I vote for IntelTrooper's "Clear-Hold-Build" in any color as long as it's black.
As for my avatar, I'll bet Pete Abrams would be willing to work with us.
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I vote for IntelTrooper's "Clear-Hold-Build" in any color as long as it's black.
As for my avatar, I'll bet Pete Abrams would be willing to work with us.
Slap,
I feel, and it has been posited elsewhere, that America has the capability to be prepared for war fought on virtually any level of intensity or effort. Where we trip ourselves up is our acquisitions process is heavily geared towards equipping the force for war as we want it to happen, vice trying to achieve a balance of capabilities that can effectively deal with a broad and fluid range of employment. We seem to strive to have the highest speed, lowest drag widget. That superiority comes at a very high cost, and to what end?
One cannot 100% predict the future and it seems that many in government naively believe our opponents will fight on our terms. Granted, there are those that argue that having the absolute top of the line weapon systems deters our enemies. I agree that is true for some, but it will not deter them all, and those who are willing to take us on will make every effort to determine ways to either match or mitigate the superiority of our weapons or create scenarios in which they are irrelevant or impractical due to their complexity or lethality (our self imposed aversion to non-combatant casualties will always be a weapon to be used against us by less scrupulous opponents).
The US primarily should be highly proficient at employing forces to combat a peer like enemy because nearly all those proficiencies are still relevant when you are at war with men in sandals with AKs and RPGs. It’s mostly about the judicious and appropriate application of those proficiencies for each scenario, scenarios which will vary even within the same AO.
Ahhhh Guys.....since this is the T-Shirt thread it was supposed to be humorous:D
Too true Slap. Just forgot myself for a second, and I should have responded in a way befitting your comment.
...but me like Small Wars. Small Wars easy. Small Wars cheap and manageable if approached with a thimble full of common sense. Me no like Big Wars. Big Wars decisive. Big Wars no time for learning. Big Wars very serious. Me like Small Wars.
...and I might put that on a T-shirt just for me!
I suffered a temporary serious attack... :p
So let's get back to threads. :D
We could really throw off the uninitiated if we avoid reference to SWJ and go with:
The Kitakidogo Social Club
“If you don’t know what it means, you just don’t know”
We might even need a snazzy logo/coat of arms like emblem to be embroidered on the breast of the inevitable polo shirt! :eek:
Agree, Big Wars are Big Problems that we don't need.
However a coat of arms on a polo-shirt ain't half bad;) got a picture?
I leave the real work to others! :D
Using my infinite Power Point skills I think I could come up with something rather dignified.
....will always convey the message we intend in a sophisticated, politically correct, polite society :wry:
and a ruminating. While Zenp's idea of a full blown Shaka would be cool it might scare the natives. :D
But crossed knobkerries and iklwa behind a Zulu type shield with an appropriate design on the shield face might be pretty cool and not too hard to create.
We could perhaps create SWJ iNtanga (although Ken would probably be in one all by himself!) or better yet SWJ regional ibutho. :eek:
We have something like five generations of military experience on this site. Perhaps the shirt should make reference to that.
SFC W
off the cuff work
monéne mabé. :eek:
And Stan, you mock my PP artistry. Ngiyadabuka. :(
@Ken - will always overcome youth and skill! :D
What is a iNtanga or is that a who......same goes for langala or whatever. :confused:
in the Zulu military hierarchy a regiment was called “ibutho” (sometimes written as “impi” but that simply means a body of men). Each ibutho had shields made of a similar color of cow hide and wore distinctive regaila (although that was rarely worn into battle so the shied provided senior commanders with a visual ID of the ibutho). Senior amabutho shields tended to be made of white hide. The way Shaka, and his successors, formed their amabutho was by age groups, or iNtanga, to ensure all the warriors in a particular ibutho were all of the same age range. In theory there were 1,000 warriors per ibutho. As ibutho got older their role in battle changed until the men were too old and the ibutho was retired from active service.
Langala is a Bantu language spoken mostly in the Congo region (and possibly in discrete parts of Estonia).
when he writes songs.
I think that we are on to something here. But we do need a business plan. My personal rec is to find a pro to design a logo. Alternative is to have a competition with a suitable prize. Then product selection and development. Sales. Maybe we can keep the site alive with profits?
What think?
Bun Bun with assegai and knobkerrie? (Instead of Glock and switch blade.) The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch at his feet to represent technology?
Bun Bun would put the "small" in "Small Wars." :D
I'll work up a few designs this afternoon and post them later. Might as well put all my years of pretending to be a graphic designer to work, eh?
while Bun-bun might be a nice addition there may be some copyright issues to be dealt with for his use (not to mention that he may show up at your door and cut you).
BTW, Hello Kitty kicks the crap out of Bun Bun
http://www.craphound.com/images/Hell...ught_600we.jpg
A character trait he shares with Sergeant Schlock.
I don't see the problem. :confused:
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Looks like a converted Space Marine Dreadnought to me.
The text banners, line type, and coloring and fill need some work on this draft.
Yet, this logo covers some essential elements and borrows heavily on the beast of burden which has been the timeless symbol of the journal / council.
For a T-Shirt, the entire logo would have to be converted to line art. I am not the artist, I simply sketched out some ideas to a friend.
I like the first one, but only if we put big slashes through each word of "Hold-Clear-Build" and replace with something more on the lines of:
Listen - Think - Act
"Solving large problems with small wars since (insert date here)"
SWJ
has been to Thailand... :eek:
we delved into that topic on another thread here.
certainly has merit.Quote:
Listen - Think - Act
How about:
War is about imposing will.
Small war is about imposing will, nicely.
(Consider the older definition of 'nice'; "minute and subtle; precise, critical; minutely accurate")
For graphics:
-How about a machete in there someplace? Note Guevara's recommendations for the use of machetes and the applications they were put to in Rwanda.
-And now that Guevara and Rwanda have been mentioned... How about Tom Odom's handsome visage wearing a Che beret?:D
some more concepts.
A donkey with "smallwars.com" tattooed on his ass.:D
"Listen, Think, Act" sounds like an after-school special.