JINGWEI JAI’s car passenger window was smashed in Braddon. There were other passenger windows smashed in Belconnen. The mystery that binds them together is they are all Audis.
MY car window was smashed last month. The vehicle was in a basement car park in Braddon.Â
The glass of the passenger side was totally shattered. What’s strange was nothing was stolen, despite my having some cash in the car.Â
It wasn’t news until I noticed recently at least three other Audi cars parked in another apartment in Belconnen were also smashed, and the person who did this only targeted Audi, only aimed at passenger-side window glass and stole nothing.Â
Roy Stalveyâs life has been about transformation more than once. When he was in high school he weighed a mere 135 pounds. While many people are looking for ways to lose weight, he was trying to put weight on.
Weight-lifting helped Stalvey to accomplish his goal. He joined the Navy in 1985 and the workouts the military put him through also helped him achieve the strength he was seeking. In four years time he gained 70 pounds.
He has continued his physical fitness regimen up till now at the age of 54. His five-day-a-week workout has given him the ability to bench press an impressive 245 pounds.
Hiryu was burning and was soon scuttled by the Japanese.
The Battle of Midway had been launched to capture the American atoll and use it as a staging ground to strike at Hawaii and defeat the United States. Japanese March Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto had amassed an imposing force that included a carrier striking force of the four fleet carriers, two battleships, two heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, and 12 destroyers.
Instead of scoring a great victory to bring the United States of America to her knees, it was a humiliating defeat. In addition to losing the four carriers the Japanese lost a heavy cruiser and a second left damaged. More than 3,000 sailors of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) were killed.
The submarine force was decent but it was not utilized properly.
Key point: Good submarines are important to win a war. However, Tokyo had one of the worst services of all.
For the Worst Submarine of All Time, I go further and nominate an entire silent service: the undersea arm of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN).
There are many candidates for this dubious honor. After all, submarining has been around for well over a century now. Many ships render honorable but unexceptional service. Standouts emerge, generally in times of strife, as do “floating coffins” and plain old hard-luck ships.
And there are some that subtract value from the nation’s effort to reach its strategic and political aims. This is the unpardonable sin.
The shocking turnaround was something akin to a miracle.
Key point: The battle was only six months after Pearl Harbor and the outcome was far from certain. Here is how America managed to pull a rabbit out of a hat.
A devil’s advocate is a precious commodity. That has to be one of the takeaways from revisiting the Battle of Midway seventy-five years on, and it should be etched on the internal workings of any martial institution that wants to survive and thrive amid the rigors, danger, and sheer orneriness of combat. Despite Japanese mariners’ tactical brilliance and élan, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) leadership was prone to such ills as groupthink and strategic doublethink. Worse, the IJN fleet was cursed to be led by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto a leader of such stature and mystique that subordinates deferred to him out of habit. Never mind whether his ideas concerning operations and strategy made sense.