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		<title>The F-35B Lightning II: Vertical Landing at Sea</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The newest generation of U.S. strike fighter is the Lockheed-Martin F-35 Lightning II. It&#8217;s called the &#8220;Joint Strike Fighter&#8221; because it&#8217;s being produced as a cross-service, cross-platform aircraft equally at home at sea or on land. It&#8217;s the universal replacement for current Navy and Air Force fighters and should eventually be massed produced for both [...]
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		<title>Bin Laden is Dead!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 11:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We got the bastard. And it was done by Navy Seals &#8211; apparently at close range. The spontaneous celebrations are the release of ten years of rage. I&#8217;ll be smoking a good cigar and sampling a choice libation in honor of his passing &#8211; and his ignominious burial at sea. He sleeps with the fishes. [...]
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		<title>Military Monday: MITO</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s &#8220;Minimum Interval Take Off&#8221; for the uninitiated. In the bad old days of the Cold War, the US strategic deterrent rested on a &#8220;triad&#8221; of land-based ICBMs (Titan, Minuteman and MX), submarine-launched ICBMs (Polaris, Posidon and Trident) and a strategic bomber force (B-47s, B-52s, B-58s and, later, B-1s). It was the bomber part of [...]
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		<title>NATO: Losing the Libyan Air War</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NATO is losing the air war in Libya &#8211; because it is relying on air power alone to get the job done. Not that I think that NATO or anyone else should have intervened in Libya, mind you, but the inability to take down Libyan ground forces through use of tactical air power was surely [...]
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		<title>Military Monday: The &#8220;164th Marines&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Guard has both a proud and mixed legacy. Because Guard units are traditionally hometown-based, they are generally commanded by officers and NCOs who are both older and more sedentary than regular units. In World War II, many Guard units federalized during the 1940-41 mobilization performed poorly in combat in the early going. The [...]
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		<title>Memorial Day 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 12:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<title>Military Monday:  Early Jet Carrier Ops</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of World War II, the US Navy possessed the largest fleet in the world, but one that was mass-produced to fight the current war. All the services faced massive demobilization at war&#8217;s end but the cuts hit hardest at the Army and Navy. The new Air Force was the darling of defense [...]
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 23:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<title>Military Monday: Operation &#8216;Drum Beat&#8217; and the East Coast Blackout</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s indeed strange how time and distance distort memory and even &#8211; in some instances &#8211; history itself. The late Civil War historian Bruce Catton once referred to all remembrance ceremonies as a form of forgetting. The ritual of remembrance itself becomes a way to repackage unpleasant memories into something more tolerable. World War II [...]
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		<title>Military Monday: The B-36 Peacemaker</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I betray my age and Cold War lifespan with this week&#8217;s topic, the Convair B-36 &#8220;Peacemaker&#8221; strategic bomber. The B-36 was an enormous, ungainly aircraft powered by six Pratt &#038; Whitney R-4360 Wasp radial piston engines arranged in a &#8220;pusher&#8221; configuration. Later production models also sported four General Electric J47 jet engines in twin pods [...]
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		<title>Military Monday: Congressional Misbehavior During WWII</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the treacly glaze of victory we tend to forget the unpleasant details both on the battlefront and the home front. Clearly, not all the brothers were valiant, particularly those inhabiting the Congress during the war years. That august body&#8217;s inability to face reality didn&#8217;t change &#8211; even during America&#8217;s darkest hours in World War [...]
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		<title>Military Monday: The Battle of Peleliu and the 2000-Yard Stare</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent the last few days &#8211; in my free moments &#8211; reading Eugene Sledge&#8217;s classic WWII memoir With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. It&#8217;s been on my reading list for years and now that the HBO series The Pacific is about to launch, I realized that the time to read it was [...]
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		<title>Rep. Chellie Pingree &#8211; Lightweight</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always suspected that my congresswomen &#8211; Rep. Chellie Pingree (D. Maine) &#8211; was a complete twit. Now my suspicions have ripened into certitude. From yesterday&#8217;s New York Times: In a strong bipartisan endorsement of the Obama administration’s policy in Afghanistan, the House of Representatives on Wednesday soundly rejected a call to withdraw American troops [...]
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		<title>Military Monday: The USS North Carolina</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m something of a mil-blogger at heart and several of my mil-posts over the past year have received tremendous traffic &#8211; in particular my posts on DDG-1000 and non-acoustic submarine detection. Being a traffic-whore, I&#8217;ve decided to do a &#8220;Military Monday&#8221; feature from now on. Posts will reflect both current events and historical matters as [...]
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		<title>Michael Yon Arrested At Seattle Airport</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a breaking story. I&#8217;ve long been a fan of Michael Yon, embedded war correspondent par excellence. Although now a civilian, Yon is special forces trained and understands the military like few others. His reporting in Iraq and Afghanistan has been both fearless and honest. As reported on his Facebook page, Yon was just [...]
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		<title>Back to the Cold War: The LABS Maneuver</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Put this post into the bin of Cold War military oddities both fascinating and horrifying. The &#8220;LABS Maneuver&#8221; (LABS standing for &#8220;Low Altitude Bombing System&#8221;) was a way of lobbing a nuclear or thermonuclear gravity bomb after a low-level run-in to the target. By the late 1950s, high-altitude strategic bombing was becoming less feasible because [...]
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		<title>Barack Obama&#8217;s Mind Isn&#8217;t Right</title>
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		<title>My Next Shotgun</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just kidding. A trapshooting buddy sent me the following video. Being a joker himself, the subject line of his email was entitled, &#8220;My Next Trap Gun&#8221;. Somehow, I don&#8217;t think the Amateur Trapshooting Association would approve of the Atchisson Assault Shotgun AA-12. For the uninitiated, a shotgun is a terrifying weapon. At close range, I [...]
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		<title>Sucker and Sellout</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So now it&#8217;s official: Hope &#8216;n Change has decided to sell out our Polish and Czech friends on missile defense after the Russians whined about it. And what&#8217;s he getting in return? Russian assistance in calling Iran off its nuclear weapons program. The same Russia that&#8217;s been selling sophisticated SAM systems to Iran while assisting [...]
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