I'm sure that everyone recalls this recruitment video for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (you just can't watch it enough, really). At the apparently resurrected Defense Statecraft, Macgyver has assembled recruiting videos for the Czech Army, the Irish Army, and the Philippine Marine Corps. The...
Author: Robert Farley
In April 2005 the USN sank USS America, a Kitty Hawk class supercarrier, off Virginia in order to determine how resilient US carriers were to particular kinds of attacks. In.
...in June alone.Predicted wingnut reactions:1. Still better than Saddam (which is true, if you wildly inflate estimate of the death toll under Saddam).2. It's the fault of Iran (these are.
The way in which Google Ads changes to reflect page content is always kind of fun to follow. The last couple days, presumably in response to several Israel-centric posts, we seem to be getting large numbers of ads for dating sites featuring "Single Jewish Women"....
On a subject completely unrelated to Israel and Lebanon...I didn't care for the National World War II Memorial, and I'm a big fan of World War II. One commenter suggested.
Dan has a nice run down of what's going on in the other two Middle East conflicts.
I have to concur with Matt; the destruction of Lebanese infrastructure cannot be seen as a proportional response to the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers. I like Israeli soldiers as much as the next guy, and I hope that the two kidnapped by Hezbollah will be...
Restating what should be some obvious points...Israel has clear conventional superiority of Hezbollah and Lebanon, and can obviously do a lot of damage. However, the idea that Israel can destroy.
Like Ezra, I think that Ze'ev Schiff's assessment of the Iranian role in the Hezbollah attacks is plausible, with some caveats. The employment of a relatively modern surface to surface.
The problem with a precedent is, of course, that someone might follow it. Rodger writes:Given how the US reacted to the traumatic 9/11 attacks -- wars against Afghanistan and Iraq that are still ongoing and adoption of a dangerous public doctrine of "preemptive" action that...
The Soviet Navy emerged from World War II a tiny force, possessed of a few ancient battleships and numerous smaller, obsolete craft. Geography has not been kind to Russian maritime.
Make sure to read Kingdaddy's excellent series on the Barbary Wars:Part IPart IIPart IIIPart IVKingdaddy has some good observations, and makes some interesting parallels between the dilemmas facing the early.