Monthly Archive: March 2003

Iraqi markets seem to attract US missiles like tornadoes drawn to trailer parks. Or is the increasing frequency of the occasional targetting of civilian gatherings deliberate? With the symbolic targets destroyed early on and...

I note that the US/UK invasion seems to be accomplishing what Saddam Hussein in all his decades of bloody rule could not: uniting Shia and Sunni Iraqis against a common enemy. Gafel Hamdani has...

In the increasingly messy fights around Nasiriya, Marine units, which earlier were ambushed while responding to what appeared to be a large-scale surrender, had by the end of the week destroyed more than 200...

The most porny of war porn behaviour – the barely suppressed subtext of “fwor, check out the grenades on that” – is non-partisan, since pure weapons enthusiasts don’t care about the politics of conflict...

WASHINGTON — U.N. weapons inspectors searching for nuclear weapons have uncovered something they never expected to find: A hidden rock quarry, dubbed “The Arena of Death,” where helpless Christian prisoners are fed to hungry...

The Pentagon used napalm to “sterilize” a hilltop in Iraq that was tenaciously defended. Marine Cobra helicopter gunships firing Hellfire missiles swept in low from the south. Then the marine howitzers, with a range...

So it’s nice to see bald-faced confirmation of that Russian military intelligence analysis from a few days ago: US military chiefs confirmed plans to double their forces on the ground to more than 200,000...

News is breaking that noted pro-war weasel Richard Perle has resigned from his Pentagon advisory committee. Seems like Perle’s predictions of a swift Iraqi capitulation as the throngs decked the invaders with garlands and...

U.S. Marines, moving through this still-contested city, opened fire at anything that moved Tuesday, leaving dozens of dead in their wake, at least some of them civilians. Helicopter gunships circled overhead, unleashing Hellfire missiles...

OODAs, MEFs, and LOCs, oh my! The “Shock and Awe” campaign failed completely. The traditional term of “Mass” has not been used by ground forces. Air power has supplied the mass, while the ground...