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| 2008-04-01 |
| Wow. An actual cool story in the New York Times. Anybody here familiar with any of those patches? H/T Instapundit |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #9 Oops! ---Your browser for the Rantburg Home |
| Posted by: tipover 2008-04-01 20:02 |
| #8 3dc, you must have run your cursor across the tab on you browser. :-P |
| Posted by: tipover 2008-04-01 20:01 |
| #7 heh! |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-04-01 19:56 |
| #6 Caligula, if you like going back to the classics. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-04-01 19:53 |
| #5 E.g. NAVY SEALS movie [Charlie Sheen] > "WE DON'T EXIST" + "WE AREN'T/WERE NEVER HERE". We didn't, we won't, and we don't, ergo SSSSSSHHHHHHH WE DID, WE WILL, AND WE DO! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-04-01 19:52 |
| #4 Oderint Dum Metuant - hmm... Fred where have I heard that before? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-04-01 19:45 |
| #3 I like to think of it as, for every overt mission undertaken by US military units, there is a complementary mission conducted by a SOCOM element. And this applies to Iraq and Afghanistan. In the rest of the WoT, SOCOM dominates. Within SOCOM, two forces are in contention, intelligence gathering and operations. That is, collecting information then acting on it. They have to be kept in balance for obvious reasons. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-04-01 19:40 |
| #2 Not THOSE patches, no. It's amazing what can happen when you give the right people resources and let them go. The risk is making sure that you don't have people who NEED constant supervision. |
| Posted by: Zebulon Unomolet6509 2008-04-01 19:23 |
| #1 “Oderint Dum Metuant,” reads a patch for an Air Force program that mines spy satellite images for battlefield intelligence, according to Mr. Paglen, who identifies the saying as from Caligula, the first-century Roman emperor famed for his depravity. It translates “Let them hate so long as they fear.” That's quite enough information for me. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-04-01 16:58 |