It's been well over a year since I even looked at this site.
All the original contributors are gone except me, so it's unlikely anyone else has, either.
So I just wondered...is anyone else still here?
It now just seems empty and desperately sad, looking around the empty room and remembering the many boisterous conversations (and disputations, and digressions, and commiserations...) we shared that are now as gone as the smoke from a distant fire.
Aviator Al and Charles Gittings are gone forever.
Ranger Jim is...still somewhere, no longer speaking.
Lisa, when last seen, was going Full MAGA, which makes me just want to weep.
And the rest of us are living through a time I never thought I'd see, in which a real estate grifter and serial liar is overseeing the gutting of the United States that ruled the last half of the 20th Century.
What is there for a blog about military geopolitics to say about that, other than "that seems like a bad choice"?
As we used to say around here:
WASSSSSSSSSF.
