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Navies of the world, past, present and future.
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OT: Apologies
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If I haven't responded to, or 'maintained' as the usage used to be, postingsit's because my net connections are seriously foutues, as we say in France. Your magic broadband box is now activé, they announce. But since they haven't sent me the fucking magic box, what they have actually done is grabbed by landline telephone; thus re,omoving both... more »
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The Wrong Word
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The Wrong Word Joe Klein Over at the Commentary blog, Max Boot notes ([link]) that even the gung-ho U.S. special forces seem "a bit worn down and pessimistic" in recent conversations he's had with them about the situation in Afghanistan. I've had similar conversations with rank-and-... more »
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IVAW - Benjamin Bass
 
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Iraq Veterans Against the War [link] Benjamin Bass Branch: Army National Guard of the United States (ARNG) Rank: SGT Home: Indiana Served in Squad Leader position for Infantry squad in Iraq throughout 2003 and 2004 in An Nasiriyah and Baghdad. ETS: 27, July 2007 [link]... more »
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Obama plans to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan
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Ordinarily this would be just another leak but McClatchy seems to have pretty good ties into White House thinking lately. Posted on Mon, Nov. 23, 2009 Obama plans to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan Jonathan S. Landay, John Walcott and Nancy A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers last updated: November 23, 2009 11:32:55 PM... more »
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Sanjay Gupta's Book, Death, and Immortality
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To: Durland.f...@yale.edu, A...@columbia.edu, gary_worm...@nymc.edu, scientificintegr...@ostp.gov, pkrug...@princeton.edu, Stanley.f...@fiu.edu, emcswee...@niaid.nih.gov, afa...@niaid.nih.gov, SpinL...@yahoogroups.com, kshep...@calea.org, fitz...@gmail.com, patrick.fitzger...@usdoj.gov, modelt1...@sbcglobal.net,... more »
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Sunken Canadian stern-wheeler is an underwater time capsule
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Pic and a map at the citation. Mystery death of stern wheeler disassembled and carted across the mountains to the Yukon finally found. On Lake LaBerge, of Dan Magee fame. [link] latimes.com Sunken Canadian stern-wheeler is an underwater time capsule The A.J. Goddard carried miners in the Klondike Gold Rush, then sank... more »
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Indian Rumblings
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AHSAN WAHEED There were three bomb blasts in India's troubled Maoist dominated North East as an operation by India security forces got underway. It is inevitable that the scale of violence will go up because a forty year old simmering insurgency is not likely to go away-not when the people support the insurgents and local police and politicians are... more »
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Singh in Washington - and Pakistan’s options
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By Sadiq Saleem Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's official visit to the United States should have been the major story in Pakistan's media. But our right-wing anchors and columnists and "get-Zardari" editors are far more focused on the domestic power struggles to realize that the nightmare of Pakistan's strategic encirclement may already be on the... more »
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