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In honor of BloodSpite’s campaign against the immigration reform bill I present Tapscott’s post about the effect of the New Media on policy debate.
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A sign that some of the positives in Iraq are actually making print media is this story, “Half of Baghdad Now Under Control” in USA Today. The ‘Surge’ is in progress. And why do we still keep calling it that? The surging part ended when last unit was on station. Now they are onto some other element of an operational plan. I guess I shouldn’t complain too much. At least the ‘escalation’ tag some wanted to hang on this didn’t really stick. (h/t Dunnigan’s FYEO group)
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According to some turnabout on obstructionism isn't fair play. Cry me a freakin' river.
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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".