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I’m out of books, and I’ve got a four-day trip to Fallon and back coming up tomorrow. Which simply will not do.

So: What are y’all reading?

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Gendercide

What else would you call a phenomenon that has resulted in the death of 163 million women, specifically targeted for their sex?

In nature, 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. This ratio is biologically ironclad. Between 104 and 106 is the normal range, and that’s as far as the natural window goes. [...]

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Light Reading

Courtesy of occasional reader Tailspin Tom, “The Struggle in the Air” on archive.org.

It’s a World War I digital page turner.

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Kaboom

Junior officers have always had a tendency to believe the worst things about those two echelons higher than themselves in the chain-of-command, some with better reason than others. In the past they mostly shared their observations among themselves, the Third Law of the Navy being enforceable across DoD. That was of course before Generation [...]

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NK Air War

An interesting book review in the Washington Times about the naval air war over North Korea.

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Neat Opportunity

So, yez read my review last week on Rage Company. What you mighn’t be aware of is the opportunity to participate in an auction for the book and also win an iPad:

Through Thursday, May 6, there is an auction of one copy of Rage Company on EBay. The winner of the auction will [...]

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Rage Company

The armed forces are much alike in many respects, but the differences can be truly telling – even within the naval service. And although I’ve had the opportunity to serve and train with Marine infantry embarked aboard amphibious ships, I’ve never gotten ashore with them: My flight boots remain largely undusted. So I read [...]

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In the Mail

If you grew up with a martial mindset in the late 70s and early 80s, it was impossible not to be aware of the magazine “Soldier of Fortune.” A quick perusal of the subject matter revealed a fixation on military weapons and tactics at the unit level, and opportunities to be had the world [...]

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