. It's often said that the CVR/T tank family of the British was required to be narrow enough to fit between the rubber trees on Malaysia...

. This blog post will be close to maximum disrespectful towards general ranks. The two reasons for my disrespect are the reasoning I will la...

. Here's one thing that drones can do that manned aviation did not do in either world war nor in the Vietnam War: A huge q...

. The literature (including field manuals) usually discerns three kinds of artillery fires for lethal munitions*: Destructive fires, neutral...

. Where are the machineguns? I saw a few photos of heavy (and ancient) machineguns in field fortifications, but other than that - crickets. ...

. So far the most effective* close air support (CAS) over Ukraine appears to be toss bombing of guided bombs. It's similar to the graphi...

. I did a search in the blog archive to see how much I criticised Israel after all.   January 2009 Called Israel a source of alienation betw...

. Here's a difficult thing about ethnic cleansing. Suppose the evil party wants a people gone, ded or alive. Just gone from a specific a...

. I wrote about extremist warfare in 2009 . The idea was that maximalist war objectives such as total annexation or unconditional surrender ...

. Suppose a man gets killed in his home. He had a long and violent dispute with his neighbour.   Should the police investigate said neighbou...