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• More Questioning the Maritime Strategy

  —New Wars

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  Thinking I was a voice in the wilderness questioning the USN and its allies’ obsession with fighting land powers in expeditionary warfare. Here is Michael Auslin at Human Events: The Sea Services repeatedly refers to deterrence, but how would it seek to deter Iran? Would the mere positioning of Fifth Fleet [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 2:00pm EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• Yale book of quotes goes S.C.-centric

  —Wolfe Reports

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  The fourth annual Yale Book of Quotations compiled some of the most zeitgeisty of quotes from 2009, and to no one’s surprise around here, the interesting year in Palmetto State politics provided a number of phrases that entered their way into the national consciousness.

  1. “Keep [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 4:41pm EST
  by Wes Wolfe

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• Shoe's on the other foot, it seems

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  A main tenet of modern conservatism is that public schools should not be allowed to teach kids anything about sex in order that parents may be left to not teach kids anything about sex.
  
  Thus the Tea Party lot's obliviousness to the connotations of describing themselves as "Teabaggers."
  
  [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 11:26am EST
  

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• Fleets Converge off Yemen

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  Here is some updated news from the Debka file on the Saudi-Iranian standoff near the Yemen coast. Now as predicted, the USN is getting into the act while Tehran reinforces: DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report that over the weekend, the Aegis class cruiser USS Chosin was designated the flagship of [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 6:20pm EST
  by Mike Burleson

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