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Entries from July 2008

Escalation Dominance Explained

July 16th, 2008 1 Comment

It has been said a picture is worth a thousand words  …Созерцайте!:

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Sunday With Calvin

July 13th, 2008 No Comments

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Change - You CAN Believe

July 12th, 2008 3 Comments

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Flightdeck Friday - Remote Edition

July 10th, 2008 3 Comments

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 0, a very excellent [...]

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Busted - The Photoshoppe Mullahs

July 10th, 2008 1 Comment

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)
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They Call the Wind Maria…

July 9th, 2008 1 Comment

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 in Nebraska, one of the constants was [...]

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The Missiles of Summer - Updated

July 8th, 2008 5 Comments

“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 [...]

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Flightdeck Friday: Independence Day Edition 2008

July 4th, 2008 2 Comments

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 [...]

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Change – You Can Be Part Of…

July 3rd, 2008 3 Comments

At present there is a slanderous attack underway over at a certain blog (we won’t link directly to it for obvious reasons, rather, Galrahn 0has assembled a good summary and parry over here  ). We call it slanderous because it is an attack, by name, on a current CO in an operational billet was [...]

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