What do you mean by most academics? In Europe? That's just blatently untrue.

who said it has to be novel?

Yeah but you can just look that stuff up

Nukes in Iraq?

That was what the gov’t was saying was true - which was a lie, and was later proven to be a lie.

Which reinforces my point?

at a range where short-range anti-ship missiles can reach ships from Iranian territory.

So, the entire gulf?

Actual short-range weapons can't cross the strait. The ones that can don't care much about the difference on the rest of the place.

And boats, amd submerged drones, and mines...

Not even short range. With a sensor feed from an ally they can project into the Gulf of Oman, and via Yemen the entire BaM.

Doubtful China would provide that because they want oil, but likely Russia would, because they want high oil prices and American humiliation.

Did Israel peacefully withdraw from the Golan Heights? No? Unilateral annexation condemened by nearly everyone in the international community.

Is there peace with Syria? No? So no unilateral withdrawal.

It's literally called aesthetics, the philosophical approach is the original meaning of the word - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics

Properly, focusing on aesthetics as an ethic would be practicing the philosophy of aestheticism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aestheticism

> Shares in the California-based company rose by about 6% following news of the proposed settlement.

Personally, as someone coming from a region that has suffered many times over by the actions of this so called "Ministry of Defense," I feel like "Department of War" is a more accurate and honest term.

As I've noted multiple times here on HN, I don't disagree with this.

But the question is not about whether it is a more accurate and honest term. It is about people complying in advance with the illegal/extra-legal renaming of a federal agency by a president who does not have the right or authority to do so.

If we were talking about Congress voting to rename the DoD as the DoW, I'd have nothing to say on the matter that differed from your observation.

Yeah that's fair you guys should still call it DoD. I think I'm gonna stick to DoW from here on out though.

If that were true then the Windows phones would've survived. You need the app ecosystem.

That would be a breeding ground for malware.

The capability to ...read their own keys that they set up?

You mean like the android play store already is?