It's a long time since we had the biggest navy in the world, patrolling the waters of our empire.
La Main describes America at a point of change, when the suburban world patrolled so brilliantly by writers such as Richard Yates, Sloan Wilson and Patricia Highsmith is about to yield to a newer way of life, theoretically freer but equally treacherous.
This nether world, patrolled and nourished by criminals who operate what is known as the "black economy", has bred, in Mumbai, a community that has contempt for the state since it knows that its survival depends on corruption.
What happens when you're a despot with access to only a fraction of your wealth and the world patrolling your skies?
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In a world increasingly patrolled by online analytics and social media, Maurice's political dilemma still resonates: how might you not be in hiding while not being on display?
NASA's New Horizons team says the debate is over: Pluto is the largest of the worlds that patrol the fringe of the solar system.
So said Vladimir Putin as he sent Russia's nuclear bombers back aloft on the world-spanning patrols they had suspended after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
This overture was declined and the ship spent most of the Second World War on patrol for Chile.
Second World War maritime patrol aircraft such as the Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat were painted white, as aircraft generally appear dark against the sky (including at night), and hence are least visible when painted in as light a colour as possible.
Like other volunteers that night, I received a tie bar (men still wore ties, almost everywhere, in the spring of 1968, although that was about to change) with a replica of JFK's PT-109, the World War II patrol boat whose crew had been miraculously rescued after being torpedoed by a Japanese destroyer.
