Wow. So much for the FFG(X) band-aid. And I doubt any heads roll over this ongoing disaster, as the taxpayer continues to get gouged. We're a long way from pour encourager les autres...
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Wow. So much for the FFG(X) band-aid. And I doubt any heads roll over this ongoing disaster, as the taxpayer continues to get gouged. We're a long way from pour encourager les autres...
Great stuff, thanks. I highly recommend CIMSEC's long (10 parter?) series of podcasts on the Falklands, interviews with many Royal Marine officers, "Sharky" Ward, and others. Available free on...
Nice find David.
Reopened for a nauseating postscript:
http://www.si.com/more-sports/2017/01/19/sports-us-military-connection
The whole article is worth reading, in a bad way.
Funny you mention that...
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We had a thread years ago, "What Are You Currently Watching?", that may have covered some of this ground before. Two recent shows that apply:
1. The Wire. The best show on counter-insurgency I've...
Moreman's book on Frontier warfare is good, but tough to find for under $120. Sir Andrew Skeen's Frontier classic, "Passing It On," was reprinted a couple years ago under a different title. And Field...
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As those of us opposed to this lunacy have long claimed, lower standards were always going to be part of the deal.
Behold the OPAT:
http://weaponsman.com/?p=35670
I just ordered this a couple days ago, looks pretty good:
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Good find, thanks David.
"The Junior Officer's Reading Club" (and many other Helmand memoirs, I'm sure) includes some stories of how dire things were for over-extended British units in 2006.
That's certainly the direction we're heading.
http://www.stripes.com/army-looks-to-deactivate-long-range-surveillance-companies-1.419337
A cri de coeur from one of those young, highly educated voters who represent Progress and so deserved to win:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/opinion/sunday/hell-is-other-britons.html?_r=0
http://time.com/4336563/military-generals-congress/?xid=fbshare
Long overdue, and a good incremental step to fixing our military.
http://weaponsman.com/
Great blog by a retired long-serving Army SF Weapons Sergeant. Lots of posts on guns and planes, and tons of good history and SF/UW lore as well. Highly recommended.
http://cimsec.org/sea-control-97-falklands-w-sharkey-ward/19236
Their whole series on the Falklands is great, worth getting on iTunes.
CIMSEC did a podcast series on the Falklands War recently, the one with "Sharky" Ward has a good bit near the end with him savaging the UK's new carrier/F-35B foolishness.
The US services' implementation plans are out:
http://weaponsman.com/?p=30437
Never mind that the physical concerns with integration pale in comparison to those of cohesion, fraternization, pregnancy, and injury. Tell your tale of exoskeletons and miniaturization to:
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Makes sense to me. A return to SF's Lodge Act/American Foreign Legion roots.
In an article in the Atlantic I was reading the other day, a crazy statistic caught my eye:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/07/saudis-solar-energy/395315/
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2016/01/the-bearded-pacifists-are-righttrident-is-a-waste-of-money.html
Pretty persuasive to this Yank.
If you haven't read that pretty devastating polemic on British defense procurement and BAE, I urge you to do so.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/03/458319524/pentagon-will-allow-women-in-frontline-ground-combat-positions
As anticipated.