X-MARINE

He who studies history shall know the future for all things come full circle.

Friday, March 30, 2007


Lightning storms rage over the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) as the ship transits the Persian Gulf. John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 9 are conducting a dual-carrier exercise with Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 7. This marks the first time the Stennis and Eisenhower strike groups have operated together in a joint exercise while deployed to 5th Fleet. www.navy.mil

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Hail and Fire Mixed With Blood

I thought I would share with you an article written in the NewScientist regarding the effects of an asteroid(s) hit upon the earth:

China and the US are the countries most vulnerable to damage from future asteroid impacts, according to preliminary new research. Sweden also ranks surprisingly high in this first attempt at quantifying the risks of impact effects, such as tsunamis, on individual nations.

Scientists have been able to simulate the propagation of tsunamis, earthquakes, and debris from virtual asteroid impacts for years. But previously, there has been no software to quantify the human toll on particular countries.

Now, researchers have combined impact effects with data on population density and infrastructure location in a computer model to produce the first global ranking of countries based on their vulnerability to impact damage.

Indeed as man continues to explore the Solar System the more we realize our space is not that empty. Many objects lurk beyond our vision silently plodding in the darkness. Earth has been the subject of violent stellar strikes in the past and the Bible itself has recorded their return sometime in the future with its concomitant destructive results.

Using images of the Earth from space showing the distribution of light from artificial sources, they assumed the brighter places were more built up. Then they simulated the propagation of tsunamis, earthquakes and debris from a wide variety of impact locations to rank countries on the vulnerability of their infrastructure.

The US faced the worst potential losses, perhaps not surprisingly, since it has a lot of infrastructure on coastlines facing two different oceans. China was second, followed by Sweden, Canada, and Japan.


Behold the future!

Sunday, March 25, 2007

Cowardly Lions

Have you ever wondered why there are so many sovereign nations within such a small geographical area in Western Europe? France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands, Germany, England and so on. How did these nations come into being? They all came into being by virtue of war. That's right my friends, war was the birthing process for these nations as most of them became sovereign after victory on the battlefield. The most important point in understanding this concept is that for a nation to be "independent" they must first win on the battlefield. In a way we can view war as the birth pangs of national delivery and in many ways the similarities don't end there. After victory in battle the nation is born and continues to grow from "childhood" into adolescence and finally into adulthood. After the initial war, nations settle into a period of growth, either slow or rapid, and every now and then gets into a fight with other nations for various reasons.

The United States of America is no exception to this rule. In fact, very few nations can really consider themselves sovereign without the refining process of war that steels them to the reality of nationhood. An argument can be made that some nations can help others achieve independence but you will note that someone else has to pay the price for this independence. In 1991, the United States under the political aegis of the UN, liberated Kuwait from the hands of Iraq under Saddam Hussein. In this case, Kuwaiti themselves did not/could not wage war but it was the Americans that could and did paid the blood-price for their independence. The same is today occurring in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their independence, from the Baathist Party in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan, is still bona fide because Americans have died in battle and have been victorious on the battlefield even though the Iraqi and Afghan people themselves didn't engineer their liberty. They may be on the receiving end of terrorism but that is not the same as dieing on the battlefield fighting for one's sovereignty. In fact, the ongoing terror attacks in Baghdad and Kabul are not related to the initial victory over the Taliban and Saddam Hussein by American armed forces but are directly related to the lost political momentum in Washington D.C. under President Bush. The terror attacks in both these capitals are extant because Syria and Iran have felt that they need not worry about an American military offensive that would end their sovereignty and thus are free to wage their terror attacks without fear of reprisal.

Why do they, Syria and Iran, not fear reprisal? Because the West has embraced cowardice as a virtue. Osama Bin Laden himself knew this when he initiated his own declaration of war against America during the '90's when President Bill Clinton was our, dare I say, "Commander and Chief". The Mohammedans felt that the West could be bullied into subservience by another means of war i.e. International Islamic Terrorism and the Muslims were correct in this view. However, the Republican interregnum of George W. Bush put a wrench into this cosmic view, perhaps even a curve ball analogy would be more appropriate. You see, the conspiracy of 9/11 would have worked more smoothly had a Democrat been in power and not a Republican. Osama was no doubt banking on a Democrat Presidency (with their passivist ideology) when his plans were hatched to hijack American airliners and fly them into economic (WTC), military (Pentagon) and political (White House) targets in the mid-1990's. The careful planning and long range logistical support could not be backed down due to the almost impossible victory of George W. Bush in 2000. The conspiracy had to continue as so much was already invested in such an endeavor. The rest as they say is history. I'm quite positive that Osama and company were not expecting an America on the offensive with GROUND TROOPS as they were expecting perhaps a missile attack or air attack in Afghanistan as was the normal standard operating procedure for dealing with terrorism as evidence by President Bill Clinton all throughout the '90's in the Middle East and in Kosovo.

The 2006 mid-term election of Democrats therefore must be considered a God-send (Allah-send?) for Osama and his Al Qaida terror network for all of the obvious reasons. The Moslems know that the Democrats will not wage war for any reason and thus have embraced cowardice on the battlefield and certainly history has proven the Mohammedan correct. Even today, we have a Democrat majority embracing retreat from Iraq for what reason? Because American troops are dieing? What about Afghanistan? They are dieing there too but funny, I don't hear any calls to leave there (not yet at least)? And what happens if American troops are shot-at in Germany or Japan? Will we leave there as well? The Mohammedans know that Democrats and their willful accomplices in Academia, Judiciary, Government, Media, and Business will cower before the Lions of Islam because it is not in their heart to be sovereign and thus the Left will not fight for our political independence. This cowardly malaise infecting Washington from the Left is exactly what the Muslims need to wage their asymmetric war of attrition to victory. And with victory, they shall achieve independence from the West. All they need now is a Democrat Presidency to make their plans complete.

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Spartans, et al









300 million Americans, that is.






















Commerical Babylon.
















Reviving the Roman Empire.

















Czech-mating Al Gore!

Tuesday, March 20, 2007


Cpl. Jarrod Adams, assigned to the "Death Rattlers" from Marine Strike Fighter Squadron (VMFA) 323, stands at attention with his sword drawn during a non-commissioned officer sword and marching drill in the hangar bay aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74).


Commander, Submarine Force, Vice Adm. John Donnelly looks over the frozen Arctic Ocean from the bridge of attack submarine USS Alexandria (SSN 757). Alexandria surfaced through three feet of ice during ICEX-07, a U.S. Navy and Royal Navy exercise being conducted on and under a drifting ice floe about 180 nautical miles off the north coast of Alaska.


Moving forward from behind USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), USS Lake Champlain (CG 57) steams by on the port side during a pass in review of ships from Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group and Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF).


Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) ship JS Haruna (DDH 141), USS Lake Champlain (CG 57) and USS Russell (DDG 59) steam in formation during a photo exercise (PHOTOEX) between the Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group and JMSDF. www.navy.mil

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Return of the Caliphate

What are we to make of the War Of Terrorism being waged by Muslims today in all parts of the world? What is their plan and ultimately what is their final destination? Why must the Islamic states continue to wage this asymmetric war of attrition with all of the peoples of the earth? Russia, Europa, America, Asia and Africa have come into conflict with the followers of Muhammad not only historically but even now in the 21st Century Muhammadans are stretching forth their mailed fist to beat back Babylon the Great in their attempt to break free from the chains of economic, political, cultural and religious amalgamation. Muslim states are too weak to attack their neighbors conventionally and have thus adapted to their inherent institutional weaknesses for waging war by means of sowing terror. This is the only successful means of waging "jihad" that fulfills their Islamic precepts since their founding in the mid-7th Century AD.

Globalization though friendly towards all cultures around the world is still Europe-centric as their ideas still radiate outwards from the Old World. Most nations have accepted in some form either economically and/or politically the yoke of a European model to govern their subject peoples and thus their own cultures have indeed been subsumed to a higher and "alien" order. The only area in the world that has been reluctant if not hostile to embrace this 21st Century phenomenon has been Al Arabia. The United States of America may be the lone superpower but clearly there are other state actors who are consolidating their own power blocs to compete not only with the Atlantic Alliance (USA and Europe) but also with other regional powers now coming into fruition. Al Arabia is just such one bloc.

Despite their constant treachery, the Islamic peoples can and will unite once more under one flag to fight against this new global hegemonic order. However, it will be the Sunni branch of Islam that will form a distinctly Sunni axis of opposition from Western Africa to the Euphrates in the East and from Anatolia in the North to the Arabian peninsula in the South. I believe the center of this Sunni Axis will be established in Egypt. I also believe there is more to the "dynamic duo" of Al Qaida than meets the eye in that both Ayman Al Zawahiri and Osama Bin Laden represent two sides of one coin. Zawahiri is Egyptian by birth and forms the political side of Al Qaida. Bin Laden on the other hand forms the religious side as he is Saudi Arabian by birth. In Islam even though the political is fused to the religious the division of power is seen throughout their history as the political capitol is always located away from the religious capital of Mecca. Since the incarnation of Islam, the caliphates (political capitol) were located in Syria (Omayyad), Baghdad (Abbasid), Egypt (Fatimid) and finally in Turkey (Ottoman). So as goes Al Quaida so goes Islamic history as both Zawahiri and Bin Laden are the shadows and point men for this dual relationship of both political and spiritual entities within Islam.

I also believe Egypt will the next home of the Caliphate because it is here that we saw the birth of International Islamic Terrorism with the advent of the first Moslem terror group, the Egypitan based Muslim Brotherhood. This group was formed in 1928 just 4 years after the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate and has since been waging their own kind of "Jihad" to reestablish the guardian of the Umma. It should also be noted that in the West it was the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) that became notorious with International Terrorism in the late '60's under Yassir Arafat and he too hailed from Egypt. Terrorism is the new form of Jihad since clearly the Moslem peoples, both Sunni and Shia, are too inept at conventional warfare especially that kind of warfare gelled to perfection in the West as the Arab-Israeli Wars proved so painful. They may have bought our weapons but money cannot buy experience and discipline. Thus, in order to fulfill the tenants of their warlike religion they have resorted to national and international terrorism (unconventional warfare) to expand their control against the pro-western regimes that currently rule over them such as Mubarak in Egypt and the House of Saud in Arabia and the late Shah of Iran for example and recently against their neighbors internationally on all continents of the world. Since international terrorism is the new tactic of Jihad therefore, it is Egypt and the Egyptians (spiritually Saudi Arabia gets the credit as it is the home of Mecca & Medina) that will get the political credit for "spreading" Islam to all parts of the world, albeit in a weaker form than what conventional warfare can deliver as was the case during the initial rise of Islam in the 7th Century AD as conventional warfare was the means of "evangelical" delivery of its faith so long ago.

Turkey, on the other hand, will be denied as the home to a reestablished Caliphate due to their lack of faith as evidenced by Kemal Ataturk and his historical heresy of disbanding the Ottoman Caliphate. However, I also believe that Turkey in spite of its past sins could still be accepted into this resurrected Caliphate as one of the great diadems in the crown of the Umma. Turkey will not be accepted into the European Union for obvious cultural and religious reasons despite its appetite for all things Western and being a member of NATO. Thus, Turkey will have no where to go but into the arms of an Egyptian-based Caliphate. A note of caution, however, should be sounded in that the Turks may not be able to "de-base" themselves by allowing Egyptians to guide them into the future and so its possible that Turkey may in fact be left to its own devices neither belonging to the European Union nor being able to be fully assimilated into a future Caliphate. This in and of itself would be a dangerously weakened hinge by which an enemy of Islam would be able to breakdown the door into the Middle East rather easily should a future Caliphate come to blows against a northern aggressor namely Mother Russia.

The Shia on the other hand are the heretics of Islam as far as the Sunni are concerned. Hence their hatred for their erstwhile brethren in Iran. But here too we see how Shia terrorists borrowed from the Sunni's Muslim Brotherhood and managed to overthrow a "pro-western" regime in Tehran in 1979 under the Ayatollahs with a little help from the incompetent administration of Jimmy Carter. And yet, for the first time in its Islamic history, Iran will NOT be included in the next Caliphate as fundamentalist Wahhabi Islamic doctrine will preclude them from joining their "commonwealth". This will be the Caliphate's Achilles Heel as a independent and nuclear Persia will strike out on its own and in what ways we can only speculate but perhaps Russia once again may provide a clue to the future? We shall see.

As stated here many times since the disastrous U.S. mid-term election in 2006 with Republicans routed from power in both the House and Senate, the War On Terror has come to an ignominious end. It appears that with the shift in political parties in Washington that it is only a matter of time(perhaps less than a year) before American troops are withdrawn from Iraq and ultimately from the entire Middle East in the future as the Democrat party clearly has no stomach for wars of liberation as they once did between the time of Woodrow Wilson in 1917 and JFK in 1960. Thus with America out of the Middle East, a power vacuum will exist and since nature abhors a vacuum it will certainly be filled by a new political entity, a Sunni Caliphate.

Friday, March 02, 2007

Future Shock

















The third Jewish Temple?



















Kings of the East.

Thursday, March 01, 2007


F-22 Raptors sit on the flight line at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. The fighters and more than 250 Airmen from the 27th Fighter Squadron at Langley Air Force Base, Va., are bound for Kadena Air Base, Japan. This is the Raptor's first overseas operational deployment.