Effective June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.
The banal and humble generator set is a secret to destroying US combat power.
I wanted to flesh out a thought experiment on the vulnerabilities of the US war machine in its expeditionary mode in future wars of choice if a critical node of its operations for US efficacy were specifically targeted, in this case, generator sets;. these range from small portable units to large, trailer-mounted systems, including the Tactical Quiet Generator (TQG) and the Advanced Medium Mobile Power Source (AMMPS).
In the future near-peer and peer fight, salvo competition will be the preeminent means by which one country will kinetically overwhelm the other in a fight. I discuss the ways in which the West is in an existential hazard of being woefully under-prepared to meet the threat if Western forces go toe to toe with regional hegemons in the East or West.
The US is NOT prepared for the war of leakers in which the inadequate missile defense systems and strategy now deployed will be overwhelmed if it enters a war of choice with China or Russia.
It isn't simply the peer competitors but the smaller players like North Korea and Yemen are demonstrating that the US and its allies can't cash the checks they boast about.
Once again, the US should stand down, reassess, re-calibrate and stop thinking defense is a four letter word.
References:
Millennium Challenge: The Real Story of a Corrupted Military Exercise and its Legacy
STP 9-91D13-SM-TG: TACTICAL POWER GENERATION SPECIALIST MOS 91D (2018)
Winning The Salvo Competition: Rebalancing America’s Air And Missile Defenses
The Russian Reconnaissance Fire Complex Comes of Age
Space Based Interceptor Sizing Methodology
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Books:
Nassim Taleb Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the Game
Mark Gunzinger & Bryan Clark Winning the Salvo Competition: Rebalancing America’s Air and Missile Defense
Christian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
Email at cgpodcast@pm.me
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