I have a short piece up at the National Interest on battleship mutinies: Battleships were a huge investment of national treasure and national pride. Indeed, in some cases they arguably represented an
As you may have noted we’re having a bit of a spam attack lately. My understanding is that the system takes time to learn (and this attack is clearly designed to exploit seams in Disqus’ d
New piece at the National Interest that thinks through some of the dilemmas of high-end modern military procurement: Could a rethink of U.S. acquisition policies bring back the heady days of the “Ce
At the National Interest I mused a bit about what would have happened if the USN had accelerated construction of the Lexington-class battlecruisers… The United States Navy (USN) entered World Wa
I suspect that most of the LGMers were watching last Thursday morning when Ichiro played his last inning of Major League Baseball. Scott, Dave and I were there for his first game in a Mariner’
I came across a couple of different reports last week, and it made sense to put them together. The first is a report doing some serious digging into the real size of the Chinese economy, which large
Recollect that we have two Tourney Challenge leagues this year. Men Women Regarding the latter, apparently ESPN had some trouble. The password for both leagues is “zevon”. Share
The Podcast A couple of months ago I recorded a War Room podcast with Dr. Jacqueline Whitt of the Army War College. We discussed why the Army War College, and its sister institutions, have so heavil