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I'm not 100% sure about all of that but I do know that within the last 10 years, they did stand up their own parliment with the ability to enact their own laws, but are still subserviant to the Queen. This may be something to watch. If regions of Great Britain can establish their own identity and then separate from Great Britain, what's to stop any non American group from establishing their identity and suining for independence from the US? We must be careful.
After reading this so far, I think most of us feel the same way. Though the two are separate, both would do better by engaging in the other's. I as a future historian (lets hope) have had the opportunity to engage in an archelolgical dig in eastern England. The timeframe stretched from stoneage to late Roman Britain. While we unearthed bones, pottery, tools, pot boilers it is very difficult NOT to attempt to figure out what was going on there. The only evidence of structures was darker soil. Though I was only able to work for a few weeks, the bonds I made with the archeologists were amazing (as I still speak them them on a weekly basis). I do belive that both disciplines need to understand each other as well as try their hand in the other. Me, I will keep my eyes open in either field looking for an opportunity to develope in both. But that is just me.
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So does “Western Civilization” mean culturally or geographically? I think initially it was culturally but now as we have become global, it is more geographic.
I would have to look into Army doctrine, I am unfamiliar with it at the moment. I think the Air Force is near dead-on. Training wise is more difficult. With the wide range of missions required of everyone, it is hard to be proficient in everything. Yet we don't want to compartimentalize and have specific teams only capable of doing one sort of mission either. There is a balance there somewhere.BTW, did anyone see Future Dogfights on History channel the other day? A lot of stuff was right on. They made some educational guesses but I feel they were fairly accurate.
Additionaly the F-86 also had hydraulic flight controls whereas the MiG did not. This not only makes the aircraft easier to fly but there is less fatigue on the pilot.
I dont know I just saw some photos from Iraq where that new MRAP took a direct IED hit. I mean the vehicle is viturally unsuable but the worst injuries were some broken ribs when the driver hit the steering wheel. Drop me an email and I'll send you the pics. But that was on FutureWeapons. The problem is the expense. We could make some great stuff for our folks but just cant afford to procure it.
One thing technology has allowed us American to do is produce things knowns a force multipliers. While there is something for sheer numbers, discipline and technological advantages can negate those numbers. Also realize that we cannot forgo technology just because we are currently fighting an enemy that is a few decades behind us. The Russians, Indians, Chinese continue to try and close the technological gap with us. We still need to be able to defeat anything ANYONE can send up against us. Additionally we must also learn how to use our tech gadgets against low tech MacGuiver type enemies.Also remember, we are tasked to perform a job issued to us by the President. We may not like the job, but the US armed forces have had success in finding ways to accomplish those jobs. I say we give them whatever they need and whatever we think may help.
Alright, I'll agree with you there, but the objective has changed and I don't know if that was truely explained to the American public. Our initial objective was to oust Saddam, once that was done our following objective was to help establish a new publicly electected government and keep the citizens safe since there was no police or military.I think we need to stop trying to set up new governments.Anyway, this has kinda gotten off the topic don't you think?
Hey what about that nut job that was teaching up at CU Boulder? He definately does not need to be filling our young adult's minds. I don't remember if he taught history or not but we need to look out for these nuts.
Give it up people, global warming or not, erosion happens. Check out Tintagel castle in Cornwall http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.15393/chosenImageId/1 This place will fall into the sea too some day.
We won the war! We are not fighting a war any more. Now we are just trying to secure a nation into a somewhat stable environment. I have tried to think about it this way, what if someone came over here and told us that we were living the wrong way. We know our beliefs and will do ANYTHING to ensure we can live the way WE want. Well they believe the same way. Not about the same belief but they are holding on to there with the same amount of passion.
Regardless of bases within Iraq, we still have a few in the region. So many people think that when we pull out of Iraq that everyone will be back home. Nope. We will probably have a carrier group in the Gulf and there is always one or two bases in the area we can still fly out of. So lets talk symantics, ok lets pull troops out of Iraq….and station them in Kuwait, or back in Turkey. Not sure how the Saudi's would go for us going back to a few of the bases we built there…
