defense

Moving through the ranks of military activity including infrastructure, wars, our commander in chief and the nucleur arms race.

What the Media Isn't Telling Us About the Nvidia Scandal
When Nvidia’s board of directors forced out co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang on November 12, 2026, mainstream headlines immediately seized on the salacious details. Television panels and front-page stories framed the downfall of Silicon Valley’s most celebrated executive as a classic tale of personal hubris: a married tech titan undone by two extramarital affairs—one with Nvidia healthcare executive Kimberly Powell, and another with Alice Huang, a Singapore-based businesswoman whom U.S. intelligence officials suspect of working for Beijing.
By Elliott J. Schuchardtabout 6 hours ago in The Swamp
How an Overvalued Dollar Sank U.S. Naval Power
At the close of World War II, the United States possessed the most formidable maritime industrial base in human history. During the war, the United States launched thousands of vessels that secured global trade routes and projected power across every ocean. Today, that industrial might has virtually vanished. While East Asian shipbuilders—specifically China, South Korea, and Japan—have surged to dominate the seas, American shipbuilding has withered into a fraction of a percent of global output.
By Elliott J. Schuchardtabout 22 hours ago in The Swamp
The private militia that grant states plausible deniability
Your life is like a schedule, you run to meet the bills, no one's awake to tell you... life kills! Words I first heard as my life was reaching the final furlong on the first of the rank of treadmills we’re thrust upon to keep us from questioning the fruitlessness of our struggle to survive... until the curtain finally comes down somewhere on the retirement stage.
By Steve Harrison3 days ago in The Swamp
U.S. Army Engineer Equipment Readiness
By the end of 2027, the United States Army will only have 56 Active-Duty Combat Engineer Companies spread out across its force. Of those 56, 34 are designated as Combat Engineer Company – Armored (CEC-A), which makes up 60% of the Engineer Regiment’s combat capability.[1] What is common across all of these CEC-As and various National Guard Engineer Companies is that they possess Assault Breacher Vehicles (ABVs) and Joint Assault Bridges (JABs), which serve as the primary breaching assets for armored brigades. Each CEC-A is assigned three ABVs and four JABs; however, across the Army, they are plagued with maintenance issues that lead to readiness concerns. The current engineer breaching vehicles have systematically low operational readiness (OR) rates due to high op-tempo, poor supply chains, and extreme lack of expert knowledge; and fixing these issues cannot be solved at the individual unit level but rather from the top of the Engineer Regiment.
By Sam Shroyer5 days ago in The Swamp
THE CURRENT AND FUTURE STATE OF THE U.S. ARMY’S C-UAS CAPABILITIES
Anyone who follows world news and online media has seen videos over the last three to four years of mounted and dismounted soldiers being killed or wounded by various drones. In 2022, The Russia-Ukraine Conflict became the first place for widespread use of drone warfare. Then the Israel-Hezbollah Conflict showed the world that these technologies and tactics are not isolated to one war but are now the norm for modern combat. Most recently, the heightened tensions between the United States and Iran have proven that even the U.S. Military is vulnerable to simple and sophisticated drones.[1] This presents the question, does the United States Army currently have the capabilities to combat hostile drones and are our protection and defensive innovations reactive or proactive to what we are seeing across the globe in these current events?
By Sam Shroyer7 days ago in The Swamp
Lame Duck or...?
So we are still waiting on the senate races in Mississippi (who would have ever thought, but the vote difference there at the moment is 65, yes, sixty-five, leaning the Democratic candidate) and Alaska (might take awhile because of the state's ranking system of voting), but the Dems have won big last night, in both the Senate and the House races. JD Vance sourly pointed out that the GOP has lost the Senate for the next six years.
By Lana V Lynx11 days ago in The Swamp
The Figurehead and the Regency: Who Is Really Running the Government?
The President Was Never the Whole Government November 3, 1986. A Lebanese magazine exposed a secret operation involving the United States, Iran, and the sale of American weapons; what followed became one of the defining scandals of Ronald Reagan’s presidency of Iran-Contra.
By Cadma12 days ago in The Swamp
The Night They Burned Limoges City Hall
Limoges City Hall was built in 1883. By 2026 it was 143 years old. It had survived two world wars and was a listed historic monument.
By Jin14 days ago in The Swamp
Five Days at the Podium: The Shortest White House Press Secretary Tenure in Memory
Katie Zacharia did not move to Washington. She had not even packed. Five days after President Trump handed her the job of White House press secretary in an Oval Office meeting, she was standing on the South Lawn while Marine One idled behind her, listening to the president of the United States tell reporters that he had advised her to “reconsider” her career choice. “Honestly, if I were you, I’d reconsider,” Trump said, recounting the conversation. “Katie, do you need this? I don’t think you need this.” Hours later, the White House confirmed she was “transitioning into a new role.” She had started on Monday. It was Friday. Anthony Scaramucci’s eleven-day record, the benchmark of Trump-world humiliation for nearly a decade, had been cut in half.
By Jin24 days ago in The Swamp
When a Society Stops Replacing Itself: The Consequences of Declining Birthrates and the Path Toward Recovery. AI-Generated.
Introduction: The Consequences of a Changing Population In Part One, we examined the changes that reshaped American family formation across more than sixty years. From the expansion of contraception and changing marriage laws to rising living expenses, declining religious participation, increasing chronic illness, digital socialization, changing relationships between men and women, and the growing complexity of raising children, numerous developments have contributed to the conditions surrounding modern reproduction.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast26 days ago in The Swamp
Saudi Arabia Paid Billions for Protection. Then a Missile Hit Aramco’s Headquarters.
On the night of October 13, 2026, a ballistic missile struck an administrative building in Saudi Aramco’s headquarters compound. The fire began on the ninth floor of the south wing and spread between the sixth and tenth floors. Reuters, citing three people familiar with the matter, said the top three floors were severely damaged. That area includes the office of CEO Amin Nasser. Parts of the ceilings collapsed. Doors and windows were blown out. The fire burned until the early hours of October 14.
By Jinabout a month ago in The Swamp
Japan Just Changed One Word. That Word Could Reshape Asia’s Balance of Power.
I. What a Single Word Means On October 7, 2026, Kyodo News published an exclusive. Several people familiar with the matter said the Japanese government is considering adding language about “discussing the introduction of nuclear-powered submarines by the Self-Defense Forces” to the three security documents it plans to revise this year.
By Jinabout a month ago in The Swamp