Bush Authorizes use of Towed Sonar Array

It looks like cooler minds prevailed. Environmentalists are worried these SURTASS-LFAs will hurt whales ears, but I'd take that chance with the threat posed by hostile diesel sub to American assets.

Info here and here

Update: here

Lt. Col. John Nagl To Retire

I heard on NPR today that the prescient Lt. Col. Nagl who author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife, the pre-eminent counterinsurgency manual, is planning to retire.

Bad Ass P-3c Missile Shots

Here.