Ops Brief 009: Daily Drop - 14 March 2025 (Budget Cuts, China Flexing & Military Readiness)

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Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Ones Ready podcast—where we break down the military circus so you don’t have to. Today’s Daily Drop is packed with budget cuts, military incompetence, and China playing chess while we argue over checkers. 💥 The Pentagon still can’t balance a budget—meanwhile, China is buying up global ports like they’re playing Monopoly. 💥 The Space Force is tracking gym workouts instead of actually figuring out how to counter real threats. 💥 Fighter drones are...

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0:53.0	All right, onto the news news this is your joint news and
0:55.3	like I've said in the past this is the news that is sent out to all the commanders and the
1:00.2	chiefs that is curated by public affairs so that's the topics of the discussion I haven't read
1:07.6	any of them yet so you'll get real-time reactions and we'll go from there.
1:12.1	And I'm just going to give you a quick synopsis synapsis of it and my opinion. So joint news.
1:19.2	Pentagon plans to Pentagon plans for Panama Canal. Defendant Secretary tasks the DOD with
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