H&I Fires* 07 Sep 2007
Open post for those with something to share, updated through the day. New, complete posts come in below this one. Note: If trackbacking, please acknowledge this post in your post. That's only polite.
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It's not like we don't have a lot of other stuff up today - but here's the H&I for all the little fiddly bits of interest! -the Armorer
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I've not had time to do much but scan the transcript briefly - but Captain Ed and Stop the ACLU note that Osama has scolded the Dems for not surrendering fast enough. Oh, and get rid of that silly democracy thing and submit to your betters, btw. As for all the Islamist websites shutting down at once... well, I hope that's STRATCOM in action, but... prolly not. -the Armorer
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Andrew Roth of the Club for Growth offers up his take on what would be required in order to adequately analyze the latest bin Laden tape from a low-tax perspective. I'm inclined to agree. -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 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"
