February 18, 2009
A series of short posts will follow with targeted reflections on what I learned at panels and dinners this past week, and how it ties into my take on world events. For now however, let me share a few random things I learned while attending this year’s International Studies Association Annual Meeti...
The Duck of Minerva
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February 17, 2009
In an unprecedented subbing fail, a British nuclear sub recently crashed into a French one. I've got the feeling somebody swerved out of their lane (read: the Frenchies, they're suckers for red wine). Officials said the low-speed crash did not damage the vessels' nuclear reactors or missiles or caus...
Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
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February 16, 2009
Why do we have nuclear submarines? Nuclear submarines are nuclear in two senses: First, they have nuclear engines. Second, they have nuclear weapons aboard. In both senses, they’re damned dangerous. They’re damned expensive too, often costing several billion dollars each. So why do we ha...
Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print
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February 14, 2009
Director : Rob Cohen Release Date : 9 August 2002 (USA) Genre : Adventure, Action, Thriller Cast : Vin Diesel as Xander Cage, Asia Argento as Yelena, Marton Csokas as Yorgi, Samuel L. Jackson as Agent Augustus Gibbons, Michael Roof as Agent Toby Lee Shavers, Richy Müller as Milan Sova, Werner D...
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January 19, 2009
Cyber-security is an ongoing issue for any enterprise these days, but the defense sector is more of a target than most. Britain’s Ministry of Defence has been finding this out the hard way... [summary]...
Defense Industry Daily
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Joe Katzman
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January 01, 2009
Director : John Glen Release Date : 24 May 1985 (USA) Genre : Action, Adventure, Thriller Cast : Roger Moore as James Bond, Christopher Walken as Max Zorin, Tanya Roberts as Stacey Sutton, Grace Jones as May Day, Patrick Macnee as Sir Godfrey Tibbett, Patrick Bauchau as Scarpine, David Yip as Chuck ...
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December 18, 2008
Meist3r writes "On his cloister blog, Microsoft's Ian McKenzie announced today that the Royal Navy was ahead of program for switching their nuclear submarines to a customized Microsoft Windows unravel roget's ii: the new thesaurusmain entry:answer part of speech:noun definition:something worked out ...
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November 14, 2008
Most anyone who has ever taken a class from me knows that I have a deep and abiding affection for Hunt for Red October, in spite of the fact that the film channels a river of Team B bullshit about Soviet and American naval capabilities. A few years back, I was discussing Hunt for Red October with a ...
Lawyers, Guns and Money
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Robert Farley
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October 02, 2008
When I got back from the UK I was so high on submarines, I wanted more more more. You know what happened next: exit reason, enter eBay. I spent days sitfing through thousands of auctions, searching keyword after a keyword. Fortunately I was somewhat limited by the state of my finances, but that didn...
The centre cannot hold
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July 17, 2008
Attitude: I always thought that the Submarine technology was pretty cool and when viewed in a isolated fashion of just using air tanks, was pretty clean too. Of course, there is enormous amount of energy involved in all of that, but this is without a shadow of a doubt quite simple the greenest subma...
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