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If Iran Is Responsible for Saudi Attack, So What? US Is Waging Undeclared War
The Saudis encouraged Trump to tear apart the nuclear deal The stunning success of Saturday’s drone attack on Saudi Arabia’s main oil export processing center has brought the Iran crisis to a new and...
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Saudi Arabia Won’t Attack Iran. But It May Pay Someone Else To
There is a longstanding joke told in the Middle East about Saudi Arabia’s reluctance to fight its own wars. “Saudi Arabia will fight until the last Pakistani,” the punchline goes, in reference to the...
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The Real Reason the US Is Staying in Afghanistan and a Peace Deal With the...
As someone who lived and worked at the field level in Afghanistan for six years (2008-14) implementing projects for the U.S. Agency for International Development, I am bemused by the fact that the...
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The US Just Blew Up 30 Innocent People in a London Restaurant, $500 Per Head...
A US official in the UK has indicated that he is “working with local authorities” and “examining the intelligence” that led to a drone strike late last week that took the lives of 30 customers at a...
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Escalating Costs Are Decimating the Empire’s Carrier Fleet
The carrier Ford’s construction costs seem way out of line even allowing for traditional first-in-class elevated costs. In fact, carrier costs seem to have been increasing over and above simple...
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US Military Knew the Saudi Invasion Would Fail and the Houthi Were a Valuable...
CENTCOM head McKenzie While it’s seems axiomatic that most Americans suffer from historical amnesia, that’s not necessarily true for the U.S. military. And as America and Iran were sprinting towards a...
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China Just Launched Its Huge And Incredibly Quickly Built Amphibious Assault...
Some five months after the first pictures emerged of its keel under construction, China has launched its first Type 075 landing helicopter dock amphibious assault ship, or LHD, at the Hudong-Zhonghua...
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The Houthi Audition to Be America’s Next Quagmire
Hussein Muhammad al-Houthi, a mid-level ground commander for the Ansar Allah, smiles enthusiastically as he enjoys tea with his trusted lieutenants in a ramshackle shop nestled in the ruins a bombed...
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Saudi Arabia Suffers Enormous Military Defeat on Yemen Border
Bin Salman’s “cakewalk” Personally I’m skeptical of the claimed extent of Houthi victory, 500 killed and wounded and 2000 captured Saudis seems fantastic, but there is enough here to confirm one...
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New Photos Point to Chinese Bomber Being Able to Carry Huge Anti-Ship...
Pictures have emerged confirming that the newest variant of China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force’s Xian H-6 bomber, the H-6N, does indeed have a semi-recessed area with a hard point for a very...
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Hundreds of Western Neo-Nazis Are Rotating Through Ukraine to Fight Empire’s...
“What Syria did for jihadists, Ukraine is doing for white supremacists” A new class of foreign fighter is on the move, flocking by the thousands to a war zone, either looking for adventure or hoping to...
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Houthi Claim the Devastating Victory Over Saudi Mercs Took Place in Saudi...
The Houthis are benefiting from a respite brought about by infighting between the Saudi-backed and UAE-backed factions in the south The battle actually took place late in August but the Houthi have...
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German Radar Maker Says It Easily Tracked F-35s Returning From Berlin Air...
Lockheed and the Air Force flew in a pair of F-35s but then kept them on the ground for the entire show In the illustrious history of the F-35 fighter jet, add a pony farm outside Berlin as the place...
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The Yemen Effect: US Air Force Moving Its Middle East Control Room From Qatar...
For 13 years, the U.S. has used a single building in this tiny Gulf state to command fighter jets, bombers, drones and other Air Force assets in a region that stretches from Northeast Africa through...
View ArticlePodcast: The Mounting Houthi Victories Over the Saudis
On FPF #403, I discuss some of the recent Houthi victories over Saudi Arabia. Saudi has been waging a brutal air and starvation war against Yemen for four years. The Houthi, likely, retaliated by major...
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China’s Anniversary Parade Debutes Game-Changing Weapons That Shred US...
The People’s Republic of China held a great parade (3h video, shorter version with comments) to celebrate the 70th anniversary of its founding. Some interesting new weapons were on display that are of...
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Four of the Biggest Revelations From China’s Massive 70th Anniversary...
The military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China was always going to be a grand spectacle. As photos from the preparations emerged online, it was clear that the...
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China’s High-Speed Drone Is Rocket-Powered and All About Doing What...
“Its H-6 carriers can also range far out to sea, launching the drone in a very remote location and allowing it sweep massive areas of the Pacific for American carrier strike groups” China’s big...
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Whistleblower Accuses Largest US Military Shipbuilder of Falsifying Tests on...
America’s largest military shipbuilding company has been accused of falsifying tests and certifications on stealth coatings of its submarines “that put American lives at risk,” according to a...
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Putin Drops a Bombshell: Russia Is Helping China Build a Ballistic Missile...
Editor’s note: This is absolutely good news. The more ability the Chinese have to correctly detect and track US missiles the less paranoid they have to be, and the less likely they are to launch in a...
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