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By Lieutenant Colonel Thomas McCabe, U.S. Air Force Reserve (Ret.)
Before 1940, Pearl Harbor had been something of a forward base. This started to change as events drifted toward war with Japan. The United States began to build up its forces in the Philippines, then a U.S. dependency, and it implicitly made two assumptions. The first assumption was that if war came, it would primarily be in the western Pacific. Second, Hawaii was now a rear area and therefore secure. On 7 December 1941, the Japanese Navy showed these assumptions were wrong.
Could the United States be making a similar miscalculation today?
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A study carried out by Polish GNSS researchers has determined that the GPS interference observed in the Baltic recently exhibits capabilities beyond commercial grade, and it appears to emanate from ships in transit – not from a fixed land-based source in Kaliningrad, as some analysts have speculated. If accurate, the apparent discovery of powerful ship-mounted transmitters would help explain the shifting pattern of GPS disruption in the region. It would also align with past reports of high-power radio equipment fitted aboard vessels in the Russian “shadow fleet.”
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A native of Clevelands Cross Roads, Alabama, Captain Don C. East enlisted in the United States Navy in 1957. Following boot camp, he attended Cryptographic Technician “R” and “T” Branch training at Imperial Beach and March AFB, California. He then served operational tours at Karamursel, Turkey and Bremerhaven, Germany.
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The Philippine government is used to provocative statements from China’s state-owned media empire, but has expressed alarm at a new theory circulating on tightly-monitored Chinese social media: the newly-created concept that Palawan, one of the Philippines’ home islands, is actually part of China.
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Alan Hale was born on March 8, 1921 and died on January 2, 1990. Hale served in the Coast Guard during WWII and is best known for appearing on “Gilligan’s Island” as Jonas Grumby, AKA the Skipper. The character was a Navy vet who fought at Guadalcanal and claimed to be the best poker player in the 7th Fleet.
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