Author: mike

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...

We had to destroy the village in order to save it… Donald Rumsfeld says the American attack on Baghdad is “as targeted an air campaign as has ever existed” but he should not try...

The Russians unfortunately have a lot of experience dealing with partisan activites in their occupied territories, as their ongoing brutal war in Chechnya sadly illustrates. I found this excellent Russian analysis of the wobbly...

As eager as the Bush Gang are to broadcast the spectacle of Saddamist defectors, especially given that the spontaneous uprising of the Iraqi populace against their regime to welcome the Americans in with open...