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Originally Posted by C-Wolf
Other than reading books, how much time have you spent at sea?
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Should I view this as appeal to authority?
Though I guess Brakerchase already covered that point here:
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Originally Posted by Breakerchase
It's very tempting to doubt a writer's credibility no naval matter for having "never served in the Navy or even held a security clearance", but to quote Fred T. Jane in Eric Grove's The Future of Sea Power: "it would be a bad day...if the principle ever gets established that unless a man is an actor he is incapable of criticising the actions of a drama...the contention world work out that 'you cannot tell whether an egg is good or bad unless you are a hen."'.  |