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The big question in Iraq is whether its army will be able to stand in the face of their situation with the terrorists who plague the country and the fact that most of the US soldiers are gone. Many Iraqi and US officials feel that they won’t be able to survive but I believe that they will.

US officials who have dealt with the Iraqi government are critical of many phases of their operations. The army seems tobe pretty sound tactically but support aspects of their operations are lacking.

I think that the Iraqis will make it because they are not fighting a sustained slug it out war. They are fighting insurgents who live among them. The battles that they begin are normally only skirmishes which only last foe a short while. They bomb crowded areas and dissappear back into the crowds. Yes they have caused massive casualties with their bombings but I just can’t see them as a force which is viable enough to topple the Iraqi government. Our military ring customers did an awesome job while they were there, and there is a contingency of combat troops who remain to assist mainly as advisors, but for the most part the ball is in the hands of the Iraqis. It’s time for the little birdie to get kicked out of the nest and fly.

The latest rumor is that there are Chinese troops in Pakistan. Whether this is true or not I have no clue but the Chinese are strongly denying it.

The rational for Chinese toops being there is that they are building a railroad through Pakistan that will give them access to the Persian Gulf. This makes good tactical sense but if it is true there really is no reason for them to deny it. This is no more or less than any other country would attempt to do if it were in China’s position. Supposedly the troops are in the Gilgit area of Pakistan and supposedly there are 11,000 of them there. I don’t know.

The Chinese and the Pakistanis are allies but if I were Pakistan I would keep in mind that China’s main purpose for anything is to secure territory and resources for its gigantic population. They need huge amounts of natural resources for their huge population and its large indistrial base. They also need natural resources to keep their huge military growing, fed, and hungry.

China is the big dog in the region and it never hurts to be aligned with the big dog for your own protection. You have to keep in mind the temperament of the big dog that you are running with my military ring customers. Will he remain loyal to you or will he decide that you would be an interesting twist to add to his lunch.

We are happy to announce our latest deal with the NCO Academy at Fort Stewart GA. We are working with the Sergeant Major at this time to produce an academy ring for his soldiers as they go through the Academy. The soldiers upon graduation may elect to have a Fort Stewart NCO Academy ring custom made. The Sergeant Major is working on a standard ring for the academy but the individual soldier will be able to customize it as he or she sees fit.

Yours truly will make sure that each soldier is taken care of as far as the sizing and actual production of the ring is concerned. I will show them the custom work available to them and help them to produce the ring that they have in mind. I am looking forward to the challenge and hoping to have many happy custom military ring customers from the academy.

I have talked with the Sergeant Major about what he wants and I have a pretty good idea of what he has in mind for the designs. We will be more than happy to create a custom military ring for you or your military organization and we want to remind you that we stand behind the lifetime warranty that we offer. Our goal is to see happy smiling faces each time that we present our customers with their military ring.

President Karzai has expressed his frustration with the way that things are going in Afgahnistan with his remarks that the US should focus on the Taliban in Pakistan rather than in Afghanistan.

His remarks parallel the way that I feel to a degree. I believe that the reason for the Taliban’s successes is that they are able to operate and recuperate unmolested in Pakistan and easily slip back and forth across the border to do their dirty work. We have not been able to mount an effective campaign against them in that country because the Pakistanis will not allow us to pursue them into their country.

It is really not in the best intrest of the Pakistanis to do much against the Taliban because of many reasons but the two biggest are the facts that they share a long relationship with the Taliban, and they will have to live with them long after we are gone.

Our military ring customers are doing a magnificent job of wiping out the Taliban when they engage them, but there are always many more waiting just across the border waiting for their chance to get into the fight.

The good news for us is that our combat mission in Iraq has officially ended. Although our government says that all of our combat forces have left the country there is no doubt that we have some contingency troops there as a fighting reserve if necessary, but for the most part our combat mission in that country has ended.

This is the end of an era for our Operation Iraqi Freedom ring customers and the beginning of an era for the people of Iraq. Al-Qaeda has really ramped up their violent attacks in that country because if they want to topple the government now is the best time. The US departure is bittersweet for the Iraqis because they didn’t want us in their country for the most part and I don’t blame them, but they will have to fiend for themselves now that we are gone and it is a fearful proposition for them.

I believe that they can make it but it definitely not be easy. They are in unfamiliar territory and al-Qaeda will definitely use every trick in their power to trip them up. They will have to learn quickly if they are to survive this super critical stage in their history.

The cost of this campaign to the Iraqi people, the US economy, and our military ring customers has been phenomenal. I don’t know if the cost has been worth the effort but the good thing is that it is over.

The thing that is kind of a mystery to the world right now is why did a North Korean MIG-25 crash in Northern China. There is much speculation and I don’t know if I believe the official story given by the Chinese. They claim that it crashed due to mechanical problems. Well that seems to be what happened based on published news accounts but the Chinese make their news say what they want it to say.

Why in the world was it over China? Why did it have to crash in Northern China of all of the places that it could have crashed. The Chinese say that it was that far off course because of mechanical problems.

The military ring man (me) could very easily come up with another scenario. The speculation is that the pilot was in the act of defecting to Russia which might be true but my mind tells me that if you want to defect from North Korea you would normally go through South Korea. When I think about that, it makes more sense to defect through Russia. Why, because with tensions so high between the Koreas right now he would have certainly been lit up by anti aircraft fire or other Fighter Planes. His own Air Force would have tried to prevent him from reaching the border and there is no doubt that the South Korean Air Force would have taken it as a provocation and vaporized him.

This scenario looks suspiciously like an attempt to escape to me. I think that the pilot took the path that he thought would be easiest. If he was attempting to defect it seems likely from the evidence that the Chinese tracked his progress and fired him up at the last minute in order to prevent his leaving their air space with the MIG. North Korea owes them yet another favor for this one maybe one day their favors will run out.

You know I recently posted an article about how a crew of Somali pirates actually tried to jack a US Navy warship. This is the second time that this type of event has happened tha I know about. I talked about how boneheaded that these pirates were but now I’m all confused.

A fereral judge threw out the piracy charges but allowed the other chagres to stand. Now excuse me if maybe I’m the boneheaded one here but let me put it to you like I understand it in my simple military mind. They are called pirates because they commit acts of piracy, right? If they jacked cars they would be called carjackers, right? If they robbed banks you would call them bank robbers, right?

When you sneak up on a ship at night and then shoot it during the day what do you call that? I thought that it was piracy. I mean they weren’t playing paintball. They were actually shooting the ship with real bullets. If they didn’t recognize it as a warship loaded down with our navy ring customers then that’s their problem. I guess that since they couldn’t take it over they were not committing an act of piracy according to the judge. If it had been a merchant ship they would have so whats the difference?

The ones who survived the attack on the ship got to go sit and chill out in a comfortable American jail, play spades all day, eat hot meals, and take hot showers. At the end of the day they may get to go back and rob some more people. If they happen to get caught they get another vacation here in the US compliments of the US taxpayers.

Meanwhile I get to work like a dog, hope that I can pay my water bill this month, and call pirates boneheads who make more money than I do. I’m not quite sure who is the bonehead in this case. It seems to me that I’m the wrong profession.

The Department of Defense has released their report on China’s military modernization. The report states the obvious and I’m sure that the version that we get to see is the sanitized version. It doesn’t really tell much that we don’t already know but it does put some things in perspective.

This is a summary of the report, but let me emphasize it’s in my own words and you all know that the military ring man doesn’t talk much at all like ordinary people. The bottom line is that China’s aim is naval domination and much of its buildup is done with the purpose of intimidating Taiwan and the other countries in the region.

Many of it’s new naval weapons are designed to keep our aircraft carrier ring customers and their carriers at bay. They know that they can’t match the carrier fleet of the US in a force on force engagement so they have concentrated on precision weapons which can take out our carriers at long range. They could effectively inhibit our carrier movement with their long range missiles thus hindering the amount of help that we would be able to provide in the region.

They know that they can’t revamp every piece of equipment in their arsenal so they are revamping the weapons systems which have proven to be dependable in the past. The new technology that they are acquiring is designed to exploit the weaknesses of the proven technology that we have on hand.

Now grasshopper think about what I have just written. The Chinese are countering US technology so in my mind they consider us to be their adversary. Is that the way it looks to you too?

The US is going on record as opposing the use of military force in the South China Sea. There are many nations there who contest the use of much of the territory. Since China claims the entire region for itself you can see that herein is the problem. None of the other countries have the cahunas to challenge the Chinese so what the US is really saying is China play fair. You can’t just go in and take what you want.

The Chinese understand force. They don’t give a flip about diplomacy. You would get better results if you accidentally blew several of their warships out of the water and then blamed it on a computer error. They are aggressive in their actions now so I really hate to see what they become when they really get their military up to snuff.

They want to get to the point where they can easily neutralize our navy ring customers who may have to operate in that area in case of a conflict.

The US kept their allegations vanilla by not taking sides in the situation (officially) I say that we will get nowhere by cow towing to the Chinese. Forget them. Who died and made them king?

Our top man in Afghanistan has conceded that we will need to come to some sort of peace agreement with the Taliban before we can end the war. He is not saying anything here that he has not said in the past but the best time to make this announcement is now.

Part of the strategy of the troop surge was to let our custom military ring customers put a fair amount of heat on the backsides of the insurgents to make them realize that they don’t want to fight forever. Once this was accomplished the next step was to open the door for negotiations to end the war. I believe that negotiations have been ongoing for a while between President Karzai and some factions of the Taliban.

According to Petraeus there are some factions of the Taliban who are ready to lay down their arms and pledge alleigance to the new government. it is good that we are fracturing the Taliban from within as well as bombing them.

We have probably gotten farther along in this endeaver than the world realizes. We can allow the Taliban to save face by negotiating with them for victory but they need to have no doubt in their minds that we have the power and the resolve to beat them.