Director of DEI at Tepper Aviation. Amateur Shawarma Enthusiast. Can quote the fights Historical. Found him in Mombasa in a bar room drinking gin. MZRA
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A gunfight is a mind altering thing. Surviving a close quarters gunfight is an experience that defies description, but one thing is certain: you will not be thinking clearly after. 
Easterners lack the strength and the discipline to come straight a prepared enemy, which is fine, it isn't a judgement, it is just a different, less decisive style. They lack the mentality to recognize the fastest way to win a battle is to put your spear through a face. 
1/ First, some ground rules. I don’t care about your globohomo conspiracy theories. I don’t care who is right or wrong. I don’t care that the illuminati and the lizard people are secretly controlling Zelensky. This is analysis. Do some peyote and tell your dog. They might like it 
You see, the some insurgent groups had started to use passive infrared sensors as triggers, this made side attacks more deadly, especially with Shia EFPs which cut through the lightly armored HMMWV's like a hot knife through butter. 
1/ We remember the Western Front of the First World War as a war of trenches and attrition, of artillery and gas. But as three great armies bore down on one another in the summer of 1914 on the fields of Belgium, it was very much a war of maneuver.
The discussion comes down to two questions. 
2/ In 1241, the Mongols were the dominant military power in the world, stretching from Korea in the East to the very borders of modern Europe. With the defeat of the every nation to the east, only two states, Hungary and Poland stood between the Mongols and Western Europe. 
Both are fine, this isn’t making fun of Group 1. Lots of good dudes in that group, veterans and non. 
2/ We all know Alexander the Great. Macedonian, good general, got it. Moving on. What you might not know is that Alexander faced not one, but two mutinies from his Macedonian troops. Most famously at Opis in 324 BC, but also two years earlier on the banks of the Hyphasis River. 
On the scale of bad, a pickpocket is more common than a carjacking which is more common than nuclear apocalypse. 
1 Many GWOT veterans are unique in the pantheon of American veterans. In most American wars a soldier went off to fight, and then came home and often stayed home when his time was done. This allowed veterans to move on with their lives, to build something new and to live. 
2/ Hurriedly, he started to grab every able body he could find. Putting together a mixed unit from the various allied soldiers there, he climbed into a vehicle and drove his makeshift relief force down the same road his Chinese troops had been fighting on for the last hour. 
2/ It wasn’t the massive casualties his units had taken securing the large American base, nor was it how uncoordinated and chaotically the mixed Chinese, Korean, Russian and Iranian units under his command had performed that led the General to pace back and forth.
1/When Portugal left Mozambique in 1975, Rhodesia was in a serious bind. Outflanked on the right, they could not defend both borders at once. They watched as ZANU started building bases behind the safety of the Mozambique border for two years. 
2/ As they watched the collapse of former colonial governments around them, Rhodesia was in a predicament. They could not simply abandon their homes and lives, and they could not hand the country over to majority rule as was. 
proactive approach and adopted things like baseball… and KFC on Christmas. Christmas KFC is a massive tradition in Japan. Like a Black Friday for mid grade fried chicken. 
1/ Like many of you, I spent many Thanksgivings far from my blood family, sometimes sharing an MRE in an 1151 off Tampa, eating off a paper plate at NTC, or spending it with other homesick expats all over the world. 
1/ By the 1870s, southern Africa had coalesced into handful of autonomous regions, falling into one of three spheres of control: Boer, British, or Native (Zulu). This arrangement was somewhat distasteful to the British, who still sought to make the entire world British. 