tag:www.thedonovan.com,2012://1/tag:www.thedonovan.com,2008://1.10229- 2012-01-06T18:23:33Z 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 Movable Type 4.12 tag:www.thedonovan.com,2008://1.10229 2008-12-31T17:57:42Z 2008-12-31T18:02:11Z

Here's a nickel to go with your pair of dimes...

The Armorer http://www.thedonovan.com
]]> tag:www.thedonovan.com,2008://1.10229-comment:82386 Josh ]]> 2009-01-02T16:06:57Z 2009-01-02T16:06:57Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2008://1.10229-comment:82373 Pogue http://ngpogue.blogspot.com ]]> 2009-01-02T13:56:25Z 2009-01-02T13:56:25Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2008://1.10229-comment:82369 Argent http://www.aaronpoeze.com ]]> 2009-01-02T07:09:04Z 2009-01-02T07:09:04Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2008://1.10229-comment:82362 Josh
Now, what I can't understand, (maybe because I'm a sci-fi nerd or maybe because I'm an engineer?) is that if you're going to ignore the whole point of the book and just randomly pick elements or ideas from the text, why leave out powered armor?????  I mean what could possibly be cooler on screen than powered armor?  The only explanation (other than that they were cheapskates) is that providing serious protection to individual infantrymen in the form of powered armor makes it slightly more difficult to tell a story about heartlessly sending poor innocent minority children out to be slaughtered for no reason because war is wrong and blah blah blah blah blah whatever.
]]> 2009-01-02T03:48:56Z 2009-01-02T03:48:56Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2008://1.10229-comment:82361 Casey http://www.thegantry.net/blog
Myself, I have a special affection for Lone Star Planet. The politics there would give modern liberals conniption fits.

Barb, I think you're confusing Jack Holloway with Gus Brannhard. Gus is the big guy with the big beard who hid Baby Fuzzy.

I always pictured Pappy Jack as more along the lines of Charlton Heston, or Robert Duvall. Or maybe Gary Sinise forty years from now. :)

Wouldn't you just love to see at least Little Fuzzy as a movie, if not Space Viking?

]]> 2009-01-02T03:46:15Z 2009-01-02T03:46:15Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2008://1.10229-comment:82352 Barb http://barbette.blogspot.com 2009-01-01T17:08:32Z 2009-01-01T17:08:32Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2008://1.10229-comment:82346 Rod Thorsen and the likely results of the choice's you make giving you the personnel experience to know how to vote.
]]> 2009-01-01T07:44:05Z 2009-01-01T07:44:05Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2008://1.10229-comment:82345 Barb http://barbette.blogspot.com I think Beyond This Horizon was published post-WWII - a great read, and along with Starship Troopers, helped in forming many of my views on guns and the military.  Hmmmm, I haven't re-read either one in over a year - what HAVE I been doing?!]]> 2009-01-01T07:31:14Z 2009-01-01T07:31:14Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2008://1.10229-comment:82344 Rod Thorsen ]]> 2009-01-01T07:24:17Z 2009-01-01T07:24:17Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2008://1.10229-comment:82342 Justthisguy http://enemiesofthelibrary.blogspot.com John is known to all little fuzzies as Pappy Jack. He helps us with the halberds for the land-prawns. Oh, and Rod? That was "Beyond This Horizon" and maybe pre-WWII. And it was a 1911! (also used to good effect by Alvin York and Honor Harrington, and other folks both real and unreal) 2009-01-01T07:01:41Z 2009-01-01T07:01:41Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2008://1.10229-comment:82341 Rod Thorsen Space Vikings, my, ahum, personnel favorite of his.  Along the same vane and for the squids amongst us would be A. B. Chandler's rim books. 
]]> 2009-01-01T05:35:48Z 2009-01-01T05:35:48Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2008://1.10229-comment:82340 John of Argghhh! http://www.thedonovan.com 2009-01-01T05:07:25Z 2009-01-01T05:07:25Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2008://1.10229-comment:82339 Casey http://www.thegantry.net/blog
In fact, 600 years from "now," humans were still using slug-throwers because they represented the economic and technological optimum for an expanding, frontier culture. No ray guns. :)

The highest-tech his starships deployed were self-propelled "torpedoes" which featured a combination of Predator-style remote operation and autonomous seeking mechanisms.

]]> 2009-01-01T05:01:50Z 2009-01-01T05:01:50Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2008://1.10229-comment:82338 Rod Thorsen ]]> 2009-01-01T04:44:40Z 2009-01-01T04:44:40Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2008://1.10229-comment:82328 John of Argghhh! http://www.thedonovan.com
What part of "paradigm shift" was too subtle for you?  8^ )

I'll send you a larger, cleaner version.

John - what, no Leo?]]> 2008-12-31T23:28:32Z 2008-12-31T23:28:32Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2008://1.10229-comment:82324 J.M. Heinrichs
Cheers]]> 2008-12-31T22:55:34Z 2008-12-31T22:55:34Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2008://1.10229-comment:82323 Josh ]]> 2008-12-31T22:10:59Z 2008-12-31T22:10:59Z