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The Aviation Cocktail: A Gin Classic Worth Mastering
A pre-Prohibition gin sour with a violet tint, and the one ingredient that decides whether it works.

A pre-Prohibition gin sour with a violet tint, and the one ingredient that decides whether it works.

Invention creates something new. Innovation makes it matter. The distinction explains why the Pentagon funds so many prototypes and fields so few.

A prototype that works in a lab is not a program of record. The gap between the two — and how technology transition defense efforts try to cross it — shapes which ideas reach troops.