Tonight some guy at In and Out is closing up shop and finds a scale recreation of the park behind the dumbsters

Excellent review Blake. I’ve been making my way through the novel, and your observations are spot on. More people in the DoD should be making FicInt part of their regular reading.

They serve as a stark reminder that deterrence value isn’t determined by us, but in the minds of our competitors. They will eventually tell us if they are deterred through their actions.

Unfortunately no Wegmans on Capitol Hill, but I see Three Notch’d in a lot of places, maybe I’ll run across it. This offering from Solace isn’t bad.

I need to be on the lookout for that.

The US retains an advantage (for now) in innovation. We need a national strategy (not a security strategy) that identifies this and maps the ways this innovation must feed into our industrial base and provide for a human capital strategy to support it. We cannot simply spend our way out of this.

I mean, MCCDC and DC CD&I is always dual hatted, and Heckl was probably a close second to Smith to become Commandant if previous trends had continued. Not that I’m defending Tuberville, but this isn’t the worst result of his Tom foolery.

Fantastic article! We have a serious human capital ceiling in all of our current maritime efforts, perhaps most acutely in sub production. That ceiling can be raised, but with great effort. Even if we had the $1.3T it takes to execute our NDS, we couldn’t spend it.

Yep. We can make all the commitments and promises we want - still requires a defense industrial base, including the necessary human capital, to execute. I’m not sure we have it.