Inspiration needed - SWJ town square scene

[William F. Owen]

Has George Michael left 'Wham' and joined the IDF?

It's now OK to be gay in the IDF - actually has been for quite some time.

Interesting. Comes back to the question of "what is a small war"?

Small Wars is IMO, a very useful term. - as used in the 1906 covering letter to the Imperial General Staff, by C.E. Callwell!
Small war is warfare against irregulars/rebels.
The Falklands was in no way a Small War. May have been over some small Islands, but it was definitely all arms formation combat operations between regular armies.

[Fuchs]

The Falklands was in no way a Small War. May have been over some small Islands, but it was definitely all arms formation combat operations between regular armies.

There weren't enough tanks/AFV present to really call it "all arms".
The UK had iirc a half dozen CVR(T) and the Argentinians had iirc a similar number French-made 4x4 armoured cars that were iirc unable to move up the icy hills during battle.

[selil]

I'm kind of partial to it.

[Bob's World]

The scotch and the Oreos are proven commodities, will be happy to join you for both.

As to the book, I'm not so sure. I'm mentally composing a piece tentatively titled: "Zombie COIN - Why FM 3-24 has no Soul"

("Soul" being an understanding of insurgency itself. Ok, couldn't help myself, still sitting at the airport...)

[slapout9]

Don't know how to put this on a T-Shirt but it is inspirational.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FVrpiG7haE

[Corto]

How about the "I give a #### about your chai!" Guy:
http://www.cnas.org/blogs/abumuqawam...t-mission.html
To me he sums up the whole deal.

[Entropy]

Here's my vote, which provides a nice alternative to the current SWJ logo

[AdamG]

Zombies?

Those are the little kids with AK-47s and dead eyes...
http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Page...-with-ak47.jpg

http://www.iansa.org/documents/images/tamba-ak47.jpg

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/webl...d-abuse-16.jpg

Peter Pan he ain't
http://www.fmft.net/African%20Infant...047%20%201.jpg

http://ak47.lanternblog.com/Images/zulu.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FtuG0ZOGjI...n+soldiers.jpg

(the one on the right, obviously)
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/burm.../child-soldier

http://images.lightstalkers.org/imag...dier_large.jpg

Notice a theme here?

[Starbuck]

How about something that symbolizes service members, government officials, NGOs and academics working together? Maybe have all four of them circled in a war zone, talking?

[marct]

The scotch and the Oreos are proven commodities, will be happy to join you for both.

Scotch, yes; Oreos, no. I have to admit, I shudder at the juxtaposition !

As to the book, I'm not so sure. I'm mentally composing a piece tentatively titled: "Zombie COIN - Why FM 3-24 has no Soul"

("Soul" being an understanding of insurgency itself. Ok, couldn't help myself, still sitting at the airport...)

Oh, Gods..... GET IT WRITTEN NOW!!!!!!!!! Seriously, Bob, I've already got one of your papers on the required reading list, but I want that!!!!!

Personally, I'd take an image of a trooper, put a media guys on his back, an NGO person on their back, and a politician on top of them and sub-title it "The modern, agile soldier". Then again, I've been told I have a low sense of humour... .

[MikeF]

Oh, Gods..... GET IT WRITTEN NOW!!!!!!!!! Seriously, Bob, I've already got one of your papers on the required reading list, but I want that!!!!!

Ditto, sir. Why do you think we take the time to critique you? Consider it free editing and peer review.

Preach it Brother Bob. Preach! Pastor done told me that I need some saving on my soul .

[MikeF]

In Dear John (yes I watched it. If you didn't, then you got your own issues). Anyways, in Dear John, there was a great scene when the Green Beret was patting an indigenous soldier on the shoulder as he was executing a task. I thought that scene summed up small wars perfectly.