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Who knew Michael Ledeen blogged away from The Corner? I didn’t.
Faster Please. His own blog. Interesting.
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Why do I even bother with sites that come up with stuff like this? Israel went to war with previously worked out plans? Gross Gott! It really is a Jewish conspiracy(end sarcasm). Where you start from really does determine where you wind up when trying to make a coherent picture of your little dollops of facts.
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Via JustWarTheory: the schedule and some links to discussions from INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM FOR MILITARY ETHICS meeting from January that focused on Religion and the Military.(Nuggets like this probably are why I bother.)
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Kat didn’t link to this when she wrote it, but she should have. A slightly different perspective on what The Armorer wrote yesterday.
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But Kat did find this for Bill T: When Rockstars Fly Helicopters (warning for those who suffer motion sickness- and, no, it is not Van Halen or Sammy Hagar flying the helicopter).
Also, a little American Internet Jihad. - kat
I can't believe we missed this: last WWI combat veteran is laid to rest.
*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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