May 4, 2004
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Mind Your Language! By William Bowles
The issue of who is an actual fighting soldier has been thrown into sharp relief by the enormous numbers of ‘private military contractors’ or PMCs hired to do the work of the state-employed soldier in Iraq, the former Yugoslavia and in Afghanistan. Continue reading
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CHAFF By William Bowles
4 May 2004 Chaff is the stuff they toss out of helicopter gunships and other aerial killing machines to try and fool ground-to-air missiles and other assorted bits of materiél that gets fired up-up-and-away at them. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, but if you toss out enough of the stuff, the odds of Continue reading
The New Dark Age 