An actor plays Spanish-American Admiral David Farrugut, a hero in the Battle of Mobile Bay during the American Civil War.
VOA: special.2009.09.18
Where Bert Danner falters in his analysis is in assuming that the mobile platform battle will play out like desktop computing, where network effects yielded near monopoly-level dominance to Microsoft.
Britain is setting the pace in creating mobile, battle-ready forces, while Italy's army is still dominated by conscripts who use the experience to learn proper Italian (and to escape their families) but are not exactly bursting to fight in foreign wars.