Tomgram: William Astore, Six Vows to Support Our Troops | TomDispatch

http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175357/ “greater security doesn’t come from fighting more wars; it comes from fighting fewer of them or none at all.” An excellent article about problems current American war strategy. Read it, if you indeed “support the troops”.

[rus] Журнал Аркадия Бабченко - Дедовщина перешла на контрактную основу | Dedovschina moved into professional base

http://starshinazapasa.livejournal.com/223533.html#cutid1 Article by Akrady Babchenko ( http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&tag;=mozilla-20&index;=blended&link;_code=qs&field-keywords;=babchenko ) about how Dedovschina (folk system of seniority based on stage of service, hazing tradition of the russian army ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedovschina ) evolved and changed after recent reforms in the russian army

[rus] Журнал Аркадия Бабченко - Дедовщина перешла на контрактную основу | Dedovschina moved into professional base

http://starshinazapasa.livejournal.com/223533.html#cutid1 Article by Akrady Babchenko ( http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&tag;=mozilla-20&index;=blended&link;_code=qs&field-keywords;=babchenko ) about how Dedovschina (folk system of seniority based on stage of service, hazing tradition of the russian army ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedovschina ) evolved and changed after recent reforms in the russian army

winninginafghanistan1.pdf (application/pdf Object)

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/world/atwar/winninginafghanistan1.pdf WINNING IN AFGHANISTAN, by CPT Carl Thompson 9 April 2009 /from the must-read sources for american personnel [about to be] deployed in Afghanistan / Exceptionally good article about strategy and leadership. It contains a lot of specifies that are only relevant to military and Afghanistan , but there are enough general points as well. Excellent writing, despite a need to decipher some military lingvo

How We Lost the War We Won: Rolling Stone's 2008 Journey Into Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan | Rolling Stone Politics

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-we-lost-the-war-we-won-rolling-stones-2008-journey-into-taliban-controlled-afghanistan-20110131 a story from 2008, when one [arab] journalist ventured into Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan and wrote a piece about his hosts and overall situation in Afghanistan.

The Weakness of Taliban Marksmanship - NYTimes.com

http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/the-weakness-of-taliban-marksmanship/ An interesting article about small arms skills and marksmanship of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. The articles suggests that those skills are low, and offers plausible explanation, but it nevertheless works OK for Taliban

The Dubai Job: Big Issues: GQ

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201101/the-dubai-job-mossad-assassination-hamas?printable=true story about how mossad conducted an assassination of hamas leader in Dubai

[article] We've Seen the Future, and It's Unmanned

http://www.esquire.com/print-this/unmanned-aircraft-1109 An article in Esquire about how UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) missions look up close.