Military Ring Info

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.

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 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?

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.

a The latest situation in Iraq is that a suicide bomber has successfully attacked a military headquarters which was being used as a gathering place for Iraqi men to sign up as recruits for its security forces. The bomber posed as a potential recruit and detonated his bomb in the early morning hours. He managed to kill sixty people and injured one hundred and twenty five.

The Iraqi’s are at the point of the proverbial bird who gets kicked out of it’s nest. They will have to fly or die. They are apprehensive because most of our military ring customers who were stationed there are just about to leave.

Personally I believe that the Iraqis are capable of taking care of themselves but they need to realize that the baby bottle has been taken away and act accordingly. They will have to make some big moves real soon and their growth is going to have to skyrocket but I believe that they have what it takes to win. They just need to realize it and act accordingly.

Al-Qaeda has been blamed for the bombing and has conducted an all our attack since our custom military ring customers have began to pull out in earnest. They want to topple the new Iraqi government but my prediction is that it won’t happen. The government is entrenched better than they and al-Qaeda are aware of. So go ahead and fly little birdie fly

I believe in the back of my military mind that we are at a critical point in the war in Afghanistan. As a matter of fact we are at the most critical place possible. I am a tactician of sorts and I believe that I am right. There has been heavy fighting in the Kandahar Province as we continue to fight the insurgents in that part of Afghanistan. They don’t want to give up that part of the country to our control and we are obligated to the Afghan people to take it and get it under Afghan control. The outcome of this battle is crucial.

The latest news from the region is that Afghan forces have conducted a raid which resulted in the deaths of at least twenty of the Haqqani Taliban members. The Afghans conducted the assault in an area in which the Taliban forces were well entrenched in fortified positions. Both sides are deadly serious and the consequences are deadly also.

The good thing about this raid is that it was conducted by the Afghan Army with US forces backing them up. This indicates to me that the Afghan forces are improving in their ability to take control of their country and hopefully to remain in control once our military ring customers leave. Our military ring customers in all branches of service are no doubt the best trained in the world and if anyone can help the Afghans to become proficient enough to secure their country our troops can.

The 10th Special Forces group has added another battalion on Fort Carson Colorado. This is one of a number of additional units that the army has added to posts across the nation.

The army isn’t telling us much about these Spec Ops troops as is their nature but I know that I blogged a while back that the military would have to increase it’s number of these type troops because of the nature of operations in the ongoing war on terror.

I see a future trend for the army to maintain higher numbers of Special Forces ring customers for future operations because it seems to me that the majority of future military operations will be conducted in assymetrical type operational areas. The special skills of these operators will be needed more than ever on the modern battlefield.

Due to the fact that al-Qaida is spreading all over the world it will be impossible to stop them with a conventional force. Conventional troops are good against other armies. They can be used to fight terrorists in small skirmishes but that really is not what they are designed to do.

I will also predict that future spec ops troops will have to be used for mission types that most people have never heard of. I believe that the days of large force on force battles between major armies are almost gone.

The bad news in this case is good news to me. What the press is publicizing as bad couldn’t be better but you have to have a military mind to understand it. So grasshopper sit back and listen and allow the military ring man drop some knowledge on you.

The news is that heavy fighting is taking place in the vicinity of Kandahar Province in Afghanistan. When the plan for the summer offensive was made it made the assumption that the Taliban would choose to not engage our forces directly but the exact opposite has happened. Kandahar is the birth place for the Taliban so who ever owns it will get a major propaganda victory. We did not know that keeping this area would be so important to the Taliban. They are throwing everything but the kitchen sink into the battle so it will take us a while longer to take control of the area.

All of our custom military ring customers are aware that plans are made to be changed and that very few things go according to plan during combat. In order to win you must be flexible, innovative, and able to adapt and change quickly. You also need to recognize opportunities when they arise and take advantage of them. This is a grand opportunity to eliminate a large number of the enemy without having to chase them all over the country. It actually makes our job infinitely easier.

It just isn’t possible for them to win in this kind of combat. Yes it will take more time to gain control of Kandahar, but once we do we will take control of the other areas very quickly. The prediction of the military ring man is this; Once we take Kandahar the Taliban will quickly lose control of the other areas that they control. Kandahar will be the first domino in the chain to fall. Once we take Kandahar we will have taken out most of their assets. If you are an opportunist you will see that they are playing right into our hands.

Well boys and girls you are going to get my opinion today whether you like it or not. You are free to make whatever comments that you want to this post because you are entitled to your own opinion, but here is mine.

This gentleman has refused to serve in Afghanistan because he says that he doesn’t have to take orders from President Obama because he wasn’t born in the United States. Now I for one thought that this issue had been put to rest because the State of Hawaii says that there is a record of Mr Obama’s birth. If the State of Hawaii says that all is well then that’s good enough for me. Mr Lakin wants to see the birth certificate himself. I don’t think that he would serve even if he did see it. He would find another reason not to serve. Now if you ask me the issue is not a birth certificate but maybe it is something about President Obama. Whatever the reason is it seems that many people don’t want to serve for this President. Never have I seen so many military officers who didn’t want to follow the orders of their Commander in Chief yet you expect enlisted personnel to obey your orders without question.

As far as I’m concerned LTC Lakin volunteered to serve his country just like all of the rest of our custom military ring customers who are doing their time in Afghanistan. If it would make him feel better let me reiterate that this war was started by President Bush so it dosen’t matter who is in office you would still have to serve. The President of this country along with everyone else is not obligated to show you his birth certificate, but you are obligated to serve. I hope that you go to jail.

You don’t even have to see actual combat when you go over there. On top of that as a doctor you will live in comfortable quarters, eat good food, and be able to take a shower each night unlike your brothers who will have to serve on the front lines. You will also get the best pickins of all of the stuff sent over from the States before the front line troops even get to see it so what’s the problem?

You took an oath to serve like everyone else who happens to be there. I’m sure that every other troop can think of other places to be right now also but they are living up to the words that they have spoken regarding serving their country. It’s your turn in the box Doc so just take your medicine and do your job.