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F-35 will quickly be outdated

There’s something I’m not buying about the F-35 “stealth” joint-strike fighter. Besides the government’s dishonest bloviating and the opposition’s peacenik whimpering, I mean. I just can’t understand a plane meant to dominate aerial combat for five decades in a world of blinding technological change. Click here to read the rest.

War mourning must include strength

When six British soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday, British Prime Minister David Cameron called it a “desperately sad day” for Britain. Look: I support the troops and yield to no one in my desire to see whoever planted that roadside bomb hunted down. But this was a scarily “teddy bear on the sidewalk” comment. Surely Britons are resolute, not crushed, when soldiers die on active duty. Click here to read the rest.