It's also a matter of changed attitudes. Back in the 80s, the insurers priced in a few holes from anti ship missiles. Tankers are very hard to sink, as you say. Used to work, long ago, with a ta… (View Post)

Living in that world (my daughters when to private school - partially) the politics of the young is left wing. Uniform support for the Greens. My youngest is unusual, in that she actually discusses a… (View Post)

I'd forget that many people don't know about them. Actually what happened in Desert Storm was that they were used at first - a version with a cruise missile flying a pattern, unreeling grap… (View Post)

“Upending the system in a populist revolution is something you do when times are good” Unless you are in the BreakTheSystem mood. See Brexit. A lot of people on the left and right are in that place. … (View Post)

He banned offensive strikes. But what about slightly rude strikes? That annoying-in-the-edging-to-psoition-to-get-on-the-train-before-people-in-the-queue-kind-of-way-strikes? "Are you looking at… (View Post)