We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
🪖 🇮🇱 🇮🇱 "The IDF is preparing for the enormous and complex challenge of manpower management in accordance with needs that have not been the same since the establishment of the state. As has been published here on several occasions, the era of striving for a small, lethal and cheap army is over The regular service and the reduction of the load on the reserve system: the number of casualties and the wounded in the various arenas and the preparation for possible and immediate scenarios, led the IDF to present last night (Wednesday) a comprehensive plan to increase its force orders at all levels
🔶️ Of the 564 casualties whose names have been released so far, 55 percent are reservists. The IDF has treated approximately 13,000 wounded soldiers so far in the war - 2,830 of them were hospitalized, and the rest were released from the hospitals after a short treatment. These figures create a large gap in the number of fighters and it needs to be filled immediately.
🔶️ The army wants to increase the number of troops in the fighting battalions by 120 percent in the coming year, with one of the urgent tasks being to train commanders, to replace those who have fallen. One of the solutions launched is the release of regular soldiers directly into the reserves, while activating Order 8. But the strategic move that will be valid even after 2024 is the extension of regular service to three years among men and women in positions that until now required two years and eight months of service
🔶️ The age of release from reserve service will also increase from 40 to 46 for soldiers, and to 50 for officers. The age of volunteering will be extended to 66. In light of the unprecedented volunteering figures in the war - 50 thousand male and female volunteers - this is a significant addition
🔶️ Another change is in the reserve law. Today, reserve servicemen and women are called for operational employment once every three years. After the change in the law, the dosage will increase for operational employment per year. The three-year model stated that a reservist would do one to two weeks of training a year and 21 days of operational employment the following year and the following year a short training of a few days. In total the average was ten days a year. From now on the number will jump fourfold, and of course also at a higher risk, because the arenas are hotter.
🔶️ In the framework of the discrimination between parts of Israeli society, the issue of reserves is of particular critical importance. In the last four months, hundreds of thousands of people were recruited - 287 thousand during the peak period. No less than 40 thousand women (!) were part of the largest reserve recruitment in the country's history. Each and every one of them shouted "I am here" and then "after me" and together they gave the bleeding country inspiration and spirit. Some jumped without waiting for orders, and many did not agree to hear about returning home before the missions were completed
🔶️ However, the problem is deeper and mainly value in essence. The shortages in the ranks of the regular army, for example, and the lack of news on the issue of equality in the burden, are leading to moves that are already eroding the high motivation for combat service, which appeared - in a big way - from the beginning of the war. Early recruitment of prep school students, for example, while the ultra-orthodox youth are left out of the picture. Now it cannot be claimed that "the army does not need them". He needs them all"
Yanis Varoufakis (former Greek Minister of Finance) describes AI as a new form of capital that produces not goods, but behavioral modification. This is achieved by engineering perceptions.
The answers provided by ChatGPT, or the images rendered by StableDiffusion — as these increasingly inform our perceptions, they in turn define the reality we experience.
This is what makes AI so powerful — he who controls the AI, defines the reality of tomorrow.
⚡️🇺🇸 Some more things coming out for the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Under the preliminary drafts of the bill, the USAF is requesting a release of $57,000,000 USD ($57.0 Million) to retire all remaining 162 A-10 Thunderbolt IIs in current service. Apart of the 2023 NDAA, there was a clause for a few million dollars to be released every so often to gradually retire the (then) 250 airframes by 2034; however due to the push by the Dept of Defense to ‘shed’ obsolete or obsolescent airframes that cannot be overhauled or upgraded further without a whole new airframe, it appears the USAF wants to retire all 162 remaining A-10s by the end of 2026.
The USAF plans to fully divest the 340-total remaining A-10s entirely, including those that currently serve in a handful of Air National Guard units in some states; which will be replaced by F-15EX Eagle IIs (like what is already happening with the Michigan State Air National Guard’s A-10s), or F-35A/Bs.
Included ...
My older sister lives in the country in between Velma Oklahoma and Duncan Oklahoma near the Fuqua Lake area, this story was told by a rural mail delivery woman who delivers the mail in the country.
The incident happened while she was on her route, when she came upon to the mailbox a male Chinese nation came out brandishing a, AK-47 rifle being very hostile,
I don't know if he pointed it at her since it is against the law to do so but she was terrified and said she was never going back and that the location that had a guard tower. Was the sheriff department notified, I don't know, did she notify her supervisor, don't know. But word is from the country folk who live in the area they have seen the guard tower at the pot place;
I refuse to call it a farm because it is an insult to farmers.
And yes she was traumatized by that ordeal
