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How did this get missed by the media?
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ABOARD THE AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT SHIP KEARSARGE IN NORFOLK, Va. — NATO and U.S. military leaders gathered at Joint Force Command Norfolk in Virginia on Thursday to celebrate full readiness of the first operational NATO headquarters in North America.
The new command will be responsible for the Atlantic and Arctic regions. NATO also has two other joint force commands — one in Brunssum, Netherlands (considered the heart of Europe), and another in Naples, Italy, in the Mediterranean region — U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Andrew Lewis noted at the ceremony aboard the American amphibious warship Kearsarge.
Lewis leads U.S. 2nd Fleet and the new command JFC Norfolk, both of which were stood up in recent years in response to increased Russian submarine activity in the Atlantic Ocean, increased military and commercial traffic in the Arctic, and other factors that have generated a renewed interest in securing the seaways between Europe and the United States.
Setting up a third joint force command in Virginia “creates a link between North America and Europe and helps to further develop the desired 360-degree approach for our collective defense and security. Joint Force Command Norfolk is the first operational-level NATO headquarters in North America and is the Atlantic advocate within the alliance, enhancing NATO’s readiness and responsiveness,” Lewis said.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley also spoke at the event, where he somberly described the effects of great power competition during the two world wars and said NATO and JFC Norfolk are responsible for ensuring that never happens again.
“It’s the mission of this command to fight the Battle of the Atlantic in the event of armed conflict,” Milley said in a 20-minute address at the ceremony. Lewis and his successors at JFC Norfolk “will be the admirals in charge of a ‘Battle for the Atlantic.’ … I would tell you that the survival of NATO, the success or failure in combat in a future war in Europe, would largely depend on the success or failure of this command.”
Milley is well versed in the impact of a great power competition, in no small part because his father served as a Navy corpsman alongside the Marines that landed on Iwo Jima. The top U.S. military office added that the U.S. and NATO must take actions now to avoid another world war from happening again.
“In my view, the world is entering a period of potential instability, as some nations — not all, but some — and clearly terrorist groups and perhaps some rogue actors are seeking to undermine and challenge the existing international order. And they seek to weaken the system of cooperation and collective security that has been in existence for some time,” he said.
“The dynamic nature of today’s current environment is counterbalanced by an order that was put in place 76 years ago at the end of World War II,” he added. “It was the bloodiest war in human history: There were almost 7,000 Marines killed in action, 21,000 Japanese killed in action on the island of Iwo Jima where my dad landed, and that was only in 19 days. In the short period of 31 years, from 1914 to 1945, world wars I and II were fought among the great powers of the day, and 150 million people — 150 million around the world — were killed in the conduct of great power war.”
Milley spoke of some of the low points of the wars: a six-week period in the fall of 1918 when American expeditionary forces fought in the Battle of Meuse-Argonne during which 26,000 Marines and soldiers died; an eight-week period in the summer of 1944 when 425,000 soldiers among opposing forces were wounded or killed, from the beaches of Normandy inland to Paris, with 37,000 Allied troops killed in those weeks alone.
“That is the butcher’s bill of great power war. That’s what this international order that’s been in existence for seven and a half decades is designed to prevent. That’s what JFC Norfolk is all about, is to prevent that outcome,” he said. “We are experiencing a change, a significant change, in the character of war … how we fight, the organizations we fight with, the technology that we use.
“There’s a whole set of technologies that are driving fundamental change, and if we the United States military, and if we NATO as an alliance, do not adapt and adopt these technologies, if we do not get there ‘firstest with the mostest’ and we don’t put the pedal to the metal and do this right over the next 10 or 15 years, we are condemning a future generation to what happened 76 years ago.”
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U.S. 2nd Fleet Commander and NATO Joint Force Command Norfolk Commander Vice Adm. Andrew Lewis addresses the audience at a ceremony celebrating JFC Norfolk reaching full operational capability (FOC), as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley listens. Defense News photo.
The general said existing capabilities — precision munitions backed by intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems; artificial intelligence; and manned-unmanned teaming — as well as technology coming down the line — biotechnology, human engineering and miniaturization — will have “a fundamental impact on the conduct of war.”
“The country that masters those technologies, combines them with their doctrine, develops their leadership to take maximum advantage of them, is likely going to have significant and perhaps even decisive advantage at the beginning of the next war — and in fact, that may be as long as the war lasts. So mastering the change in the character of war is most likely going to be the most important thing we do as a professional military over the next 10-15 years,” Milley said.
In a nod to the ongoing debate about defense spending, Milley said readiness and modernization are both important, but warned adversaries that current American and NATO war-fighting capabilities are strong. “The challenge is going to be in the future, in the not-too-distant future, and that’s where our focus needs to be,” the chairman said.
Lewis told Defense News after the ceremony that because NATO doesn’t have its own military, the alliance relies on members to make the right investments in their respective war-fighting capabilities. But an organization like JFC Norfolk can help by tying together those varying capabilities, he said, creating a common operating picture for NATO leaders and ensuring a structure is in place for allied militaries to rapidly deploy together in response to a crisis.
Lewis added that every time a ship deploys from Norfolk, for example, it’s not just a U.S. military asset but also a node in NATO’s common operating picture through JFC Norfolk. Building a clear picture of the Atlantic and Arctic will help NATO get a sense of what “normal” looks like so the alliance can quickly identify and react to an abnormal situation, he explained.
The recent NATO exercise Steadfast Defender, held off the coast of Portugal, allowed the U.S. Navy and JFC Norfolk to test for the first time their ability to assemble a maritime component that flows in from North America to Europe in support of military operations on the eastern side of the Atlantic.
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Just don’t forget the establishment entrenched and reified military leadership always, always, always fights their newest war with the last war’s strategy and tactics. (Think Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Somalia.)
On the other hand the Pentagram and NATO counterparts will have the troops all convinced of the power of Critical Race Theory and LBGTQUPIBN+ diversity and inclusion in fighting the enemies of “freedom and liberty.” (And that means no mean tweets either, soldier! Hurting peoples feewings; how insensitive, you hater.)
The next great power war should be over in 72 hours or less.
No countries capable of invading the USA have any interest whatever in doing so. The ones that are not capable are already being allowed to invade unarmed.
This is why the USA empire has no moral standing in the international community. Only power. Power that will not survive their culture wars.
Since this is not the first time, I am going to assume that the purging of the useful idiots will coincide with the collapse. And that will be the end of homos and pinkos.
The MIC needs moar money, moar money.
Uncle Joe threatened us with nukes and F-15 because he wasn’t impressed with AR-15s. I have news for the “General”: our navy is even less impressive
I mean who else, other than you & me, could a modern “general” be referring to when speaking of
-terrorist groups (code for law abiding, patriotic Americans)
-rogue actors (Jan. 6 ‘Insurrectionists’); or
-those who “are seeking to undermine and challenge the
existingNewinternationalWorld order” (FIFH)We’re ready.
“In my view, the world is entering a period of potential instability, as some nations — not all, but some — and clearly terrorist groups and perhaps some rogue actors are seeking to undermine and challenge the existing international order. And they seek to weaken the system of cooperation and collective security that has been in existence for some time,” he said.
Is this guy for real?
Entering a period of potential instability? Has there been a single year in the last 75 years where instability wasn’t the driving force of our Defense Department? It’s what we do.
Wow.
What the reason for NATO’s existense these days anyway? North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The North Sea, Black Sea, & the Med are not in the North Atlantic. Next thing ya know it’ll be in the Indian Ocean & Pacific. Seems like an awful lot of costly bureaucratic overlap with UN & all the other horseshit governing bodies.
They need to protect us from foreign media influence and blockade any manufacturing that might try to return to our shores.
The reason is so they have an excuse to bring in military troops from other NATO countries. Not just command staff, just as we have US run bases under the guise of NATO in Poland and Germany, now the Biden/Obama/Milley junta can use CONUS bases to house foreign troops, BCTs from places like Turkey and Ukraine who won’t be constrained by pesky things like US Bill of Rights or the Posse Comitatus doctrine.
Troops that aren’t potentially deplorable; who haven’t had their minds poisoned by the bad Orange man. Military personnel that won’t have a second thought about disarming American citizens for example. Essentially blue helmets without
blue helmets. Good Germans, actual and akin, who will just follow their orders, orders such as to enforce the UN small arms treaty.
Since most of our military bases are in red states, so will the NATO troops also be. In fact red state politicians will probably be falling all over themselves to get a few brigades of Bundesweir or Turkish troops based in some base that the regime say will have otherwise closed down for budget cuts, or to reopen some bracked bases, sitting idle.
And so much for the whole we won’t have a war on American soil because American Military won’t fight National Guard troops. So if the Texas government talks secession for example, you can expect a force of Bulgarian or Romanian troops more than willing to move out of Camp Unicorn Rainbow, the soon to be former Ft Hood, to take charge in Austin.
much closer to the truth than most like to believe
I doubt the Turkish troops like the rainbow platoons and would just as soon slit their throats.
Very few Turks in NATO.
Just about 890,000, counting their reserves, so in other words the second largest military in the alliance.
BINGO
I believe the third amendment to be finding some relevance when NATO begins co-manning operations all over the US.
This is a Trojan horse.
Sing along….
For forty days and forty nights, we sailed the North Atlantic,
And all the shores were lined with whores, it drove the crewmen frantic!
The cabin boy the cabin boy, that dirty little nipper,
he lined his ass with fiberglass, and circumcised the skipper!
The Captai lived, the Captain loved, the Captain’s name was Morgan,
he lay on the deck, a physical wreck, just strokin’ his sexual organ!
And many more verses. Our Navy aspires to this.
They already have SEATO to cover some of the Pacific and Indian Oceans
Didn’t someone recently make a comment something to the effect that the greatest threat to this country would be domestic terrorists in the form of White Supremacists?
And so now there is a need to team up with NATO to deal with terrorists?
Someone on TBP? Please, I can’t imagine anyone here that would say something like that.
The FBI
A military joint chief report.
Found at Jim Stones place…
THE U.N. has taken over the Salt Palace in Utah
They appear to have been given the ability to write and implement fully enforceable local law. They were granted the right to declare the premisis international territory and deny anyone’s rights on that basis.
The Salt Palace is on I-80 westbound out of Salt Lake City and is near the Dugway proving grounds. The U.N. was allowed to occupy the salt palace, which is a failed tourism venture that was wrecked when someone threw sea monkeys into the salt lake, which multiplied and created a disastrous brine shrimp problem.
I am at present attempting to get the details on this takeover, but they do have the ability to tell anyone they want to shut up and leave them alone.
A well done video on this event is HERE. I will have to get the details to make sure this is actually permanent, and if it is, I’ll say right now that the salt palace is a TOURIST VENUE that failed. NOT a military compound, which could be quite advantageous if the people of Utah do the right thing and oust these bastards.
Link in word HERE did not paste. Here’s the vid.
” someone threw sea monkeys into the salt lake”
Alex Jones did it.
The UN is having a four day conference there in August, complete with their own security teams,
https://www.un.org/en/68th-united-nations-civil-society-conference/page/68th-united-nations-civil-society-conference
“But an organization like JFC Norfolk can help by tying together those varying capabilities, he said, creating a common operating picture for NATO leaders and ensuring a structure is in place for allied militaries to rapidly deploy together in response to a crisis.”
And here we were expecting UN troops to take part in our final subjugation. It turns all our military into instant NATO enforcement JackBoots.
The battle of the Atlantic would be over in an hour….the US has no defense against hypersonic missiles, or ballistic missiles….
How about cruise missiles that pop up a mile off shore from submarines and freighters and fly about 500 hundred feet high? How about Fractional Orbiting warheads that suddenly re-enter the atmosphere? How about “suitcase” atomic bombs in trucks? Wars are not won by Defense nor by Liberal Socialist Confederacies. Foreigners know where The Pigs are printing trillions of dollars and running the World to screw everybody else. It’s just a matter of time. Come out of Her (the Whore riding the Beast) my people so you do not suffer Her punishments.
We don’t need enemies, we have the new, modern, diverse, LGBTQRXT military who will get it done….
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The first photo is a group of fag Limeys, but your point still stands
Military Intelligence is an oxymoron.
I don’t believe The Brass can pull off jack.
Especially Military Intelligence Dumbed Down by Liberalism, Affirmative Discrimination, Political Correctness, Perverts, and our Fighting Females…My confidence has gone off scale.
I do not think it brass. I think it is weapons and big tech calling shots.
Great Rocky & Bullwinkle episode…Two suits enter their room. One opens his jacket, and he says “Army” to reinforce his exposed badge. The 2nd – same action but – “Intelligence”.
Bullwinkle responds, “Isn’t that a contradiction in terms?” Seem to remember that Capt. Peachfuzz was there, looked at the wallpaper that had a sorta “ear” design. His take? “Be careful what you say. The walls have ears.”
Hmm…would a military coup d’etat be in the future if the VP Kamala-Mala is appointed President when Senile Joe is forced to resign ?
The military coup d’etat has been accomplished. Biden is a distraction.
Fitting that the announcement was made from the USS Queersbarge.
In No Phuck
It would take a large part of the rest of the day to refute all the lies in that article … pretty much every sentence.
Summary: We need to justify the trillion plus dollar Defense budget … with possibly even more $$$ needed in the future. Our freedoms depend on it. /s
https://www.rt.com/russia/530150-maks-air-show-swifts-team/
Pretty damn nice air show with NINE Migs flying in tight formation,
That’s beautiful.
Bombing Syria. Yet again. Why not? Low risk. Easy. And, fun!!
Whoop! Whoop!! Gooooo NATO!!!
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https://www.rt.com/op-ed/530082-attacked-syrian-civilians-us-weapons/
A PR campaign for another worthless international money pit.
NATO: bestkept assignment in USAF. Big perdiem.
Biggest prema donna asshole generals too.
Gotta find new personnel slots for all that command structure we used to have in Afghanistan. Bureaucracy never dies, it just goes PCS.