War

“American Deserters In Stockholm - ‘68″.

Another chapter in the Good Mahdr v. Bad Mahdr story.
Via Dan Kennedy.

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Mahdi heads the Badr militia while Sadr is the head of the Mahdi militia. Sounds like a scene from Airplane or Spies Like Us:
“Mahdi, Badr.”
“Sadr, Mahdi.”
I’m looking forward to President George W. Bush explaining why we should side with one against the other:
“We must help Mahdi maul the Mahdi, or else Sadr could savage [...]

Seth Gitell has a post on his father’s service in Vietnam and his grandfather’s service in Italy during World War 2. Coincidentally, my father-in-law and my wife’s grandfather served in those campaigns as well, the former in 101st Airborne and the latter in 10th Mountain Division.
The campaign in Italy isn’t exactly the forgotten war, but [...]

I watched a show on the Military Channel that featured gun camera clips from World War 2 on. Quite interesting. It had dogfights, strafing of both stationary and moving targets, and missile-guidance film. Here’s a World War 2 gun camera clip. Enjoy.

A couple of days ago I mentioned Friedrich Wilhelm von Mellenthin, a German World War II general and the author of Panzer Battles, in which he described the German campaigns in Poland, France 1940, the Balkans, North Africa, Russia, France 1944, and, finally, Germany itself, with a strong focus on the operations in North Africa, [...]

So you don’t have the technology or economic resources to take on America in a big decisive war for all the marbles. What do you do? Something like this, perhaps, as imagined in 1997:
Bashing The Laser Range Finder With a Rock
The United States has global commitments and interests which will come into conflict with hostile [...]

I recently finished reading Friedrich von Mellenthin’s classic Panzer Battles and I decided to Google around a little bit to check some things. That lead me to a fascinating document, a summary of a 1980 conference on tactical warfare where von Mellenthin and General Hermann Balck discussed their experiences fighting the Russians in World War [...]

Unsurprisingly, RPGs are Hezbollah fighters’ favored weapon. The Jerusalem Post has an article on Israeli soliders hurt by the cheap and pesky Rocket Propelled Grenades.
As the article points out, while RPGs are routinely referred to as anti-tank weapons, they’re actually more effective against unarmored targets like dismounted infantry or trucks. The RPG is useful because [...]