To be clear, if I’m in favor of any aspect of Jerry, it’s in him being ground up and included as adjunct protein in Purina’s budget brand canned cat food. That is how he can best serve this country.
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Road to 350: What Does the US Navy Do Anyway?
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I don't know anything about this dude, but in light of his op-ed referencing his own works, I'm amazed how this circuit works.
Dr. Jerry Hendrix
Developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies.
www.cnas.org
I'd give more cred to the Admiral selling mortgages for NewDay. At least he doesn't have to puff up his resume to ridiculous levels...😂
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This dude was all out in 2016 to position himself to be Pence’s national security guy. Of course, he was laughed out of the room, which says a lot, given the kinds of abject stooges that reared their heads in the Trump admin.I don't know anything about this dude, but in light of his op-ed referencing his own works, I'm amazed how this circuit works.
Dr. Jerry Hendrix
Developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies.
I'd give more cred to the Admiral selling mortgages for NewDay. At least he doesn't have to puff up his resume to ridiculous levels...😂
His opinions are garbage, but ultimately entertaining in a cringe sort of way.
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What kind of qualifications are needed to be a national security advisor? I looked up Jake Sullivan, he has degrees in international relations and is a lawyer, but how is that more qualifying than the qualifications listed by this Jerry Hendrix guy?
Less about your degrees and more about experience and the positions you’ve worked in. Knowing how the national security apparatus is structured, for one thing. Sullivan has been elbow-deep in plans and policy since 2008; he broke into the big leagues prepping Hillary and then Obama for debates on national security policy.
Since he left the Nav, Hendrix has mostly “worked” as the professional equivalent of your opinionated uncle who reposts Onion articles on FB thinking they’re real.
Stealing this.
Hendrix is the geopolitical equivalent of those economists that are always predicting doomsday, on the theory that "so and so was right in 2008, and again in 2020!" They see themselves as the next Nostradamus, and in the meantime their negativity gets clicks. Hendrix falls into the "nothing to see here" category for me, and might actually be worse, since he feeds the conspiracy theory mill.
The situation in Red Sea, with the coalition on shaky ground, does imply that our surface Force is simply too small/few in numbers.
I don’t see it that way at all. Without going into specifics, suffice to say that there are sufficient CRUDES in the AO to handle the threat. The shipping companies are making a risk calculation like any other company and electing to send their ships around the long way to lessen their risk.
It looks like that poster is just using Marine Traffic to check AIS tracks, and making guesses based on the AIS data. To do a rough aviation equivalent, that’d be like me using ADS-B data to glean what an aircraft is doing on a particular mission. Sure it gives you some SA, but that doesn’t mean you actually know what’s going on.
Sounds just like going back to the Horn of Africa counter piracy convoy ops.
Not to read into things too much, some of the ships holding/turning back could partly be the natural consequence of inefficiencies in convoy ops, some of it could be the inevitable clusterfuck at the kickoff of any sort of operation (esp involving civilian traffic), and some of it could in fact be not having enough DDGs on site to provide IAMD escorts.
Ideal world, we’d have a free hand to just smack C2/leadership, launch sites and any stored munitions…but we don’t live in an ideal world.
At minimum. I’m pretty tired of watching the Houthis (seemingly) do whatever they want and get away with it. To say nothing of their Iranian backers.
Some perspective for those that want to go on offense ASAP. Let’s let those at C5F assess the threat then give POTUS a range of options to mitigate. Leadership is trying to thread a needle here with escalation a considerable risk to be avoided. Thus far, when these Houthi weapons connect with their targets, the damage has been, AFAIK, superficial. It’s not like they’re putting tankers on the bottom of the Red Sea. We have some decision space to make a well considered response.
That's really saying something, seeing as how Dr. Seb Gorka, the Dragon of Budapest, and former Marine Corps University adjunct professor (wut?), made it onto the WH staff. ☺️
Fair point. Goading us into escalation is exactly what Iran (and probably Houthis) want.
Although (I’d guess) it’s unrealistic, it would be really satisfying to choke off all their supplies and watch the Houthis wither on the vine. I’d bet there are benefits to keeping them right where they are though.