Stu Bradin’s Post

I would like to see what portion of the budget is being allocated to AI. My bet is that there is not much being bought.

The SOCOM budget has been frozen since 2019. Yep - you read that right! SOCOM has been asked to do more and they have not been funded to a level consistent with inflation and the growth of contingency operations. Every time SOCOM deploys forces without the resources they have to take funding from Training, Readiness and Force Modernization. That leads to a less trained force with poorly maintained and old equipment. Congress need to restore the $5B they have taken from SOCOM's budget.

Europe is moving in the right direction with transforming their armed forces. The real question is will their forces be used globally or only in the European theater.

Great story. Well done to the Navy SEAL Foundation for support this young man who values their support and is now giving back.

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GEOINT is having a huge impact on targeting in UKR. When will the Russian attack these satellites?

This is not a good thing. The AFRICOM CDR testified that ISIS has grown 10 times in the region. I know that we have declared victory in the CT fight but that is not reality. We need to figure out how to better engage African nations to better protect our homeland or we will have another 9/11.

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A lot of government officals are saying that there is a huge CT threat and things are bad. What we never hear is what they are doing to make it better. We have been kicked out of a lot of African countries but very little has been done to mitigate the loss of the partners.

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