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I’m in a musical mood. Sorry.

No dancing. Unless you’re digital dancing Armorer, then it’s okay. For the Young Sheepdogs, something I know many have felt even if they haven’t said it as much it as much as they’ve felt it. “All I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you.” We all know who ‘you’ is. For myself, because I just want to start this over, and see sorrow no more. (Language and visuals warning)
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Bill Lind presents a piece about the role of maximalism in strategy. Sort of in the same vein as Fehrenbach. Sort of.
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Zenpundit talks about the state of US-RUS affairs and how we got here.

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Damn sailors. I tell ya, you can't trust 'em.

From MNF-I:

Surge improves security, quality of life in Baghdad

U.S. Soldiers, Iraqis open wells in Nineveh

Kurdish Regional Government assumes control over security

From the WaPo: Residents of Western Neighborhood Join Groups' Fight Against Al-Qaeda in Iraq

Because the first three stories are from MNF-I, they must be judged with extreme suspicion. But since the last one is from the Washington Post, it may be read with uncritical acceptance. I am one with the Borg.

Absent more information - count me in with the VFW on this one. Like I said - absent more info than that which has been provided to date - ignoring Adam Kokesh rather than martyring him is a better approach. Even if he *is* an IRR reservist - he does not appear to have been presenting himself as a serving Marine.

Lastly for the nonce - Footprints in the Sand, Algore version. -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 (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 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".