Grading is done, decompression beginning. For your reading pleasure… New Blade Runner 2049 trailer. I have reservations. New Dunkirk trailer. I have no reservations. Ian Johnson on religion in China. Hot sexy forward swept wings. Some long range implications of China’s new carrier construction program. Nice resource page on Trump-Russia connections.
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“Golf” class SSB. By Anynobody – Own work, GFDL, Link My latest at the National Interest looks into the question of North Korea’s pursuit of submarine-launched ballistic missil
Some thoughts on the parallels between the Japanese and Chinese paths to naval aviation: Although separated by the gulf of nearly a century, it’s worth considering the progress of the Chinese program against that of the Japanese carrier aviation program in the 20th century. Both the PLAN and the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) started from nearly […]
I been reading Alexander Hill’s new book on the Red Army (review pending), and I posted some intermediate thoughts at the National Interest: But the cycle of death and rebirth of the Red Army co
Best to watch this with the sound off: An Australian friend posted this with an “only in America” rhetorical smirk, and dated it to 1989 (when Hank Williams Jr. was first allowed to ruin M
Curious what folks think of this: By the time I began as a drug policy reporter in 2010, I was all in on legalizing every drug, from marijuana to heroin and cocaine. It all seemed so obvious to me. Prohibition had failed. Over the past decade, millions of Americans had been arrested and, in many […]
I get snarky at the Diplomat: Has the Trump administration developed, over the past two weeks, a doctrine that emphasizes maintaining a robust reputation for resolve that will make its feel secure and
I get extremely irritable when folks, sometimes in the comment sections of lefty blogs*, make unfounded assertions about the vulnerability of aircraft carriers. Fortunately, Foxtrot Alpha gave me th
I didn’t really know Will Moore, but this is making its way around the political science blogosphere: Assuming I did not botch the task, by the time this posts I will have been dead via suicide for several hours. Nope, that’s not a setup to a joke. Why would someone who is healthy, employed, has […]
Latest at the Diplomat looks at some potential landing spots for future free agent amphib HMS Ocean: Rumor now has it that Brazil is the most likely buyer. Earlier this year, Brazil finally gave up on
I was on your TV today: Wish I had just a bit more time to talk about messaging, and also about command responsibility.