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⚓️ 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 How US military equipment for Ukraine is shipped across Atlantic 🔶️ For heavy military equipment that’s being transported across the Atlantic, ocean shipping plays a central role, led by one company in particular: U.S.-flag operator American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier (ARC). 🔶️ According to Chris Heibel, ARC’s head of operations, “We’ve carried the majority of all the cargo going [across the Atlantic] in support of Ukraine and we’re also participating in cargo going in support of the big NATO exercise, Atlantic Resolve. 🔶️ “Between August 2022 and July 2023, we moved approximately 32,000 pieces of equipment — that’s 5 million square feet of equipment — to and from Europe to support these exercises and operations,” Heibel said in an interview with FreightWaves. 🇳🇴 ARC, a subsidiary of Norway’s Wallenius Wilhelmsen (Oslo: WAWI), is the largest operator of roll-on roll-off (ro-ro) vessels in the U.S. Maritime Security Program (MSP). “Our main customer is the military,” said ARC Vice President Charles Diorio. 🔶️ Ukraine-bound cargoes being carried by ARC include wheeled and tracked vehicles — including Bradley Fighting Vehicles (BFVs) — as well as missile systems, including mobile HIMARS systems. A news release from the U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) showed 60 BFVs being loaded aboard the ARC Integrity in Charleston, South Carolina, in January. 🔶️ ARC ro-ros do not transport bulk ammunition or missiles. Equipment such as Stinger missiles are transported via container ships or breakbulk ships, said Heibel. 🔶️ U.S. equipment for Ukraine and Atlantic Resolve is primarily loaded at two ports: Beaumont, Texas, and the TC Dock military terminal in Charleston. 🔶️ “Then you’ve also got cargo that is actually being supplied within the theater. There are depots in Europe that have been providing equipment by rail and truck right up to the border [with Ukraine]. And in the U.S., you’ve got the major rail lines all involved in moving cargo from the forts and depots to the ports of load, and you’ve got the truckers involved as well. 🔶️ “Where we play the biggest part is in large-scale unit moves. There’s really no other option for an armored brigade combat team other than a ro-ro vessel, and the nice thing is that once the cargo is in place, it’s sealed inside the ship so it’s not getting battered by the weather en route.” https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-us-military-equipment-for-ukraine-is-shipped-across-atlantic
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🛡 🇺🇦 📝 Chariots of the Slavs | CIG #commentary From Weapons for Profit to Weapons for War. The Ukraine War is a relearning of classic armored warfare. The luxury of heavy tank duels regressing to the historic mean of scalable, lighter armor in infantry support roles. The maneuver warfare that defined the Yom Kippur War and the Gulf War, was predicated on sufficiently allocated air support. This is not the case in Ukraine, we've returned to artillery being the king of battle as sustaining air superiority has become unpredictable. Of course, nothing is set in stone. If parity is not met between foes, we've seen conflicts retain an amount of fluidity. Such as third world conflicts or potentially a future war involving at least the US or China against a lesser power.
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🛡 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 Western-made armor isn't working in Ukraine because it wasn't designed for a conflict of this intensity, Ukrainian analyst says Taras Chmut, a military analyst who's the head of the Come Back Alive Foundation, which has raised money to purchase and provide arms and equipment to Ukraine, said that "a lot of Western armor doesn't work here because it had been created not for an all-out war but for conflicts of low or medium intensity." "If you throw it into a mass offensive, it just doesn't perform," he said. Chmut went on to say Ukraine's Western allies should instead turn their attention to delivering simpler and cheaper systems, but in larger quantities, something Ukraine has repeatedly requested, the newspaper reported. https://news.yahoo.com/western-made-armor-isnt-working-111700196.html
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🪃 🇦🇺 Australians looks set to reject new provisions for Aboriginal people Voice proponents are aghast. Mr Albanaese billed the referendum as a “a once-in-a-generation chance to bring our country together”. Unlike Canada, America and New Zealand, Australia never struck treaties with its original inhabitants. The idea for the Voice emerged from months of consultation with indigenous people to address that failure. The process culminated, in 2017, with a statement from Aboriginal elders blaming their community’s poverty on “the torment of our powerlessness”. They called for a treaty and truth-telling process, as well as an advisory body. https://www.economist.com/asia/2023/09/28/australians-looks-set-to-reject-new-provisions-for-aboriginal-people https://archive.ph/kiJ0G
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🇨🇦 Close to 98% of the growth in the Canadian population from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2023, came from net international migration, with 2% coming from the difference between births and deaths. Fertility reached record-low levels in 2022, with 1.33 children per woman, compared with 1.44 in 2021. More information on births, fertility levels and the most popular baby names in 2022 can be found in the products Fertility indicators, provinces and territories: Interactive dashboard, Baby Names Observatory, and the new infographic Canada's most popular baby names in 2022. As of July 1, 2023, an estimated 2,198,679 non-permanent residents lived in Canada, a 46% increase from the same date one year prior (1,500,978). This represents the largest year-over-year increase in the population of non-permanent residents living in Canada since comparable data are available (1971/1972), with the increase in work and study permits accounting for most of the change in the last year. This estimated population of 2.2 million non-permanent residents now outnumbers the 1.8 million Indigenous people enumerated during the 2021 Census of Population. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230927/dq230927a-eng.htm
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🇺🇸 🇭🇹 A Female American Volunteer for an NGO in Haiti writes about her shock at being raped by a Haitian man she was there to advocate for - despite her being a “Malcolm X Scholar” engaged in a “common struggle” with him 📎 kunley_drukpa
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NICE WORK RYAN! JUICE THIS! https://fixupx.com/groyperbob/status/1707237109587677470
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↖️ 🇦🇺🇹🇱 The first Divisional size command on operations since WW2 commanded by an Australian, International Force East Timor. INTERFET was a Multi-National Force to bring order and stability to East Timor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_East_Timorese_crisis 📎 Rhys
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