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This ties into questions and comments in the comments section to the judicial matters post. I find it utterly silly. Making the Nazi Defense what Ehran Watada was trying to avoid---by inference---by tossing in the guy who actually is attempting the Nazi Defense. Oh, that’s classy.
ry
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The Dawn Patrol is back!
A venue for the MilBlog Conference has been announced and discounted onsite hotel rooms are available.
The media at large seems unable to correctly cover the IG's report on the Pentagon's pre-Iraq-war intelligence. Now it's the Washington Post caught with its pants down. Bigtime. Lex has some nice discussion on this (great headline, haha!), and here are some other snarky comments. - FbL
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While not traveling in the rarefied company as FbL, I thought I would toot my own horn and tell you I was published in the Kansas City Star's "Unfettered Letters" (letters to the editor) on Friday. Title: American Soldiers (sub-context - this ain't your daddy's army anymore).
-Kat
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Must-read profiles of three beautiful Americans. - FbL
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My peeps! -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, 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".
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