Tag: airpower
Idaho uses C-130 in flagrantly inappropriate fashion! David Ignatius must be informed!
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 Nort
Some thoughts on airpower over at the Diplomat: A recent University Press of Kentucky edited volume, The Influence of Airpower Upon History, attempts to evaluate to impact of airpower since the begin
This is some pretty gruesome stuff: Governors united across party lines to protest the potential loss of their pet C-130s and other planes. Members of Congress lined up behind the potent lobbying pre
Gonna give everyone the opportunity to contrast this picture with this headline “Air Force confirms Russian jets circled US territory of Guam.”
I have a second Diplomat piece this week, this time on the ongoing troubles with the F-35: Perhaps more importantly, rules of engagement are inherently political. Civilian leaders, and their politi
The Disney-de Seversky classic: Love the scene where the German pilot is hit in the head with a brick. Modern war cinema involves all too few brick-throwing incidents.
More at the Diplomat on airpower and “soft power”: The Navy’s vision of smart diplomacy can integrate and accommodate the growth of Chinese maritime power, depending on how responsibly C
- Whaddaya gonna do?
- Hoist by their own pseudo-scandal
- Democracy dies in triflin’ editorial and layout decisions
- True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee by Abraham Riesman
- The 12 stations of the grift
- Could Taco Bell Fail in Mexico?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,172
- Questions and Answers
- The surveillance techniques that will be used to prosecute women and girls for medically-induced abortions
- Also too, if the FBI says they found anything they’re making it up, and if they then produce it they planted it