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Differing looks at reactions to the PRC ASAT test.
Barnett.
Taipei.
I was wrong since it wasn't the PLAAF that was in charge but the Artillery section of the PLA (d'oh!). (Bad gollum! Bad!) Made a bad inference that because the AF controls space operations in the US it was so in PRC too. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

van Stanwyk of Countercolumn in full throated righteous indignation of stupidity in reporting. Not kid safe. Profanity.

JRobb at his second blog, Global Guerillas, talking about the nature of the systems of international terrorism and crime.
-ry
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Holy Crap! Taliban operative in Afghan arrested with ANTHRAX.(h/t Orbusmax)
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Shock. Surprise. Disbelief. Senator Clinton wants to be President, and is going for it.

"And while I can't visit everyone's living room, I can try."

Heh. Americans, please lock and deadbolt your doors. I do like the tagline: Hillary Is 'In It.' Last Name to be Determined Later. Ugh. Time to bury my head in the sand to block out the noise. From both sides. We are going to be *so* condescended to in this cycle. -the Armorer

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The Armorer Recommends: Embrace the Suck, a Pocket Guide to Milspeak. By Austin Bay. Endorsed by CAPT H, too.

Oi. Kansas Senator Sam Brownback throws his hat in the ring - and the Kansas jokes start early. Just read National Review's The Corner today - and that's a *friendly* environment... It's going to be a looooooooooong two years. Here at the Castle, we'll be beside ourselves if the choice is Clinton vs Brownback (which it won't be). Gad, we'd have to write in our puppy, Houdini. -the Armorer

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Talk about "Just In Time" logistics... it snows here in the Heartland, as we desperately try to obscure the Yellow Brick Road to discourage Senator Brownback... this on top of last weekend's ice storm, that howler of an ice storm that put Bloodspite's power out. Last week, the throttle cable of the Snowplow/Garden Tractor of Argghhh! failed the day before the storm. Thus the Armorer had to risk a heart attack clearing the ice and snow.

Today, one hour after the snow started falling, the nice man from the USPS delivered the new throttle! Hah! Snow, we laugh at you! Well, we will once we dry off from spending fifteen minutes in the wet snow replacing the cable and another ten... plowing. And make a 'rita.

But it was worth it. Many were the envious looks of manly men in pick-ups and yuppies in their Volvos with their pinch-faced flare-nostriled wives and puling spawn, staring as they passed by, green light flashing from their eyes as they contemplated their hopelessly whipped, snow blade-bereft existences!

I was so pumped I did the sidewalk for the whole block. Hey, it took, oh, two minutes to do the whole thing. It takes about 5 to do the driveway. Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! -the Armorer

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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, right? 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. 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".