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/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:23:33 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Here's a nickel to go with your pair of dimes... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:57:42 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82386 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82386 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:06:57 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82373 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82373 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:56:25 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82369 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82369 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:09:04 -0600
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.
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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?

]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82361 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82361 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:46:15 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82352 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82352 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:08:32 -0600 and the likely results of the choice's you make giving you the personnel experience to know how to vote.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82346 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82346 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:44:05 -0600 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?!]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82345 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82345 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:31:14 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82344 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82344 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:24:17 -0600 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) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82342 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82342 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:01:41 -0600 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. 
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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.

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What part of "paradigm shift" was too subtle for you?  8^ )

I'll send you a larger, cleaner version.

John - what, no Leo?]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82328 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82328 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:28:32 -0600
Cheers]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82324 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82324 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:55:34 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82323 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/paradigm_shift.html#comment-82323 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:10:59 -0600