Of all the things I've seen lately...

Toys for Tots is back again, it being that time of year, and the local mall has a USMC table where they're collecting the toys. It is staffed by a Marine in dress uniform and the toys are in a box beside it and sometimes set atop it so the Marines can play with examine them ( Read more... )

Famed author of a great many adventure, espionage, and military SF novels Tom_Clancy has left us. I have to admit, I was never a fan of his work (I had no problems with it, just never read any; I kind of got burned out on modern adventure novels after years of reading Mack Bolan as a teen). But my brother is as well as several friends, so for their ( Read more... )

Hi all --

I just got what may well be the weirdest link I've seen in a long time here: US Navy creates MMO wargame to fight Somali piratesBasically, you jump in and provide (hopefully) useful ideas on how to deal with piracy in Somalia. Beyond, presumably, the most natural course of "hunt down and kill the pirates IRL", that is ( Read more... )

Some of you have probably heard of this movie coming out soon: Battle LA. Hmm, Marines versus Aliens... does Haikujaguar know about this ( Read more... )

Or something like that!

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/11/11/iron.man.suit/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

This seems so very oddly appropriate for a week in which we got both Veteran's Day and the redone classic ( Read more... )

A nice new book from Osprey Publications that you might like: Galloglass 1250-1600 ADIt's one of their 'Warrior' books, covering Irish mercenaries called (what else?) the Galloglasses (or Gallaglach, or Gallowglasses), their weaponry, armor, organization, social background, etc. back in the good old days when if an Irishman wanted to smack around ( Read more... )

One by the master: Last of the Light BrigadeHaving seen what became of the vets in my own family, it rings sadly true -- no, none of them died out in the street, but when they came back home with holes in their souls from what they'd seen, none of the concerned-and-compassionate crowd of the time cared. It gave me a deeper appreciation for the idea ( Read more... )

I originally promised myself I wouldn't say anything about this, but after visiting the Herogames forums and reading their self-righteous gloating as well as their, "waaah, the Ebil Right Wing will use this to say Muslims are evilbad because they hate Our Living God Obama" I can't contain myself.

Muslim terrorist makes attack on Fort HoodThe man ( Read more... )