Close enough.

It was bound to happen.

There's nothing to admire here - they're a terrorist organization. We don't admire people who wish that another people shouldn't exist.

Effective? What is Hamas actually trying to achieve with this latest round of fighting, and how well are they accomplishing it?

Now take this post onto Gawker and watch the Israel haters go nutz.

this piece is not about reducing the carrier fleet, in fact it calls for an increased size fleet but a more flexible and affordable one.

The reason why we have big carriers is so we can launch big planes with big payloads.

CVNs are as much about economics as they are military capability. they are the unignorable, unavoidable protective force for US economic interests world wide. this means everything from the safety of t-bill interest rates, to the safety of investments in US real estate, to the valuation of US based companies. this…

Does America need 11 plus super carriers when our competitors don't even have one?

I'm sorry, but I like the idea of having 10x the military of the rest of the world...

It's one of those things where you realize your too deep in shit to back out now. Just have to push through......Kinda like sobering up half way through banging an ugly chick, you're too far to go back now, might as well finish up and walk home in shame.

M4 all day long.

It was winning comparisons up until the end of its production cycle (against cars that could outperform it on paper) because of the intangibles.

No underground runways, as Tyler said. But when a country's very existence is threatened by its neighbors, they don't take defense lightly. So the military is constantly training, and in training they use real-world scenarios gleaned from actual combat experience over the last 60+ years.

American service men and women are protected by systems developed in Israel. US fighters feature Israeli avionics and American armor is protected by Israeli tank defense systems. It's a mutually beneficial relationship. Also, all of that U.S. military equipment that Israel uses is made by Americans working in the…

they just know how to properly trim the fat

Well, they paid for some of it. And yeah, we paid for some of it.

It's no surprise that those pilots are so good, given how well they're able to fly with such blurry instruments ;)