To a degree, this is true. Building Coast Guard cutters, fitting NSM, and painting them gray isn’t appealing. But the ships won’t be useless, and won’t suffer from LCS’ engineering issues. They’ll do for constabulary work.

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Read this. The need for a Large Surface Combatant isn’t new. It’s just been re-recognized.

The Hill statue dedication on May 1, 1886, sits at the intersection of three separate humiliations being publicly retired in a single afternoon, which is why it landed so hard at the time and why Foote singles it out. Longstreet’s exile. After Appomattox, Longstreet did the

Thoughts about the WHCA incident: 1. A physical barrier is needed. Tables, phone/gun cubbies - something to go around. 2. 5 shots for 0 hits is unacceptable. Train more. Emphasize accuracy over volume of fire.

The Democrats are so desperate to attract white working class men that they are nominating a white male Maine Senate candidate who comes from a prep school background of extreme wealth, who literally has a Nazi tattoo on his chest, and who has a lengthy social media history of

🚨Construction worker drops truth bomb on NC teachers’ union “sick-out” today:🚨 “I work in construction. My son’s school is closed because teachers called out to protest in Raleigh. I don’t get paid if I don’t show up — no work, no paycheck. Just talked to his teacher. She

We need more garage workshops.

It would be interesting to run the numbers and compare this to V/STOL aircraft of similar vintage, like the early Harriers.

This is true. It also teaches the strategic importance of seapower. America’s ability to control the sea makes all else possible.

A must-read. Sean McMeekin has done considerable work documenting Soviet penetration of FDR’s regime in “Stalin’s War”.

I've been on podcasts with Jesse here, nice guy, and he just told me that he made the mistake of launching his kickstarter the same day me and Jim Butcher had a new release. So rather than me drowning the poor guy out, I'm gonna say you guys should all take a look at this.

This. Flight test programs go quickly if you don’t run into problems. BTDT, on both the RQ-4 and MQ-4 programs.

The problem with California, Maryland, and Virginia is that all three states have significant captive workforces employed directly or indirectly by the Federal Government - and most of the military-related jobs are tied to physical plant that can’t be moved.

We can pull a fast one here. If an officer wants to wear camo in the office, he must wear a sidearm. To wear a sidearm, he must be proficient beyond a minimum qualification standard.

Utterly, utterly shameless. The US didn't "innovate" this, neither did the Russians, the Iranians or, the Israelis. It all comes from a German design in the 1980s.

I suspect it may be the discovery that the weapons China has sold abroad work poorly.

Nazism and communism are the two sides of the same SOCIALIST coin.

The FAA takes a very, very dim view of attempts to blind pilots. Pilots take a dimmer view, regarding it as a capital crime.