H&I Fires 6 Feb 06

Open post for those with something to share. New, complete posts come in below. Note: If trackbacking, please acknowledge this post in your post. That's only polite. You're advertising here, we should get an ad at your place...

*Some* muslims are embarassed and appalled by what's going on regarding the Dutch cartoons. I'll take it at face value until someone shows convincingly otherwise.

Have you gotten your dose of Combat Art today?

Regardless of the merits of the issue - how useful are the hearings going to be when the Chairman of the committee publicly pre-judges?

Canada@War

Speaking of Militant Canadians - at least in the Blogosphere... the Red Ensign Flies!

Interesting bit in the WaPo - do our resident academics have any opinions on the matter... that they can state, without risking their jobs?

Ry suggests you read this bit from Wretchard, over at Belmont Club.

CDR Salamander has a vehicle and Armed Force ID challenge for you. Let's go CAPT H! -The Armorer

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*A term of art from the artillery. Harassment and Interdiction Fires.

Back in the day, when you could just kill people and break things without a note from a lawyer, they were pre-planned, but to the enemy, random, fires at known gathering points, road junctions, Main Supply Routes, assembly areas, etc - to keep the bad guy nervous that the world around him might start exploding at any minute.

Not really relevant to today's operating environment... but, it *is*

The UAVs we fly over Afghanistan and Pakistan looking for targets of opportunity are a form of H&I fires, if you really want to parse it finely. We just have better sensors and fire control now.

I call the post that because it's random things posted by me and people I've given posting privileges to that particular topic. It's also an open trackback, so if (Don Surber uses it this way a lot) someone has a post they're proud of, but it really isn't either Castle kind of stuff, or topical to a particular post, I've basically given blanket permission to use that post for that purpose. Another term of art that might be appropriate is "Free Fire Zone".