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Drones Are Swarming U.S. Military Bases, And Our Incompetent Bureaucracy Won’t Do Anything About It

When drones swarmed our military bases, the only thing bureaucrats ‘shot down’ were proposals about how to deal with the problem.

If you had told President Dwight D. Eisenhower that the military-industrial complex he famously warned against would find itself repeatedly foiled by an off-the-shelf product available at the grocery store, he probably would not have believed you.

The Oct. 12 story published in The Wall Street Journal, about how mysterious drones over Langley Air Force Base have baffled the best of America’s military and homeland security apparatus, is clearly not intended to leave you with this impression, yet it does.

The Journal article was likely intended as yet another entry in the now-extensive subgenre of Pentagon reporting that might be called, “What are we going to do about the UFOs?”

In these stories, which seem to regularly appear several times a year (possibly timed with congressional appropriations), military and intelligence officials either publicly or anonymously complain to their regular Pentagon beat journalists about how they are stumped by the mysterious lights in the sky. In 2022, the Pentagon set up the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) to better collect and analyze reports of these UFO sightings. Before AARO was the wordier Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG), set up in 2021. Congress has had multiple UFO hearings, ranging from fairly serious investigations into the likely role of Russian and Chinese drones surveilling U.S. national security sites to “X Files”-style hearings with whistleblowers claiming the U.S. has recovered alien corpses — or, as they phrase it, “biologics.”

The Wall Street Journal piece attempted to emphasize how serious the deployment of unidentified drone swarms over U.S. military bases is and the extent to which U.S. officials were willing to go to identify and stop them. Even the president was brought in to discuss what to do about the mysterious lights in the sky over Hampton, Virginia:

Reports of the drones reached President Biden and set off two weeks of White House meetings after the drones first appeared in December last year. Officials from agencies including the Defense Department, Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Pentagon’s UFO office joined outside experts to throw out possible explanations as well as ideas about how to respond.

But reading on, one learns that the only thing these bureaucrats successfully “shot down” were the various proposals about how to deal with the problem, as each service and agency offered various approaches, ranging from simple nets to electronic warfare, none of which were adopted. Most of these approaches strike the casual reader as perfectly sensible, but all were foiled by one perceived regulation or another.

In the end, the Journal strongly implies that the drone intrusions over Langley Airforce Base came to a halt only because twenty-something Chinese student Fengyun Shi accidentally crashed his drone into a tree. Law enforcement identified Shi’s suspicious behavior, and he was arrested before he could escape on a one-way trip back to China. He was convicted of espionage and sentenced to only six months in prison. —>READ MORE HERE

You won’t believe how Biden-Harris team responded when drones buzzed sensitive US military bases

The military must be expected to defend its installations on American soil

When a sophisticated Chinese spy balloon floated over America in early 2023, lawmakers and the public were outraged at the Biden-Harris administration’s passivity and initial inclination to keep it quiet – only acknowledging the balloon after two civilian photographers forced their hand.

Now, the Wall Street Journal has broken news on an even more stupendous U.S. national security breach, reporting that drones flew over a sensitive nuclear weapons testing facility for three days last October and then, two months later, flew over Langley Air Force Base in Virginia for 17 straight nights while the Biden White House, and the military officers it promoted, dawdled and argued over what to do about it.

The swarms started on Dec. 7, 2023. Drones, some as large as 20 feet long, flew at night over the Air Combat Command headquarters with its squadrons of advanced F-22 Raptor fighters.

As shown almost daily in Ukraine and Russia, those drones might have destroyed years’ worth of combat aircraft production. The drones also came close to the world’s largest naval port in Norfolk, and other key national security installations, including Navy SEAL Team Six’s base​.

But, instead of acting against the drones that violated U.S. military airspace, the military and civilian chain of command was frozen in indecision.

The base commander had the authority to disrupt or destroy the drones under Department of Defense directives and classified rules of engagement, which grant the commander the necessary authority to act swiftly without needing approval from external agencies when an imminent threat is posed.

Instead, in the zero-defect, zero-risk bureaucracy much of our military brass has settled into, the drone swarm was reported to the National Military Command Center. Then a report went to the White House Situation Room. President Biden heard about it in his daily briefing. This likely happened by Friday, Dec. 8. The drones operated unimpeded for 15 more nights – and then they stopped.

But, instead of ordering the military to protect its sensitive airspace and exercise the authority it already has, Homeland Security adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall convened brainstorming sessions in the White House. Every suggestion – jamming, directed energy weapons or using nets – were all shot down as too risky or not being an authorized use of force. —>READ MORE HERE

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