2016/11/05

Link dump November 2016

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... including some that should have made it into the previous one.








and now rather assorted stuff:






an old one, I wanted to show this for a long time because it could be a big deal for armoured glass:



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8 comments:

  1. Jeesus Christ! The Potomac Foundation, the essens of retarded "think" tanks.

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    1. Well, to be fair, they cannot be as bad as Heritage and Brookings ...

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  2. Normal think thanks push some agenda like "giv funds for guns" and/or "giv funds for Allies/idiots"

    The Potomac Foundation is based around one mans idiocy, you could binge drink for a week and post things more inteligent than that.

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  3. @Anonymous: I don't know if the originator of those two posts are the same, but would whoever it is, how many it is, care to elaborate on why this foundation is wrong? I have no prior knowledge of it, and I'd like something more than "they're stupid" to make up my mind. I think the views put forward by the author of the article SO linked to seems reasonable enough.

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  4. The anon is the same.
    Dr Philip Karber is a pseudo resercher, read his tales from Ukraine, and you soon vil find a long string of asumptions and no critical thinking.

    If a conclusion is acording to your own wiews, it may still be wrong. The chance it may be wrong is higher if it is not recerched properly.

    The whole Pothomac foundation is based around him.

    A lot of articles regarding the war in Ukraine, in the main street goverment subsidy—industry publications links back to his rubbish. Witch is a problem, because people read those publications.

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    1. I actually quoted and linked to Karber's report a year ago. Feel free to comment there if you think there's something wrong with the quote.

      http://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.de/2015/12/battalion-battlegroup-organic-indirect.html

      Please be specific, everyone can call names and sadly, everyone does.

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  5. I know you did Sven, I think it was here I first saw it, and in that context it was OK.
    As the only source in an article about the war in Ukraine or about the Russian military it is not.


    The problem is on so many levels.
    Karber travels around a messy, corrupt country during a chaotic war, with local guides and translators.

    There is no control over who the translator is, the agenda of the interviewed ground commanders is unknown. For all we know the interviewed soldier can say that the «Russian Jews is over there with big guns and Israeli drones», and the end result in the article we could se, is that there is a Russian way of doing this with drones and artillery.

    There is no sources, and one passing remark i managed to backtrack trough twitter and lots of google searches found that he clearly overstates the bombardment of a unit around Zamatorsk.

    Karber is also in the circle of warmongers who wanted to drag the US into the war in Ukraine, and has a history of open source publications that are at best sketchy.

    If I did a document like that during my engineering education, I would fail, I think I would fail in high school also.

    The linked document in this blog post is based on his travels to Ukraine.

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    1. The story about two "wiped out" mechanised battalions is being reported as "19 dead soldiers", do you mean this?

      Still, it's hard to beat Heritage or Brookings in regard to horrible think tanks.

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