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There are any number of websites accessible today on nuclear matters – technical, strategy, war fighting. For those of us who started our research/studies some few decades ago, it seems like an embarrassment of riches. We had to do the hard work – parsing reams of Congressional testimony, track down obscure references and deal with…
Geography: Midway Atoll is part of a chain of volcanic islands, atolls, and sea mounts extending from Hawaii up to the tip of the Aleutian Islands and known as the Hawaii-Emperor chain. Formed 28 million years ago, the island’s volcanic mass subsided over the years, gradually being replaced by a coral reef that grew around…
Quite a bit of back-and-forth over the new MS and lack of discussion over force structure/resource allocation. Not the first time this has been confronted though and the following paragraph, drawn from a 1954 article in Proceedings by Samuel P. Huntington may be particularly germane to the current discussion: "A second element of a military…
If you haven’t already, you need to go to Pinch’s site and read the AAR of the memorial service held for BGEN Robin Olds, USAF-Ret. A rare bird in his time, unfortunately probably more so now. Go. Read. Remember.
We get mail and some of it is darn interesting. Take this for example – sometime back we posted on the return of CDR Pete Mongilardi’s remains from Vietnam. Following up on that posting came a note from the former OPS O of VA-153 relating how the Bluetail Flies came by that nickname. It occurred…
Fight’s on: More info and to join Team Navy here: and here: More to follow…
