Monday NatSec Roundup
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As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain on the island dead, once they set foot on it. But no one expected to be one of these.
- The impact of the loss of USS Thresher on the submarine community, with lessons learned for management standards today.
- Athens and the ancient tools of financial power.
- The Mexican-American War and constitutional war powers. One of the more surprising things about reading Grant’s memoirs was how harshly he criticized just about every aspect of the Mexican War.
- Nice analysis of the newest model renderings of the B-21 Raider.
- Lengthy analysis of the wreck of HIJMS Kirishima, based on recent investigation by MV Petrel.
- How militarily useful are China’s artificial islands?