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  • A flesh-eating disease is spreading in Australia and officials have no idea how to stop it

    05/13/2018 1:13:22 PM PDT · by LucyT · 32 replies
    DCClothesline ^ | May 13, 2018 | IsabelleZ
    A frightening flesh-eating disease is currently making its way across Australia, and puzzled scientists and officials aren’t sure how to stop this mysterious condition from wreaking havoc. Cases of an infection known as Buruli ulcer have spiked in recent years in the country, rising 150 percent from 74 cases in 2013 to 186 in 2016. It shows no signs of slowing down; last year saw a projected 286 cases. The infection causes unsightly skin ulcers that destroy the skin and the soft tissue around it. Complicating matters is the fact that scientists aren’t sure how it is spread or how...
  • CSBA AirSea Battle Concept: More Stealth, Long-Range Strike to Counter Chinese Battle Networks

    05/18/2010 6:20:06 PM PDT · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 9 replies · 445+ views
    Defense Tech ^ | 5/17/2010 | Greg Grant
    spent the morning at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment’s release of their new report “AirSea Battle: A Point of Departure Operational Concept” (you can find the report here as well as the briefing slides). Lots to unpack here from the 123 page report, the author’s brief and the lively discussion that followed. CSBA says that China’s military modernization aims at denying U.S. air and maritime freedom of maneuver and access in the Western Pacific (WestPac) by targeting bases and ships with precision guided missiles. China’s buildup of increasingly capable anti-access/area-denial “battle networks” will, over time, make the current...
  • Big Day Next Week For AirSea Battle Fans

    05/15/2010 10:01:31 PM PDT · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 387+ views
    Defense Tech ^ | 5/14/2010 | GregGrant
    On Tuesday, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments will release their new report “AirSea Battle: A Point of Departure,” at an event on the Senate side of the Hill, hosted by Senators Joe Lieberman and John Thune. This is the follow on to an initial paper written by CSBA’s Andrew Krepinevich that examined some of the underlying assumptions driving the new joint Navy-Air Force concept intended to find ways to ensure access in the Western Pacific and the Gulf in the face of ever more capable Chinese and Iranian precision guided weapons and anti-access battle networks. Pentagon sources tell...
  • Tarawa Returning After Successful 13th Western Pacific Deployment

    02/15/2006 4:44:53 PM PST · by SandRat · 6 replies · 379+ views
    Navy NewsStand ^ | Feb 15, 2006 | Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Tony Spiker
    USS TARAWA, At Sea (NNS) -- Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 1 is scheduled to return to Naval Station San Diego, after spending more than half a year deployed to the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans, the Mediterranean, and Persian Gulf. The three-ship USS Tarawa (LHA 1) strike group deployed to the Western Pacific in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the global war on terrorism. “This was the most successful deployment I've experienced. It had nothing to do with me and everything to do with the young Sailors and Marines on board Tarawa," said Capt. Peter Murphy, Tarawa’s commanding officer....
  • Underwater Volcano Offers Explosive Show

    06/08/2004 3:44:57 PM PDT · by PeaceBeWithYou · 19 replies · 465+ views
    Yahoo Science News ^ | June 08, 2004 | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
    WASHINGTON - Hoping to learn more about undersea volcanoes, scientists sent a camera-equipped submarine down to take a look. They got more than they bargained for, witnessing a deep-sea eruption. "At first we really didn't understand what was going on," said Bob Embley, chief scientist on the mission, which involved nearly three dozen researchers. "We were seeing billowing clouds coming up and turning yellow. There was sulfur and rocks were flying out," said Embley, an oceanographer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory. "We realized we were the first to witness a deep-sea volcano during...
  • The Rising Sea Dragon in Asia

    01/06/2004 9:05:14 AM PST · by Jeff Head · 176 replies · 1,833+ views
    JEFFHEAD.COM ^ | January 6, 2004 | Jeff Head
    THE RISING SEA DRAGON IN ASIA By Jeff Head, January 2004 In the 1990's the Poeple's Republic of China embarked on an unprecedented military buildup to modernize their aremd forces, increase their qualitative functioning and put them in a position to be able to better carry out the geo-olitical dictates of the Red Chinese government. This necessarily includes being able to develop themselves to a point that they could credibly confront the other armed forces in the region who may stand in the way of those geo-political directives, in particularly the United States. The buildup has covered the spectrum...