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I’ve been on a bit of a World War I kick lately. I realized a few months ago that I basically knew only the rough outlines of the Great War, and couldn’t tell the difference between the First Battle of the Somme or the second (or third). It’s led to some new reading material, like [...]

Kim Jong Il is dead, but I think he will live on forever in this clip from Team America. “Or else we will be very very angry with you and we will write you a letter telling you how angry we are with you.” Probably the most political savvy line of any movie in the [...]

In yet another “we’re still here” messages, the US Air Force conducted an elephant walk of F-16 fighters in Korea as part of an exercise.  An elephant walk is what guys called it when planes were lined up along the taxiway heading off on missions back in World War II and the name has stuck [...]

EuroHawk, a variant of the US Global Hawk drone aircraft, is the newest addition to the Luftwaffe.  Looks pretty bad ass to be honest.  

London and much of the UK is in a mess right now but help is on the way in the form of a really ugly but functional armored vehicle. The Jankel is based on a Ford pickup truck but heavily modified to suit a variety of purposes. They also just look downright mean. They aren’t [...]

This is the one photo anyone needs to see relevant to the death of Osama Bin Laden. For those who still believe he is alive or was never there, this is the picture: For those not versed in US history, “Dewey Defeats Truman” was a famously inaccurate banner headline on the front page of the [...]

Living in DC you see your share of VIP military helicopters. The parade of them from Andrews AFB to the Pentagon each day (or further up to Langley) gets to be quite annoying for those living along the flight path of the Potomac River. Even out in the boonies where we live we occasionally had [...]

Pretty frightening story from Al Jazeera about an oil production facility filled with random and very dangerous chemicals.  Should it be hit and explode, everyone in a 15 sq km area will die.

Cool.

I stayed up rather late Thursday night watching the pre-Presidential announcement in Egypt. Eventually, about 3:00 am Hong Kong time, I passed out with the iPad still streaming Al Jazeera English service. Turns out that was probably for the best as Mumbarak got up and told the protesting masses to basically get lost. So it [...]

Just a few days ago, the political activist and Google executive Wael Ghonim was snatched off the street by the secret police in a rather chilling video. But now word comes that he has been freed, and his first interview talks about his imprisonment. Part II Part III Also in Egypt, the blogger Sandmonkey has [...]

The Coast Guard has released there top 10 videos. Some are pretty crazy as they try to pull people out of danger. ht: Gcaptain (a blog you should read for really cool things)

The US launched NROL-32 “the largest satellite” in the world the other day but won’t tell you what it is going to be used for. However, if you are curious, you can find the logo / patch online. In case you are wondering, Annuit Coeptis (I can’t type the exact characters) is roughly translated as [...]

Ok, so that’s a bit of a scare headline, but I was struck by this story in the New York Times for two reasons.  First, it does report that the last US combat troops have left Iraq, but second, it mentions that the US State Department is going to be doubling their security contractors (upto [...]

Floods in Pakistan are a growing problem for the governments not only in Islamabad but in the US as well. The demand for helicopters to ferry supplies and rescue workers is being shouted from those suffering on the ground, and the radicals are certainly adding fuel to the fire by spreading the idea “they can [...]