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I think every human on Earth in every nation feels homesick regardless of the situation both at home and in their current country. People tend to be drawn back towards that which they are comfortable with. Soviets who defected to the USA in the cold war almost all, to a man, became terribly...

The Russian Academic institutions are excellent and have produced some brilliant technology over the decades. But it was the "system" of the old USSR that made it difficult for the USSR and then Russia to take the technology from the lab or institution, and turn it into something much larger...

Are you saying that only people who believe in an afterlife will defend their country? Are you joking?

Xeric, you are one of the guys here I can have a conversation with. Thank you. Was there an "itchy feeling" on the back of the battle commanders' necks during this engagement? At first, probably not. After some period of time, I think it's likely. But a battle that is not ordinary, not...

Tough, but undeniably stupid. People think Americans are soft. Some of them are. But in WW2, Yamamoto knew that an invasion of the USA was impossible because "there'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass" operated by guys like him. Every goober with a scoped deer rifle would get...

But doesn't the article imply that the method of transmission has CHANGED? It might have started as something other than a sex disease. Bacteria and viruses mutate.

Are you claiming that the soldiers should have thought "Wow, these guys are hanging out longer than normal, they must not be Taliban!" Come on, that is silly. The way to wage war is to pound with overwhelming force and firepower. That's how you win. There have been dozens of engagements...

Canada from the USA perspective: It's a joke, lighten up! :lol:

Come on - I've heard this sort of thing a thousand times. It's a total no-win scenario. 1) U.S. intervenes somewhere. "How DARE they get involved with something that does not concern them?" 2) U.S. fails to intervene somewhere. "Curse them... if they had intervened, it would have saved...

This is, I think, the correct answer. The problem with nuclear-powered small vehicles is wattage over time. Small vehicles like a car need a higher power output over shorter periods of time to be practical, and a reactor small enough to fit in the vehicle isn't going to have the necessary HP...

Is this a tongue-in-cheek joke or something? Serious Christians tend to downplay Santa big time and up-play the nativity of Jesus. Santa is a morphed character popularized in the 1800's that had a basis in reality - Saint Nicholas, apparently a kind man who helped the poor. How he became a...

Two quick thoughts... the "blow by blow" account of the action is very telling. It shows to a slight degree the chaos and lack of information that combat almost always entails. Things get very confusing, very quickly. There were undoubtedly some communications failures. And to me, at least...

I understand this is a sensitive issue. I don't know any other way to say it other than that my gut tells me that there was no intent, and I base that on wearing the uniform myself, and being intimately involved with my own daughter's army career. Intention is 98% of something like this. We...

Yes. It is ridiculous NOT to apologize profusely. I'm not sure why the USA doesn't do this. Sometimes, I think it is connected with our current lawyer and litigation driven society. To apologize means to admit fault. Ignore this case for a moment. Let's say in the USA you have a car...

I'm not saying it is impossible for what you've described to happen, but please consider - when a truly disturbed soldier group commits an act of violence outside ROE, it is usually a couple or three individuals, maybe a squad. But to have an entire aviation squadron commanded by high-ranking...

They fly every day. Issues like the OBOGS are common with new systems.

First, there is zero evidence for this. Second, if the USA decides to intentionally attack Pakistan, you'll know it. It'll look like Baghdad 1991. It won't be a pair of Apache gunships in the mountains. The incident was horrendous enough without adding rumors to the mix.

I don't buy into all these secret societies and their evil world domination plans. Anyone can make a YouTube video saying outrageous things, and people believe them because it makes life a bit more spicy.

Some satellites, perhaps, only those in very low earth orbit. How are GPS satellites, orbiting at 3X the earth's radius, going to be affected by a magnetic swapping of the Earth, considering they don't use the earth's magnetic field in any way? And satellites are reasonably hardened against...

It's amazing how peoples' minds work. They can look at the hundreds of thousand of eyewitness testimonies, the physical evidence, the mass graves; photographs, films, hard evidence. And still declare it all to be "A plot of the victors. A Western fairy tale." I refer not only to the...