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Who Benefits from a Civil War in Iraq?
Topic Started: Mar 6 2006, 09:28 PM (420 Views)
HeLLMasteRHeLL
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I prefer Rumsfelds opinion on it all... hahaha... talk about irony.
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herosrest
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herosrest
Mar 7 2006, 04:37 PM
Devils guard - need a good read. Someone thought this item valuable.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DEVILS-GUARD-VERY-RA...6QQcmdZViewItem


l read it back at 1st issue... we r a sad sad race. Bloody fine read though, if ya can get a copy.


The link here runs onto some stuff


www.militariacollecting.com/index.php?showtopic=3346&hl=devils+guard

Read this book and have an interest in Military.

The unit was a battalion strength (WWll russian front) reaction force.
They would go 'bush' in the enemy's backyard and wreak utter havoc.

Similar to special forces now, but 800 strong.
l don't believe there is a modern equivalent.
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Mar 8 2006, 03:17 AM
Hey folks... you'r the fuckwits.... Bunch of idiot politicians running the show and fucking it all up, and you just complain???? Get off yer ass and do something about it.

Like buying a high-power rifle and climbing a clock tower when you know bush is gonna be in the area?
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Zybch
Mar 23 2006, 08:42 PM
mobo
Mar 8 2006, 03:17 AM
Hey folks... you'r the fuckwits....  Bunch of idiot politicians running the show and fucking it all up, and you just complain????  Get off yer ass and do something about it.

Like buying a high-power rifle and climbing a clock tower when you know bush is gonna be in the area?

At least it's doing something..... I think :huh:
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werz
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herosrest
Mar 24 2006, 04:08 AM
herosrest
Mar 7 2006, 04:37 PM
Devils guard - need a good read. Someone thought this item valuable.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DEVILS-GUARD-VERY-RA...6QQcmdZViewItem


l read it back at 1st issue... we r a sad sad race. Bloody fine read though, if ya can get a copy.


The link here runs onto some stuff


www.militariacollecting.com/index.php?showtopic=3346&hl=devils+guard

Read this book and have an interest in Military.

The unit was a battalion strength (WWll russian front) reaction force.
They would go 'bush' in the enemy's backyard and wreak utter havoc.

Similar to special forces now, but 800 strong.
l don't believe there is a modern equivalent.

The equivalent sadly are the insergents.
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I enjoy reading Travel books or about unusual places which are rarely covered.
Wilfred Thesiger was a great travel writer and student of Tribal Islam.
His book 'The Marsh Arabs' about southern Iraq in the 1953-7 period, is a great read of a life that had continued for 2000 years in the marshes between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
'Arabian Sands' was another classic of crossing the 'empty quarter' the great sand desert of Arabia in the 50s before oil and the west destroyed the bedouin way of life.
Wilfred Thesiger was at Haille Seliasses coronation as the emperor of Ethiopea, in the early part of the 20th century.
He documents a forgotten world of nomads, remote and dangerous parts of the world, where unless you could pass as a local and moslem, you could be assasinated.
The only good war book I read was called 'Dispatches' by Michael Herr, about his time as a war correspondent in Indochina, mainly Vietnam. If you haven't read it Hero, give it a read, it's good, from an observers point of view, although its more than 20yrs since I read it.
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herosrest
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Yea, read it Werz.
Even today some of the storyline just leaps into mind.

The M113 tracks - cumfort girl - lost with a red flare - village search -
obsession 365 - listening post (armed with only knives!) - ambush.

It was a real eye opener.
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