A few years ago a Los Angeles-based firm called SolarReserve had what they thought was a great alternative energy idea: A field of mirrors directs sunlight toward a tower filled with salt. The salt heats up to 1,050 degrees Fahrenheit and then flows down to a container where the heat is used to drive turbines […]
From the monthly archives:
June 2009
Noonan put this in yesterday’s Fire for Effect but I felt it worthy of a deeper dive, as it were, especially considering it’s Friday (and this has been a LONG week). So what do you guys (and girls) think? Was the Senator correct to attempt this bitch slapping of General Walsh or was she out […]
COIN: Is Air Control the answer? (says me: no.) Amazing photo of the day: Peacekeepers and Warfighters 5 ways to defend a supercarrier (with all five being awesome) Call me Senator, dammit. Raytheon C-RAM fail Malaysia has Q-ships? Video: DUCK!!! –John Noonan
The Rhodesian Security Forces were arguably the most effective counterinsurgency units in modern history. Rhodesia, a former British colony (now Zimbabwe), unilaterally declared independence from the Crown after a disagreements on a power transition from European colonists to the Africa majority. A fifteen year long Bush War followed, between the Rhodesians and two African nationalist […]
Max Boot, in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal– Gen. Stanley McChrystal was appointed commander in Afghanistan to shake up a troubled war effort. But one of his first initiatives could wind up changing how the entire military does business. Gen. McChrystal’s decision to set up a Pakistan Afghanistan Coordination Cell means creating a corps of roughly […]
