If you don’t know what military rules of engagement are let me run it down for you. Rules of Engagement (ROE) are the guidelines that commanders give to troops who use weapons during combat. Rules of engagement are designed to prevent unecessary killing of civilians, friendly troops, and enemy troops. Rules of Engagement have [...]
Taliban fighters overran a remote outpost in the Waygal District of Nuristan Province which gave them control of the small village there. They control many areas in Afghanistan and much of the time the situation is give and take. The thing to watch for is the frequency of these types of attack by the [...]
The Taliban in North Eastern Afghanistan managed to ambush a convoy of new police trainees and kidnap about fifty of them. A Taliban spokesman said that they received intelligence that the new policeman were going to be travelling through the area and set up an ambush. In the past the Taliban has released policemen and [...]
As I write this post I can’t help but wonder what the situation in Libya has turned into. It seems more of an operation to support rebel forces than the establishment of a no fly area to prevent Gadhafi’s forces from killing civilians. The rebels would likely lose the conflict if not for the [...]
The United States Navy has foiled another attempt by Somali Pirates to hijack a ship recently. The attempt occurred in the Northern Indian Ocean. The Enterprise Strike Group executed the rescue operation by dispatching a ship and some helicopters to assist. The ship radioed a distress signal to the force which just happened to [...]
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says that there is a preponderance of intelligence pointing to the fact that Libyan Prime Minister Gadhafi is using the bodies of rebels to make it seem as though our pilots are killing innocent Libyan civilians. He is using the bodies of people who his own soldiers have [...]
There is widespread civil unrest in many Middle Eastern countries and each country is reacting in different ways, but I believe that after the fiasco which President Gadhafi started when he decided to use force on protesters in Libya many other countries are learning that all domestic problems are not solved by violence. Yemen may [...]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is being himself again so therefore I can write you and we can have a few laughs together. One thing about this man is that we can count on him to be true to form. Chavez is going to be Chavez. We can count on him to oppose any action that [...]
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has expressed concern about the direction that the Chinese are taking with their Naval expansion. All that I have to say about his concern is that it’s about time. I hope it hasn’t taken our governmant this long to figure out that there is a fly in the buttermilk. [...]
There is another new wrinkle coming for military equipment but this time the improvement involves military ammunition. The new product is called thermochromatic paint. This paint will change color to indicate the stresses which are placed on ammunition by temperature extremes. Sometimes when ammunition has been exposed to extreme hot or cold temperatures the powder [...]
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