Again, throwing Kyiv to the wolves in nothing more than a race to a Thanksgiving headline is profoundly wrong and, frankly, un-American.

Idly wondering just how fast the USS Ford’s transit from the Med to the Caribbean is gonna be.

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

I called this many many years ago. The entire industry became little more than an endless series of meaningless meetings in nice places where the participants looked up their noses of people who didn’t employ the latest and greatest nonproliferation terminology. It became old, fat and lazy.

This is a quiet reminder that the EIS Program was something of a biodefense program when founded.

I have a modest proposal to address the Bluesky toxicity crisis. First, we find a big boat. Second? We get it stuck in a canal.

With the news of Ben Harrison's departure, the entire Navy seems to be celebrating. Joyful texts, drinks everywhere. Never have seen anyone so universally hated, and his demise is just glorious.

If autonomy at sea is the future, then we need to get about testing and working on the problem at scale. If we don't figure out the management of large fleets of autonomous vessels, we...aren't doing it right.

Ok, I appreciated the ”Victory at Sea” callback and the Aluminum melts if it looks at a missile quip was legitimately funny.

Could we please just end one wayward procurement program? Just one? Even a little one? Please?

I did enjoy the peppy music on the DoD livestream.

I feel a great disturbance in the Pentagon’s officer billet structure…as if the long-held plans of dozens of detailers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.…

'this actually doesn't suck' leads directly to the conclusion that there needs to be a massive, civilian CCC-style public works program

Anybody taking odds on if we trip a stock market circuit breaker today?

What happened to the Shipbuilding Executive Orders guys?

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard. Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

I'm so old I remember when Pakistan and Russia shut down our various supply routes into Afghanistan. Russia and China would love to have an isolated American detachment they can cut off relatively at-will, and we can burn up our carriers to fly pointless air support missions again.

I dunno about Democratic strategy, but if you're in the midst of an outbreak of a disease that vaccines had exterminated from the United States, wouldn't it be a good time to put a little pressure on the Administration's anti-vaccine HHS Secretary?

It'll be interesting to see how the officer corps responds to the Pentagon's forthcoming purge. I'll be comparing it to the wailing and rending of garments that accompanied the Fat Leonard investigation.

Also, no de-minimus tariff implementation plans seem to be in evidence anywhere, leaving a big, giant hole in tariff collection and fentanyl smuggling efforts...

We're days away from Trump's third deadline on imposing and across-the-board 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico. But it's totally off the radar.

What's the over/under odds on the White House kicking the Mexico/Canada tariffs back another month?

What's the odds that the Kennedy Center is gonna be fitted out for boxing and MMA bouts?

As a former academic who had to contend with silly amounts of overhead (50-70%) on grants, I am ok slapping a limit on overhead rates. There's a lot of administrative and service bloat in higher ed, and we could all do with far fewer deans/administrators.

There's likely going to be an ugly phone call tomorrow and I'm betting we'll be talking about a Panama invasion all weekend long. www.forbes.com/sites/craigh...

Happy "I hope Trump is in a good mood at 3 when he calls Panama" day to all who celebrate.

There's likely going to be an ugly phone call tomorrow and I'm betting we'll be talking about a Panama invasion all weekend long. www.forbes.com/sites/craigh...

Wild how AFSCME is totally AWOL right now. See for yourself: www.afscme.org

Happy Panama Ultimatum and Let's Distract From Tariffs Day

Canada Tariff Biggest Threat To Great Lakes Since War Of 1812. www.forbes.com/sites/craigh...

Finally moving after three days in Lake Erie ice, kudos to whomever is responsible for changing the Cargo Ship Manitoulin's destination to "Cautious Optimism".

Anybody hearing anything about the Catholic Church--in something of a switch--mulling the prospect of denying certain DC policymakers communion services?

Big pickups are great, but, honestly, only cast iron wood stoves are built for weather like this.

If, over the next four years, government is to be worked through a series of interlinked National Emergency Declarations, what does that mean? That's been openly discussed in a lot of places but it somehow doesn't really trickle down to the newspapers for some reason...

It's worth asking--does somebody want an excuse to impose martial law, and if so, what would they get from it and how would they do it? Nobody is asking questions like that, and...I think somebody, someplace in the journalistic pantheon had better be asking about it. And darn soon, too.

At this point, I feel like certain folks are holding punches for tickets to some inaugural ball or something. I'm a virtual nobody, but I've rumbled out a few things--with confirmations-that are pretty darn freaky.

How do so many people in DC know some of the stuff that is set to happen in the next week....while so few reporters out here are reporting anything on it?

I remember how a lot of people laughed about Donald Trump's enthusiasm for, of all things, icebreakers. But it turns out the idea had legs, and the newly-crafted ICE Pact sets Trump up to build the icebreaker fleet he's wanted since 2017: www.forbes.com/sites/craigh...

I remember how a lot of people laughed about Donald Trump's enthusiasm for, of all things, icebreakers. But it turns out the idea had legs, and the newly-crafted ICE Pact sets Trump up to build the icebreaker fleet he's wanted since 2017: www.forbes.com/sites/craigh...

A few days ago I was in a Home Depot, where workers were gathered around, loudly and vigorously debating tariffs and the effect they will have on the economy, their employer and their jobs. Never have seen that before. The Democratic Party failed those people.

A big winner in the "Great Drone Panic of 2024" has gotta be Amtrak. Totally thrilled to not be flying through the panicked skies...

The U.S. Coast Guard has drafted a new aviation strategy. Is it just a rehash of old-think or will the always "do more with less" Service have the guts to ask for the air wing it needs--and deserves?

The U.S. Coast Guard has drafted a new aviation strategy. Is it just a rehash of old-think or will the always "do more with less" Service have the guts to ask for the air wing it needs--and deserves?

Get ready for more of this. And fewer opportunities to offload captured drug runners/migrants during Pacific patrols either....Gonna have some stinky helo hangars over the next couple of years here...

The next NSC is going to be an interesting place.

Where have I been? I've been working on an RFI. About ships. But there's more to come--lots of good maritime investigations in the 'cue for December!

We are gonna win tomorrow.