Keep in mind that 100% of the base infrastructure that we built in the Middle East over the last 40 years served one purpose and that was to provide C4I for our forces in the long war against Iraq and Iran. With the upcoming demise of Iran there will be no need for the enormous infrastructure and the Middle East Force can return to being a pair of frigate/destroyer type ships and perhaps a flag ship although that sounds positively medieval in the 21st century. CENTCOM remains at MacDill.
We really don't need that vast 3 star ensemble in Bahrain. The old Middle East Force worked just fine as a 2 star command with a few dozen staff back in 1985 and there is no reason it cannot return to that size and shape when we're done with Iran. The Combined Air Ops Center in Qatar can shut down and the various players can go home and absolutely everything we operate in Saudi Arabia can be shut down.
I'm reminded of C6F who had a scroll running on their homepage for years that showed that back in 1949 Sixth Fleet staff were tasked with oversight for 12,000 aircraft movements and 2000 ship/vessel movements per day and the staff consisted of a couple of dozen officers. In 2000 the Sixth Fleet staff provided C2 for 40 aircraft and 2 ship movements per day and that staff had grown to over 7,000.
All of NATO has demonstrated that it no longer serves any useful purpose and we can go ahead and expand our reductions to all of Western Europe and there really is no need to build unprotected infrastructure in the new frontline countries of Eastern Europe. All of that stuff can be shelved or disposed of and the money saved returned to the people or to to develop serious infinite repeaters that can destroy drones at all altitudes ranging from 1 foot to 90,000.
The money to design and build a Bolo has to come from somewhere.......*
And we're going to need them everywhere as people catch on to just how terribly lethal drones are, how anonymous they can be and how they can appear out of nowhere to attack every kind of infrastructure ranging from oil and gas lines, production fields, shipping and transportation and of course every level of government.
Russia really opened a can of worms when they went after Ukraine. The world has no idea how everything they know/knew about warfare and getting even changed over night.
*the discerning reader will closely examine the link.
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Bolo assumes we don't just collapse the global economy. All that fancy weapons development requires a functional economy.
Or maybe AI will just do it for the "Good of Mankind"...
A far better idea is to follow the words of our founding fathers and have a Department of Defense and avoid entangling alliances.
I welcome anyone who can show America's SUCCESSFUL efforts in Nation Building or success in Regime Change that didn't bite us in the ass a decade later.
I had forgotten that little piece on BOLO's. Ah memories. Perhaps Micheal would stop thinking in 10 year spans and think of multiple decades instead, The USA's most successful story is Japan.
Japan? You mean the island nation we have (google) SNIP
Approximately 60,000 U.S. military personnel are stationed in Japan, supported by tens of thousands of dependents, civilian employees, and Japanese workers.
Active-Duty Personnel
The United States Forces Japan (USFJ) oversees around 60,000 active-duty servicemembers from the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Space Force stationed across Japan. This makes Japan one of the countries with the largest U.S. overseas troop presence. The personnel are distributed among 15 major bases, with the largest concentration on the island of Okinawa, including Kadena Air Base, Torii Station, and Camp Zama.
That looks like an ONGOING dependency rather than an "Allied Power" that can stand alone without a US Garrison.
Some people are resisting thinking about the actual killer bots and the rise of nationalism combined with the natural desire to exterminate “the other.” The people of the EU once had a say in running their countries, their economies, their immigration and energy policies, etc, and now it seems all that was taken away from them.
Remember Gavrilo Princip?
Please note the following from Grok in reference to the link at the end of the BOLO article (http://www.webscription.net/)
Grok: https://grok.com/c/75b5183e-d95b-4264-964b-ed1f09fbbdc9?rid=4baaf2bb-d0a7-431e-822a-09e53350c267
Not only will bringing the troops home save the cost of operating them overseas, they can get rid of the money-sucking contractors like LM and Raytheon who make billions supporting bases all over Europe.
I was re-reading it.
I didn't notice your tongue was in your cheek the first time 'round.
The web page I linked to also includes all the free books Baen used to release with new books for the first 10 years or so of their existence. They are really good books and DRM free.
As the meme states "Not sure if serious".... As for what things will look like after this chivaree, who knows. There's a good chance Iran wins. Because as long as the fanatical muzzies retain power they have won. It's that simple.
I was JCSE for 12 years and knew CENTCOM at MacDill fairly well by the time I left. What was in the news was always a side spin on what was really happening. JCSE provided me with some unique training. I was Air Force. I have had 2 supervisors that were Marines that "helped" me shoot rifle and handgun better.
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