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JRobb has a piece about an interesting new computer virus.
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Dan of tdaxp has a question about crime and punishment(ZoomieSib might be interested in this).
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You’ve just got to love NATO allies who just refuse to engage and honor the spirit of the treaty, dontcha? I mean, the US only spent trillions of dollars and committed hundreds of thousands of men to your defence over 40 years but when it’s time for you to live up to your word why should we expect anything, right? Except if you’re Canadian and a small band of other nations. Those dudes are solid.
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Why can’t anything ever be simple? Hey, PKK, knock it off! Take half a loaf and be happy you got anything at all. Your other option is to screw *everything* up and have the Turks come down with both boots on you. So knock it off already.
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Oh, and Happy Birthday to The Wife. It’s the 9th one we’ve celebrated together and they keep on getting better and better.
ry
*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"
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