One week, several decades and many milestones – some significant, some quite obscure. A look at the week of July 13-19 and Naval Aviation across the decades: 14 July 1940 – The initial meeting of what became the National Defense Research Committee’s Division 14, or Radar Division, was attended by Alfred L. Loomis, Ralph Bowen, [...] [...]
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It has been said a picture is worth a thousand words…Созерцайте!: Sphere: Related Content [...] Real world exigencies being what they are, we had pondered passing on this week’s edition, except… …except that there are some great write-ups out there for the reading, such as: Southern Air Pirate’s write-up on the history of Navy’s EW effort (Part 1 and Part 2) Meanwhile, over at Tailhook’s blog, a very excellent post [...] [...] Memo to the Strategic Communications folks – might want to work on that “Uniform Message” thing… (version released to AGENCE France-Presse ) (version released to Associated Press – note the dud in the foreground) Sphere: Related Content [...] Away out here they got a name For rain and wind and fire The rain is Tess, the fire Joe, And they call the wind Maria Maria blows the stars around And sends the clouds a’flyin’ Maria makes the mountains sound Like folks were up there dying – ‘Maria‘ from Paint Your Wagon Growing up [...] [...] “War Is The Unfolding of Miscalculations” That quote, attributed to author Barbara Tuchman, is generally ascribed to the events that ran up to the First World War. However, it, along with other illuminating principles such as the Rule of Unintended Consequences find a wider, and sadly, more common range of applications including those events presently [...] [...] Breathes there a soul so dead that these words don’t send a chill through the spine? When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to [...] [...] |
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