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Friday, April 27, 2018

Follow Up 2017 Visit to Belgrade, Serbia, Military Museum

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German Panzer II, 20mm Main Gun Last June, I visited the Military Museum in Belgrade. It is in a fortress on the top of one of the tw...
Thursday, April 19, 2018

Military Pilots Really Have "The Right Stuff"

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Tammie Jo Shults, F-18 Fighter Pilot Today I listened to the audio of pilot Tammie Jo Shults calmly speaking with Air Traffic C...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Field Guide to Flying Death: Cruise Missiles

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A British Tornado fighter plane carrying four  Storm Shadow Cruise Missiles   Cruise missiles are actually a pilotless jet plane th...
Friday, April 13, 2018

President Grant Wipes Out the Ku Klux Klan in 1872

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I am on page 767 of an 1,100-page biography of President Ulysses S. Grant by Ron Chernow.   The first 600 pages follow Grant from ch...
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Empathy: The Tyrant’s Key to Manipulating Fools

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In a perfect world, empathy would always be good. It would describe our capacity to identify with the suffering of others. We would u...
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Maundy Thursday: My Day to Volunteer

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On this day 11 years ago, Maundy Thursday, the Thursday before Easter, I decided to call an Army recruiter and re-enlist.  It was mid-April....
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Tankers vs. Non-Tankers: the never-ending discussion among armor crewmen

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    So much of the Army is competition, especially the combat arms parts of the Army where men are confined together in small armored...