And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
The ability to project power clearly illustrated here.
I'm not one of them. I read that in 1976 or so the commanding officer of the USS Eisenhower said that the quickest way to defeat the Soviet Navy was to make them operate a Nimitz Class carrier. My destroyer ran plane guard for the USS Enterprise in '70/'71 in Viet Nam. My God what a magnificent machine.
Kinda OT, but I think the rectangular one for Spain is the Dedaloe...which is a US WWII escort carrier. (Noted in US naval circles as Spain's larges submarine- because of all the leaks).
There are a lot of people around the world who would be happier if all of those flat-tops would be turned into razor blades.
ReplyDeleteI'm not one of them.
ReplyDeleteI read that in 1976 or so the commanding officer of the USS Eisenhower said that the quickest way to defeat the Soviet Navy was to make them operate a Nimitz Class carrier. My destroyer ran plane guard for the USS Enterprise in '70/'71 in Viet Nam. My God what a magnificent machine.
Kinda OT, but I think the rectangular one for Spain is the Dedaloe...which is a US WWII escort carrier. (Noted in US naval circles as Spain's larges submarine- because of all the leaks).
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