Friday, September 05, 2014

Friday Fun Film: "ASW: To Catch A Shadow" (1969)

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Old school look at ASW (Anti-Submarine Warfare): Description : Featured in the film is footage of P-3 Orion search aircraft, DASH dro...
Wednesday, September 03, 2014

South China Sea Pirates: Tanker Hijacked, Cargo Stolen

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Reported by the ICC CCS Live Piracy Report here : Location detail: Around 30nm North of Pulau Tioman Type of Attack: Hijacked Narrations:...

Disaster Prep Wednesday: Getting Ready for the "Zombie Pandemic"

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Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic is the Center for Disease Control having some fun with nightmare scenarios as they offer up a more inter...
Saturday, August 30, 2014

Saturday Is Heinlein Quote Day #23

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A good idea from from Heinlein's The Notebooks of Lazarus Long Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.
Friday, August 29, 2014

Friday Fun Film: Leadership

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What is the Difference Between Management and Leadership? : The manager’s job is to plan, organize and coordinate. The leader’s job is to i...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

The Navy We Need

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Power projection, preserving freedom of the seas, aiding allies, bothering bullies and the ability to “move U.S. soil anywhere in the world...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Disaster Prep Wednesday: Disaster Escape Routes for the Home

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Wherever you live - in a house, town home or apartment - it is a good idea to think about how to get out of the place should there be a fi...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Middle East History: Empires and Tribes

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As a sort of follow-on to our Midrats show from Sunday, in which the topic of the shaping of the modern Middle East as a part of the end of ...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Oil Matters: Iran Is Thinking of Oil Terminal Outside the Arabian/Persian Gulf

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Most of Iran's ability to get oil and gas products to the world outside the Arabian/Persian Gulf can be blockaded by putting a "s...
Saturday, August 23, 2014

Saturday Is Heinlein Quote Day #22

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History is never surprising—after it happens. “Logic of Empire” (1941)

On Midrats 24 Aug 2014- Episode 242: "Lost Opportunities: WWI and the Birth of the Modern World"

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Please join us at 5pm (EDT) for Episode 242: "Lost Opportunities: WWI and the Birth of the Modern World" : A hundred years on, in...
Friday, August 22, 2014

Gulf of Guinea Oil "Pirates"

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Over the past few months there has been much discussion of the "oil pirates" of the Gulf of Guinea who grab tankers, empty their...

Friday Fun Film: Just a reminder of ""Operation Earnest Will" 1987

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How long has the U.S. Navy been at war footing in the Arabian/Persian Gulf? Just a reminder of the Reagan-era effort to ensure oil flowed o...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Disaster Prep Wednesday: Active Shooter Preparedness

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Suppose you had been on the campus of Virginia Tech when Seung-Hui Cho went hunting for people or are on a high school campus when a coupl...
Monday, August 18, 2014

Drone Wars: Combined Manned, Unmanned Carrier Operations

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Shouldn't be surprise, should it? I mean, that was the plan - right? USS Theodore Roosevelt Conducts Combined Manned, Unmanned Opera...
Saturday, August 16, 2014

Saturday Is Heinlein Quote Day #21

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“Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.” ―Robert A. Heinlein Which reminds me of a Carl Sandburg poem, A Father ...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Killing ISIS 2: What Bing West Says

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Bing West has thoughts on how to kill ISIS (a/k/a ISIL) at "How to Defeat ISIL" : U.S. policymakers must commit themselves cle...

Friday Fun Film: The Amphibious Marines (1952)

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Amphibious with their Navy teammates, that is. Update:"Cavalry of the air" - - AirCav Marines? In 1952?

Live on Midrats 17 August 2014: Episode 241: Personnel Policy and Leadership, with VADM Bill Moran, Chief of Naval Personnel

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Please join us live at 5pm EDT U.S. on 17 August 2014 for Midrats Episode 241: Personnel Policy and Leadership, with VADM Bill Moran How do...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

Killing ISIS?

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NYTimes map Robert W. Merry at The National Interest writes, "America Must Destroy ISIS" : . . . ISIS represents an ominous t...
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