on here before here. (the OODA Loop). The book about Boyd, “The Mind of War” mentions William LInd. I started another thread that links to an article by Lind: William Lind on Insurgencies and 4GW

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