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An article that’s sparked a bit of interest in the PLAN watching group I’m part of: Taiwan performs a wargame with a PLAN carrier in the enemy's mix.
Here’s the point of contention: should ROC forces spend more attention on the flat top or on the amphib forces? What's the proper split of attention? Keep in mind PLAN doctrine for carriers may be very different than ours since they don’t have an operational one currently (though one wonders what they’re doing with Varyag since they put a new antenna farm on her not that long ago), are heavily influenced by Sov doctrine, and have vastly different agendas than the USN.
What would you do and, more importantly, why if you were ROC (or USN interjecting yourself)?
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This is a rare case of some of us right leaning and some left leaning folk finding some good common ground. I too don’t think anyone should be able to ruin someone’s life on a lie without consequence. We’re not talking about instances of simple charges being dropped, but of outright lies. Keep that in mind before you go ballistic please.
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Cassie asks a perennially difficult question. Poor woman, she’s always torturing herself thus. I simply gave up trying to understand it and thereby learned to love the Bomb.
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Vietnam: Fact vs. Fiction. Some of the myth-corrections will be familiar to anyone in or around the military, but much will likely be new information to many.
In more myth-busting, TCS takes on the "only in America" response to the VA-Tech shootings.
Powerline and Mark Steyn both have thoughts on the Yale Dean's inanity (or, considering the lack of connection to reality, insanity) that are worth reading. For what it's worth, I have some commentary here. - FbL
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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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