Recent content by stalkere

Neocons that wanted an Iraq war? Look up how many TONS of bombs we dropped there during the Clinton years. Sorry, but I was an AF staff officer at the time - mobilizing troops movements, preparing bases, moving supplies was part of my job. I can think of at least four times where we moved...

Iraq invasion does not happen anyway? Wow - you guys have more faith than me. with all the pre-positioning of stuff and chest thumping going on...I am totally convinced that the Invasion of Iraq was scheduled for late 2002. 9/11 delayed it for about six months, but it would have happened...

Almost certainly - containment was his repeated watchword. He continually advised caution on that one. A Powell Presidency in 2000 might - maybe - be in time to fix the Intell structure to prevent 9/11...although I sincerely doubt it. It was that incredibly messed up...and I say that as...

I recall some quote about "Have captured a General, three major generals, ...and it gets down to the point of "..45 acres of enlisted men..." I would nominate The Battle of Manila Bay - Spanish Fleet Destroyed and One American Sailor died of heatstoke...

Wow. really? More like her failure to stop the frigging ocean of stupid with a couple of sandbags of intelligence. And some injections of "smart" which failed to take in a roomful of yes-men who were convinced of their absolute correctness. You can stand outside and bitch uselessly, and...

My personal comment is "I don't care what party Colin Powell runs under, he's got my vote. Period." My dream ticket would be "Powell-Rice" - but sigh- there are WAY too many ignorant dinosaurs in this country whose knee-jerk reaction would make THAT impossible. As it is...I don't see...

A nuclear laydown groundburst....even if it doesn't kill him the radiation will. Uh...ok, in the fictional scenario of a nuclear attack on Berlin, I was talking about a groundburst attack, NOT, repeat NOT an airburst, such as was used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Did you bother to READ what...

Well, it all depends on the air defense situation in Europe; Let's take our first situation as this - August 1945 The timing on the allied Development side is the same...but something has happened, and Germany is still in the fight. So...we send some B-29s to England and a couple of...

Mostly, it's a perception of fanboys, or more correctly a fanboy-like mentality that fixates on a term, like oh, "Napalm", or "FAE", or "Glock"...and refuses to say, do the Math, or maybe look at the actual facts and numbers. God forbid that anybody that has ever, you know actually worked...

I'll point out, once again, the TRUE reason the US gave up on using Napalm. It's most effective at killing Americans. Really. When you go and dig out safety data - industrial accidents, transportation accidents, training accidents, etc...the reports I saw estimated that in Viet Nam, we...

So...we don't annex it. But at the same time...a much closer relationship. Much more favored nation status. Retirement communities and tax refugees...I'm not think so much a return to 1900, as more like an extension of Florida...or maybe the Virgin Islands, writ large. Not a place where...

Long run? If he gives it full support, Cuba is toast. Short term? - the Castro Brothers are Dead...this is not Vietnam, with lots of Mountains and that damn Karst to hide in, nor Tora Bora and the Hind Kush. Nor is there a long land mass to hide supply convoys. Nice flat ocean - and the US...

I'm not sure what to put in here. I've studied this timeframe a lot, especially since I was a child living on a military base when the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred. As a SAC officer, we studied the Crisis- a lot, and considered how it might be done if something like it happened again. It...

Just needs to be re-said. Bravo, good sirs, well put, both of you. and OMG - that is about the best description of my opinion of "Stone Dogs" Another one of those books where I lost interest and was wishing for an Nemesis-class asteroid to kill the planet and the entire human race in that...

Wow. My head hurts, reading this thread. So, Skip the ASB sends a civilian 737 back to 1940, and it manages to find a runway long enough to accommodate it, and a source of Jet-A. Maybe Skip will give you a military grade inertial rig, although at 40,000 feet, celestial will work fine. Not...