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At Sea: Goliath Crushes David (David Wasn’t Even Fighting)

by N. Joseph Potts | Mar 9, 2026

Americans of a certain disposition are cheering and thumping their chests in celebration of the fact that their navy, the largest and most-expensive navy in the world, just sank the first “enemy warship” with a torpedo fired from a US submarine since the Big One that...

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Perfect Asymmetry: The Predator and the Suicide Bomber

by N. Joseph Potts | Jun 8, 2011

The expansion (and contraction) of great empires has long been driven by tactical and strategic “asymmetries” in the conduct of war. Norman archers overcame sword- and spear-wielding Anglo-Saxons at Hastings in 1066. Musket- and rifle-bearing Europeans slaughtered...

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