For your reading pleasure: Why aren't there more Muslims in baseball? This is a great "aircraft carriers of the world" graphic. On the death of Ellsworth. The Dieppe Raid remembered. What should you read on Cyber-Security? Are bloggers born or made? More on this later......
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Last month I alluded to Vincent Orange's Bomber Champion: The Life of Marshal of the RAF Sir John Slessor. Whereas there's a wealth of information about Hugh Trenchard and Arthur Harris,.
Idaho uses C-130 in flagrantly inappropriate fashion! David Ignatius must be informed!
Communists. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has formally announced his "signature" paid parental leave policy, saying he has a "convert's zeal" for the scheme. Mr Abbott says he hopes the policy will lead to more people having babies. "This is a pro-child, pro-family, pro-growth policy," he...
On this week's episode of Foreign Entanglements, Dmitry Gorenburg and I talk US-Russia relations:
Latest at the Diplomat discusses the proliferation of baby carriers: More broadly, the reaction to the launch of Izumo reinforces my belief that we need a better naval vocabulary. Although the.
Given the unfortunate events in Egypt, probably worth revisiting the Foreign Entanglements diavlog that Clayton Thyne and I recorded:
I have a piece up at David Axe's joint on military institutions and the USAF: With the Iraq War over and the fighting in Afghanistan winding down, why does the.
On this week's episode of Foreign Entanglements, Matt speaks with Yousef Munnayer about the latest iteration of the Israel-Palestine peace process:
Nice piece on the Zeppelin raids of World War I, with extra detail on operational support for the Kaiserliche Marine: In 1915 alone, 47 sorties were launched against targets in England and in the North sea, with Imperial zeppelins dropping an estimated 37,000 kg or...
Latest at the Diplomat thinks through China's Pakistan options... This is nothing new. China and Pakistan have seen each other as (semi-) reliable allies since the 1950s, when tensions between.
The JMSDF has a new helicopter carrier. See here and here for a bit more on Japan's slow-motion carrier program. As the authors note, whenever one of this baby carrier.