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Generals use peace to prepare for the previous war. In Europe, military aviation developed "on the fly" (no pun intended), and no one envisioned arial combat in August, 1914. Since America intent on avoiding any participation in a "European" conflict (at least officially), there was no incentive to develop new technology until it became apparent that we couldn't avoid getting involved. Then we had another problem....no forceful proponents of air power in an army ruled by old-line cavalry types. (Mitchell was unknown until we actually got into the fray.)
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"A 1997 study in Great Britain found that the average house cat brought home more than 11 dead animals (including mice, birds, frogs and more) in the course of six months."
Only 11? My cat calls that a "warm-up".
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