Elements Of Power

Commentary and discussion on world events from the perspective that all goings-on can be related to one of the six elements of National Power: Military, Economic, Cultural, Demographic, Organizational, & Geographical. All Elements are interrelated and rarely can one be discussed without also discussing its impact on the others

Monday, May 30, 2011

Fathers: In Memoriam

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The Chief and I went to put flowers on my Father's headstone yesterday, and all the (known) veterans in the cemetery had small flags alr...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Space Coast Guard?

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How Quaint. How Naive. How 'Commercial'. How.....'Civilian'. (H/T Instapundit ) A 'space entrepenuer' and 'An...
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How Professionals Discuss "Airpower"

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The future is coming fast. Embrace it...or develop better coping skills.  Second Line of Defense (SLD) interviewed recently-retired Air...
Monday, May 23, 2011

End of the A-12 saga?

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Let us hope. The Supreme Court today reversed a lower court ruling  that reversed an even lower court ruling, and I learned a new word: “n...
Monday, May 16, 2011

F-35 Haters Evidently Aren't Logicians

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Been spending a little time the last couple of days trying to keep the JSF Haters at Military.com from hyperventilating over the latest F-35...
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Friday, May 13, 2011

BlackFive Clears Up F-35 Cost 'Confusion'

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 and Ares Dances....poorly Update 2: BlackFive has explained his interpretation of the chart he used,   and as he uses it there is no er...
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Saturday, May 07, 2011

US Fish and Wildlife Needs a Good 'Purge'

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H/T Classical Values I want to make activist U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service biologists (Man!-I hate soft sciences) as 'Endangered...

On the Death of Evil Ones: Enemies Within and Without

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H/T Michael Totten posting at Instapundit. Being military-minded and somewhat experienced in these sort of things, I find no "joy...
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Thursday, May 05, 2011

Been Busy and Sans Computer

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I've gotten a couple of e-mails from folks wondering where I'm at. Wish I could say someplace exciting, but I'm working killer h...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

The F-35 and "Texas Sharpshooters"

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Well, the 'Ragin Hedge Baby from the Shires' tried to make a buzz (if link doesn't work it is because it is too long for Blogge...
Monday, April 04, 2011

Chappie James, Political Correctness, and the Current Libyan Problem

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OR... “How America’s first Black Four-Star General almost stopped the current Libyan regime in its infancy 42 years ago but you’d never kn...
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Ragin’ Hedge Baby on the Loose!

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Forget that missing zoo cobra (they found it last week). This is much worse. That “Ragin’ Hedge Baby from the Shires” (aka Bill Sweetman) ...
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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Stars and Stripes Lets the Military Down… Again

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S & S has a ‘Flack’ at Misawa Air Base A s if anyone need any reminding that today’s Stars and Stripes is NOT the same paper of World ...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Another Chuckie Schumer Moment

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H/T: Instapundit From the NY Times : "Moments before a conference call with reporters was scheduled to get underway on Tuesday morn...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

All F-35s Flying Again? Update: Yes.

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Updated (27 Mar 11) and Bumped (and painfully ... Blogger is acting up) NEW: A res Blog has info pretty much confirming the DEW Line st...
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I am a '3rd Generation Aerospace' Professional and a retired Air Force Senior NCO. I maintained and tested airborne precision guided weapons the first half of my Air Force career [including AIMVAL/ACEVAL, TASVAL79, AIM-9L FOT&E--IYAAYAS!] and flight tested RPVs, Drones and Cruise Missiles [XBQM-106A, Pave Tiger/Panther, CALCM, ACM and 'others'] the second half. Since my AF retirement I have worked on many aircraft, UAV and weapons programs. I have worked systems, flight, and laboratory test programs about half the time, and have worked R&M Engineering, Depot Operations, and Operations Analysis (Combat and Logistics) the other half, I am now the Lead Engineer xx x xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxx xxxx (doing 'stuff') on yet another major weapon systems program and still involved in a wide range of Aerospace Engineering and Military Operations Research activities for multiple programs.
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