Iraqi Freedom – The Hammer & Anvil
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an air force has gained command of the air, it should maintain violent, uninterrupted action against surface objectives, so that it may crush the material and moral resistance of the enemy'-Guilio Douhet, 1921.
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Strike while the iron's hot.
On Friday afternoon I had the opportunity to try my hand at blacksmithing while I was attending a museum conference at the Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown. Although I was an industrial arts student at SUNY Oswego many years ago, I never enrolled in metal shop so this was my first encounter with a forge. My first task was to make a nail. As simple as it might appear, there are techniques that hav...
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