| Here’s a verrry interesting link: the Arms Control Wonk starts looking at submarine radiated noise, using US unclas documents. He comes to a conclusion I disagree with and overcompress to:... | |
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| If true, this is bad.
An Afghan source in Kabul reports that U.S. Ambassador in Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry is holding secret talks with Taliban elements headed by the movement’s foreign... | |
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| CDR Aboul-Enein’s finally done it. I’m going to rave about it sight unseen, based solely on his reputation.
Back in the mid-nineties, the Navy tried to build a Foreign Area Officer... | |
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| I first saw this little movie in the Canadian Embassy for some reason. I knew about it because Norman McLaren is an animation pioneer, and the classic Kit Laybourne book (The Animation Book) had a... | |
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| So, I’ve been looking into the ops going on at the Yemeni border. Something reminded me of the losing side of the Hama massacre, and I mentioned that to a counterpart. Counterpart tells me he... | |
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| An art movie to end all art movies. Some highlights from the review:
Since the days of Un Chien Andalou and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, filmmakers have reached beyond meaning. But with this... | |
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| One of my personal heroes, Medgar Evers, is namesake for a new ship.
I’ve written about Evers before (example: here and here). Perhaps the release writer could have taken the time to learn... | |
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| Multiple AMCROSSes, etc., etc. I don’t recommend Frankfurt terminal B for long layovers.
I did give a stranger my hundred year old copy of Butler’s Life of Gordon, though. She was a... | |
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| Salamander, CDR, USN (ret.)? | |
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| Michael Yon’s a pugilistic fellow sometimes. He doesn’t mind getting into a scrap, and occasionally I’ve wondered why he got so antagonistic when dealing with something.
This... | |
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