Saturday, November 29, 2014

Saturday Is Heinlein Quote Day #35

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From Time Enough for Love : A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a sympto...
Friday, November 28, 2014

Friday Fun Film: "A Salute to the Navy"

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Salute to the Navy The United States Navy is as much an expression of this nation's will and its ideals as it is a superb fighting s...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

Thanksgiving

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Why are you reading this? It's a holiday! Be thankful . . . And come back tomorrow . . .
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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Disaster Prep Wednesday: Thanksgiving Edition

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Okay, try not to burn your house down while cooking your turkey. Especially true if you decide to deep fat fry the thing. Some words o...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Asking the Right Questions: "A U.S.-China War in Asia: Could America Win by Blockade?"

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China's Oil Sea Lines of Communication Chokepoint Problem Areas From The National Interest A U.S.-China War in Asia: Could America W...
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Monday, November 24, 2014

On that "Third Offset Strategy"

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Secretary of Defense Hagel recently laid out a new "third offset"strategy : U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Saturday outli...

Future War Thoughts from Japan: Longer Range Fighters Rule?

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Aviation Week reports Japan is looking at a big, long-range fighter to defeat superior numbers : TRDI Flying far is more important tha...
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Saturday, November 22, 2014

Saturday Is Heinlein Quote Day #34

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Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men. Assignment in Eternity...
Friday, November 21, 2014

On Midrats 23 November 14: "Episode 255: Commanding the Seas -the Surface Force with Bryan Clark from CSBA"

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Please join us on Sunday, 23 November 2014 at 5pm (US EST) for Episode 255: Commanding the Seas - the Surface Force with Bryan Clark from ...

Friday Fun Film: Navy Day (1946)

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How many modern weapons have been developed from what you see in this short clip honoring Navy Day! Officers of tomorrow's navy trai...
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Thursday, November 20, 2014

Small Wars: Max Boot on the Future Wars of Insurgencies

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Foreign Affairs has Max Boot on More Small Wars: Counterinsurgency Is Here to Stay
 : If only a nation as powerful and vulnerable as the U...

If you are interested in the situation in Yemen

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If you are interested in the situation in Yemen, there's no better web resource than Jane Novak's Armies of Liberation . Go see ...

UN Wants Action - Authorizes Use of Naval Force to Stop the Charcoal Trade that Funds The Terrorist Group Al Shabab

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Looks like the naval vessels operating off the Somali coast on piracy patrols under UN auspices will be tacking on a new mission: attempti...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Disaster Prep Wednesday: Trapped in Car Due to Blizzard?

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What if you are on the road and there's a big, honkin' "Monster Winter Storm" ? And you are stuck in your car and are so...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Al Qaeda Threatens Ocean Chokepoints! Again! Okay maybe the third or fourth time. Or more.

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It seems Al Qaeda puts out a "slick" publicity flyer called "Resurgence" and in its latest issue there's an article ...

South China Sea Fuel Pirates: More and More

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Interesting article from the Eurasia Review "Syphoning Confidence: Piracy And Fuel Theft In Southeast Asia" : Most serious i...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Somali Pirates - An interesting look at the problem

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 Got an email suggesting that my readers might be interested in looking at information about a movie and interactive web site. While I n...
Saturday, November 15, 2014

Saturday Is Heinlein Quote Day #33

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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. Waldo & Magic, Inc. (1950)
Friday, November 14, 2014

Video: Cruisers and Pirates Don't Mix Well

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gCaptain has a video up here with commentary. Seems like an older video that first appeared on YouTube in 2012. Really not much of myst...
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