History, Politics And Current Affairs

For the Des Moines class? No, because holes would need to be cut through the deck to make slots. It's not a crazy idea, though.

* Armistice in Europe * Soviet and Cuban support withdrawn from southern Africa Yes. Both sides have withdrawn from southern Africa, bar the British military sales and training teams. * Stalemate / quasi-ceasefire in Korea * Stalemate in Iraq Both Korea and Iraq are active theatres. There is still ...

Some of them, yes.

Has absolutely pelted it down here for quite a bit of the day. Way things are going, we might have some spare water to send to our English cousins!

D+84 * 0401 hours GMT, 15th July. The Kremlin, Moscow, RSFSR. The General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was tired. Bone tired. The sort of physical and mental fatigue that could not be solved simply by a good night's sleep. 'He looks about ten years older than at the start of...

Outside of America, I doubt anyone will have heard of her. As an aside, it does remind me of just how old some Congress members are! The oldest elected member of our Parliament is 80, but that's unusual. The average of someone in the Commons is around 48 at the moment. The average age of the U.S. Co...

It would be a very expensive way to get a small Harrier capability.

CVW-5 in The Third World War by Matt Wiser . Detour to Aden: CVW-9 and the Warm-Up Strikes by Matt Wiser . POWs in Iraq: The "Official" Account of the POWs "serving in Baghdad" by Matt Wiser . Operation RAMPART by Matt Wiser . Operation ANNA: The strangest Soviet mission by Matt...

Fact Files NATO & Allied Royal Navy & RFA Weapons of the Royal Navy British Army RAF Orders of Battle Weapons of the Royal Air Force The RAF and GBAD British Ground Based Air Defence British Overseas Garrisons & Regiments French Armed Forces Bundesmarine ORBAT Belgian Armed Forces Austr...

Think this might need to be extended!

This was a real gamble, so I'm glad you guys didn't hate it!
400 seemed a good break point, both in terms of chapter number and with events unfolding. Never fear, TLW will return!

This is not the end of TLW. It is not the beginning of the end, but, perhaps, it is the end of the beginning of TLW. * D+59 * 20th June. 'Soviets request immediate armistice' – The Scotsman . 'After an apparent inability to stop the NATO offensive into East Germany and Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Un...

Yikes, that’s expensive! Cost me just over £15.

Cross posting from Jokes.

Would watch, but it would actually last 10 years!

A nickname for Elon Musk. See also Phoney Stark.

All I really know about her casting is that Space Karen hated it.