Archive for the 'war' Category

ir_ingr: Жизнь в Афгане в комиксах. Занятно. На английском. | Live in Afghanistan, Cartoons [in Eng]

Thursday, May 5th, 2011

Cartoons about live in modern Afghanistan. Two cartoonists traveled trough the country and published their story.

ir_ingr: Жизнь в Афгане в комиксах. Занятно. На английском. | Live in Afghanistan, Cartoons [in Eng]

Thursday, May 5th, 2011

Cartoons about live in modern Afghanistan. Two cartoonists traveled trough the country and published their story.

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”.

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

Talking to the Taliban about life after occupation | World news | The Guardian

Monday, January 24th, 2011

also see: Part I: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/24/the-taliban-troop-london-jihadists
and Part II : http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/25/taliban-afghanistan-prison-special-report

[RUS] Журнал Аркадия Бабченко – Круг войны. Концепт для публичного чтения. | Arkady Babchenko – Circle of War

Monday, May 17th, 2010

What happens in a war (from the veteran of 1st and 2nd Chenen wars ) , also see Arkady’s book “One soldier’s War” http://www.amazon.com/One-Soldiers-War-Arkady-Babchenko/dp/0802118607

[RUS ]Николай Никулин. "Воспоминания о войне"

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

[RUS] warhistory: Florian Geyer

Friday, November 6th, 2009

post in russian livejournal community about history of some 3rd reich songs and marches