Notes and commentary on things present, reflections on a career in naval aviation and serendipitous items as strike me at the moment...
I knew there was a reason I liked this strip so much (and miss it equally so) - grew up w/a toboggan and have the scars to show for it...
- SJS
Posted by Steeljaw Scribe at 20:54
Fate is the Hunter by Ernest K. Gann
...and too many pathetic Power Point briefs (but that is redundant)
Read in 2007:
The Minimum Means of Reprisal: China's Search for Security in the Nuclear Age by Jeffrey Lewis (aka ArmsControlWonk)Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces by Pavel Podvig
Clash of the Carriers: The Battle of the Phillipine Sea by Barett Tillman
Facing Your Giants by Max Lucado
Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945 by Evan Thomas
JP 3-01: Countering Air and Missile Threats (05 Feb 07) Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy by Ian Toll
Favorites of 2006:
Guests of the Ayatollah by Mark BowdenDEFCON-2 by Norman Polmar
Shattered Sword by Johnathan Parshall and Anthony Tully
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