 My World in All Its Variations  I'm an author and military historian, amateur cook, retired educator, expatriate New Yorker living in Texas. That's all explored here, and more. Please be my guest and wander around. This site is always under construction as is life.
Questions? Just ask me, Al Nofi This is me, cooking Italian sausage with grapes (see My Recipes), a couple of years ago at the home of our good friends the Alejandro family, of Fairfax, Virginia. New Stuff! My latest column for StrategyPage is now available, CIC 287 Nestor Cerda has a neat military history website, and on January 23, 2010 posted my essay on the changing American perception of the Spanish soldier during the 1898 war in both English (From 'Dagoes' to 'Nervy Spaniards' ) and Spanish (De 'Dagoes' a 'Espanoles atrevidos') . Military historian Mark Grimsley's recent talk "Why the Civil Rights Movement Was an Insurgency, and Why It Matters" elaborated, and greatly improved, some ideas I developed in my paper on "Recent Trends in Thinking About Warfare". Security analyst Bruce Schneier later commented on this concept in his Blog "Schneier on Security," which generated some interesting commentary, On May 7, 2009, Jim Dunnigan and I had a "conversation" about "The U.S. Navy: Green vs. Blue" My March 20, 2009, lecture for NYMAS on "Aviation in the Fleet Problems, 1923-1940," the subject of a chapter that I am contributing to a book commemorating the 100th anniversary of naval aviation, is available online as an audio podcast, complete with audience Q&A. |