A major theme of this website is that we are destroying ourselves though hubris. We see so many of the world’s problems as calls for US military intervention. Inevitably either this will bankrupt us, or we’ll buy into a conflict with ruinous consequences. This open-ended lust to play global cop affects ever our finest military analysts. Like …
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Here is an important document. Keep a copy of it, so your grand-children can see the insanity of our times — which a crazy people consider unremarkable. Since they’ll we’ll be paying the price for this folly, they’ll we’ll cry — not laugh. “A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower“, US Navy, October 2007 (20 pages) Consider …
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One of the top sources of insight about modern maritime strategy is Galrahn at Information Dissemination. He has advice for those watching US forces in the Middle East: Amateurs watch the carriers; professionals watch the Expeditionary Strike Groups (ESGs). Amphibious Ships are the Dreadnoughts of the modern maritime era. How can this be true, when …
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Elements of the US government are having second thoughts about building a third DDG-1000 (cool website for an ugly ship). Hat tip to Information Dissemination (a professional Navy-centric blog). That a nice return to sanity, as a global maritime power needs a large Navy — but one that we can in fact afford. The next four years …
The Internet is our collective mind made visible, more so than print, radio, and television. It allows us to see the thought processes of our community. The recent “silly swarm” of blog posts about the “cut cable fever” in February (see here and here) showed the implusive and wild thinking of the broad community of those writing and …
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