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Last week we published a detailed, thoughtful critique by Robert Work and Jan van Tol under the auspices of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment (CSBA). At the time it was noted that this was the lead-off of a new round of cooperative discussion of the Maritime Strategy to begin today here and at [...]

You start planning a year in advance.  And no, it isn’t the Scribe’s nupital anniversary w/She Who Must Be Obeyed, though come to think of it, she will have a part to play…

April 2009, the Mustang turns 45.  To celebrate, how about:

… a major league road trip?  Six day road trip finishing up with a [...]

And now for something a little different.  Nose - when I saw this the first time (it was passed along by an ex-Corsair/Crusader jock I work with) couldn’t help but think of you  
Enjoy your Friday all !  Oh yeah — Spitfires y’all — there be Spitfires in thar… 
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So what happens when you gather together bloggers like Galrahn 0, Eagle1, YHS and several others with VADM Morgan to discuss the Maritime Strategy via a teleconference on a late Thursday afternoon?  This:
 

 
Transcript should be forthcoming soon and will be posted as an update. Transcript’s up and posted below for your reading pleasure:
 

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So your one neighbor, Pakistan, possesses nuclear weapons and is working assiduously on short- and medium-range missiles, no doubt with nuclear delivery in mind as part of a deterrent package against your own nuclear forces.  China, with whom you share a fairly long (and disputed) border has also been engaged in building a modern force of short- [...]

 
Accepting the offer from our earlier post,   Southern Air Pirate weighs in with his thoughts re. the issue of nuclear weapons…
SJS,
A friend of mine forwarded the couple of articles you have written about nuclear weapons to me. I have just only had a chance to skim them not really read them for comprehension. [...]

USS Russell (DDG 59) underway for deployment.  So what’s different about it?  XO’s blogging ’bout it 2 - you can follow via "The Destroyermen" link in the column to the right under "Navy Blogsphere"  You also know him as the Yankee Sailor 0…
bon chance y’all - it looks like it will be a most interesting [...]

 
Prelude for Round II of the discussions on the Maritime Strategy. 
The document below from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments will provide the departure point for said discussions beginning 31 March here and over at several of the usual suspects: Information Dissemination, CDR Salamander, OP-FOR.com, Chapomatic, Eagle1 to name but a few. Since the [...]

And so it begins…

 “This report seeks to provoke thoughtful public discussion about a vitally important question: how do we keep America strong and safe in a complex 21st-century national security environment?” - Rep. Jim Cooper
“Unlike many Congressional reports, we have raised contentious issues and resisted the temptation to find easy, lowest-common-denominator solutions. My fellow panel [...]

SJS,
From our ship’s newspaper though the folks back home might get a laugh out of this:
Sailors Rescue a Nocturnal Creature
MC3 Damian Martinez
When the words foreign object debris (FOD) come to mind the last thing someone thinks about is an owl. On the morning of March 17 on board USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), an [...]