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- F-35: The Flying Money Furnace
The past two weeks have been an interesting one if you’re either a military aviation enthusiast or an advocate for not spending Olympic swimming pools worth of liquified money on imperialist military adventures – or in my case: both. And it all revolves around one particular weapons system that has deservedly been a lightningContinue reading “F-35: The Flying Money Furnace” - Quick Status Update
Hey folks. Savage here with a quick update for you all. I want to thank everyone who’s been reading War Takes since I started it and have found my attempts at insights interesting and useful. I’m really looking forward to continuing to write and offer my analysis going forward into a new year andContinue reading “Quick Status Update” - Savage’s First Annual “Top 4 Nat Sec Things I’d Burn to the Ground if I Could”
I meant to do this piece to start off the new year, before certain events distracted me – and a lot of the country and the world, apparently. But the year is still only one month old, so I think we can comfortably call it pretty new. And as is customary in a newContinue reading “Savage’s First Annual “Top 4 Nat Sec Things I’d Burn to the Ground if I Could”” - What Comes Next?
So, I guess it’s finally time to talk about the last couple weeks. On the morning of January 6th I had just posted an essay I’d rant-written over an hour or two the night prior about an op-ed on Military.com calling for war criminal Robert Bales to be pardoned by now former-President Donald TrumpContinue reading “What Comes Next?” - Make War Criminals Afraid Again
CW: I know I tend to sprinkle swearing and colorful language in these regardless, but I really go off on this one language wise. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. This wasn’t what I wanted to start off this year writing about. Believe it or not, I had some more tongue and cheek stuffContinue reading “Make War Criminals Afraid Again” - In Search of “The Good War”
War is bad. That should be a pretty non-controversial statement (depending on who you are, that is), I’d like to think. However, if you’ve stuck around this long in reading through my various ramblings, you should know by now that I believe war is a constant factor that isn’t going away, and something aContinue reading “In Search of “The Good War””
