Author: mike

So I notice more people are realising that the US has been sold a dud by the defence contractors with their increasingly expensive and computerized ordinance. Precision bombing has not impelled the Iraqis to...

So some eagle-eyed people have managed to trace the origin of the missile that destroyed the Iraqi market last week. The missile was guided by computers and that vital shard of fuselage was computer-coded....

I laughed out loud at this Fortune fluff prop piece about the US/UK garrisoning of Umm Qasr. It had all the ingrediants of fine propaganda: talk of relief ships, friendly local children, invocation of...

It’s notable that the US coverage of the war is all about precision and war games, while people outside the US get to see more of the civilian death toll.

Lauren Roberts was riding in a car with her aunt, Daina Sancho, to Blockbuster one day last summer when Sancho said, “Lauren, I have something to tell you. I’m in love with I.V.” Daina...

Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld. had started the war of words on Friday, when he accused Damascus of shipping sensitive military technology to the Iraqi Army, specifically night-vision goggles. These shipments, Mr. Rumsfeld...

Al-Jazeera and Abu Dhabi TV will be on hand to record the ultimate image that Saddam knows is capable of igniting the Arab world into an ocean of fire: an American tank in the...

“Did you see all that?” he asked, his eyes filled with tears. “Did you see that little baby girl? I carried her body and buried it as best I could but I had no...

I came across this charming account demonstrating further ways to ingratiate your invading soldiers with the locals: As the U.S. Army’s Seventh Combat Support Group, a unit of the Third Infantry Division, moved northward...

According to “The Day After: The Army in a Post-Conflict Iraq,” a December 2002 paper produced by the War College’s Center for Strategic Leadership, army studies have concluded that even with United Nations support,...