Bryon Daly wrote:
(snip)
Beyond what comes out of Hollywood
about Vietnam, I find myself
largely uniformed about that whole war.
^
Couldn't you get another one in a smaller size? :-)
-- Matt
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Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 18:31:11 -0600
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
--- Julia Thompson
At 07:21 AM 4/3/03 -0800, Matt Grimaldi wrote:
Bryon Daly wrote:
(snip)
Beyond what comes out of Hollywood
about Vietnam, I find myself
largely uniformed about that whole war.
^
Couldn't you get another one in a smaller size? :-)
Don't you know that the Army only makes
Jon Gabriel wrote:
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Easterbrook and TMQ Re: Impressions almost two weeks into the
war
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 18:31:11 -0600
Gautam Mukunda wrote
At 05:39 PM 3/31/2003 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote:
2. American forces that have, virtually unimpeded,
traveled more than 300 miles to within 50 miles of
Baghdad
I think that it is amazing that some people have turned this tremendous
victory into a defeat because we haven't taken Baghdad yet.
At 07:27 PM 3/31/2003 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote:
but Easterbrook is one of the best
journalists in America,
Just take his football columns with a grain of salt..
JDG - Talk about credibility damaging, Maru. (a former Easterbrook fan)
--- John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 07:27 PM 3/31/2003 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote:
but Easterbrook is one of the best
journalists in America,
Just take his football columns with a grain of
salt..
JDG - Talk about credibility damaging, Maru. (a
former Easterbrook
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JDG - what's wrong with the football columns? I
_love_ the football columns? Gregg Easterbrook is my
_hero_ for the football columns...
If you send me any one of his football columns, I'll be able to point
out at least one error
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Where is the 101st, though? That's a question that
has been bugging me. Somewhere in the west? It's a
light infantry division - strategically, not
tactically, mobile. Its Apaches do give it
significant striking power
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
The first mark of a successful Defense Secretary is a
military establishment that is deeply unhappy with
him.
I think you're missing two things, Dan. The first is
the internal dynamics of the Pentagon, the second is
the proper relationship between a civilian
--- Bryon Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interestingly, I heard the NBC Pentagon
correspondent on
a radio interview today with an entirely different
perspective.
He said that he was starting to hear doubts about
the war
voiced privately by assorted civilian and military
sources.
He then
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
Is that what you were looking for, Bryon, or did I
misunderstand you?
Yep. I was trying to reconcile your perspective with
that reporter's seemingly (to me) opposite one. Beyond
what comes out of Hollywood about Vietnam, I find myself
largely uniformed about that whole
At 02:31 PM 4/1/2003 +, you wrote:
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JDG - what's wrong with the football columns? I
_love_ the football columns? Gregg Easterbrook is my
_hero_ for the football columns...
If you send me any one of his football columns, I'll be
--- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, what this tells me is, if I ever own an NFL
franchise, I ought to hire
JDG to help me out with it, and if I ever own an MLB
team, I ought to hire
Gautam to help me out with it. :) (No interest in
NBA, very little
interest in NHL.)
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
--- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, what this tells me is, if I ever own an NFL
franchise, I ought to hire
JDG to help me out with it, and if I ever own an MLB
team, I ought to hire
Gautam to help me out with it. :) (No interest in
NBA, very
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Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: Who is the sheriff?
--- Marvin Long, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're welcome. Get some sleep.
Not part of the job
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not totally sure about this. Even discounting
the tendency of
expectations of people being too high, and the
tendency to look for
problems after only a few days into a campaign, it
appears to me that the
viewpoint at the highest level in the
Quick question - when will the 4th Infantry get there?
(I'm probably living closer to Ft. Hood than anyone else, with the
possible exception of Adam, at least as the crow flies, so I should
probably be *up* on this more than anyone else -- but aside from knowing
they shipped out last week, I
On 31 Mar 2003 at 17:39, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
1. Absolute air superiority - no Allied fixed wing
aircraft have even been shot down by enemy fire, a
record that vastly surpasses even that of the first
Gulf War
I've seen reports of ~20 drones being lost so far, mind you. Then
again, lots of
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Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: Impressions almost two weeks into the war
Quick question - when will the 4th Infantry get there?
(I'm probably living closer to Ft
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Robert Seeberger wrote:
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From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Impressions almost two weeks into the war
Quick question - when will the 4th
--- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quick question - when will the 4th Infantry get
there?
(I'm probably living closer to Ft. Hood than anyone
else, with the
possible exception of Adam, at least as the crow
flies, so I should
probably be *up* on this more than anyone else --
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From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Impressions almost two weeks into the war
I'm not sure where you see a theoretical chance of
keeping Hussein in power - I'd like you
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I differ with this assessment. Rumsfeld started
talking about units
surrendering en mass on the first day of the ground
campaign. He supplied
the extraordinarily high standards that he is being
held to. I'm pretty
sure that I've seen him state,
5. I was unaware of the shipment of advanced Russian
anti-tank missiles to Iraq, possibly via Syria. Of
all of the developments of the war so far, this may be
the most worrisome, and the most undercovered by the
mainstream press.
From what I've heard those missiles are far from advanced. The
--- Damon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
5. I was unaware of the shipment of advanced
Russian
anti-tank missiles to Iraq, possibly via Syria. Of
all of the developments of the war so far, this may
be
the most worrisome, and the most undercovered by
the
mainstream press.
From what I've
Where is the 101st, though? That's a question that
has been bugging me. Somewhere in the west? It's a
light infantry division - strategically, not
tactically, mobile. Its Apaches do give it
significant striking power though. Rick Atkinson of
the Washington Post was embedded with them, but
The New Republic identifies it as the AT14 Kornet.
I buy this. The Sagger is totally incapable of
knocking out an M1-A2. An M1 - maybe. But not
anything after the HC variant. That's a bad sign.
Check out Gregg Easterbrook's _The Best Laid Plans_
column in TNR. He makes some (fairly obvious)
--- Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
but I've been hearing people talking about this
lately, almost sounds like
talking points: America won every battle in Vietnam,
they had massive
superiority everywhere but the problem was they
couldn't attack very
obvious military targets, they
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