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April 18, 2006
Today's Lesson in the Use of High Explosives
This was the Iranian frigate Sahand, destroyed eighteen years ago today by the United States Navy in Operation Praying Mantis, a battle that decisively established the superiority of the Navy in the Persian Gulf. We have been at war, to varying degrees of overtness and intensity, with Iran for a long time now, as Mark Steyn reminded us.
This is merely today's reminder.
(Picture borrowed from here)
posted by Harry Callahan at
08:53 PM
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