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Liberal blogstar cum WaPo opinion writer Ezra Klein says that the US Constitution is hard to understand because it’s “more than a hundred years old.” Which is technically true, even if not terribly precise. About as true, for example, as saying that the Marianas Trench is over a hundred feet deep. The bit about [...]  Colman McCarthy – former WaPo columnist, pacifist, anarchist and director of the Washington-based Center for Teaching Peace – isn’t a fan of letting ROTC back in the Ivies: Only one of the eight Ivy League schools – Cornell – offers a degree in peace studies. Their pride in running programs in women’s studies, black [...] On 30 June 1950, an understrength and under-equipped battalion of 430 infantrymen, along with a 134-man artillery detachment – together known as Task Force Smith – left their cozy garrisons in occupied Japan to reinforce the line in Osan, Korea. The occupation forces sent to oppose the North Korean blitz were not the same [...] A first person account of the flight deck aboard QANTAS Flight 32 after the #2 engine suffered an uncontained failure: We didn’t have the ability to dump fuel, the fuel dumping system had failed and we were about 50 tonnes over our maximum landing weight. In the Airbus and the A380 we don’t carry [...] Or at least – when it comes to the notorious battle of Wanat – nobody important: The Army’s official history of the battle of Wanat – one of the most intensely scrutinized engagements of the Afghan war – largely absolves top commanders of the deaths of nine U.S. soldiers and instead blames the confusing [...] The National Flight Academy – a subsidiary of the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola – shows the rising nation the joys of flight, and the math/science that underlies it: The National Flight Academy is designed to address the serious concerns of declining Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) skills and standards in our country. The [...] I think I’m finally ready for one: Flying Wild Alaska. Trailer here. Blogfight. Glenn(s) Greenwald is involved. (There is hissiness.) The Brits have broken a UAV endurance record for unmanned flight: An international governing board for aeronautic records has confirmed that a solar-powered drone shattered a long-standing endurance record by flying continuously for 14 days last summer. Built by British defense contractor QinetiQ, the drone remained airborne 336 hour, 22 minutes, crushing the previous [...] Admiral “Rat” Willard is taking seriously China’s anti-access/area denial capability – evidenced by their work in an anti-carrier ballistic missile: “An analogy using a Western term would be ‘initial operational capability (IOC),’ whereby … I think China would perceive that it has an operational capability now, but they continue to develop it,” Adm. Willard [...] |
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