Dilbert has stopped being funny about 5 years ago, I'm surprised the calendar only now caught up with being useless.
Of course, probably the calendar has the best-of series. Last one I had contained some really old strips.

When I want to remember how awesome Dilbert was, I go back to 90s strips.

What it really means is probably they will be used against the Kurdish in the north of the country, AKA business as usual.

That link is very heavy on irony. Colin Powell, the man who made the case to invade the Iraq with lies and spin has repented! He should be in Hague among others being prosecuted for war crimes.

There were plenty of Salyut missions where the Cosmonauts had to go back because they couldn't obtain a good dock. Once a plastic bag got stuck between the docking mechanisms. You have to wonder from where it came. And that was when they could actually afford the space programme.

Even then the worst docking story goes to Gemini-9's Angry Alligator. That's just epic.

This one can be safely blamed on NASA. Space Station Alpha went through so many redesigns, it spent more time on paper being redesigned by NASA (+20 years!) than ISS components actually had flown in space (since 1998, that makes 14 years old now, damn I'm getting old).

Very unlikely. It's just good marketing. The weight of the fuel for the relanding would be too much to send all the way up there and then bring it back in a controlled manner. It would reduce the usable payload significantly. Why go for a complicated solution when there's a simpler (fish it out) method exists which also helps with your payload weight capacity? If the cost of the refitting is more than building from scratch, no one will bat an eyelid for reusability.

You have to remember why you have these "United" "Alliances"...
Once upon a time, by a Republican President of a far far land, it was decided that competition was good and the capitalist would say prices would come down so he said "Hear unto me, from now on, all launches private will have to go through a bidding process with the lowest cost". The Giants were shocked and shocked. The big brothers, Rockwell, Boeing and Lockheed looked at each other and say "you know what, let's not bid against each other and create an Alliance and put a single bid". And then they kept raking the money.

Then the hero came to the play and said "you know what, my name is Elon and I can play with Giants and fuck them". And the rest is history.

We're all waiting for the bad ending where Elon betrays us all.

Linking antennas is hold hat, we know that bit works fine.

Hearsay. F-16 was General Dynamics, The Shuttle orbiter was Rockwell. Completely different companies. On the other hand various orbiter components were built by different companies, the main engines were Rocketdyne and so on. It is quite possible that General Dynamics built some component or the other.

What peacetime? Korean war? Cuban invasion which almost went ahead? Vietnam war? Invasion of some islands around USA? What about invasion of Panama? Then Gulf I and then a decade later Gulf II? Since Reagan's 80s, bombing of random old-best-friend-new-best-enemies in the middle east? The longest peacetime period was only a couple of years between these.

If you are talking about USA not being invaded or actually in war with a neighbour, that hasn't happened for a while, last time was when USA invaded Mexico and annexed large tracks of land and called it Texas.