THE SECOND WAVE

 We are closing in on the launch of the 2nd Wave and I wonder if it will be delivered as much by our aircraft as by our long range attack drones. We have had, after all, something like 6 months now to figure out how to mass produce something so basic and easy that everyone except Palestinians can make them in their back yard so we must have several hundred thousand armed suicide drones ready to hit targets all along the Front in Iran.

I'll be curious to see if any wander off course and take out a few objectives in Terrorland and see what, if anything, is worth actually blowing up in Yemen. I mean, if it was me, I'd probably go for a wipeout on their airports, seaports and C4I because the one thing we all know is that they have a lot of C4I. It is demanded by the very nature of the war they are waging.

It will be interesting to see if these drones are all being mass produced in the Kingdom and this is why NOEM collapsed so dramatically overnight. All the resources for that mega project were diverted to building the factories and facilities to build hundreds of thousands of drones. Yes, yes, that's perfectly believable. There is a problem of course. It is one we faced a long time ago.

Conversation in the targeting facility in Taif:

"We need to hit that with another 120 attack drones!"

"Why for God's sake do we need to hit it again? We already hit with 5381 drones!"

"We need to be sure! And, we have 200,000 of the damned things, we need to use them."

 

You remember the conversation in Cheyenne Mountain back in the day, it ran like this:

 

"We need to hit Sverdlosk with another nuke."

"Why for Christ's sake, we already hit it with 6 of the damned things."

"We have 67,000 of the damned things and orders from the top are to use them all!"

 

Back when we were still guided by INCSEA and a suspicion that the Big War might just not happen we still measured the dead and wounded by that war in the hundreds of thousands. Red Storm Rising was a realistic appraisal of some of the costs of that war if it ever came off and here we are engaged in a damned near full blown war with rival powers and the restless natives are broken-hearted, bitter and angry that we have lost almost as many soldiers to this war as we might lose in a bus accident.

 

The forces have rearmed and replenished and it is coming time to close in to the coast and launch another salvo. Of course, now that the Space Command has been heard from and announced the weaponization of space I'm wondering what we're going to hit with the Rods from God and as the scientist said, 'now we'll see if the damned things work!'