We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
⚓️ 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 2023 EOY review of commissioned surface combatants by both numbers & tonnage of USN vs. PLA/N.
🔶️ The USN numbers in the past 5 years are 2/3 LCS. Based on decommissioning rate of LCS, some of these won't be in the 2024 EOY review
🔶️ Avg age of surface combatants still in commission by year, USN v. PLA/N. We're twice as old.
🔶️ PLA/N has built nearly 3x the number of USN surface combatants in the past decade.
🔶️ Population pyramid of the two fleet's surface combatants by year commissioned (of those that haven't been decommissioned)
🔶️ Total tonnage of USN Surface Combatants commissioned 1987-2023 by class (still active)
🔶️ This will look worse next year as more CGs and LCSs are decommissioned.
🔶️ Total tonnage of PLA/N commissioned surface combatants since 1987, still in commission.
🔶️ Comparative tonnage of surface combatants commissioned since 1985 that are still active.
🔶️ Comparative total tonnage of commissioned surface combatants since 1985, still active.
🔶️ comparative of total tonnes of surface combatants commissioned in past 10 years that are still active.
📎 Claude Berube
New fencing now being deployed in Australia. Wonder why people now need that?
Japan's 10Y Bond Yield chart is something for the history books.
This is definitely not normal. https://t.co/YlD8kOFh3f
(@TheKobeissiLetter)
🇺🇸⚡️🇮🇷- Map of the US-Iranian missile/drone exchanges from August 30th- September 1st
🇺🇸❌🇮🇷- August 30th confirmed US impacts: Larak Island.
➡️September 1st confirmed US impacts: Bandar Abbas, Chabahar, Sirik, Konarak, Bandar-e-Jask, Kuhestak, and Qeshm Island.
➡️September 1st unconfirmed US impacts: Minab.
🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇯🇴- August 30th confirmed Iranian impacts: A hanger at the Muwaffaq Al- Salti airbase in Jordan.
➡️August 30th unconfirmed Iranian impacts: The King Hussein airbase in Jordan.
➡️September 1st confirmed Iranian impacts: Aqaba (presumably Camp Titin) in Jordan.
🇮🇷❌🌞- Iranian drones have also struck the Erbil airport in Kurdish Iraq today on September 2nd.
@GeoPWatch
🇮🇱 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The Jerusalem Post suggests Americans need “a federally administered debt-forgiveness enlistment program…” for the Iran war.
The CIA has now confirmed what the strike data was already reflecting. First, Iran's military capacity did not collapse. Second, air power resolved neither the institutional problem nor the negotiating problem. Third, the Pentagon still lacks the tools needed to end the war with the Islamic Republic.
Recruitment numbers are running below what a ground invasion of Iran would require. Estimates for a successful ground campaign against Iran's 31 provincial commands and its Mosaic Defense Doctrine run between 750 thousand and 1.5 million American troops. The current active US Army stands at roughly 452 thousand. The math does not work, obviously.
The average American aged 18 to 34 carries more than $40 thousand in non-mortgage debt across student loans, credit card balances, auto loans, and personal loans, with some estimates go as high...
