~Could be a smokescreen to pin Ukie forces in place, but I'm gettin' the vibe Putin is going to drag Belarus into his clusterfuck...and that will almost certainly be the end of Lukashenko.

....we worry about LJ getting deep sixed because of the war in Ukraine.

"The effective employment of Lend-Lease equipment was compromised by the persistent objection of the Soviet side to allowing Western personnel access to help with training and repair or to supply information on how the aid was being utilized. By 1943 large stockpiles of material had accumulated in the Soviet Union but it was impossible to check why ( Read more... )

~My position on the matter: Yes, Israel is the Prussia of The Middle East. And like Prussia it is surrounded by enemies that seek to destroy it. When one's essential survival is at stake, any and all atrocities are justified ( Read more... )

"Obama is visiting Hiroshima and the usual mewling about 'apologizing for using the atomic bomb' has started up again ( Read more... )

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"As an example of how much of a clusterfuck global politics is at the moment, while the US and Russia are working on a new Cold War regarding Ukraine, American and Russian pilots, along with their Iranian counterparts, are flying missions over Iraq against the Islamic State in support of Iraqi and Kurdish ground forces, which are also being ( Read more... )

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via The Small Wars Journal
by Peter J. Munson
SWJ Blog Post | May 28, 2012 - 9:09am

Historian and critic Paul Fussell died this week at 88. His 1982 essay, "My War: How I Got Irony in the Infantry" is worth your time today.

My war is virtually synonymous with my life. I entered the war when I was nineteen, and I have been in it ever since. ...

We were ( Read more... )

Harold A. Marshall was a Canadian scout and sniper sergeant who served in the Second World War with the Calgary Highlanders' Scout and Sniper Platoon.

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