So reports are that the Taliban is stopping people from going to the airport if they want to. Checkpoints. Random attacks. Some people getting kidnapped on the road. And there are thousands of Americans there. The British and French are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for August, 2021
In a hypothetical situation, where I was in charge of withdrawing from Afghanistan, I would continue to give the Afghan army air support. I would maintain the Afghan air force, in facilities guarded by our people, so they could continue[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Like most Americans, I am in favor of leaving Afghanistan. We should not have stayed as long as we did. We should have supported the Northern Alliance against the Taliban twenty years ago, destroyed Al-Qaeda, and left no more than[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We have a very experienced foreign policy team in place now in America. The Biden bureaucracies were largely recruited from the Obama/Biden White House teams, and have a great deal of foreign policy experience. They watched Russia invade the Ukraine[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I made an honestly snarky comment on Sunday about generational choppers lifting people out of Saigon and now Kabul. I was quickly schooled by a friend who knows choppers better than me. The old heavy lift choppers the Navy used[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A month short of the twenty-year anniversary of 9-11, the Taliban is taking over Afghanistan again. Everyone who paid attention to what the military and intelligence said knew this would happen in time. If America left, the Taliban would take[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Port of Mobile slowed down again after The War ended. The rebuilt ports in Los Angeles and New Orleans took much of their shipping business, and the American military began to downsize so needed little new construction. Mobile returned[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Port of Mobile prospered during The War. Their space launch vehicles shipped food and munitions into orbit day and night, week after week, much of which would be sent to Sunnydale and the Hyades Cluster as The War continued.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Shang attack that started The War changed the space launch industry in America forever. The Port of Mobile had been losing market share in the cargo launch market to larger competitors like the Ports of New Orleans and Los[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Port of Mobile remained one of America’s major space launch facilities throughout the decades after Contact that led up to The War. Their factories built numerous Alabama and American starships, as well as Class One, Two, and Three Colonization[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…