Trump administration 2024-2028

[OldSolduer]

OK I haven't read the article - and I agree. There are some skills that need to be retained - CBRN is one.

Here is the training that the Army says is no longer mandatory

The Army is removing resiliency training and leaving courses on occupational safety, law of war, combat lifesaving, and more up to commanders.

taskandpurpose.com

Alt: https://archive.ph/yH85R

Cutting the resiliency training entirely just seems like it'll set people up to fail once they're out. All the other stuff I leave for those here with far more knowledge to judge, but overall these changes don't come off as very positive (to me).

A small snippet:

 

[OldSolduer]

. It’s the grand daddy of stuff like the POPAT and frankly the fact that militaries are just catching up is astounding.

Not really - the military is a very conservative bunch and for an org that likes to give itself pats on the back for "leading change" in some cases it don't wanna change.....if that makes sense.

 

[The Bread Guy]

Here is the training that the Army says is no longer mandatory

The Army is removing resiliency training and leaving courses on occupational safety, law of war, combat lifesaving, and more up to commanders.

taskandpurpose.com

Alt: https://archive.ph/yH85R

Cutting the resiliency training entirely just seems like it'll set people up to fail once they're out …

Meh - if you needed resiliency, to take a chestnut from the past about wives, the military would issue it, right? Back to the days of “if they’re not doing well outside, they must be weak & no longer our problem.” I guess this is all part of the “empathy is for the weak” ethos around these days - for now, anyway.

 

[MilEME09]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/02/waltzs-team-set-up-at-least-20-signal-group-chats-for-crises-across-the-world-00266845

So it wasn't just one

 

[HavokFour]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/02/waltzs-team-set-up-at-least-20-signal-group-chats-for-crises-across-the-world-00266845

So it wasn't just one

Least surprising thing of the day, likely also wasn't an isolated whoopsie daisy incident in adding the wrong people too.

 

[brihard]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/02/waltzs-team-set-up-at-least-20-signal-group-chats-for-crises-across-the-world-00266845

So it wasn't just one

Of course it wasn’t just one. That was immediately obvious, as I noted over a week ago:

In an administration that wasn’t a sick joke, every one of them would have their security clearance suspended and reviewed for cause, and several of them would be under criminal investigation. And of course several of them have commented in the past about how important it is to safeguard classified information.

The utter casualness of this basically guarantees that this is a routine practice.

 

[McG]

That seems like one of those practices that may not be rigorously adhered to when things are going pear shaped and there’s an ‘oh shit!’ need to sow some belligerent area denial all over hell’s half acre to cover a withdrawal.

Are you just making stuff up from the perspective of someone who has no idea how to lay an effective minefield? Anyone doing what you describe is an idiot wasting time and resources to negligible effect.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/02/waltzs-team-set-up-at-least-20-signal-group-chats-for-crises-across-the-world-00266845

So it wasn't just one

 

[dapaterson]

With Trump appearing to channel his inner McKinley, let's hope he know enough history to stay away from

The Temple of Music
By the Tower of Light
Between the Fountain of Abundance
And the Court of Lilies
At the great Pan-American Exposition
In Buffalo

#Sondheim

 

[brihard]

Are you just making stuff up from the perspective of someone who has no idea how to lay an effective minefield? Anyone doing what you describe is an idiot wasting time and resources to negligible effect.

I’m asking because I don’t know, and putting my thoughts out there to get gently corrected or viciously knocked down.

I’m aware, generally, that we will generally work to very carefully map minefields. I’m also aware that there are air dispersed mines both from aircraft ordnance and from artillery shells and it seems like they would be harder to map. I’m also aware that practices and procedures, generally, can in some cases get more flexible or less adhered to when it’s a two-way range.

I speculated that, in a large scale combat operation with some fluidity, AP mines may be laid or dispersed with a bit more haste than all parties might prefer. Is my speculation that out to lunch? Has the conventional war in Ukraine validated that these best practices remain consistently viable in a combat setting?

I’m happy if I’m wrong because minefields suck. I didn’t think it was a notion meriting that harsh a response. I think I’m generally pretty good at engaging in good faith.

 

[Cloud Cover]

Listening to Trump on the radio. He’s just an entertainer, with zero entertainment skills.

 

[Cloud Cover]

Also he claims that Lee Iacocca said last week these “tariffs are wonderful.. they are great”.

Lee died in 2019.

 

[dapaterson]

Also he claims that Lee Iacocca said last week these “tariffs are wonderful.. they are great”.

Lee died in 2019.

Government by Ouija board.

 

[HavokFour]

A little teaser before a proper write up gets posted. I hope that paper was made in the USA.

Canada and Mexico are oddly absent.

Edit: I forgot page 2, also made them less bigly.

 

[Remius]

Looks like an exemption from this round.

Steel and aluminum remain. Car tariff is up in the air as I can’t tell what may apply to us.

 

[McG]

I’m happy if I’m wrong because minefields suck. I didn’t think it was a notion meriting that harsh a response. I think I’m generally pretty good at engaging in good faith

Well, be happy. Nothing gets laid mechanically or by hand without a detailed record. Canada has never owned scatterable systems, and any system even hypothesized for CAF use was based on time-limited self-neutralizing or self-destructing mines.

 

[Cloud Cover]

Russia is not on that list. Not surprising, but .,.

 

[Good2Golf]

oh FFS

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/01/waltz-national-security-council-signal-gmail/

…at least it wasn’t ProtonMail…

 

[brihard]

Well, be happy. Nothing gets laid mechanically or by hand without a detailed record. Canada has never owned scatterable systems, and any system even hypothesized for CAF use was based on time-limited self-neutralizing or self-destructing mines.

For sure. I wasn’t just taking about Canada though; the context of the conversation was as countries walking away from the Ottawa treaty.

Maybe that’s part of our disconnect if you assumed I could only be talking about us. But the post I initially replied to was talking about NATO broadly, and I later also asked if real combat in Ukraine had validated this expectation and practice.

 

[brihard]

Russia is not on that list. Not surprising, but .,.

If the EOs are signed and it turns out there’s not tariffs on Russia I’d be astonished, but… probably less astonished than I should be. It would be one hell of a tell though.

 

[HavokFour]

Russia is not on that list. Not surprising, but .,.

Don't worry, they did get a mention @ 48:08. Still not a peep about the 4 Americans that I've seen who recently died in Latvia however, priorities.

President Trump Delivers Remarks on New Tariffs

President Trump delivered remarks from the White House Rose Garden on expected new tariffs on imported goods.

www.c-span.org

But there was also this today too.

Ukraine war latest: US sanctions Russian firms but lifts sanctions on Putin ally's wife

Key developments on April 2: * US sanctions Russian firms but lifts sanctions on Putin ally's wife * US sanctions network supplying Houthis with stolen Ukrainian grain, Russian arms * Trump admin officials say ceasefire unlikely in coming months, Reuters reports * Russian negotiator to meet...

kyivindependent.com

Alt: https://archive.ph/eNXFm