Archive for the 'military' Category

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

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”.

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

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://…

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

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…

winninginafghanistan1.pdf (application/pdf Object)

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…

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

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.

The Weakness of Taliban Marksmanship – NYTimes.com

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

The Dubai Job: Big Issues: GQ

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

story about how mossad conducted an assassination of hamas leader in Dubai

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

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

An article in Esquire about how UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) missions look up close.