Tom Shugart
Defense analyst, former submariner, pilot. @cnasdc Adjunct Senior Fellow. Founder, Archer Strategic Consulting. Opinions my own. RT=/=endorsement.
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Mr. Kagan, presumably after negative feedback, has now made a correction. IMO the correction makes even less sense, and twists the facts into a pretzel (putting the USSR on the Axi...
Wow, looks like the FAA has put out a Temporary Restricted Area off the NC/SC coast, surface to 60K feet and prohibiting all civil aircraft operations. This is pretty unusual, mayb...
Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but some of the facts that Robert Kagan uses to underpin his opinions here are just...wrong. https://t.co/UJh6x1Zcx4
The difference between the Chinese- & English-language faces of PRC state-owned enterprises never ceases to interest & amuse me. Here's the news section of the site for COMAC's new...
One of the things that surprised me working w/ the Columbia Class program was how much time the leadership spent working through GAO audits, which seemed near-continuous. I get tha...
Had a lovely visit today to the @CAF1957 Central Texas Wing today. The group maintains a number of WWII-era aircraft, most of them flyable. https://t.co/VJbudGcRyf
Some exciting imagery (at least, for PLA-watching nerds) out of the South China Sea. Just saw this image today of Woody Island, in the Paracel Islands of the SCS (h/t @nuwangzi) fr...
An exciting (to me) new report: Mike Dahm's "More China Ferry Tales", a comprehensive and highly detailed update on China's employment and exercising of dual-purpose civil-military...
Update: fresh @googleearth imagery of China's Huludao nuclear submarine shipyard (from 12/26/2022) provides further evidence that construction of a new, larger class of nuclear sub...
Got some fresh imagery (11-29-2022) of China's under-construction (and long-denied) naval base at Ream, Cambodia. Looks like lots of progress in previous months (6-2022 provided fo...
A nice holiday gift from @googleearth: remember the threatening (& sovereignty-infringing) exercises China held around Taiwan during Speaker Pelosi's visit? Well, looks like we got...
This article by Dr. Timothy Heath (of RAND) came out today and has been getting a bit of attention. A few thoughts, since part of it bears on a key area of interest for me - the cr...