Archive for the 'military' Category
Monday, April 4th, 2011
“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”.
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Friday, March 18th, 2011
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://…
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Friday, March 18th, 2011
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 russia…
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Saturday, March 5th, 2011
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 co…
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Friday, March 4th, 2011
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.
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
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
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Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
story about how mossad conducted an assassination of hamas leader in Dubai
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
An article in Esquire about how UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) missions look up close.
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