Monthly Archives: November 2012 As we’ve commented before, after a war, the high tech, iconic weapons of the conflict pass through a long period in which they’re “old junk” before someone realizes that they’re rare and deserving of preservation. This is what happened to the B-29 bomber, a plane once produced in such masses that …
Monthly Archives: October 2012 Once again, there are too many people acting rashly, incompetently, or just plain criminally with weapons for everybody to get his own post. So we’ll jumble them together, beginning, say, with the idjits and advancing through the skells and whackos to the hardened prestoopnicks. Something just smells wrong about this one …
Monthly Archives: October 2012 China’s “War with Japan” Theme Park The Atlantic’s Brian Fung picked up an amazing photo essay by Jason Lee of Reuters. Lee apparently visited a Chinese theme park that puts the attendees in the role of Mao Tse-Tung’s (we use Wade-Giles here, as used in Free China, so sue us) 8th …
The book being the Manual for Courts Martial, or its modern descendant, the Uniform Code of Miliytary Justice. We’ve covered the Case of the Micturating Marines before here, here and here. Three enlisted Marines, including the dumb cluck who videotaped the incident, have received nonjudicial punishment (under Article 15, UCMJ), and two staff NCOs are …
… here in the Northern hemisphere, Soon the trees will start to change color (in some combinations of altitude and water table, some of the maples have already started). And we shan’t otherwise be posting today, but will be back on the job on Monday. This entry was posted in Administrivia on August 26, 2012 …
Tim Haake is a retired former SF/SOF general with time in JSOC and overt SF. So he sounds like just the guy to write this column in the Washington Guardian: Starting July 23, Retired Army Major General Tim Haake will take Washington Guardian readers on a weekly mission inside the ranks of America’s fiercest and …
Monthly Archives: June 2012 Hard work in Japanese military archives by retired professor Taketoshi Yamamoto from Waseda University has unearthed information long thought lost about the training of Imperial Japan’s elite military intelligence operators during what Americans see as the run-up to World War II, but what was for Japan already a wartime period (with China and …
Monthly Archives: May 2012 It always gets to us a bit when people thank us on Memorial Day. Thanks are always appreciated, after all, even though our reasons for serving were personal and sufficient and absolutely no thanks are expected or required. And Memorial Day is about the fallen, not the survivors. It’s a day …
Monthly Archives: February 2012 ‘Tis a miserable time we’re having on the gigantic Oasis of the Seas of the screwed-up-like-a-soup-sandwich Royal Caribbean Line, so posting will be dependent on scheduled posts and on port calls in various third-world island harbors, which offer better connection options than the ship can manage (like “any”). Some people like …
Category Archives: Foreign and Enemy Weapons Today, we have another mystery pistol, this one from the collection of Your Humble Blogger. Like all guns it comes with a story: it was a “broken gun” that was offered for sale by an Afghan villager, and it then inspired an intelligence operation that ran for some months. It is of …