Brigade Combat Team

Project Management Office for General Shinseki's new concept: lighter air transportable armored forces that can still pack the punch of a heavy armored brigade. Basically, heavier LAVs with bigger guns...

If the U.S. is going to go around fighting wars of liberation to bring democracy and free market economies to the oppressed nations of the world, then this is the proposed force to do it.

1:11:38 AM    comment   

Russian Kornet Antitank missile. Laser guided, thermal site, invented AFTER first Gulf War, and therefore produced AFTER U.N. sanctions which ban import of such weapons to Iraq. Possibly to blame for the destruction of some M1A1 Abrams tanks in Iraq.

12:57:15 AM    comment   

The Ironies of War

American teenagers inside tanks (no doubt glued to CNN video consuls) who were targets were apparently supposed to die rather than dare to endanger a crowd of elite journalists at Ground Zero of a war, with full knowledge that they were being housed and used by fascists - as if Patton's tankers would have not fired back at shooters in a hotel in Vichy France because Nazis had allowed a UPI or AP correspondent on the verandah. Baghdad Bob assured the inhabitants of the Arab world that there was not an American in sight; later that same night Larry King hosted a panel of silly journalists and ex-generals who discussed such competing discourses and alternative "truths" - and meanwhile the subjective construct of American tanks rolled through the city, oblivious to both Middle Eastern mythmaking and hackneyed postmodern analysis.

12:34:18 AM    comment