The idea is that the B-1 could not just work as an attack aircraft but also as a giant sensor node over the battlefields of the future.

What was most striking about that video? How well the Air Force lives while “deployed”? Their deployed barracks are better than Marine garrison ones back home...ridiculous. That barracks was like an damn apartment complex.

Those B-1 avionics/guidance systems are certainly better than the Russian’s use of handheld Garmin units duct-taped/bungie corded to the inside of their cockpits...

I always feel uneasy and perversely happy when I see how many centuries our version warfare is beyond our enemy’s.

Sorry, Daesh is directly responsible for the rise of Daesh. For all who find fault in what the US did in Iraq, the cold hard fact of it is that a people formerly ruled by a totalitarian regime were freed (remember the public reactions across Iraq when the US rolled through?), given a chance to establish a new future…

Actually, no - OBL hated the presence of American troops in Saudi Arabia.

Nope - too much history, too much reading.

No way in hell. Absolute minimum is 3x length of a carrier and far beyond the actual room available for takeoff.

Fuck Gawker.

What most people don’t realize is that the UN was basically being paid off by Saddam which is why he was allowed to break 17 or 18 resolutions and throw out the inspectors. Its hard to get credible intel when the UN is working hard to make sure you can’t.

Even after being part of the crew that brought about one of the worst foreign policy decisions of all time

The world is full of Monday morning QBs.

More eagles isn’t happening either!

One of those is possible, the other...

“...American cities are where children are shot by trigger happy cops gang bangers...”

Is it really cheaper?

As a way to end the war, yes. But I still think that he has to be punished for his crimes. Along with all others who have committed them during that war.

For complicated and sad reasons. Check out:

No, because it doesn’t work. The claims are bullshit because they’re impossible; the physics of dropping a piece of iron from 30,000 feet doesn’t allow for any kind of real accuracy, no matter how precisely timed the drop was. And the Russian propaganda is claiming that they’re just as accurate as western precision…

Actually having only OP’s within enemy artillery range is completely normal. When we arrived in Saudi Arabia in force, the Iraqis were already on the Saudi border. This isn’t World War 1 when everyone masses up 300 yards apart. US forces were massed further back and spread out along the border outside of Iraqi…