-
-
Change – You CAN Believe
H/T Xformed
-
Flightdeck Friday – Remote Edition
Real world exigencies being what they are, we had pondered passing on this week’s edition, except… …except that there are some great write-ups out there for the reading, such as: Southern Air Pirate’s write-up on the history of Navy’s EW effort (Part 1 and Part 2) Meanwhile, over at Tailhook’s blog, a very excellent post…
-
Busted – The Photoshoppe Mullahs
Memo to the Strategic Communications folks – might want to work on that “Uniform Message” thing… (version released to AGENCE France-Presse ) (version released to Associated Press – note the dud in the foreground)
-
They Call the Wind Maria…
Away out here they got a name For rain and wind and fire The rain is Tess, the fire Joe, And they call the wind Maria Maria blows the stars around And sends the clouds a’flyin’ Maria makes the mountains sound Like folks were up there dying – ‘Maria‘Â from Paint Your Wagon Growing up…
-
The Missiles of Summer – Updated
“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…
-
Flightdeck Friday: Independence Day Edition 2008
Breathes there a soul so dead that these words don’t send a chill through the spine? When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to…
-
Change – You Can Be Part Of…
At present there is a slanderous attack underway over at a certain blog (we won’t link directly to it for obvious reasons, rather, Galrahn has assembled a good summary and parry over here). We call it slanderous because it is an attack, by name, on a current CO in an operational billet was undertaken with…
-
The Next USS America: LHA-6
Lead ship of the next class of LHA’s: Navy Names New Amphibious Assault Ship America The Navy’s newest class of large-deck amphibious assault ship, LHA 6, will bear the name USS America, Secretary of the Navy Donald C. Winter announced while speaking at the USS America Carrier Veterans Association reunion in Jacksonville, Fla. This ship…
-
Implementing the Maritime Strategy: Integrated Missile Defense from the Sea
Ballistic missile defense from the sea – over the last six months the concept has moved further from test and development to operational reality. Demonstrated capabilities are expanding the envelope and being delivered to certain designated ships within the fleet. The question is – in describing these recent advances in ballistic missile defense, including the…