In the early days of the Cold War, there was only one effective means of delivering an atomic bomb to enemy territory: by aircraft. The first decade following the end of the Second World War saw huge advances in aircraft technology, with lumbering propeller-driven bombers like the Boeing B-...
Several other diesel submarines had been modified to carry air search radar for picket duty.Tritonwas built as an SSRN, with the “N” standing for nuclear, but the radar picket submarine mission was abandoned just about the time thatTritonwas entering service. Carrier-capable airborne early warn...
It’s not the kind of thing you expect to hear from a girl who grew up on a farm in rural Kent. Gradually I learned the full story and it was fascinating. The 40-foot boat had been built by her Uncle John, a WWII veteran who became disillusioned with Britain after returning from di...
Today’s Royal Navy has a fleet of aircraft carriers, destroyers, frigates and submarines that in sheer numbers is a third of what it was in 1991, when the cost-cutting began with a vengeance (and has never really let up). For all the claims of a Navy ‘growing for the...
The RINOs spend trillions of dollars we don’t have and cannot afford on mostly imaginary military threats, running up our national debt, a very real threat that will destroy us (unless the rabid chairborne commando neocons get us into the nuclear holocaust they seem to want). The Demoncrap...
Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance joins trackless vehicles, a motion-simulator, walk-through environments, and an elevator drop to create an epic, dark ride. Set in a Resistance military outpost laser-carved from ancient stone, the ride is among the most popular attractions in the park. ...
(Yes, I am better today. Should be perfectly fine by tomorrow. I’m taking quantities of C and D that probably will make me glow in the dark, but it’s working.) And then this morning I realized the problem was that I didn’t actually have all the factors in play. So, indulge...
When The Wheels Come Off Posted on November 12, 2021 by Sarah A. Hoyt Last night I dreamed I was making a purse, because the one I have been using for ten years — the think geek bag of holding made of fake leather — had finally fallen completely apart (it’s patched) and I ...
When I looked up to his eyes, there was a softness. I could sense his fear, afraid I might grow tired of this closeness. I leaned back just enough to throw us both off balance causing him to stumble forward and knock us both against the wall. I wiggled quickly away and ran to hide...
If not, what are some of the reasons why they fail to? In order to answer these questions, this paper will examine one such strategy known as the "indirect approach," which was developed by Basil Liddell Hart, a famous British historian and military strategist....