SWJ is Hot? Yep. So Says Rolling Stone...
What do Lady Gaga and Small Wars Journal have in common? One is on the cover of the Rolling Stone and one isn’t – but sure enough both made the Rolling Stone 2009 “Hot List” – go figure.
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Stocks may tumble and fortunes may fall, but hotness, it seems, is eternal.
There was some concern about compiling our latest Rolling Stone Hot List during an ice-cold era. But it seems that in these uncertain, gray days, we need what our Managing Editor Will Dana called "the sparkly and the sexy, the perfectly shaped diversions America leads the world in creating."
... Since we launched the Hot List in 1986, we've had our share of hits and misses (check our cover gallery to revisit all out past Hot Issues, from Angelina to Giselle to Britney). In 1988, we profiled "Hot Character Actor" Kevin Spacey, and we're particularly proud that in 1990, we introduced readers to a 23-year-old screenwriter named Jeffrey Abrams (you might know him now as Lost and Star Trek visionary J.J. Abrams). Of course, we've also missed the mark — in 1990, we thought Renny Harlin's hot streak would last, and the same issue that featured Abrams also declared Tevin Campbell "Hot Prodigy."
This time, we're banking on an assortment of movers, shakers and muckrakers that runs the gamut from the warfare digest "Small Wars Journal" to Hot Issue cover girl Lady Gaga…
Rolling Stone’s 2009 Hot List - as soon as we grab a hard copy of RS we'll post the SWJ entry - anyone seen it yet and care to share below? This issue has not hit the news stands as yet.
A Poet's view of life applies to us, too.
The Scottish Poet Robert (Bobby) Burns said it in plain simple English: "It takes no brains, no genius to criticize."
"Pedants will be able to cite exceptions, and thus undermine useful (insightful) theory. Their depredations must be firmly resisted by one simple test: does the theory generally aid understanding of useful military problems? If so, then exceptions are permissible."
J.P. Storr “Human Aspects of Command”
"Post modern COIN avant-garde"
Wilf that's even better than "pop-centric COIN"! I can even picture a few of them sitting at a cafe wearing jaunty berets, sipping Absinthe and Pernod, and drawing on their delicately held Gauloises. ;)
Where did they go? Well, having stepped off into the limelight to now revel in their new pop stardome they seem to have left we of the pragmatic and weathered hoi-polloi to continue to march on.
Non-procreation treaties...
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Uboat509
I believe that they were banned under a number of non-proliferation treaties.
Something about containment being inadequate. Sounded like discrimination to me but Tom said to just drop it so I did and they yanked the pics...
How was I to know what he meant...
More breaking rock & roll news...
Phil Spector jailed for 19 years.
Not sure about this new crowd we're running with. :o
Marc, my theory is that it's genetic ...
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from marct
Well, I'd guess I understand about 60% of what I write. BTW, from what Rob (and my wife !) say, it's much worse in person.
and now I have an explanation (subject to confirmation through intense historical research accompanied by pallets of high-test beer) for the outcome at the Windmill.
Your ancestor was designated PsyOps officer (with a voice of 10, nay 100 men) - and made his pitch to the Languedoc grenadiers. Not only did they not understand a word he said, his presentation put the rest of Murray's Highlanders to sleep. And, the rest is history as they say. :D
As one of that genetic predisposition...
Highlanders, that is, re: The Murray Highlanders, it has been said to me that the cotton is likely overflow or outflow from the cranial cavity.
I didn't understand that but my Sassenach wife often says things I don't understand.. :eek: :confused:
Marc, you are sinking deeper into the pit ...
1. The Highlanders' ears were blocked - so they couldn't hear orders; and
2. They couldn't shoot straight (e.g. genetic input from Walter Tyrrell[*])
But, keep right on digging -- China is only a short distance to go.
On that day,
a mill in the pays,
Languedoc was hot,
Highlanders were not.
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[*] Further Genealogical Notes on the Tyrrell-Terrell Family of Virginia (760kb), which is here.
What's more, the more I research this in dusty tomes, the odder things develop:
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A carious hand to hand fight between the Highlanders and French Grenadiers took place on the 28th April, 1760, at Dumont's Mill, on the site adjoining Mr. Dunscomb's house, on the St. Foye Road.
"With this old windmill is associated one of the most thrilling episodes of the conflict. Some of the French Grenadiers and some of Fraser's Highlanders took, lost and re-took the Mill three times, their respective officers looking on in mute astonishment and admiration; whilst a Scotch piper, who had been under arrest for bad conduct, ever since the 13th Sept., 1759, was piping away within hearing ;—so says an old Chronicle— (Maple Leaves, 1873, p. 182)." [emphasis in original].
What - the worst sin of a Scottish regiment - to put wool in ears - and block out the sound of the regiment's piper. No wonder you lost after the third replay.