🇺🇸 🇲🇽 📝 In all seriousness, an "Iron Dome" is the future of the US. Regardless of what your politics are, it would simply be a product of the time we live in. | CIG #commentary

🔶️ Current wars, terrorism and crime are showing off new weapon capabilities. It is only a matter of time until a hostile entity decides to make spectacle out of harassing the continental United States either with symbolic or saturation drone attacks. No worse case scenario with China/Russia necessary, it doesn't require state actors. And if it did escalate to that point, a missile shield wouldn't block massed hypersonic ICBMs entering from outer space, especially not an Iron-Dome like shield which is designed for "short-range" projectiles launched approximately 43 miles out. A US Iron Dome would be specifically for asymmetrical drone threats.

🔶️ The cartels in Mexico already commit mass murders and assassinations with drones. They've already used drones passively against the US border patrol for a decade. How long until they progress towards fixed wing FPV projectiles? In fact, moving hardware or at least blueprints for such designs would provoke unilateral US actions without warning. The precedent of this would be the 1914 US invasion of Mexico's Vera Cruz port awaiting alledged German arms shipments for possible use against the US during WWI.

🔶️ Rival powers opposed to the US have months, even years of experience with the US systems that would be used for interceptions. Simply by virtue of wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. The lesson they learned is that even if all drones are intercepted, they're still able to deny key chokepoints. Possibly sealanes in proximity to the US, perhaps the Panama Canal, the Gulf of Mexico route to the Mississippi, St. Lawrence River/Gulf with submerged drones, cargo ships with discreetly containerized launch systems? Again, they may seek a symbolic strike even in uninhabited areas to play into fears of the general public rather than successfully carrying out a mass atrocity against civilians.

🔶️ Aside from rival powers, keep in mind there's an entire Global South of militant factions with axes to grind against the US that may be supplied and guided by hostile powers. This is a very real emerging threat that should be taken into account in the coming years. The proof is in the combat medals awarded to sailors in the Red Sea. This is not strictly just for the US, all developed and developing nations may find themselves in a global arms race to protect themselves from new militantism.

🔶️ So, for a million-dollar, perhaps billion-dollar idea, it's not a bad one. The big R&D game right now is finding ways to counter drone swarms. The main concern should be, will it work? Nobody can say for sure.

🏹 🛡 📝 The possible low energy future we face puts an army of metal into question. Regardless of technological innovation, drone warfare still carries immense resource strains. | CIG #commentary

🔶️ There are material & energy bottlenecks to drones. AI control centers would put a massive strain that maybe only China could somewhat manage. The material for drones comes from Turkey and Africa. And then batteries are from all over the third world. Powering up said batteries and said drones is also key. Going to need to solve that as well. For those who claim we can replace the military with drones, we'd have to precede this with immense mining operations for the material itself. We would have to find energy solutions as well.

🔶️ Dedicated drone units are absolutely required. Every squad needs a drone for an optics triad for surveillance, thermal, night vision. But I think they are greatly misunderstood as a wonder weapon. They're great for close proximity to vehicles. But controllers will be hit by radiation seeking missiles. Control centers and AI centers can be strategically bombed. They're also not these great strategic force multipliers until you defer them the main role as guided munitions. Rather than quadcopters you'll see more jets and rockets. Artillery in the form of drones etc. Inherent weakness is that the signal can be cut because they're indirectly controlled. Speed is a factor, aside from racing drones in close proximity and such, most can be intercepted with WWII tier AA. Rain is still still a factor, fog/clouds etc, drones are also hot in the sky. Ground drones are especially vulnerable with connection concerns. Sea drones may lose connection after collisions at sea. Saturation fire to flatten grid coordinates after reconnaissance is also a must.

🔶️ Drones are essentially guided munitions and optics. They're not infantry for now, not the same as an armored brigade or even an air wing. The machine gun and the tank themselves supplemented rather than replaced everything. Counter measures constantly evolve and reshape warfare. Just look at how GWOT-styled warfare retroactively morphed into massed industrial wars. Artillery was seen as antiquated and now it has returned as the king of battle for now, inflicting the most casualties by far. IFVs/AFVs have grown in prominence as a required tool to move troops around the battlefield. Defense in depth and conventional infantry have also returned. Tanks have returned to the role of WWII as infantry support field guns rather than maneuver warfare duels. Although there is still a niche for an occasional maneuver battle with MBTs during breakthroughs.

🔶️ One may draw Ukraine as teaching the wrong conclusions, however many of these are replicated in concurrent wars and the planning for future wars. The general fundamentals remain the same, the context simply changes. GWOT-styled wars were an exceptional time. Warfare itself has regressed to mean, so to speak.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Riot police have assembled at UCLA, facing off pro-Palestine demonstrators on campus. Just earlier, pro-Palestine protesters reinforced their position with plywood and bike racks after an attack by pro-Israel agitators.

— tl;dr Jewish Right-wing Monarchists are fighting inside American universities against Pro-Palestine protesters

🎓 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 The large law enforcement presence on UCLA's campus is comprised of several agencies to perform specific tasks to clear the encampment, according to a source familiar with law enforcement plans. - CNN

📎 AZ Intel

✝️ 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Tucker Carlson on House Antisemitism Bill H.R. 6090 banning Christian noscripture as hate speech:

Yes. The New Testament

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Saudi Arabia Steps Up Arrests Of Those Attacking Israel Online

⚫️ Saudi Arabia has stepped up the arrest of citizens for social-media posts related to the Israel-Hamas war as the kingdom signals a readiness to agree to diplomatic relations with the Jewish state — if it commits to Palestinian statehood.

⚫️ Detaining people for online comments — even those more than 10 years old — and restrictions on free speech and political expression are the norm in Saudi Arabia.

⚫️ Yet the recent spate of arrests are motivated by security concerns specifically linked to the deadly Oct. 7 invasion of Israel by Hamas and its aftermath, according to Riyadh-based diplomats and human rights groups.

⚫️ The Saudi arrests for Gaza-related posts indicate Prince Mohammed’s regime will take a hard line against citizens not toeing the line when it comes to normalizing ties with Israel

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@the_national_times

🗳 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Here are the 21 Republicans lawmakers who voted against the bill to classify alleging Jewish involvement in Christ’s crucifixion as antisemitism.

🔶️ Among the GOP representatives who rejected the bill are Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar, Andy Biggs, Majorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie.

📎 AF Post

[English translation]

Footage of Hezbollah monitoring IOF soldiers located in supposedly hidden locations inside the colonies of northern occupied Palestine.

The exclusive footage shows scenes from targeting the Iron Dome batteries by: 1- Sending cheap rockets to activate the Iron Dome battery & locate it. 2- Destroy it using suicide drones.

The footage additionally shows Hezbollah monitoring Elbit Hermes drones violating the Lebanese airspace.

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