We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/military_mundan.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:32:20 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification One of the reasons I like to read soldier memoirs and rummage through their pictures is because the major histories just don't go into the mundania of military life of soldiers at war. It's all about Generals and Prime Ministers, fleets flitting about, tonnages of bombs dropped, the idiocy of reinforcing failure, etc. Important stuff, and easier to read when you've got a decent depth of knowledge with which to evaluate it. And then there are the first-person battle accounts, stirring and engrossing. But, since I spent a 5th of a century as a pistol (and one submachinegun) totin' RLO... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/military_mundan.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/military_mundan.html Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:08:47 -0600 Aw, the guy on the right kinda looks like me, and judging from his facial expression, he's thinking what I woulda been thinking, i.e., "This can't end well." http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/military_mundan.html#comment-70285 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/military_mundan.html#comment-70285 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:00:11 -0600 If its going faster than you can traverse your turrent, aint stopping and is blowing the crap out everyone you know... it MIGHT be a Russian. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/military_mundan.html#comment-70282 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/military_mundan.html#comment-70282 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:27:51 -0600 PanzerSoldaten that survived Zitadelle knew *all about* what Soviet tanks looked like...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/military_mundan.html#comment-70279 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/military_mundan.html#comment-70279 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:13:43 -0600