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Strategic Communications and the Senkaku Islands

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So – a very good discussion on Midrats yesterday that included a look at China’s maritime claims in the ECS/SCS and regional responses – which of late have seen a ratcheting up of forces in the area.  In the wake of that discussion, I came across the illustration below:      of a cover for a [...] [...]

Air Warfare

Everything Old is New Again*

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* Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace The Bad Old Days Get out your white suit, your tap shoes and tails Let’s go backwards when forward fails And movie stars you thought were alone then Now are framed beside your bed Don’t throw the pa-ast away You might need it some rainy [...] [...]

Air Warfare

The Doolittle Raid - 70 Years Later: Naval Officers and Planning

Here and elsewhere much has been written of the Doolittle raid, from the bookstand to Hollywood and the curriculum of War Colleges the world over.  Coming fast on the heels of the stunning blows barely four months prior a malevolent arc of destruction and defeat stretching from Pearl Harbor back across the Pacific to the [...] [...]

history lessons

In The Mail Today:

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So – just as I was making a serious dent in the pile of shame, in the mail today comes an advance copy of “The Admirals” courtesy the publisher, Little Brown, scheduled for release next month.  The noted author Walter R. Borneman (Polk, 1812, and The French and Indian War among several) takes on the [...] [...]

Geopolitics

Channeling “Streetfighter”? The PLAN’s Houbei FAC

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“In the information age we substitute mass for speed, a high degree of simultaneity for sequential action,” he said. “And access is highly valued: access to information, access to ideas, access to the domains of conflict. The Streetfighter concepts are meant to secure access and achieve high speed. That is, to be able to alter [...] [...]