It’s believed that once a human loses one of their senses, their remaining senses are heightened to make up for the loss. That was the thinking behind the use of blind Russians in the defense of Leningrad during World War II. The city was encircled and under siege for nearly three years, and any advantage the Russians could get in its defense would be critical to success.
Blind Russian citizens were enlisted to listen for approaching German bombers for the duration of the entire siege.
Author: Michael
Readers are probably familiar with author Alexandre Dumas, the Frenchman who gave the world such classics as “The Three Musketeers” and “The Count of Monte Cristo.” In his time, however, his fame was eclipsed by that of his father, revolutionary French Gen. Thomas-Alexandre Dumas.
General Dumas was everything anyone thought an epic French field commander should be. He was over six feet tall, strong, and built like a brick storehouse.
The military has a time-honored tradition across all branches of giving its troops a meritorious ass chewing for a job well done. Messing up is second nature for a brand new boot, stuck between the rigid instant obedience to orders and dwindling common sense. Anytime I read a new controversial regulation put into effect or a new-but-dumb way to solve an old problem, I metaphorically hug my DD-214 a little tighter. Yet, every now and then we’ll see a meme that will make us remember our service with rose-colored glasses.
H. Altman, War Zone
A top Ukrainian official hinted that “new types” of weapons may have caused explosions in Crimea, targeted by Kyiv for liberation.
Sam LaGrone, USNI News
A U.S. guided-missile destroyer sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, according to a statement by U.S. 7th Fleet.
A-M Lariosa, Naval News
Lockheed Martin is developing a brand new Vertical Launching System (VLS) for the U.S. Navy’s Next-Generation Guided-Missile Destroyer program, also known as DDG(X)….
Mark Pomerleau, DefenseScoop
The Army has awarded Lockheed Martin a $72.
Al-Monitor
Local reports said several U.S. helicopters were involved in an operation in an area controlled by the opposition Suqour al-Sham militia.
Ukrainian forces have reportedly captured more than 10,000 Russian military vehicles since the start of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the open-source intelligence tracker Oryx.
Verified losses include 1,900 tanks, over 3,500 armoured vehicles, more than 2,400 logistics and supplies vehicles, dozens of high-tech radars and command vehicles, and 78 valuable combat jets.
The losses also include most of Russia’s modern cruise missiles.
The Russian military’s losses are a blow to their campaign in Ukraine.
Some of you might be surprised to learn that captains of the U.S. Navy’s largest, most complex, and most expensive combat ships — aircraft carriers — are typically not surface warfare officers with extensive experience commanding other navy ships. Instead, they are typically career naval aviators. This is not because a carrier’s only important task […]
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