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Limited Posting for a Bit
We’re in the land of lotus-eaters this week for a conference supporting the book project we previously mentioned. Busy times with trying to cram three days of stuff into two, so our time, perforce, is limited for posting until we return to Occupied Territory later this week. In the meantime – some quick thoughts: It…
Flightdeck Friday – Early Edition: The Doolittle Raid
Sixty-five years ago Guts, determination, innovation – courage were defined (and well before Joint was “cool”) Conceived in the dark aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the raid had its genesis in the idea of CAPT Frank Lowe, USN who predicted that Army twin-engine bombers could be launched form a carrier under the right…
Saturday Shorts
…no, not those. First up — Hustler Love: Over in the comments section for the Flightdeck Friday we did some time back (for VALOUR-IT), one of our visitors (blog author of Mostly Flying) left this very interesting commentary: As a young lieutenant in 1967 I had control of SAGE air defence radars across Washington, Montana,…
Russia – Venezuela Defense News
Couple of quick summaries to start the week off: 1. Upgrade of Nuclear Deterrent ordered: (Moscow Times) 29 September 2008. President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday announced plans to create an upgraded nuclear deterrence system by 2020, including a space defense system and new nuclear submarines. “A guaranteed nuclear deterrent system for various military and political…
КраÑÐ½Ð°Ñ Ð·Ð²ÐµÐ·Ð´Ð° вторник (Red Star Tuesday): Blackjacks in Venezuela
(courtesy longtime reader SJBill) Tu 160 Deployment To Venezuela View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: russia tu-160) Graphic of TU-160 Â Also this note via RIA Novosti concerning the heavy cruiser “Peter the Great” and his accompanying ships:”A Russian naval task force departed Monday on a tour of duty in the Atlantic Ocean,…
An Israeli Tipping Point?
The term tipping point describes a point at which a slow gradual change becomes irreversible and then proceeds with gathering pace. It is derived from the metaphor of a rigid solid object being tilted to a point where it begins to topple. Couple of observations from the region… Iran to launch 1st domestic satellite soon…