by Dave Patterson | Dec 27, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
In the category of woke that just won’t go away, the Marine Corps is taking time to fuzz up male-female distinctions. The warrior clan of A Few Good Men are struggling to adopt ways of addressing a few good women when aggregated with men. When most of us were...
by Dave Patterson | Aug 1, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
How did the US Navy leadership find itself navigating such troubled waters? First, there is a raging kerfuffle between America’s sea service and the Department of Defense (DOD) leadership over how many naval vessels America needs. One of the reasons for the lack of...
by Dave Patterson | Jul 23, 2022 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
Pentagon programs hunting down extremists should stop “immediately,” according to the Senate Armed Services Committee’s (SASC) FY2023 National Defense Authorization Act report. In a Biden military where woke programs and schemes focus on nearly every aspect of...
by Dave Patterson | Jul 7, 2022 | Articles, Exclusive Member, Military Affairs, Opinion
The current Pentagon regime is not shy about meddling in political dustups while at the same time often failing to accomplish what it is mandated by Congress to do. Such is the case with the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade contrasting with...
by Dave Patterson | Feb 27, 2022 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
With its recent “State of Competition within the Defense Industrial Base” study, the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (USD/A&S) has turned out a pointless status report. Furthermore, the data is dated and of...