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Was the war worth it? Saddam and the baathist are gone and that is a good thing. Saddam is directly responsible for the deaths of at least 2 million people inside and outside of Iraq. I think its safe to say his hanging was good. Another unintended but direct result of the war is the death...

I doubt even that, the risks are too great. They are a symbol of national prestige nothing more.

On the subject of nuclear war there some critical areas that need to be considered. Weather patterns and time of year. He who gets the fallout laughs least. delivery systems. How effective are ABM systems (near future) or one sides air force in preventing delivery. Space- rural vs...

Very well reasoned, great post.

Where will the money come from, the engineers, the materials..... Pakistan has a lot of things going right now, a money tree isn't one of them. Buying off the shelf to reach minimum parity is a hell of a lot cheaper now, than building a functional industry from scratch. To build such an...

A new report out of London says the ISI is playing a double game. While Pakistani soldiers die to stop the the Taliban from killing even more Pakistani civilians, Islamist parts of the ISI sit on the Taliban's governing council..... Report: Pakistan Is Funding, Training Taliban in Afghanistan...

What Pakistan really needs. 1, Federal control of the frontier with Afghanistan and destruction of the tribal power structures. 2. peace with India- along current LOC with guaranteed water rights. 3. Pece would allow reduced military spending to focus on quality over size with the...

The Heartland theory is a joke. It may have had some validity prior to 1945 but not anymore. There are too many different peoples with too many AK-47's for that type of an imperial model to work. The American model seems to be based on controlling the sea based pivot points: Panama Canal, Suez...

Lets see, The good world class fire control- yes (1) good cross country ability- yes large stock of spares- yes (1) Hardest hitting gun/ammo combo- yes (1) Modular design- yes 4 crew men (this is a good thing) - yes best thermal system- yes (1) good store of ammo- yes well...

The leak serves a couple of purposes, 1. its a warning to the Pakistani Taliban. Even if this forum doesn't get it, the Taliban know just how much pain the US can inflict on them if they launch a successful attack. 2. Warning to any ISI pr other GoP individuals with links to the TTP...

Did you know they are a major manufacture of F-16's at the famed Fokker aircraft plant?

To really be a top contender you have to be able to make your own fighters in large enough numbers. Because of the nature of European aerospace I'll include Germany, Italy and the UK in this list. This gives us- USA, Russia, France, PRC, UK, Germany and Japan. USA (USAF/USN is the obvious...

Conquest was never the mission, when US troops left, SV was still a nation. Iraq is a win, astan isn't over yet. No China giggles, mos tof the rest of the world is on board. Al Queda is gutted and most of its leadership is dead or in US custody, hows that war against Hezzbollah and...

Yes where its known, although not part of the official announcement. It does not matter how they died, they died in service. Notification of blue on blue will come later during a review of what went wrong.

Pushed the Chinese out of Seoul and kept South Korea free depsite China and the Soviet's best efforts. BTW Walker died in a car crash and his death saved the UN force, he was obviously out of his element. A decent general and the Chinese would have been crushed earlier. However in the hand to...

Something got lost in translation because if God really willed that there would be no more Israel, then Israel would not exist. If we assume the existence of a supreme being whose will cannot be defeated then the modern existence of Israel means 1 of 2 things. 1. He is not picking sides in...

And you base this claim on what? The Thunder Run through baghdad where the US ran a brigade straight through the capitol of the enemy taunting them to stand and fight? The success of the surge and the defeat of Al Queda in Iraq? Or perhaps the based on how US troops fought tier way in...

Stripping a woman of her God given right to feel the sun on her face is not Moral. Neither is denying her the ability to learn to read or own property. Financing a war by the sell of opiates, and setting of bombs in markets and using the mentally ill, distraught and young to commit suicide...

Those authors peer review themselves and rely on wiki like "journals to claim peer reviewed status. Just a little bit of digging would have revealed that.

Go recheck your sources, I was talking the modern era as well. Saddam is responsible for the deaths of over 1 million muslims Omar al-Bashir and his predecessor, while less lethal to Muslims has killed over two million Christians and animist, the Afghan civil war has claimed over 1 million...