*Hundreds of years of experience oppressing colonials.

The Marines did have the tandem rotor CH-46 Sea Knight which preceded the Chinook. Boeing Vertol submitted a bid for a modified Chinook but was underbid by a desperate Sikorsky for the heavy lift requirement.

If active countermeasures ever truly mature, the Chinook, or its future variants, will be in service 50 years from now. They are a brilliant design and they were engineered brilliantly.

Given the likely small number of units to be produced, does anybody else think that $564 mm per plane is...low? What’s an F-35, $150 mm per copy at an outrageously inflated total production number?

Lolz. You’ve bought into the absurd notion that the reason that Islamic Jihad exists is because of poverty. It has nothing to do with poverty and instead, it has everything to do with their faith.

That doesn’t do much for BAE or Ratheon’s bottom line though.

Obama pulled troops out on Bush’s proposed timeline, IIRC. Either way - what was the alternative? Remain as an occupying army until the Middle East was stable?
Bush’s administration lied, the media played along and we went to war under false pretenses. We didn’t have the budget or interest to make good on an…

Unfortunately, you, me, and those who live in reality will be drowned out by the constant chorus by Cheney and company, Fox News, DigitalPSI (above), Buzz Killington, and a whole lot of others who cling to the fantasy that the pull out of American troops was a complete Obama manufactured process and if he had only…

You are very badly misinformed. Please read the following:

It would be good if Tyler could do an interview with you, I think it would be interesting.

Part of ISIS was formed out of the remains of Saddam’s Ba’athist loyalists which Bush, Rumsfeld and Co. thought would be a good idea to completely boot out of the new Iraqi government.

Also, who cares about the Middle East at this point. We spent over a decade there and things only got worse because those people are crazy. Yeah, we have a lot of blood on our hands but frankly, that region and all of the people there need to learn how to unify and live together. They fight each other with more hatred…

Yeah you are the only one that thinks that. Everyone else who has more than 2 brain cells knows we never should have been in Iraq, that Bush’s administration exaggerated intel to get political fodder to invade, botched the entire mission and then signed a mandate to pull us out which Obama’s only involvement is…

That comment is the closest thing to newsworthy that a comment can possibly be.

There was no SOFA post 2011, that is publicly why we withdrew. I was in Iraq for all of 2011 and was one of the last high-ranging officers to depart in December of that year. I sat on a steering committee as part of the Strategic Framework Agreement team at the US Embassy in Baghdad and I can tell you that the…

geolocation of RuAF airstrikes:

Thank you for your reasoned input, Military-Industrial Complex.

it has always been an issue, I continue to work at it.

I noticed from reading your articles on FA and on AviationIntel that you often use 'than' when 'then' should be used.