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		<title>Soldiers are more cautious when excessive boldness results in death rather than embarrassment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of our most realistic ways to teach ground tactics, Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations notes, is on instrumented ranges that substitute lasers for deadly bullets and shells: English tactical analyst David Rowland, however, discovered the troubling fact that in infantry battles the difference between casualty rates inflicted in actual combat and those estimated on [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Former member of US Army&#8217;s elite Delta Force unit arrested for leaking secrets to reporter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems a stretch to call her “a former member of the US Army&#8217;s elite Delta Force,” but she has been arrested for leaking classified secrets: Courtney Williams, 40, was arrested Wednesday in connection with her alleged transmission of classified national defense information to individuals not authorized to receive it, including a journalist. While the affidavit [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Some clues will not reach the enemy decision-maker</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harvard professor Barton Whaley’s study of strategic deception, Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations explains, led him to make certain recommend&#173;ations: Most deception in the twentieth century was supported by commun&#173;ications and other electronic media. Only 23 of the 115 deceptions that Whaley investigated from 1914 to 1968 involved naval operations, such as Pearl Harbor and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>They stopped asking Bill to fill out the form</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I somehow missed Andy Hertzfeld’s –2,000 Lines Of Code back in the day: In early 1982, the Lisa software team was trying to buckle down for the big push to ship the software within the next six months. Some of the managers decided that it would be a good idea to track the progress of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Even Communist regimes publish military theory openly</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations discusses the great variables in naval warfare: In his book Discussion of Questions in Naval Tactics, Russian Vice Admiral Makarov related a remark that Napoleon made to the Russian ambassador to France in 1812: “All of you think that you know war because you have read Jomini. But if war [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Because of the way that CRAM lights up the night sky and how much noise it makes, it is hard to keep its operation secret</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Hambling explains why U.S. Gatling guns are not stopping Iran’s Shahed drones: The Centurion C-RAM (“Counter Rocket, Artillery and Mortar”) was first deployed in Iraq in 2006 and is a land-based variant of the original Phalanx CIWS (“Close In Weapon System”) used by the Navy since 1980. It is the last line of defence [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Many people in this country believe secret weapons are proper public news</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations explains the trends and constants of technology: DePuy, in unpublished papers, accumulated evidence that in ground combat the impact of a new weapon upon the outcome of a war usually has been local and almost always has been transitory. He believed that a technological surprise by itself never has won [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Does gun ownership predict homicides taking race into account?</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/04/does-gun-ownership-predict-homicides-taking-race-into-account/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you plot gun-ownership vs. gun deaths, they correlate, Emil Kirkegaard notes, but that includes suicides. If you plot gun-ownership vs. homicides, they don’t. The real question is, Does gun ownership predict homicides taking race into account? But then again, we know that homicide rate is mostly related to which % of the state is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Great constants in naval warfare</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/04/great-constants-in-naval-warfare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After discussing great trends in naval warfare, Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations goes on to discuss great constants. On maneuver: One problem of combat theory is how to define the beginning and end of a battle. Does the exchange of lethal force—firepower—open the battle? Consider the story of the cobra and the mongoose, told by [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>People who understand complex systems also understand the importance of minimising that complexity wherever possible</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/04/people-who-understand-complex-systems-also-understand-the-importance-of-minimising-that-complexity-wherever-possible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Explaining tech debt is, the evidence would suggest, impossible: Like many I’ve seen archaic systems where something that should take an hour might take a week. The trouble, as anyone who’s ever been in this situation can attest to, is that non-technical managers invariably fail to understand the problem. Of course the standard claim at [&#8230;]]]></description>
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