Today, I honor my many kinsmen who fought under the Red Ensign with a special edition of Milstack.
At Missile Matters, Fabian Hoffmann evaluates the effectiveness of Israeli anti-missile defenses. (Coming up with intercept rates that hover around 93%, Dr. Hoffmann concludes that the triad of Arrow, David’s Sling, and Iron Dome did an excellent job, but not to the point of putting air raid shelters out of business.)
At Deeper Look, Michael Sellers concludes that, while the bombing of the Iranian nuclear enrichment sites at Natanz and Fordow, inflicted heaping helpings of wrack and ruin upon access tunnels, the halls that housed the centrifuges remain intact. (Readers may want to enhance the experience of reading this piece by playing Edvard Grieg’s Hall of the Mountain King.)
At The Connecting File, Ryan Martinez offers Ten Pieces of Advice for the Junior Officer. (The tale he tells at the end of Number Nine brought me to close to tears.)
At The Harding Project, Trent Lythgoe reminds us the rewriting remains The Secret to Writing Well. Better yet, he provides techniques that allow an author to do this quickly.
At Modern Warfare, JG provides a comprehensive account of Operation Spiderweb. He also offers an explanation for the curious release, on the part of the Ukrainian secret services, of so many details about the enterprise.
On the matter of missile defense; the bourgeois expectation of safety in war … 93%?
Not good enough. 🧐
… more and more I understand and miss the old communists.
“At The Connecting File, Ryan Martinez offers Ten Pieces of Advice for the Junior Officer. (The tale he tells at the end of Number Nine brought me to close to tears.)” - same here. What you think you know about PVT Snuffy is likely not the whole picture.