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I don't know whether it's reassuring or not that my home (in the outer part of East London) would probably survive a 2.3 MT nuke.

Part One

It's now come through the post. I'm trying out my first game and my blog will have a turn by turn discussion.

Order cancelled

I've ordered this. Is anyone up for a game over VASSAL?

Rugged Individualism for many Americans is freedom to starve. You can't eat self-reliance.

Probably not anything to with Putin being involved in corruption. You can accuse of him of many things from autocratic behaviour to excessive shirt removal, but strangely for Russia, no-one really thinks he's corrupt.

As you do.

It's worth remembering that in that game, the aircraft carrier can survive five hits.

Red Storm Rising, naturally. Also The Sixth Battle.

The Aviationist

If true, not surprising in the least.

I've heard of that pipeline. I'd imagine it'd be high on Quds Force's target list in the event of any war.

Also, deterring a pirate attack is a lot easier than it used to be - turn hoses on them or electrify the deck rail.

Re: Somalia - sending in the exterminators for the 'cockroaches' has a danger of killing a lot of civilians on the ground; this method is at least stopping them from getting most of the ships they try to get.

However, petrol prices have gone up a great deal, while the Iranian currency has now entered the joke category assigned to the old Italian lira, the Zimbabwean dollar before denomination and the Somalian shilling - it's about 40,000 rial to the dollar.

BBC News (rmks: A Non-NATO independent Scotland would have resulted in the loss of Lossiemouth and the northern QRA deployment there, not to mention the radar stations - providing considerably less reaction time to any Russian probe or full scale-attack. If the independence referendum does pass, a new home would still need to be found for the Trident subs though and you'd need to divvy up the Typhoon/Tornado fleet)

Must going the Indian route - diverse air force so you're not crippled by one lot of sanctions.

Well, I'm in it for the remarks. I may not always agree with them but I do enjoy reading them. Thank you for taking the time to type them out. Indeed. Thanks for doing this.

Yes, but it would also be flammable. Not a good idea on a warship.

For news on procurement of weapons. First one: http://alert5.com/2012/10/10/iraq-inks-4-3-billion-arms-deal-with-russia-buying-30-mi-28ne-and-pantsir-s1/

Further bit of news on Iran: Maersk Line (a big shipping group) have announced that they will no longer call there.