David Axe

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Pajama Media blogger Kim Zigfeld has launched an ad hominem attack on Nimble Books author David Axe, who responds quite sensibly.

I feel impelled to observe how very tired I am of the degeneration of public discourse into an exercise in scoring trivial points against one’s opponents, or, often, merely against proxies for one’s opponents. (Obviously, David Axe did not personally invade Georgia, so it’s hard to see how discrediting him could roll those Russian tanks out of there …)

I also feel impelled to observe that Kim Zigfeld is apparently operating without any sense of irony, since her ungrounded “he’s only a blogger” argument could just as easily be applied to her (or me).

Grrr.

Oh, and incidentally:

War Bots: How U.S. Military Robots Are Transforming War in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Future
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Nice summary of the willfully obfuscated situation with DDG-1000 by War Bots: How U.S. Military Robots Are Transforming War in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Future author David Axe.

Behind the Navy’s Stealth Destroyer Shuffle | Danger Room from Wired.com
Meanwhile, the company that makes the DDG-1000’s radar says that the Navy is wrong. The new destroyer can use air-defense missiles after a few, relatively cheap modifications, Raytheon claims. The company is lobbying hard to keep the ship class alive. Despite this, the DDG-1000 program is unlikely to extend beyond the three vessels. That third ship was the Navy’s consolation prize to Congress and the defense industry.

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Nimble Books author David Axe is aboard the U.S.S. Kearsarge for two weeks.

War Is Boring
She’s 41,000 tons of fun. 844 feet long and 106 feet wide, USS Kearsarge, the third Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, joined the fleet in 1993.

It’s a sign of the continued relative power of the U.S. that countries in Latin America and Africa are getting upset about primarily bureaucratic actions like the activation of 4th Fleet and AFRICOM.

Nimble Books author David Axe will be joining the 4th Fleet next week.

War Is Boring

Two weeks ago the U.S. Navy reactivated the long-defunct 4th Fleet to oversea American warships in South American waters…

And this week, in a letter to Fidel Castro, Chavez accused the U.S. of rekindling the Cold War through its actions down south. “They’re trying … to press the fear buttons,” he said.

But how scary is this? Next week I’ll join the USS Kearsarge amphibious ship for a mission to Nicaragua handing out free medical care.