Thought For The Day
(Courtesy Chap)
(Courtesy Chap)
In the face of rising inflation (78% over the past 4 years) nationalization of the country’s largest electric company and the disappearance of staples from store shelves in reaction to government imposed price controls, comes this report on Venezuela’s ongoing military build-up. The Su-30s are kind of old news, but growing bonds with a radical…
(OK, confess — how many of you knew of homarus americanus without having to Google it?) Seems many these days are going EMCON Alfa (or Bravo as the case may be) whilst off in various and sundry pursuits. YHS intends to join the late summer sojourns and show some parts of the country heretofore unseen…
If you’ve arrived from the USNI Blog (or not…), welcome and please take some time to look around. At the top you’ll find some of the major topics we cover here — Flightdeck Friday, which focuses on the lesser known aspects of all matters related to naval aviation, Reflections – which is an ongoing recollection…
…And it is an interesting read, informing the potential rationale behind some recent decisions, such as the Navy stepping away from the DDG-1000: Future Challenges Risk An underlying assumption in our understanding of the strategic environment is that the predominant near-term challenges to the United States will come from state and non-state actors using irregular…
File this one under “A Fool and His Money are Soon Parted“ Yeah, I’m a fan, but seriously folks…. -SJS
From strategypage.com comes this story of life imitating art: Snakes on a Plane Bring F-16 Down Apparently, a poisonous insect or snake in the cockpit brought down a Dutch F-16 in Afghanistan last August. After a 11 month investigation, that ended up as the only plausible explanation for the loss. The dead pilot did not…
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