We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:49:14 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2010 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Open post for those with something to share, updated through the day. New, complete posts come in below this one. Note: If trackbacking, please acknowledge this post in your post. That's only polite. You're advertising here, we should get an ad at your place... ********************************** I promised links on Kat’s Operation Prometheus. Here they are: one from like minded, or at least to me it seems so, Cannoneer4, and the other from Haft of the Spear’s Micheal. I could’ve sworn C4 was a commenter here some time back. If so, dude, come on back. We’ll kick this around here some... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:35:45 -0600 Read the Ghost and Turban posts. Gleefully chuckling to myself and promising an excellent history lesson to the eldest CLU I have been surfing around the web gathering tidbits here and there. And yes, we read the post together. Snark mode off, this is one reason why I love the milblogs. So much of history is about the politics of religion and the wars to maintain control or freedom. A good story will get me going on a research trend that sometimes will last for a week or two. Facts are important, but I have also been able to teach the CLU how to do research in terms of seeking the source. What he thinks of it comes back in the form of essays, book reports and his magnum opus: a research paper. Thank you all so very much for this. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64899 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64899 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:40:39 -0600 Sorry about that, Maggie. I've been reading, but somehow I missed that. I even went back and checked before I posted! :) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64867 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64867 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:53:06 -0600 Chang v Kaplan. I'm someone who calls the 21st the Pacific Century. That the three major economies will be linked by the Pacific and Indian oceans and that many of the major problems are also on the PacRim makes me think that the shift in major focus will move from what's happening Europe(or what's across the Atlantic) to what's happening in Asia. But to call it the Asian Century? I dunno 'bout that. All of what Kaplan writes about is stuff I've seen for years(particularly the idea of giving a BM some kind of terminal guidance package to allow it to hit ships at sea---talk about plunging fire) and makes one wonder if they are getting an advantage(hey, their whole String of Pearls strategy is only set to hit its stride aroudn 2050 or so) they can use frightfully if we(US) don't get with the program and give the USN the tools it needs. BUt to see it as an inevitably conflict fraught time? Not sure. There's many pathways available. Many don't lead to war with anyone or by anyone. So I don't really stand with either Chang or Kagan. Chang's too upbeat(what me worry? We're tough and cool and always will be while they'll squabble amongst themselves.) and Kagan is a flat out Hawk on China (though a real smart cookie). Yeah, and Barnett loves to rip into Kagan don't he? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64866 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64866 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:34:47 -0600 Well, what, you want me translate from Japanese or something? My Kanji are pretty bad(something like 1000 you had to memorize to pass just first year and I was taking calculus and organic chem at the same time---so I never did learn the required.). But the first bit by Sam is 'Little Sister, most venerated Mom..." The second is a rather rough spelling of 'chit' in katakana(the modified, slightly, alphabet the Japanese developed for foreign words), but I could be wrong. I'm a bit rusty having not used my language skills since I started using things like Babel-fish 4 years ago. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64864 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64864 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:54:33 -0600 First tebuchets now clothes lines??? Ok I have a new spreadsheet just made for this situation. Tell me the weight of your HOA president and I'll tell you the required throwing arm length and counter weight needed to drop the loser 900-1,000 feet away. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64862 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64862 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:51:33 -0600 The PAO Conversation? Lots of good comments there. How much progress have we made since then? ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64858 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64858 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:15:34 -0600 Try refreshing, Bill Thanks, Barb. I've been called lots of things, but "refreshing" is a first...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64856 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64856 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:27:02 -0600 wondered how many folks were going to miss the significance of that. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64853 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64853 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:47:09 -0600 posted that story over at my place on Saturday. It's ok, you probably couldn't see it for all the Navy stuff! Between my favorite IS1 becoming a CPO & the Senate Armed Services Committee finally scheduling Admiral Roughead's hearing, you have to wade through a lot of Navy to see any Army.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64852 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64852 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:47:07 -0600 Catamite of Tartary. Have to log that into my memory logs.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64851 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64851 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:19:33 -0600 Dunno if that'll work, Barb - Bill's computer is cobbled together from bits and pieces of ENIAC... He might have a bad pixie-tube or something. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64844 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64844 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:15:43 -0600 Try refreshing, Bill - the page is cached, you need to reload it to update the link. *grin* http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64842 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64842 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:10:30 -0600 The way my ISP dances around, I figgered the Petraeus link was a glitch in *my* matcheen. And I guess that's exactly what it is. Whenever I try to open it, I get kicked back to the AoL "Welcome, Fool" screen. * * * * * * * * * * * The local fishwrapper is deploring our "lost chance for a dialogue" with the demagogue. Cricket's Jawjah contingent hasn't made the front page, yet, but there are bunches of Noo Yawkuhs holding up *large* Goat-A-Hail signs in front of the Dimbulbia U entryway. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64841 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64841 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:33:33 -0600 ****** - AHHH!!! All of a sudden the image of two-hundred and some Marines in Beirut just drift out in a lazy purple haze. Niceshshshs!]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64837 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64837 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:38:07 -0600 Ah, c'mon, Boq - that's soooo last-century. We're evolved, man! Take another hit on the communal bong and join us in a round of kum-bi-ya, dude! Yer harshing my mellow! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64833 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64833 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:19:51 -0600 What is wrong with us? Mad-Man-A-Genie-Dad comes to NYC so as to gloat on his handiwork and all we do in return is wring our angst-filled hands? A different generation would confer on to him the same diffidence that we once proffered on to Tojo. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64830 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64830 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:43:22 -0600 and racing ry for the outhouse...er dungeon...er oblique) Something you eat not agree with you Kat? And light a match! The hamster is a wee bit sensitive to methane, dontchano. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64828 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64828 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:00:12 -0600 Fine, so I'm a night owl, but I can actually read what Muir has Skye and Sam saying today. So there. [So, give!] http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64826 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_24_sep.html#comment-64826 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:56:55 -0600