Seth Keshel

Prior to the advent of wireless communications, almost all naval battles were fought within a few miles of the shore.

That's the only place ships have run into each other.

But now that you could ping an enemy's location with wireless, then you had open battles in the ocean.

You know how we have those helicopter excursions in Texas where you can go shoot hogs that are running?

How much do you think these cargo ship companies could make to let somebody fly into Djibouti and shoot at the pirates?

No, no, no.

I'm pretty sure that's a thing.

So when are we going?

Spy balloon.

Yeah, this was February of 23.

Everybody was up in arms about the—I think there were multiple spy balloons, but this was the first one that crashed over in the Atlantic Ocean off of South Carolina.

So I wrote a substack piece about this over on CaptainK.us, and this was viewed from more of a geopolitical military intelligence perspective.

I like to zoom out to see the whole picture.

And, of course, it was launched in China, made its way up northeast.

Came across the Bering Strait.

Now, where it starts in our territory goes over two bases in Alaska.

Now, Fort Wainwright happens to be an Army base where there's a striker brigade headquarter.

I actually served in that brigade, my last assignment.

It's Fairbanks area.

Yeah, we had negative 60 sometimes.