OK, so I see there’s some doubt about my weapons ID skills (Byron.…)… We also ran a story on this weapon about a year ago. Allons! so they say…;-) And oh, yeah, stay tuned to Military.com tomorrow for a story I’ve got posting on the Army’s subcompact weapon search. Here’s a teaser: Despite initial industry […]
From the monthly archives:
October 2009
Over at the esteemable Small Wars Journal, I sit down with lauded author Peter Godwin for a discussion on the counter-insurgency lessons-learned from the Rhodesian Bush War. Godwin was a patrolman with the British South Africa Police during the war, and later –as a war correspondent– played a key role in exposing Robert Mugabe’s brutal […]
When I was searching for a pic to illustrate the previous post, I ran across this one of a Soldier actually employing local foliage as camouflage. Just yesterday I was chatting with a source and he was saying how Iraq had made Soldiers lazy or complacent because of the relative convenience of the fighting there […]
I just want to be clear (and perhaps I should have posted the full excerpt or the link to the report) but the Soldiers at COP Kahler and OP Topside did use claymores in their defense and had built well thought out defenseive barriers and wire. The 2nd Platoon, Chosen Company leadership made the best […]
When’s the last time you emplaced a claymore mine? When’s the last time you’ve even seen one? I’m sure I’ll get a few of the ‘you’re an idiot’ comments, but in several trips to Afghanistan and Iraq — as well as multiple trips to the field for training with a variety of Marine and Army […]
