KAMI CINTA DEWARUCI

KRI.Dewaruci adalah kapal latih TNI Angkatan Laut, yang aktif digunakan untuk melatih kadet / taruna-taruna Akademi Angkatan Laut, sejak kapal tersebut masuk ke dalam jajaran kapal-kapal perang Indonesia pada tahun 1953. Keberadaan kapal latih tersebut sangat penting, karena untuk melahirkan perwira-perwira laut yang tangguh, berkarakter sebagai prajurit laut dan mempunyai etos prajurit pejuang, diperlukan sarana untuk menempanya layaknya  penggodokan di kawah Candradimuka.

RUSIA, EROPA ATAU ASIA ?

Suatu ketika saya berkesempatan mengunjungi kota Moskow, Rusia.  Mungkin bukan saat yang tepat karena ketika itu sedang musim dingin yang buruk.  Temperatur udara di Moskow turun terus,  dan ketika itu mencapai minus 17 derajat Celcius.  Keadaan cuaca yang sedang buruk itu diumumkan di dalam pesawat ketika masih dalam perjalanan.

ANOTHER LOOK:' THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY' LUCK

By Bill Doughty

How did the United States Navy achieve victory at Midway and turn the tide in the Pacific so early in World War II? An anthology from the Naval Institute Press shows the answer: Sailor ingenuity, science and skill blended with Nimitz’s wisdom and determination — along with some luck.

THE NEW MARITIME STRATEGY

Our counterparts from the Mother Country yesterday published their National Strategy for Maritime Security (NSMS). The document outlines the United Kingdoms’s plans to provide maritime security at home and internationally.

SUN TZU, CLAUSEWITZ, A.T.MAHAN, DAN JULIAN CORBETT

Sun Tzu,  adalah ahli strategi perang yang hidup pada abad-5 Sebelum Masehi. Berkat keahliannya dalam berperang, dia diangkat menjadi Panglima Perang kerajaan Wu di daratan China / Tiongkok, yang waktu itu diperintah oleh Raja Ho Lu. Di bawah pimpinan Sun Tzu,  kerajaan Wu berhasil menundukkan kerajaan-kerajaan di sekitarnya.  Ke arah Barat kerajaan Wu mengalahkan kerajaan Chu,  dan ke arah Utara berhasil menundukkan kerajaan Chi dan Chin. Bagi kerajaan-kerajaan di sekitarnya, serangan-serangan yang dilakukan oleh pasukan Wu yang dipimpin oleh Sun Tzu menimbulkan kekaguman.  Sebagian kerajaan-kerajaan kecil lainnya tunduk kepada kerajaan Wu tanpa mengadakan perlawanan.

THE SINKING OF THE PRINCE OF WALES BATTLESHIP

 Image from forum.nationstates.net

Force Z is a British naval squadron that consists of two capital ships, which are the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and a battlecruiser HMS Repulse and four accompanying destroyers: HMS Electra, HMS Express, HMS Encounter and the HMS Jupiter.

CORBETT, CLAUSEWITZ AND SUN TZU

  By Michael I. Handel, Author Master of War

Even the most creative theories in history were not conceived in a vacuum; one way or another, they owe something to the works of others. To describe this intellectual and intuitive process, historian of science I. B. Cohen has developed a concept called “the transformation of ideas,” which reveals how great scientists have used the existing body of knowledge as a basis of or catalyst for their own inspiration.  Scientists such as Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin, for example, either synthesized and combined the work of others, while adding their own ideas, or were heuristically stimulated by existing ideas to develop their own original concepts. The same is true of those whose creative and analytical thought processes have “transformed” the intricacies of strategy—in this case, naval strategy—into an innovative theory or body of work. It is well known that Alfred Thayer Mahan, as he himself made clear, was significantly influenced by Baron de Jomini’s work and that Sir Julian Corbett was equally influenced by Clausewitz’s On War.

BLACK BUCK OPERATIONS AND ITS PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT

From a strategic point of view, Operation Black Buck demonstrated to Argentina that Britain had both the will and the capability to perform long-range air strikes in the South Atlantic. It also raised the possibility of air-raids on the Argentine mainland. Furthermore, the raids provided an powerful boost to British morale and domestic opinion.

Before the sun rise on April 2, 1982, the Argentinean command troops landed in East Falklands near Port Stanley, attacked and controlled the British mariner base. This surprise attack was conducted by Argentine through the sea and air, and without making any prior war declaration.

WAS THE FALKLANDS CONFLICT OF 1982 CAUSED BY POLITICAL MISCALCULATION ?

Argentine during the 70th decades was consecutively controlled by the military junta administration obtained by the military coup de’tat. The transfer of power from General Jorge Videla to General Roberto Viola, and then taken over by General Leopoldo Galtieri in December 1981, provides not so good image either internationally or domestically in Argentine itself.

WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR A FAILURE ?

The attack on Pearl Harbor  was a surprise military strike  conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii,  on the morning of December 7, 1941.  The attack led to the United States entry into World War II.  .

REMEMBERING THE FALKLANDS WAR

 

Britain has today paid homage to its fallen heroes on the 30th anniversary of the day that Argentine forces made an amphibious assault on the Falkland Islands.

SPONTANEOUS GENERATION: PERBEDAAN VERSI ARISTOTELES DAN DARWIN

Hingga awal abad ke-18, generatio spontanea adalah keyakinan umum awam maupun ilmuan mengenai asal usul kehidupan. Mengesankannya banyak penentang evolusi di masa kini justru menyerang ilmuan yang dipandang “masih” mempertahankan generatio spontanea dengan anggapan bahwa ia semata kepercayaan dengan ketiadaan bukti. ( Evy Siscawati, www.faktailmiah.com, 10 Maret 2011 )

Charles Darwin was daydreaming when he wrote that he could visualize "in some warm little pond," with all sorts of salts and electricity, the spontaneous generation of the first living cell. ( Joseph Mastropaolo, Ph.D., Evolution Is Biologically Impossible, www.icr.org )

Mengapa penentang teori Darwin, menolak Teori Generatio Spontanea ?  Jawabannya : bahwa yang ditolak itu adalah generatio spontanea versi Darwin, yaitu bahwa makhluk hidup terbentuk dengan sendirinya - Kemunculan Spontan - dari benda mati dan pada awalnya berupa sel tunggal ( tidak ada campur tangan Tuhan ).