Craig Hooper
@craighooper.bsky.social
An occasional navalist, maritime geek and national security gadfly. Paying attention to overlooked things.
Idly wondering just how fast the USS Ford’s transit from the Med to the Caribbean is gonna be.
November 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Idly wondering just how fast the USS Ford’s transit from the Med to the Caribbean is gonna be.
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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
October 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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.
the whole discussion is worth watching, but @joecirin.bsky.social really blew me away with his candor.
October 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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.
BREAKING: CDC is apparently reversing many of its layoffs. Letters seen by NPR indicate that many employees working with infectious diseases have had their RIFs revoked.
October 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This is a quiet reminder that the EIS Program was something of a biodefense program when founded.
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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.
First, we find a big boat.
Second? We get it stuck in a canal.
October 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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.
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.
October 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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.
October 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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.
September 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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?
September 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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.
September 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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.…
September 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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.…
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'this actually doesn't suck' leads directly to the conclusion that there needs to be a massive, civilian CCC-style public works program
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
August 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
'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?
April 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Anybody taking odds on if we trip a stock market circuit breaker today?
What happened to the Shipbuilding Executive Orders guys?
April 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
What happened to the Shipbuilding Executive Orders guys?
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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.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
March 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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.
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.
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.
Apparently Trump is making noises about invading Afghanistan again.
February 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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.
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?
February 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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.
February 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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...
February 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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.
February 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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?
February 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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?
February 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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 a lot of administrative and service bloat in higher ed, and we could all do with far fewer deans/administrators.
February 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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 a lot of administrative and service bloat in higher ed, and we could all do with far fewer deans/administrators.