It's not just aggressor F-5 squadrons that scored victories against more advanced fighters. The point is, lower tech fighters were/are successful...
This assumes that political leaders will behave rationally. Argentina and the U.K. went to war over the Falkland Islands, which had a tiny...
No matter where you live, what you say is a typical excuse of elected officials in attempt to justify shifting money from armed forces to social...
This is akin to saying that one might as well leave doors unlocked, because criminal trespassing has declined in recent years. Predators tend to...
A threat always seems far away until it appears with no warning. New Zealand has lost credibility as team player in regional defence plans....
That reads like isolationism. Having some air combat capability, even if modest, is better than none. A core of current expertise, if expansion...
Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce are two more Australian transplants. Pearce said that his father flew in the RAF and tested Harrier jump jets for...
Russell Crowe, Hugh Keays-Byrne. At least Steve Bisley is Australian-born. I barely recognized him when I watched Red Hill ... he put on a few...
At that range it won't matter much unless the defender is ready to open fire. The 21 Foot Rule: Forensic Fact or Police Myth? - Law Officer
[ATTACH] John Scurr / Mike Chappell. The Malayan Campaign 1948-60, p.18....
Wreckage of the IJN Hiei was discovered by the RV Petrel lying upside down nearly 3,231 feet below the Iron Bottom Sound in the South Pacific on...
Not trying to question what you say, but it would be useful to show statistics about mishaps compared to production quantity. If we could compare...
Midway was an overreach of Japanese expansion. Why do you propose that they should reach further? A Japanese invasion and occupation of the...
The submachine gun was, and still is, more popular with outlaws than armed forces. That about says it all. You don't have to look far to find...
Before Midway there was disagreement in Japan about naval strategy. The IJN chiefs of staff were fixated on the South Pacific, demanding to seize...
After the Japanese victory at the Battle of Santa Cruz, no U.S. admiral believed it was that simple. When the USS Hornet went to the bottom,...
Would it not be more reasonable to suppose that U.S. industry was the deciding factor of the Pacific war? By October 1942 the carriers Lexington,...
Not sure if all the statistics from this Wiki article are accurate, but the author insists that the IJN continued to hold sway after Midway ......
I guess I'm outgunned here, but you might want to look at the full list of U.S. shipwrecks at Iron Bottom Sound. It was largely prompted by...
This turning point talk comes down to semantics. One could also argue that end of Imperial Japan was decided by a plan to bomb Pearl Harbor. The...
