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Gen. Petraeus claims that Iranian Rev Guard are training militias while the FM talks about reconciliation at the bargaining table.
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Here’s a real short bit of background information about ‘Curveball’ via ABC news.
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I’m not putting much stock in this claim that we’re looking to back a coup against Musharaff, but it is the kind of real politic thing I, ry, tend to be in favor of. It’d be a short term fix in my estimation that changes some of the equation as long as the new headman thinks he needs us.
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Bull Nav over at OP-FOR takes exception to some reportage about people ‘going off the reservation.’
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From Danger Room: al-Qaeda propaganda production at highest level ever.
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This is both funny and serious.
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Last one, a review of 300 by Zenpundit.
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Stop The ACLU on the tolerance of CAIR.
Noah Schachtman, in his new digs at Danger Room, gives us a brief on the new Air Force Talking Points. -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 (oops, can't call 'em UAVs anymore - they're now Unmanned Aerial Systems... some Colonel got his Legion of Merit for that change...), er, um UAS's 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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