“....or by a major mistake within the cockpit, although that latter option is not likely.”

I wouldn’t be so sure about that.

What a ship. Glad to see she continues to get the attention and maintenance she deserves.

Of course, there’s no question of what would happen if the Victory met the Connie - the Connie’s captain would run, if he had the wind - or go down fighting if he didn’t.

Western Naval Theory Throughout the Years

Later, at the police station...

It is not broken down, it is merely practicing its stationary maneuvers!

“...as long as they apologized and handed over the original copy.”

Stick figure families:

The late military historian John Keegan once described the Finns as “Europe’s most warlike people”. No passive countermeasures or polite diplomatic notes for them, instead they ring the sub’s bell with depth charges. Hah.

At first I was like, why are they doing this? Some pointless provocation? Iran is not North Korea. But then I read this, “it looks like its last port of call was on Apr 21, at Jeddah” and I understood.

Fallow’s article, “The Tragedy of the American Military” in The Atlantic certainly is a must-read on this subject. For what it’s worth I think he’s bang on.

Speaking as a Canadian with a deep interest in the things this blog covers, I must congratulate you, Tyler, for the accuracy of the article. I have a theory that no Canadian journalist can write a military story without messing it up (like a photo caption identifying an old, burned out T-55 in Lebanon as an Israeli…

So you're from the Ministry of Pedantry? You guys do great work on the FP!

"This is basically to set an example," he said.

None of this is odd if you consider the following:

No Avro Aerocar? It's a flying saucer, doesn't get much crazier than that!

An excellent summary.

It certainly is one of the greatest first levels in video game history.

Least the cop took it in stride/with good humor. Not so much these Montreal cops. Citizen pulls them over for making an illegal left, cops give him a $172 ticket for "honking his horn unnecessarily".