forgive me father

..it has been over a year since my last post.

I'm creating a new blog and will post a link here when it's up and running.

Lions versus Buffalo versus Crocodile

Take a look at this short piece of video. I, like the commentator, have never seen anything like it before. Keep watching to see what happens to the baby buffalo:

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Islam's Evil

I stumbled upon this very interesting, well produced and powerful video on jihad:

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It's an hour long but worth a look for a useful summary of radical Islam's war against the West. It gives a convincing overview of the apparent threat from a Western perspective, highlights the demonisation of Western activity, warns of the dangers of appeasement with illustration of historical example and ends with a strong message in solution.

I am Spartacus

It's good to see that the Household Division are working hard on a deception plan for their forthcoming high profile Op Telic tour.

I'm Spartacus and so's my wife...

Tech RMA - Embrace or Distaste?

Here's a link to a very interesting article in Popular Mechanics re the intro of a US Stryker Brigade into the Iraq ORBAT.

Extract:

There's a half-billion dollars invested in the gear hanging off the heads, chests and backs of the soldiers of Alpha company. Digital maps displayed on helmet-mounted eyepieces show the position of all the men in the unit as they surround a block of concrete buildings and launch their attacks. Instead of relying on the hand signals and shouted orders that most infantrymen use, Alpha company communicates via advanced, encrypted radio transmissions with a range of up to a kilometer. It's more information than any soldiers have ever had about their comrades and their surroundings.

But as Alpha kicks in doors, rounds up terror suspects and peals off automatic fire in deafening six-shot bursts, not one of the soldiers bothers to check his radio or look into the eyepiece to find his buddies on the electronic maps. "It's just a bunch of stuff we don't use, taking the place of useful stuff like guns," says Sgt. James Young, who leads a team of four M-240 machine-gunners perched on a balcony during this training exercise at Fort Lewis, Wash. "It makes you a slower, heavier target."

It seems that there are serious cultural and tactical doctrine obstacles in the way if the US Army's dream of technical dominance of the battle space is to be realised anytime soon.

Apple iRack

Stumbled across this on youtube. Well, I thought it was funny anyway:

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