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VAW-121 Hawkeye Down

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(Breaking) Getting early reports that an E-2C Hawkeye assigned to the VAW-121 (“Bluetails”) is down in the North Arabian Sea.  The crew evidently conducted a controlled bailout and three of the four have been recovered by SAR efforts.   Fourth remains missing after four hours. I can only speculate on what the cause of the mishap…

In The Mail Today: “The Admirals” by Walter R. Borneman
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In The Mail Today: “The Admirals” by Walter R. Borneman

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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…

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The Missiles of Summer – Updated

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“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…

Strategic Communications and the Senkaku Islands
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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…

The Solomons Campaign: Strategic Pause and Review – Japan’s Last Chance for Victory?

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CINCLAX checks in with a strategic summary of where the players stand at this point in the Solomons Campaign. As we will see here and in detail later ths week with the Battles of Santa Cruz and Guadalcanal I & II, this is still a very close run deal with either the Japanese or Allied…

Postcards from Deployment: Of Midpoints and Ground Hog Day(s)

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Milestones.  We live our lives and measure our time while deployed by milestones.  Workups, CQ, “safe-to-deploy,” night qual’d – those are all milestones.  First day underway, first trap of deployment, last night the lights of home are visible on the far horizon. . .  We chop from one fleet to another in our transit; turnover…