If you had a half a brain you’d realize why they can’t do that ASAP. Disney doesn’t own the rights to distribution of the original films, Fox does until 2020.

Terrell, if you want to focus on Russian activity, I recommend keeping an eye on any output from Dr. Phillip Karber of the Potomac Foundation. I was in the room for a pants-shittingly terrifying briefing he gave on Russian military hardware developments at a defense conference last year. You could hear a pin drop in…

The blu ray version also cuts to Naboo, complete with a gungan yelling “wesa free”. But I stand by the music.

Han shot first and the new Vader “Nooooo!!!” in the Blue Ray version of Jedi still bothers me. Everything else, meh. I like that that they replaced Episode I creepy puppet Yoda with CGI Yoda and actually made the Ewoks blink.

I edited Tyler for years and I can tell you his only allegiance was to combatting bullshit.

The fact is the newer celebration music at the end of Jedi is way better than yub nub. The added Coruscant bit may have been unnecessary, but the music is a huge improvement

Seconded: We like aircraft over here

Globally, far-right populism is on the rise. That’s an objective fact. Whether it’s an increase in sentiment or just an increase in visibility it’s hard to say but it’s certainly more prominent and that prominence is certainly a matter of import. Conservative/right wing groups that use a populist message are…

Am I the only one who actually likes ‘Jedi Rocks?’ :O

I am not sure if I consider myself to be conservative or liberal. I think my experience of growing in Detroit as a black person, per my points in my post, makes me look at security in ways most defense writers would not consider. I think that our personal views always influence our journalism and they should.…

I think even most conservatives in the US would still call a lot of what is going on in the rest of the world far right populism, because it is. Whether or not you think that’s what happened in our election depends on whether you actually think Trump is far right, or just very, very good at manipulating situations for…

I’d argue Tyler was more unbiased than apolitical. He had no problem calling anyone out on poor FP decisions.

Have him include some remedial Russian language lessons in his pod cast.

Presumably! News on that front coming soon. The whole company is planning to do more of them this year.

Terrell,

Thank you for your kind words. I look forward to earning your respect.

Nailed it.

Perhaps FA was “inexplicably” successful (for a Gawker sub) because Tyler was heavy on the technical content & analysis and light with the politics.

I’d argue that any blog covering military technology is already political, in some sense. You can’t tell me that the F-35 articles aren’t critiquing military spending policy.

Welcome to Foxtrot Alpha, new victim, Terrell!

I’m late in doing so because like the pro he is Terrell was jumping on breaking news the other day, but please welcome him to FA. In addition to what he said above, he’ll be expanding our coverage in new ways, like video and a podcast. (Yes, a Foxtrot Alpha podcast is coming.) He’s going to do some good things here we…