The biggest reason Saudi Patriot batteries are as effective as they currently are against Iranian-Houthi drones & ballistic missiles is US Contractor Logistical Support.

My old agency administers those contracts.

Declaring it was "impossible" to equip Ukraine
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with Patriot batteries quickly is playing a game of "Pretending not to know" what is happening in Saudi Arabia right now.

This is a favorite game of the De-escalation faction in the Biden Administration.

You can mark everyone who said it was 'logistically impossible' to do
2/
...so on Twitter as either a fool or tool for that DC faction.

In fact, such Patriot contractor logistical support is being used in NATO right now.

See:



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The Biden Administration De-escalation faction already d--ned the Biden Administration with the US public before Mariupol was gassed today.

cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-r…

5/
National Security Advisor Sullivan denial of the 'NATO 55' Mig-29's lead directly to today's events.

And the Democratic Party will pay for Sullivan's Hubris in the Senate come November 2022

6/
Pres Biden needs to fire that fool & the rest of the De-escalation clique and send those Mig-29's right now, or Biden owns this personally.

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Apr 12
This is going to be a long thread🧵on the ongoing collapse of the Russian Army and how it is shaping events in Ukraine, including the recent Russian chemical attack on Azov troops in Mariupol.

Saddle up, it's going to be a wild ride.


1/
James Dunnigan's Strategy page -dot- com site put out a long analytical piece on Russian contract soldiers, conscription & the fading away of the Russian Army as a demographic consequence of the aging out of the
strategypage.com/htmw/htwin/202…
2/
...ethnic white Russian population inside the Russian Federation for the Ukraine War.

In a whole lot of words, Dunnigan lays out the current military power implications for the Russian Army of something @kamilkazani spoke to in the tweet here:


3/
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Apr 11
This is the best video I have seen out of Ukraine demonstrating the military phenomena of "Target fixation."

The UA Igla operator doesn't move a hair when the blast wave from the dropped Russian bomb rolls over his #2.

He tuned out all other reality to make the shot.

1/
Then after the missile departs, #1 moved his assets out of the way to avoid counter fire.

This is why cohesive teams are better on the battlefield.

Other servicemen can keep 'situational awareness' while a heavy weapons operator takes his shot.

Look at the #2's head
2/
It is swiveling around looking for threats while the Igla #1 is hunting a Russian aircraft.

Doing this consistently & effectively in combat takes good leadership & training.

All that 'military stuff' mindlessly drilling these actions over and over again is what a
3/
Read 4 tweets
Apr 11
Alright folks, this is going to be a long logistical thread🧵 where I will try and make the case that that advanced US weapons systems like the Patriot SAM, M1A1 Abrams tank & F-16 with AMRAAM can be both rapidly transitioned & effectively used by Ukraine.

It won't be cheap
1/
...to do.

I going to walk you all through about 37 years of US military history (1985-2022) with an emphasis on the concepts of "Contractor Logistical Support" and "Private Military Corporations" with a bit of history involving the personnel policies of Claire Chennault's
2/
Flying Tigers thrown in.

Trust me, it's needed.😉

In the late Cold War year of 1985 LOGCAP or “Logistics Civil Augmentation Program” was established primarily to pre-plan for contingencies and to “leverage existing civilian resources.”

Basically, we are talking a contract
3/
Read 24 tweets
Apr 10
Western Intelligence 🧵

There were eight years of US, UK & other NATO training teams in Ukraine between 2014 & 2022 teaching mechanized logistics as well as modern anti-Russian tactics.👇
1/
So there were literally hundreds of NATO servicemen who could have been debriefed about Ukrainian Armed Forces effectiveness and what Ukrainians know about Russian logistics.

2/
Given the US DoD computer model predicting the outcome of a Russian invasion of Ukraine -- USING THE MOST UP TO DATE INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATES -- predicted Ukraine would fall in 72-to-96 hours.

Do you think anyone from the US CIA, DIA, US Military intelligence or their NATO
3/
Read 12 tweets
Apr 10
Alright boys and girls, we are going for another wild ride in modern logistics & intelligence🧵

I want you to pay attention to the Russian artillery ammo & it's wood box packaging because I'm going to visually explain why it shows pre-mechanized logistics of the early 1930's
1/
The twitter denizen @thinkdefence has a wonderful blog site that explains lots of things logistical, combat engineering & UK military procurement.

One of his efforts is a multi-part post on modern mechanized logistics with many photos.
2/
thinkdefence.co.uk/2014/11/boxes-…
To quote him:

"...it is preferred to handle stores as ‘unit loads’ in the most appropriate box or container on a sliding scale, for example;

Ammunition box >> Multiple ammunition boxes on a pallet >> Multiple ammunition boxes on multiple pallets inside an ISO container"

3/
Read 20 tweets
Apr 10
If you have not read this ISW 🧵thread today you need to.

I've a comments to add for my own🧵.

ISW Short form:

The Russian military has hit the trained manpower wall until well into June 2022.👇
A major "proxy" supporting this ISW thread surfaced today.

Three Russian Army lieutenants were killed acting as the driver, gunner and commander of a BMP infantry combat vehicle.

See👇
2/
Lieutenants normally act as commanders of three vehicle platoons of Tanks, BMP's or BTR's.

That is, one commander for 3 vehicles and 8-to-19 men.

So, three lieutenants would command all the Mechanized Platoons of a Motor Rifle Company.
3/
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