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

Sunday, February 10, 2013

What I've Been Doing Instead of Blogging

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I had hoped to get to skip this post, but time is marching on faster than I'm progressing on an "emergency" home repair projec...
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Tuesday, January 08, 2013

DoD Buzz-Job

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"Buzz-Job". 1. Noun: A colloquialism for what happens when commercial military-oriented websites  "disappear" their m...
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Friday, January 04, 2013

An Object Lesson in the Utility of High Capacity Magazine Weapons in Self-Defense

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Hat Tip Instapundit. The proof is in how TODAY a woman came to be disarmed after firing her revolver six times at an attacker, hitting him...
Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Happy 2013!

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Hope Springs Eternal...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Another Mil-Spec AR-15 Build Project: This One Was a Gift

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Obviously. I'm Glad I Did it WHEN I Did It. JD Machine Stripped Lower from SOG Armory CMMG Lower Parts Kit M4 Spec Adjustable Sto...
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Friday, December 21, 2012

Smacking Down Gun-Grabber's (Cough) 'Reasons' (Cough)

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Hat-tip to Instapundit (who is bumping this story to keep it in view). Larry Correia.   Source The author Larry Correia got his star...
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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Gun Control

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As chance would have it, yesterday was my Texas Concealed Handgun Law training course and qualification.  Two nights before, I was studying ...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

The Mysterious LM 'CUDA' Missile"...

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May not be that mysterious after all. readers will remember a couple of days ago when I put up my first post speculating about features ...
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Sunday, December 09, 2012

LRS "News"? Pffft -- What is Old Is New Again

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Dave Majumdar at Flight Global has commentary (but no link such as this )  concerning an aircraft design patent application by Northrop Gr...
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Friday, December 07, 2012

Canada Cancels F-35?

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Canadian Liberal Politicians and Their 'Operatives with Bylines' are Headhunting Libs in the Great White North, who are no doubt j...
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Wednesday, December 05, 2012

Oh Noes! Bill Sweetman Keeps Bringing back the 80's

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Looks like another generation gets to deal with the problem child that won't grow up.  CUDA vs. SHOULDA (NOT) I'm still working o...
Tuesday, December 04, 2012

"The Mysterious LM 'CUDA' Missile" Or....

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I Get to Play 'the Capability Speculator' For a Change Hat tip: The Aviationist via The Unwanted Blog I freely admit most of i...
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Saturday, December 01, 2012

F-35 and the "Crackpots of Doom" (Redux)

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(Updated and Bumped for comparison.) Gee, has it been a year already? In the original post below, among other things I demonstrated/showe...

DoD Buzz Promotes the Anti-F-35 Agenda

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Unintentionally or Not I seem to run into this problem every time I  really seek to 'engage' over at Military.com DODBuzz had t...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Does Sydney J. Freedberg Really Not 'Get' Stealth?

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Or does he keep shovelling this  crap  just to get a steady paycheck? This week's installment of AOL Defense Ignorance is titled: ...
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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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