Wednesday, December 31, 2014

I just don't care about James Fallows: "The Tragedy of the American Military"

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CDR Salamander, being younger than I, and a naval officer who came of age in the 1980's has a nice long piece on James Fallows The Trage...
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Sunday, December 28, 2014

Heinlein Quote Special Edition: A Radio Version of "The Green Hills of Earth"

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Back in the days before television or when we lived in places where there was no television, there was radio. Usually AM radio - static and ...
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Friday, December 26, 2014

Friday Fun Film: One Sailor's Christmas

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From 1955, Popeye the Sailor enjoys the holiday with Olive Oyl, Bluto, and his "nephews":
Thursday, December 25, 2014

Merry Christmas!

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From Luke 2:1-20 2 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be ta...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

SantaTracker: NORAD Christmas Gift

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Track Santa here. Or, click on the image below.
Monday, December 22, 2014

Be Safe Out There

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From our friends at The Naval Safety Center , from their remarkable photo collection: Well, sure, "offices" take plenty of t...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

Saturday is Heinlein Quote Day #39

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Revisiting #29 From the Man Who Sold the Moon (1950): How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the ...
Friday, December 19, 2014

Friday Fun Film: Goblin on the Doorstep (1963)

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Old school anti-submarine warfare.

On Midrats 21 Dec 14 - Episode 259: The Islamic State - rise and world view, with Craig Whiteside

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Please join us on 21 Dec 14 at 5pm (EST) for Midrats Episode 259: The Islamic State - rise and world view, with Craig Whiteside The Islam...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Fun with North Korea: Private Company Submits to Blackmail, Setting Stage for Other Demands

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Current DPRK Kim-in-Charge. A/K/A "Chubby" The really, really impressive DPRK hacks Sony Pictures Entertainment and threaten...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Another Plug for a Great Online News Source on the "Long War" Against Terror

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If you aren't reading The Long War Journal on a daily basis, you are behind the knowledge curve on the "where and what" of ...

Disaster Prep Wednesday: Help Your Neighbors and Let Your Neighbors Help You

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A few years ago there was a storm that dumped a bunch of snow on the nice area where I live in the American South. Now we don't usuall...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Mushy Return Fire: China's "Nine Dashed Line" Fantasy Get Pelted by Marshmallows by the U.S. Department of State

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Scott Cheney-Peters guests at USNI News and writes about The Expanding Assault on China's South China Sea Claims , citing what, in my op...
Monday, December 15, 2014

Thanks to my crack technical staff - eaglespeak.us is back online

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After beating my head against it with no success, I called on the crack technical unit of EagleSpeak to fix the glitch that I created this...
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Well, Sometimes Things Change

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For those of you used to going to eaglespeak.us, I am working to get that to work again after a change that seems harder than it should be. ...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

On Midrats 14 Dec 14 - Episode 258: COIN, Cyber, and Lawfare: the continuity of war in to 2015

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UPDATE2: Really, if you missed the live show, take the time to listen to this one from the archives or at iTunes. Links at the bottom. U...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

Saturday Is Heinlein Quote Day #38

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On deadlines and the dangers they pose: NY Times quote : "They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday." There is a...
Friday, December 12, 2014

Friday Fun Film: 12 Days of Christmas

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An unusual Navy Band version.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

TIme to Re-Read Red Storm Rising?

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After citing Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising on a recent Midrats show, I decided it was time to revisit the book. Much of the Clancy ...
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Energy Wars: The "Shale-Oil Insurgency"

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Interesting analysis from Nikos Tsafos writing in The National Interest Shale-Oil Surprise: OPEC Faces an Insurgency, Not a Price War ...