Daily Archives: Mar 16, 2026

Which is curious: the AR-15 engenders a certain kind of confidence among those who have never fired one, customized one or tried to explain one correctly. It thus creates a category of popular knowledge which would seem to propagate more quickly than anything in a handbook: authoritative assertions about...

“The national Internet shutdown is very, very rare. And the reason for that is because of the collateral damage. The airports don't work. The banks don't work. A lot of internal services do not work.” The line captures a reality engineers and infrastructure operators recognize: when a state turns communications...

Aircraft carriers are designed to absorb punishment-layered subdivision, redundant systems, and large crews trained to fight fire and flooding as aggressively as they launch aircraft. That durability is apparent in the long arc after 1945, during which not a single aircraft carrier has been lost to enemy action even...