Alaska Air Guard has no fighters.

HH-60G, C-130, C-17, KC-135, HC-130

Alaska National Guard have military police, helicopter, battlefield intelligence, WMD support and training units, no "light infantry" units.

Alaska State Troopers don't have "50 caliber machine guns", but they do have some Remington 700 sniper rifles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_State_Troopers#Equipment

That doesn't fly, up here in Alaska we have airlines that just operate in the State of Alaska, yet TSA rules apply to those as well.

Hell they are talking about putting body scanners in tiny airports like Nome.

Reliably of navigational aids trumps non-military communication networks.

Israel is fighting with Hamas and Hezbollah, you know, Arab groups. While Iranians are not usually Arabs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_and_ethnicities_in_Iran

B-2A is the designated carrier, but it has been dropped by B-52Hs in testing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:B-52_releases_the_MOP_during_a_weapons_test..jpg

You know people at NASA or you've followed NASA leadership and their two decades of indecision and failure to replace Shuttle?

Shuttle C, DC-XA, Venture Star, the last 26 years are littered with failed programs because NASA couldn't decide what it wanted.

Because NASA wants to be the only way for humans to get into space from the United States and they were all about Shuttle. From 1986 on, NASA was recommended to move away from Shuttle or find a replacement and despite Congressional and industry they never did.

Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites have had to fight tooth and nail with the FAA for clearances because NASA has been lobbying the FAA to lock them down.

Solar doesn't work for everyone. Like us up in Alaska.

Wind also doesn't work for many places, although there is a wind farm project for Anchorage coming someday.

A smallish nuclear power plant here for the Alaska Railbelt would have been nice.

Actually, not much power in Alaska is from oil.

http://205.254.135.7/state/state-energy-profiles.cfm?sid=AK

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=110997398

12% oil, 22% hydro, 57% gas.

Actually, for most of the time we had "fixed line phones" in western Europe and North America, they were leased from the phone companies, not sold to the customer.

When they did finally start being sold, they were already feature filled and would last a decade or more, so not many were sold.

Feature phones, not smart phones are where massive volumes are being moved in rural China, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa and Latin America. Also 60% of cell phones sold in the US are feature phones, not smart phones.

Actually, feature phones outsell smartphones planet wide with no end in sight.

Selling mp3s, apps and movies doesn't have a ton of costs.

I do, all the power that comes to my home comes from natural gas and coal. 90-92% of Anchorage's power is natural gas, 8-10% coal.

Currently the Alaska power generation systems are not interconnected.

Taco Johns for Great Plains fast food Tex Mex, Taco Time and Burgerville for Pac NW fast food, etc.

I'm in Anchorage and we have two bases here, Olive Garden is opening today and morale on the bases is up because freaking Olive Garden is opening.

Also, sit down dinning chains with a branch up here generally have the restaurants in Alaska end up as the highest grossing and highest profit ones.

But places like Applebees, McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, or even transregional places like Red Robin, Ruby Tuesdays all fit in with what Keegan was going on about.

After the fallout of the American Civil War, 80 odd years after the American Revolution.