Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck and Nelson
Author: Robert Farley
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has retracted a 1992 acknowledgement that, before and during World War II, Japan enslaved women from all over Asia for sexual purposes. Celtic Dragon has.
Ed Morrisey tries to put lipstick on a pig:Context remains important here, which both Reed and the Times fail to consider. Intelligence is not an exact science, and conclusions have.
Arthur Schlesinger has moved on. Apart from a couple of minor cites from A Thousand Days for a paper I wrote a long time ago, the only Schlesinger I've read is Age of Jackson. That would have been autumn quarter 1993 at the University of...
Max Boot blunders into an interesting point. In denouncing our allies for being insufficiently militaristic, he manages to ask an interesting question. Here's the dreck:Britain is hardly alone in its.
Over at Ezra's place, Dymaxion John had an interesting post about the PLA and Islamic insurgents in Western China. The idea of the PLA developing counter-insurgency doctrine fascinates me from.
Remember that millenium thing, when every computer was supposed to go haywire and virtually none did? Well, a squadron of six F-22s traveling from Hawaii to Japan experienced a computer crash along the way. Fortunately, the computer crash, which happened as the fighters crossed the...
J. at Armchair Generalist has tagged me with the "Thinking Meme" which is intended to reward blogs oriented more around good content than around links. I like to believe that.
Smiling, apparently, conveys low social status. Who knew?
David at Danger Room has a couple very good posts on the possible origins of the EFPs being found in Iraq. He points out, as Andrew Cockburn noted last week, that the construction of these devices is easily within the means of any Iraqi insurgent...
Is it my imagination, or is this thing running long?...Update by SL: I've mostly had it on the background while writing--which is easy given that they're giving out roughly one.
Part I: HMAS SydneyPart II: HSK KormoranThe following facts are beyond dispute: A battle occured between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. Sydney and her crew were lost without a trace,.