US Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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So we will probably see changes to what I stated earlier:
US Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
So basically a Mogami 2.0 in this case. Honestly they shouldve just bought Mogamis to begin with.
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I would still place CENTCOM under EUCOM, so that AFRICOM and CENTCOM would fall under EUCOM's purview, transforming it into another super command within the American military structure.
There would be three main commands:
America (South, North, and Central America)
PACOM (All of the Indo-Pacific)
EUCOM (Europe, Africa, and the Middle East)
Several reports indicate Pentagon planners examined reducing the number of combatant commands from 11 to 8. One from December 2025 Washington Post would be:
| Current Commands | Possible Future Structure |
|---|---|
| NORTHCOM + SOUTHCOM | U.S. Americas Command ("Americom") |
| EUCOM + AFRICOM + CENTCOM | U.S. International Command |
| INDOPACOM/PACOM | Remains separate |
| SOCOM | Remains separate |
| STRATCOM | Remains separate |
| SPACECOM | Remains separate |
| CYBERCOM | Remains separate |
| TRANSCOM | Remains separate |
Lethe
Captain
In relation to USN SSN inventory requirements, folks here might appreciate the testimony of then recently retired Vice Admiral Albert J. Konetzni, formerly COMSUBPACOM, before the Projection Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, March 28th 2006. Specifically pages , , and .
The TL;DR of Konetzni's testimony:
The 1999 JCS Study calling for 62-76 SSNs by 2025 remains valid.
Your other studies suck because they work backwards from the available budget to justify a predetermined conclusion.
China is coming to eat us alive.
Build more 774s and stop retiring 688s early kthx.
The context for the discussion was the proposed increase in the rate of Virginia-class SSN procurement from one boat per year as it was at the time, to two boats per year from FY 2012. This increase was subsequently enacted from FY 2011, though a corresponding delivery rate of two boats per year has yet to be consistently achieved.
The TL;DR of Konetzni's testimony:
The 1999 JCS Study calling for 62-76 SSNs by 2025 remains valid.
Your other studies suck because they work backwards from the available budget to justify a predetermined conclusion.
China is coming to eat us alive.
Build more 774s and stop retiring 688s early kthx.
The context for the discussion was the proposed increase in the rate of Virginia-class SSN procurement from one boat per year as it was at the time, to two boats per year from FY 2012. This increase was subsequently enacted from FY 2011, though a corresponding delivery rate of two boats per year has yet to be consistently achieved.
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Oof. No wonder the sudden debacle with Anthropic.
To put it simply:
- Americas Command is basically "We shall secure our frontyard and backyard, Donroe Doctrine REEEEEEEE";
- Pacific Command is basically just "CHYNA!!!; and
- International Command is basically like 'Meh, whatever, not really that important (except maybe Israel)".
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Though, to be honest, while we do know that they are in some kind of IOTE service with the PLA (courtesy of the 9-3 Parade last year) - I think we do really need to start seeing those UADF-type and ULWF-type UCAVs pop up in numbers in at least several normal PLAAF and PLANAF airbases soon.
