The term is actually shortened from “torpedo boat destroyer”, as they were originally designed to run down and sink torpedo boats before the latter could sink battleships and cruisers.

Eh, people like the IDEA of Elizabeth Warren, a feisty, smart, unabashed liberal woman.

It’s not really asymmetric. North Korea, or even Russia can’t afford enough missiles to make that a viable strategy. It’s pretty much China, and only China, that has the resources to stare down a carrier battle group. Which fits in with my thesis completely.

Sure, but it’s always sound strategy to play to your strengths. America could pursue a strategy that gets 5,000 soldiers killed every war, and honestly, we’d probably let the DoD get away with that. We did for centuries, after all.

True. Which is why they are scrapping LRLAP and likely going in a cheaper direction.

I figured as much after googling the topics. But the article is still poorly worded. Anyway, +1.

The thing about gun rounds is that you can fire a lot of them quickly and for a long period of time. And ships can store a lot of them.

Yes, because while 80nm isn’t that far inland, warships can drop a lot of iron in a short amount of time. And it can keep doing that for hours. There’s no way to defend against that level of firepower. So you avoid building anything in that area to begin with. It pushes defenses further inland, which means bigger,…

This article is confusing. It seems to use “gun” and ammunition interchangeably.

Gotta say “coins” is both the most obvious and least interesting thing they could have picked for nickel. How about high temperature alloys? Jet engines, rockets and aerospaceframes not awesome enough?

He didnt focus on just one crew. He showed up on DS9 (once, and got punched in the face (such as he actually has a face) for it) and Voyager. For all we know, he checked up on half of Starfleet. He just happened to show up on the Enterprise first.

Because, as the last ep of TNG made clear, he really wasn’t wasting his powers. He used them deliberately and fairly judiciously. He was testing the crew the whole series. He even did Picard a solid by teaching him that he shouldn’t regret the path not taken.

Remember that big, long winded article he wrote on concurrency? Total bullshit. There’s been increasing overlap between testing and deployment since the 50's. Pretending the F-35 was somehow a departure from that trend is ignorant.

While I miss having more consistent and frequent writing on FA, fuck Tyler. That man, despite writing enough text to fill a dissertation, understood roughly jack shit about the procurement and PM side of things. Rather than actually learning these topics he wrote a bunch of rants instead.

There has been continuous studies of RF radiation for the last 50 years, and particularly the last 20. We *know* what the health issues are, and what is and isn’t a safe exposure. Unsafe: standing in front of a ten thousand watt radar. Safe: 0.25 watt cellphones and WiFi.

President John Tyler’s father (John Sr.) was Thomas Jefferson’s college room mate. The late President Tyler still has living grandchildren.

Ron D Moore was not in charge of Voyager, and wasn’t even on staff until the 6th season. He promptly quit soon after because Brannon Braga kept trying to turn the show into TNGlite.

Umm, David Tennant *is* British. He’s just not English. You can, in fact, be both Scottish and British.

Not quite. I also inferred that the population, and their representatives, can be dumb as well. It also wasn’t a “complaint” it was an observation that a parliamentary system by itself cannot keep a people from shooting themselves in the foot.