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/2009/04/while_i_notiona.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:20:41 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/while_i_notiona.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/while_i_notiona.html Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:55:52 -0600
Done.

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From the WaPo article: The Times newspaper said last week that it is laying off 100 employees and cutting the salaries of most of those who remain by as much as 5 percent this year.

[insert Demotivator poster]
  Liberals:
Doing their bit to prolong the downturn.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/while_i_notiona.html#comment-86778 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/while_i_notiona.html#comment-86778 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:42:00 -0600 blatant hypocritical turnaround troubles currently experienced by that moonbatic consortium stalwart defender of gloriously triumphant socialism your rights under the First, Second and Fourth Amend

Oh. The *New York* Times.

Disregard.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/while_i_notiona.html#comment-86776 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/while_i_notiona.html#comment-86776 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:23:08 -0600 http://www.army.forces.gc.ca/caj/documents/vol_11/iss_2/CAJ_Vol11.2_05_e.pdf Lots of pics, too ...(sorry if already posted ...) Also: http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/tanks-for-the-lesson-leopards-too-for-canada-03208/ and "Though an former Army guy, I was not a tanker (though they scared the crap out of me when I operated near them on foot) - and it strikes me that this crap-scaring is a major part of why they are useful. Picture yourself as a Taliban fighter holded up in a thick walled Afgan compound. Your guys are pretty well armed - rifles, machineguns and Rocket Propelled Grenades. The Canadians are attacking you - basically infantry with some LAV-IIIs in support. The Canadians are good, but you've got enough firepower to make them pay for the ground they take - the LAVs have to be kept fairly far back for fear of RPGs. Now picture this massive steel monster enters the picture. Its 1500hp deisel motor is literally making the ground vibrate - the walls are shaking and throwing off dust. It can sit out front and take a hit from anything you can throw at it - sure you might hit a track or disable a sight with a very lucky RPG shot, but the guys inside are safe. So it can sit there for as long as it takes the crew to use their very advanced thermal sights to pick off your guys one by one (or in bigger lots if they use the main gun - which is effective at over 3km range). That is a serious morale killer for you - and a huge boost for the Canadian infantry. Seems like it is worth the cost in dollars to me - certainly in infantry lives saved. Afstan is not a tank war - there will be no great Rommel style flanking movements. Rather, this is a classic case of using tanks in direct support of the infantry, something that the US Army sort of forgot about during the Cold War on the focus on the Fulda Gap - fortunately the Canadian Army and the US Marine Crops didn't." http://communities.canada.com/ottawacitizen/blogs/defencewatch/archive/2008/02/26/german-military-impressed-with-cf-afghan-tank-operations.aspx#comments Finally http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/southasia/news/article_1420773.php/Afghanistan_fight_boosts_role_for_tanks_in_21st_century__Feature_ Enough for a new post on tanks ? ;-)]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/while_i_notiona.html#comment-86774 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/while_i_notiona.html#comment-86774 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:56:34 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/while_i_notiona.html#comment-86769 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/04/while_i_notiona.html#comment-86769 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:27:01 -0600