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Image:   The battle of Salamis, 19th century illustration.

Gregory R Copley: Defense and Foreign Affairs, The New Total War of the Twenty-first Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic, in re: US Marine Corps and the Royal Marines are looking at returning to amphibious. . .  Need to get systems ashore, be the firstest with the mostest; need light eqpt.  Guam: considering how, if needed, to take it back!  Can they claw it back with an amphibious assault? Supersonic missiles from Chinese Mainland and US bombers.  Can it be done?  Yes.  Seabees; Pulau.  China is trying to buy up Pacific islands ports.  Russia:  2011, ordered two French Mistral-class amphibious assault ships; deal cancelled because of US sanctions, so Russia is building two: one for Black Sea (and thence into Mediterranean) and one for Pacific (concern about China).  Falklands. Cost-benefit equation is about the same as the Battle of Salamis in 480 AD**.  

Taiwan: huge Chinese exercises simulating an attack on Taiwan. China in the 30,000-ton range; not ready to take Taiwan and nearby islands.  

**  A naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states under Themistocles, and the Persian Empire under King Xerxes in 480 BC.

551: Amphibious assault grows critical in the 21st Century: how to retrieve Guam in a crisis. Gregory R Copley.

Image:   An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 28, takes off from the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48).

Gregory R Copley: Defense and Foreign Affairs; The New Total War of the Twenty-first Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic, in re:  Amphibious assault.  Geopolitical situation: launching offensive action rewards:  Karabakh, South China Sea, Crimea.  In the summer of 1942, Australia watched and held its breath watching the Solomons.  Japan shelling the US Marine Corps. Would Australia survive?  A major problem for the Marines was supplies.  All these years later, we still haven’t solved amphibious assault. Offload from the stern.  Bow-loading. To move troops and eqpt over really long distances, need vessels more compatible with the fleet.  Aircraft carriers, LHDs*, but need the bulk of troops and eqpt on to the beach in vehicles; the weak end of the [program]. Backing into the beach gives much more flexibility, can withdraw quickly. Xerxes.  Today, the whole global balance has altered.  

* A landing helicopter dock (LHD) is a multipurpose amphibious assault ship which is capable of operating helicopters and has a well deck. The United States Navy (USN) and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) use the term as a hull classification symbol.

551: Amphibious assault grows critical in the 21st Century: offloading vessels from the stern.  Gregory R Copley.

Photo:1966
Significance: Located in the once-fashionable Ravenswood area, the Bodine Castle was typical of the modestly-scaled romantic villas that formerly surrounded New York. Until its destruction in 1966, the gothic revival house had become almost unique in New York City as an example of this kind of building. 
Survey number: HABS NY-5465
Building/structure dates: ca. 1760 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1966 Demolished
 
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What could be in HRC's purloined emails that may have moved POTUS Obama to vouchsafe CrossfireHurricane, July 2016?  @LeeSmithDC @TheAmGreatness
https://amgreatness.com/2020/10/08/one-step-closer-to-despotism/

550: What could be in HRC's purloined emails that may have moved POTUS Obama to vouchsafe CrossfireHurricane, July 2016?  @LeeSmithDC @TheAmGreatness

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Artwork: "Mountain Scene, West Caucasus" 1942. Artist: Otto Meister. Catalog Number: G.W.1.4681.47. US Army Art Collection

 
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The three-decade tragedy of occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.  @HikmetHajiyev. Assistant of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Head of Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration.

https://apnews.com/article/moscow-azerbaijan-russia-armenia-sergey-lavrov-7551be8ce8ad970521a09278479d98bf

550: The three-decade tragedy of occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.  @HikmetHajiyev. Assistant of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Head of Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration.

Photo:1892

Citizens of Petrograd, Russia

 
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#NewAmericanCivilWar: A tale of twinned coup  scenarios from the Red and the Blue.  Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-american-coup-attempt-11602181261

548: #NewAmericanCivilWar: A tale of twinned coup  scenarios from the Red and the Blue.  Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

Photo: 1952

BB 61 Iowa

 
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Future Navy with 500 ships. Future VA with  3D-printed bones. @FRoseDC @WJLA

Our friend Capt Hendrix

https://govmatters.tv/navy-could-consider-a-fleet-of-up-to-530-ships/

VA on cusp of 3-D printing body parts

https://govmatters.tv/new-applications-for-3d-printing/

 

Forget 355, how about 500+ ships

https://govmatters.tv/expanding-the-navy-fleet/

548: Future Navy with 500 ships. Future VA with  3D-printed bones. @FRoseDC @WJLA

Photo: 1926

Växelbord till Telefonstation

 
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#TheScalaReport (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23TheScalaReport) :  Do the Democrats aim to break up the Big Tech actors who routinely support Democrats? Will Big Tech go the way of MA Bell? Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com (https://t.co/mxdzcX7gXy)   #ScalaAPS (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ScalaAPS)

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/07/after-congress-big-tech-antitrust-report-its-time-to-rewrite-the-laws.html

https://www.economist.com/business/2020/10/07/google-antitrust-and-how-best-to-regulate-big-tech

548: #TheScalaReport:  Do the Democrats aim to break up the Big Tech actors who routinely support Democrats? Will Big Tech go the way of MA Bell? Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPS

Image:  Training in cabinetry

Richard Epstein: @RichardAEpstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, Hoover Defining Ideas, in re:  Schools must teach children usable and marketable skills; if you can’t balance a checkbook, you can't rise in employment.

549: The desperate need for better schools.  @RichardAEpstein,

Image:  Cabinet Work, Manual Training, Public Schools, New York.

Richard Epstein, @RichardAEpstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, Hoover Defining Ideas, in re:    Decentralized responses almost always beat out responses [from on high].   . . .  “Forget about the text; focus on the problem.”  United Steelworkers v. Weber (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5203048489716937100&q=Steelworkers+v.+weber&hl=en&as_sdt=400006) , and Griggs v. Duke Power (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=8655598674229196978&q=griggs+v+duke+power+co&hl=en&as_sdt=400006) .  

“How Affirmative Action Falls Short” https://www.hoover.org/research/how-affirmative-action-falls-short

549: Affirmative action falls short in many instances. @RichardAEpstein,

Image: House on Steiner Street; San Francisco earthquake, 1906

Bay Area depopulation diminishes taxes, possibly beneath city survival.  Jeff Bliss, #PacificWatch, @JCBliss

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/S-F-sales-tax-data-shows-likely-population-15632448.php

Jeff Bliss, #PacificWatch, Pacific Watch, in re: The Bay Area—the decline and fall of a great city. The Chronicle reports a population decline in SF, which counts on taxes to survive.  It's a ghost town.   It has a plan of 41 points, including reforming permits.  Wouldn't cleaning up the homeless and drugs help solve it?  Yes, but power and money come in for these problems.  People leave the city, county, state. It's beyond imagination.  Disneyland is still closed and is deeply in debt.